Tech Meme

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Thoughts on Apple’s slowing pace of iPhone hardware innovation, a closer look at its Apple Intelligence rollout plans, and iPhone 16 Pro Max first impressions  —  The new iPhone has tantalizing camera improvements, but the device is emblematic of Apple’s slower pace of hardware innovation. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Cristina Criddle / Financial Times: Docs: under Perplexity’s new ad model, brands will be able to bid for a “sponsored” question, which features an AI-generated answer approved by the advertiser  —  AI search start-up develops ‘sponsored’ question system in effort to gain share of $300bn digital ads industry Lees verder op Tech Meme

Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: Law enforcement agencies shut down a service offered by iServer, a phishing-as-a-service platform, which was used to unlock 1.2M+ stolen or lost mobile phones  —  iServer provided a simple service for phishing credentials to unlock phones.  —  A coalition of law-enforcement agencies … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Thoughts on the iPhone’s slowing pace of hardware innovation, first impressions of the iPhone 16 Pro Max, and a closer look at Apple Intelligence roll out plans  —  The new iPhone has tantalizing camera improvements, but the device is emblematic of Apple’s slower pace of hardware innovation. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Victoria Song / The Verge: With the Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses, which can easily slot into people’s lives, Meta has exceeded expectations in a year when many AI gadgets flopped  —  The Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses exceeded expectations in a year when AI gadgets flopped.  But can it keep the momentum going? Lees verder op Tech Meme

Washington Post: Inside Equinix’s 114,300-square-foot data center in Northern Virginia, a region that is home to the largest concentration of data centers in the world  —  We toured a facility in Northern Virginia to see how it works and to understand why water use and energy consumption are such a concern. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Umar Shakir / The Verge: What to expect from Meta Connect 2024 keynote on September 25 at 1pm ET: new AI features powered by Llama 3.1, cheaper Quest 3S headset, and more  —  Meta is holding its annual Connect developers conference next week, and it’s going to showcase a bunch of expected and perhaps some surprise … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Dan Milmo / The Guardian: Google says the UK risks being “left behind” in the AI race without more data centers and should relax laws barring AI models being trained on copyrighted works  —  Exclusive: Tech company wants Labour to relax laws that prevent AI models being ‘trained’ on copyrighted materials Lees verder op Tech Meme

Gabriel Gatehouse / BBC: A look at Balaji Srinivasan’s Network State concept, which envisions online communities acquiring land via crowdfunding, with the goal of becoming new countries  —  Do you look at the possibility of political turbulence ahead of November’s US presidential election and think: democracy could be in trouble? Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: Sources: US Commerce Department plans to reveal proposed rules that would ban Chinese- and Russian-made hardware and software for smart cars as soon as Monday  —  – Bans stem from an investigation into cybersecurity risks  — Restrictions would be enforced by the Commerce Department Lees verder op Tech Meme