Tech Meme

Patrick McGee / Financial Times: A look at Apple’s smartphone dominance among Gen Z in the US, who make up an estimated 34% of US iPhone owners, as Samsung and Android struggle against iMessage  —  Younger Americans prefer an iPhone over Android by huge margins, creating unusual pressure over how they communicate Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: Microsoft now allows 60 Bing Chats per day and 6 chat turns per session and plans to test chat tones to let users switch between focused or creative responses  —  Microsoft will start testing Bing Chat tones, enabling users to switch between receiving answers that are either more creative or more focused on their queries. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ashley Carman / Bloomberg: Max Cutler, Spotify’s head of audio talk shows and partnerships who oversaw deals with creators like Joe Rogan, is leaving, according to a source and a memo  —  Max Cutler, Spotify Technology SA’s head of audio talk shows and partnerships, is leaving the company, according to a person familiar … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Tom Warren / The Verge: Microsoft says its Xbox PC games are coming to Nvidia’s GeForce Now, and it will also put Activision’s games on Nvidia’s cloud service if its acquisition closes  —  Microsoft is bringing its Xbox PC games to Nvidia’s GeForce Now cloud gaming service.  Speaking at a press conference in Brussels today … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Michael Kan / PCMag: Sci-fi outlet Clarkesworld suspends short story submissions, citing a surge in AI-generated stories, saying those who submit as looking to make “a quick buck”  —  Clarkesworld speculates that people are using AI to make ‘a quick buck’ since the sci-fi publication pays 12 cents a word for accepted stories. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: A researcher found a now-secure US DOD Azure database that wasn’t password protected and had years worth of military emails with sensitive personnel info  —  A government cloud email server was connected to the internet without a password  —  The U.S. Department of Defense secured … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Gary Marcus / The Road to AI We Can Trust: A Microsoft forum post from November 23, 2022 describes AI chatbot Sydney as “misbehaving” and being “so rude”, suggesting the company knew about its issues  —  A new discovery that makes a curious story a whole lot more curious  —  We all know by now just how off the rails Bing can get. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Washington Post: A live blog of oral arguments before SCOTUS in Gonzalez v. Google, stemming from Islamic State gunmen killing a college exchange student in Paris in 2015  —  The Supreme Court on Tuesday is hearing oral arguments in Gonzalez v. Google, a lawsuit that argues tech companies should be legally liable … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jonathan M. Gitlin / Ars Technica: Sony adds GT Sophy Race Together mode to Gran Turismo 7, letting players race against its GT Sophy AI experiment announced in February 2022, through March 2023  —  GT Sophy beat the world’s best players in 2022; now you can race it yourself.  —  Last year, Sony AI and Polyphony Digital … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Greg Bensinger / Reuters: Over 200 e-books in Amazon’s Kindle Store listed ChatGPT as an author as of mid-February, as some worry that the AI boom could turn the craft into a commodity  —  Until recently, Brett Schickler never imagined he could be a published author, though he had dreamed about it. Lees verder op Tech Meme