Tech Meme

Financial Times: Analysis: a basket of the top US streaming services will cost $87 per month this fall, vs. $73 a year ago; the average US cable TV package costs $83 per month  —  Top studios turn screws on customers with price rises that rival expensive cable TV bundles  —  The era of cheap streaming is ending … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Lily Hay Newman / Wired: Researcher Patrick Wardle says Apple’s macOS Background Task Management tool is “trivially” easy to bypass by “any malware that is somewhat sophisticated”  —  The macOS Background Task Manager tool is supposed to spot potentially malicious software on your machine. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Katrina Manson / Bloomberg: How hackers at DEF CON are trying to expose flaws and biases in AI models produced by Google, Meta, OpenAI, and others through a public contest  —  – At DEF CON conference, hacker gets model to say 9 + 10 = 21  — AI has chance to transform everything from finance to hiring Lees verder op Tech Meme

Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: Some iPhone 14 Pro users complain that the “maximum capacity” of their phone’s batteries has already dropped to around 90% after less than a year  —  iPhone 14 Pro users are growing increasingly concerned about the state of their iPhone’s battery health. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Nitasha Tiku / Washington Post: A look at Stanford’s bootcamp to educate Congress on deepfakes, how AI can potentially reshape education and health care, and the use of AI in national security  —  The elite Silicon Valley university coaches Hill staffers on the benefits of artificial intelligence Lees verder op Tech Meme

Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal: A look at Amazon One palm scanning tech, used for payments, age and ID verification, and more at US retailers, stadiums, and other venues, amid privacy concerns  —  It’s also a potentially massive play to make Amazon the central ID system for your whole life—from banking and loyalty programs to tickets … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Liz Lindqwister / The San Francisco Standard: Some Cruise riders say they’ve had sex in the driverless cars in San Francisco over recent months; Waymo and Cruise permit users to eat, but not drink alcohol  —  An Illustration generated by the artificial intelligence program Midjourney depicts two people making out in an autonomous vehicle. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Iain Thomson / The Register: Hacker group Cult of the Dead Cow details Veilid, an open-source, P2P application framework, and debuts VeilidChat, a proof-of-concept Signal-like messaging app  —  ‘It’s like Tor and IPFS had sex and produced this thing’  —  DEF CON Infosec super-band the Cult of the Dead Cow has released Veilid … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal: A look at Amazon One palm scanning tech, being used for payments, age verification, and more at US retailers, stadiums, and other venues, amid privacy concerns  —  It’s also a potentially massive play to make Amazon the central ID system for your whole life—from banking and loyalty programs to tickets … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Nitasha Tiku / Washington Post: A look at Stanford’s bootcamp to educate Congress on AI reshaping education and health care, deepfakes, and using AI to respond to national security threats  —  The elite Silicon Valley university coaches Hill staffers on the benefits of artificial intelligence Lees verder op Tech Meme