Tech Meme

Jay Peters / The Verge: X plans to deprecate Circles on October 31, 2023; users will not be able to create new posts nor add people to their Circle but will be able to remove people  —  X is planning to shut down Circles, a feature that lets you share posts with a limited group of people instead of all of your followers. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: Apple releases emergency updates for iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and watchOS to patch three new zero-day vulnerabilities, for a total of 16 zero-days fixed in 2023  —  Apple released emergency security updates to patch three new zero-day vulnerabilities exploited in attacks targeting iPhone and Mac users … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kyle Bradshaw / 9to5Google: Google expands Studio Bot, its AI chatbot for Android Studio launched in May 2023 for US users, to 170+ regions; users in the EU and the UK are still barred  —  Google is making one of its AI tools for developers, Studio Bot, available to people in over 170 regions around the world … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Josh Eidelson / Bloomberg: Nnete Matima and Joël Carter, two Black ex-TikTok staff, file a civil rights complaint alleging ByteDance fired them because they spoke up about discrimination  —  TikTok’s parent company was accused of racism and retaliation by Black former employees in a complaint … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Josh Eidelson / Bloomberg: Nnete Matima and Joël Carter, two Black ex-TikTok staff, file a civil rights complaint alleging ByteDance fired them because they spoke up about discrimination  —  TikTok’s parent company was accused of racism and retaliation by Black former employees in a complaint … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Chris Miller / Financial Times: SMIC used DUV lithography, not EUV, for its 7nm chip, which isn’t a breakthrough but does show progress and reaffirms China’s commitment to domestic production  —  The advances in domestic chipmaking suggest western controls will be far from watertight  —  What is the significance of Huawei’s new smartphone chip? Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ella Creamer / The Guardian: Amazon limits authors to self-publishing three books per day on its website, after an influx of suspected AI-generated material listed for sale in recent months  —  The company announced the new limitations after an influx of suspected AI-generated material was listed for sale but said that ‘very few’ publishers will be affected Lees verder op Tech Meme

Josh Eidelson / Bloomberg: Nnete Matima and Joël Carter, two Black ex-TikTok staff, file a civil rights complaint alleging ByteDance fired them because they spoke up about discrimination  —  TikTok’s parent company was accused of racism and retaliation by Black former employees in a complaint … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ella Creamer / The Guardian: Amazon limits the number of books that authors can self-publish on its site to three a day, after an influx of suspected AI-generated material  —  The company announced the new limitations after an influx of suspected AI-generated material was listed for sale but said that ‘very few’ publishers will be affected Lees verder op Tech Meme

Lara O’Reilly / Insider: TikTok is testing a Google integration in different markets; researcher: TikTok’s search feature includes an in-app option to search the same query on Google  —  – TikTok is testing a search partnership with Google.  — An option to search on Google.com now appears on some searches within the TikTok app. Lees verder op Tech Meme