Tech Meme

Caroline O’Donovan / Washington Post: Former Amazon and Goodreads employees detail how Amazon let Goodreads languish with limited resources while mining the book review site for user-generated data  —  A prominent author’s decision to pull her new novel from publication after being ‘review bombed’ highlights Goodreads’s power in publishing … Lees verder op Tech Meme

The Indian Express: Twitter users globally report site issues, including seeing “rate limit exceeded” or “cannot retrieve tweets” error messages when trying to view or post tweets  —  Twitter has been hit by a global outage that is preventing thousands of users from accessing the social media platform. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Wes Davis / The Verge: Valve won’t publish Steam games that use copyright-infringing AI artwork, contrary to reports claiming that the company will not allow any AI-generated content  —  On Thursday, various outlets reported on a June Reddit post from user potterharry97 saying that Steam would no longer be publishing games with AI-generated content. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Trisha Thadani / Washington Post: California regulators plan to decide on July 13 whether to allow 24/7 Waymo and Cruise driverless cabs in San Francisco; city officials fume over having no say  —  To their dismay, local officials have no control over whatever the state decides  —  SAN FRANCISCO — On a recent sunny Saturday afternoon … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Poynter: Q&A with Yoel Roth, Twitter’s former head of trust and safety, on Twitter’s content moderation approach, the whirlwind first two weeks under Elon Musk, and more  —  Yoel Roth explains how moderation rules evolved at Twitter, the fight against harassment and why he no longer drives a Tesla Lees verder op Tech Meme

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Sources: Apple is exploring hearing health and body-temperature features for AirPods, while planning cheaper models and a shift to USB-C for the charging case  —  Apple is working on a slew of changes for its popular AirPods earbuds, seeking to expand its wearables business. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Madhumita Murgia / Financial Times: Thousands of performers, who signed their voice rights away in perpetuity years ago, are being forced to compete with AI-cloned versions of their voices  —  Performers forced to compete with themselves as companies’ use of technology for cloning prompts calls to update copyright law Lees verder op Tech Meme

New York Times: Drone shows are increasingly replacing fireworks displays; research: the global drone light show market is projected to grow from $1.3B in 2021 to $2.2B in 2031  —  The light displays are quieter, safer and better for the environment.  —  Like many in the fireworks industry, Stephen Vitale is in the family business. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kevin Purdy / Ars Technica: Red Hat’s new source code policy doesn’t violate the GPL itself but makes it harder to verify the company’s GPL compliance, angering the open-source community  —  A (reasonably) condensed version of two weeks’ worth of heated GPL argument.  —  When CentOS announced in 2020 that it was shutting … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Wes Davis / The Verge: Valve says it won’t approve Steam games that use copyright-infringing AI artwork, contrary to reports claiming the company planned to completely ban AI art  —  On Thursday, various outlets reported on a June Reddit post from user potterharry97 saying that Steam would no longer be publishing games with AI-generated content. Lees verder op Tech Meme