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ID.me, the digital ID service used by the IRS and other US agencies, raised a $132M Series D led by Viking Global, bringing its total funding to $240M+ (Julie Muhn/Finovate) 13-04-2023

Julie Muhn / Finovate: ID.me, the digital ID service used by the IRS and other US agencies, raised a $132M Series D led by Viking Global, bringing its total funding to $240M+  —  – ID.me announced a $132 million funding round, bringing its total raised to $240 million.  — The company has brought on Samantha Greenberg as CFO. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Nansen: after Shapella, ether worth ~$1.4B is stuck in a withdrawal queue; due to transaction limits, Ethereum can process ~$115M in ether withdrawals per day (Elizabeth Howcroft/Reuters) 13-04-2023

Elizabeth Howcroft / Reuters: Nansen: after Shapella, ether worth ~$1.4B is stuck in a withdrawal queue; due to transaction limits, Ethereum can process ~$115M in ether withdrawals per day  —  Cryptocurrency investors are facing delays to withdraw funds deposited on the Ethereum blockchain after its major software upgrade … Lees verder op Tech Meme

AWS begins offering customers access to LLMs made by Anthropic, Stability AI, AI21 Labs, and AWS, aiming to become a neutral platform for generative AI features (Tom Dotan/Wall Street Journal) 13-04-2023

Tom Dotan / Wall Street Journal: AWS begins offering customers access to LLMs made by Anthropic, Stability AI, AI21 Labs, and AWS, aiming to become a neutral platform for generative AI features  —  The world’s largest cloud provider wants to become the Switzerland of generative AI and let companies pick their own software and models Lees verder op Tech Meme

An investor in 50+ AI startups warns against building “God-like AI” and says companies are “running towards a finish line” without understanding what lies ahead (Ian Hogarth/Financial Times) 13-04-2023

Ian Hogarth / Financial Times: An investor in 50+ AI startups warns against building “God-like AI” and says companies are “running towards a finish line” without understanding what lies ahead  —  The writer of this essay is an investor and co-author of the annual “State of AI” report Lees verder op Tech Meme

One of the Western Digital hackers claims they have stolen ~10TB of data, including customer data, and says they are asking for a ransom of “minimum 8 figures” (Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai/TechCrunch) 13-04-2023

Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch: One of the Western Digital hackers claims they have stolen ~10TB of data, including customer data, and says they are asking for a ransom of “minimum 8 figures”  —  One of the hackers claimed to have stolen customer data and said they are asking for a “minim 8 figures” as a ramsom. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Adobe rolls out support for images and PDFs in cloud-based video collaboration service Frame.io and plans to add text-based editing to Premiere Pro in May 2023 (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge) 13-04-2023

Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: Adobe rolls out support for images and PDFs in cloud-based video collaboration service Frame.io and plans to add text-based editing to Premiere Pro in May 2023  —  Adobe has announced several product updates ahead of the 2023 NAB Show, including the addition of text-based video editing features … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Discord says the company is cooperating with US law enforcement's investigation into a leak of classified documents of international US intelligence assessments (Raphael Satter/Reuters) 13-04-2023

Raphael Satter / Reuters: Discord says the company is cooperating with US law enforcement’s investigation into a leak of classified documents of international US intelligence assessments  —  Instant messaging platform Discord said on Wednesday it was cooperating with U.S. law enforcement’s investigation into a leak … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Microsoft plans to roll out Windows 11 to HoloLens 2 for free, improving app performance and letting developers integrate web technologies into native apps (Tom Warren/The Verge) 13-04-2023

Tom Warren / The Verge: Microsoft plans to roll out Windows 11 to HoloLens 2 for free, improving app performance and letting developers integrate web technologies into native apps  —  Microsoft is bringing Windows 11 to its HoloLens 2 headset.  The update will be available free of charge, and Microsoft … Lees verder op Tech Meme

The European Data Protection Board sets up a ChatGPT task force, a potentially important first step toward a common EU policy on setting privacy rules for AI (Toby Sterling/Reuters) 13-04-2023

Toby Sterling / Reuters: The European Data Protection Board sets up a ChatGPT task force, a potentially important first step toward a common EU policy on setting privacy rules for AI  —  The European Data Protection Board (EDPB) on Thursday moved to create a task force on ChatGPT, the agency said in a statement. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sources: SFPD arrested IT firm owner Nima Momeni for allegedly killing Bob Lee; they purportedly knew each other and were driving together before the killing (Joe Eskenazi/Mission Local) 13-04-2023

Joe Eskenazi / Mission Local: Sources: SFPD arrested IT firm owner Nima Momeni for allegedly killing Bob Lee; they purportedly knew each other and were driving together before the killing  —  Mission Local is informed that the San Francisco Police Department early this morning made an arrest in the April 4 killing … Lees verder op Tech Meme