Tech Meme

New York Times: X capitulates in Brazil and could return next week, as the company’s lawyers say it took down some accounts, paid fines, and named a new formal representative  —  In an abrupt reversal, the social network’s lawyers said it was complying with court orders that it had previously defied. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Tripp Mickle / New York Times: A look at Jony Ive’s work with LoveFrom; Ive bought a city block in SF’s Jackson Square and could raise ~$1B with Sam Altman by end of 2024 for an AI device  —  Many people have wondered what Jony Ive has been up to since he left Apple five years ago.Carolyn Fong for The New York Times Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: A Google threat analyst says the hacker behind the Snowflake breach recently broke into a “handful” of new orgs and is likely a male based in Canada in his 20s  —  Cyber investigators are tracking alleged scammer in connection with a string of compromises Lees verder op Tech Meme

Taryn Luna / Los Angeles Times: California Gov. Newsom signs Senate Bill 976 to protect minors, banning “addictive feeds”, barring social media notifications from 12am to 6am, and more  —  California took a major step in its fight to protect children from the ills of social media with Gov. Gavin Newsom’s signature … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Joanna Chiu / Rest of World: A look at GFWeb, which tracks millions of domains to uncover the Great Firewall’s domain blocklists; GFWeb data reveals China blocked ChatGPT on March 2, 2023  —  Rest of World received exclusive access to a platform that tracks patterns and timing of Chinese online censorship. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Politico: Nick Clegg criticized Rishi Sunak’s doomerism after the PM held a summit on AI safety, saying Britain “wasted a huge amount of time” focusing on the risks of AI  —  The Meta exec and former deputy PM said Britain had “wasted a huge amount of time” focusing on the gloomy risks of artificial intelligence. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Feliz Solomon / Wall Street Journal: A profile of Santa Clara County Deputy DA Erin West, whose team clawed back ~$3M stolen from 26 US pig butchering victims, as she works to improve enforcement  —  Prosecutor Erin West has been one of the few to have any success against the criminals perpetrating a new type of fraud Lees verder op Tech Meme

Brian Heater / TechCrunch: Hands on with Plaud’s ChatGPT-powered NotePin: deliberate design that uses tap to trigger the device, can manage multiple speakers in 59 languages, and more  —  The Plaud.AI pin took up mercifully little space in my carry-on.  It also presented an opportunity to kill two birds … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bastian Benrath-Wright / Bloomberg: JPMorgan, Visa, and other financial firms join Project Agora, a blockchain-based project by Bank for International Settlements to overhaul cross-border payments  —  – Seven central banks from US, euro area, Japan also particiapte  — Bank for International Settlements runs project with IIF Lees verder op Tech Meme

Meir Orbach / CTech: Intezer, which develops AI-powered tools for autonomous security operations, raised a $33M Series C led by Norwest Venture Partners, taking total raised to $60M  —  The startups’s Autonomous SOC platform uses AI models to simulate human analysts’ decision-making process, effectively functioning as an extension of the security team. Lees verder op Tech Meme