Tech Meme

Dan Seifert / The Verge: Amazon Fire Max 11 review: cheap, a nice screen, and a decent stylus, but an anemic app store, limited multitasking, a cramped aspect ratio, and a bad trackpad  —  The Fire Max 11 has the most advanced and refined hardware of any Amazon tablet yet.  But it is held back by the same old problems. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Forbes: A profile of Guangying “Heina” Chen, Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao’s mysterious associate who appears repeatedly in the SEC’s lawsuit against the crypto exchange  —  CEO Changpeng “CZ” Zhao’s mysterious associate Guangying Chen emerges as a key player in his company’s operations … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Axios: Senators Josh Hawley and Richard Blumenthal introduce a bill denying Section 230 protections for generative AI; experts are split on whether Section 230 applies  —  Sens. Josh Hawley and Richard Blumenthal want to clarify that the internet’s bedrock liability law does not apply to generative AI … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jay Peters / The Verge: As 8,000+ subreddits go dark, Google’s search results, which are often improved with human-sounding information by appending “reddit” to a query, have suffered  —  Over 8,000 subreddits have gone dark to protest Reddit’s upcoming API changes, and it’s shown me just how much I rely … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Abner Li / 9to5Google: Google Lens gets a skin condition feature that shows search results “visually similar to what you see on your skin” while warning they are “not a diagnosis”  —  Along with Maps Live View, Lens is Google’s most promising AR service, and it now has the ability to recognize skin conditions. Lees verder op Tech Meme

River Davis / Wall Street Journal: A look at Japanese ride-hailing app Go, which has a nearly 75% local market share, as some taxi operators say founder Ichiro Kawanabe pushed them to avoid Uber  —  Challenge in Japan shows how local operators can derail ride-hailing app’s overseas ambitions Lees verder op Tech Meme

Axios: Sens. Josh Hawley and Richard Blumenthal introduce a bill denying Section 230 protections for generative AI content; experts are split on whether §230 applies  —  Sens. Josh Hawley and Richard Blumenthal want to clarify that the internet’s bedrock liability law does not apply to generative AI … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ashley Carman / Bloomberg: Spotify shifts its podcast strategy from being a sort of HBO that releases exclusive shows to providing tools for podcast creators, similar to YouTube’s model  —  Over the past four years, Spotify Technology SA has announced a succession of splashy deals showing off how much money it’s willing … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Google Shopping gets a virtual try-on clothing feature that uses a diffusion-based generative AI model, letting US users see how items look on many human models  —  Google, ever eager to lean into generative AI, is launching a new shopping feature that shows clothes on a lineup of real-life fashion models. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: US and international cybersecurity authorities say the LockBit ransomware gang has extorted ~$91M following ~1,700 attacks against US organizations since 2020  —  U.S. and international cybersecurity authorities said in a joint LockBit ransomware advisory that the gang successfully extorted … Lees verder op Tech Meme