Tech Meme

Nicole Carpenter / Polygon: Valve recently patched a Dota 2 exploit used by a third-party cheating client, created a honeypot to catch cheaters, and permanently banned over 40,000 accounts  —  The update added a ‘honeypot’ to catch cheaters  —  Valve issued an update to Dota 2 recently that patched an exploit used … Lees verder op Tech Meme

CoinDesk: A US court unseals a superseding indictment that charges Sam Bankman-Fried with 12 counts, up from the initial eight, including conspiracy to commit bank fraud  —  FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried faces additional charges, including bank fraud allegations, under a new indictment unveiled Thursday morning. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Mitchell Clark / The Verge: Google expands Magic Eraser, which lets users remove parts of a picture, from Pixel devices to Google One subscribers using Google Photos on Android or iOS  —  Google has announced that the Magic Eraser feature, which tried to automatically remove unwanted parts of a picture and debuted with the Pixel 6 … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Meta reforms its penalty system based on Oversight Board recommendations, focusing more on explanations of policy and less on penalizing users with “timeouts”  —  “Facebook jail,” the name the social network’s users have bestowed on the company’s system for determining policy violations, is getting an overhaul. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ankush Khardori / New York Magazine: An interview with SEC chair Gary Gensler on meeting Sam Bankman-Fried and FTX executives in March 2022 and October 2021, how tokens are securities, and more  —  As recently as a year ago, Sam Bankman-Fried seemed to be an unstoppable force in official Washington. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Osato Avan-Nomayo / The Block: Binance closed some derivative trading accounts in Australia after an investigation found the customers didn’t meet the criteria for wholesale investors  —  Binance closed the derivative trading accounts of some wholesale investors in Australia after an investigation found that they didn’t meet the criteria for such investors. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Haje Jan Kamps / TechCrunch: Amsterdam-based Source.ag, whose AI helps commercial greenhouse crop growers maximize their yields, raised a $23M Series A, taking its total funding to $33M  —  Based in the Netherlands, blossoming agtech startup Source.ag has announced a $23 million Series A funding round to help grow its business … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Austin-based ProsperOps, whose software automatically optimizes cloud resources, raised a $72M Series A led by H.I.G. Growth, after previously raising ~$800K  —  The cloud is growing expensive.  According to a recent survey from ESG, more than half of companies say that their spending … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Stephen Lurie / Wired: A look at IMDb’s top 300 contributors, including one who wrote 35K+ plot summaries, and the history of the Amazon-owned crowdsourced website predating Wikipedia  —  Powered by obsessed film buffs, it’s a crowdsourced juggernaut that’s older than Google and Wikipedia.  Now AI is threatening to steal the starring role. Lees verder op Tech Meme

New York Times: After the US passed the industry-supported $52B CHIPS Act, chipmakers turn cutthroat to snag a bigger share of the federal cash, setting off a lobbying frenzy  —  Semiconductor companies, which united to get the CHIPS Act approved, have set off a lobbying frenzy as they argue for more cash than their competitors. Lees verder op Tech Meme