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Igor Bonifacic / Engadget: WhatsApp rolls out new device verification and account protection features, including defenses against SIM jacking and other social engineering attacks  —  WhatsApp has begun rolling out a handful of new security features.  The most notable sees the company doing more to protect users … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kris Holt / Engadget: Meta open sources AI project Animated Drawings, which turns doodles into animations, with a dataset of nearly 180K drawings, after releasing a web tool in 2021  —  Meta has open-sourced an artificial intelligence project that lets anyone bring their doodles to life. Lees verder op Tech Meme

James Vincent / The Verge: Sam Altman says OpenAI won’t train GPT-5 for “some time” and the open letter to pause AI training missed “most technical nuance about where we need the pause”  —  In a discussion about threats posed by AI systems, Sam Altman, OpenAI’s CEO and co-founder … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Financial Times: Sources: the European parliament is close to finalizing tough new measures on AI, including forcing chatbot makers to reveal use of copyrighted material  —  Proposals include requiring chatbot makers to reveal if they are using copyrighted material  —  The European parliament is preparing tough … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sheila Dang / Reuters: Sensor Tower: Twitter’s top 50 advertisers spent $83M over the past two months, down from $102M YoY; Mars, AT&T, Volkswagen, and Stellantis haven’t returned  —  Twitter-owner Elon Musk has said advertisers are returning to the social media platform, but statements from several companies … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Richard Waters / Financial Times: Intel becoming a chip foundry is its biggest business shift in nearly 40 years, meaning US industrial policy rests on one of tech’s most complex turnarounds yet  —  Once the leading player in the semiconductor industry, the company is attempting to pull off one of tech’s most complex turnrounds Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sarah E. Needleman / Wall Street Journal: Parlement Technologies sells Parler to digital media company Starboard, which plans to temporarily shut down the right-wing social network ahead of a relaunch  —  Social network popular with conservatives will be sold for an undisclosed amount and overhauled for a relaunch Lees verder op Tech Meme

Emily Parker / CoinDesk: A look at the impact of TerraUSD’s collapse and FTX’s implosion on the South Korean crypto industry, as the media reports TerraUSD had ~200K local victims  —  The collapse of Terra continues to reverberate in Do Kwon’s homeland, but there are signs of progress, CoinDesk’s Emily Parker reports. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Tonya Riley / CyberScoop: Hacking Policy Council launches to advocate for laws that protect security researchers’ work; founding members include HackerOne, Bugcrowd, Google, and Intel  —  “There are advocacy groups for reptile owners but not hackers, so that seems like a miss,” said Ilona Cohen of HackerOne. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Callie Holtermann / New York Times: BeReal struggles to retain users as some find its authenticity monotonous; Apptopia: the app’s daily users dropped to under 6M in March from ~15M in October  —  BeReal was pitched as Gen Z’s safe haven from the artifice of social media.  For some, authenticity only proved interesting for so long. Lees verder op Tech Meme