Tech Meme

Financial Times: Sources: Google and UMG are in early talks to license melodies and voices for AI-made songs; goals include making a tool for fans and paying copyright owners  —  New technology that can mimic artists’ voices has been seen as growing threat  —  Google and Universal Music are in talks … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Abner Li / 9to5Google: Google updates Messages with group end-to-end encryption and turns RCS on by default for new and existing users, but some have to agree to their carrier’s ToS  —  After testing group end-to-end encryption for the past few months, Google Messages has now fully rolled it out and is enabling RCS by default too. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: Google debuts Project IDX, an AI-enabled browser-based dev environment using the open-source Visual Studio Code and that integrates Google’s PaLM 2-based Codey  —  Google today announced the launch of Project IDX, its foray into offering an AI-enabled browser-based development environment … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Samuel Axon / Ars Technica: Dutch engineer Bram Moolenaar, who in 1991 released and then maintained the very popular Vim open-source code editor, died on August 3 at 62  —  The open source software legend left us on August 3 at age 62.  —  Computing as we know it today was built in no small part by individuals … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Abner Li / 9to5Google: Google launches group E2E encryption for its Messages app and says RCS will now be turned on by default in Messages for both new and existing users  —  After testing group end-to-end encryption for the past few months, Google Messages has now fully rolled it out and is enabling RCS by default too. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Cloud data management startup Rubrik acquires NYC-based Laminar, which helps companies manage public cloud data security, sources say for around $200M to $250M  —  Cybersecurity startups, in particular those hatched in Israel, have been getting scooped up a rapid pace by larger tech companies looking … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jpatokal / Gyrovague: A look at archive.today, an opaque service for accessing paywalled content that hosts ~1,000TB and uses a Russian analytics engine and Europe-based data centers  —  Do you like reading articles in publications like Bloomberg, the Wall Street Journal or the Economist, but can’t afford to pay … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sean Michael Kerner / VentureBeat: Stability AI launches StableCode, an LLM that generates code based on open-source BigCode project’s data, supporting Python, Go, Java, JavaScript, C, and C++  —  Stability AI is well known for its Stable Diffusion text-to-image generation model, but that’s not all the generative AI startup is interested in developing. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: Google debuts Project IDX, an AI-enabled browser-based dev environment that uses Visual Studio Code Open Source and integrates with Google’s PaLM 2-based Codey  —  Google today announced the launch of Project IDX, its foray into offering an AI-enabled browser-based development environment … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Samuel Axon / Ars Technica: Dutch engineer Bram Moolenaar, who in 1991 released and then maintained the very popular Vim open source code editor, has died at 62  —  The open source software legend left us on August 3 at age 62.  —  Computing as we know it today was built in no small part by individuals … Lees verder op Tech Meme