Tech Meme

Sean Lyngaas / CNN: An excerpt from Walter Isaacson’s Elon Musk biography: Musk cut off Starlink internet access near Crimea to disrupt a Ukrainian sneak attack on a Russian fleet  —  Elon Musk secretly ordered his engineers to turn off his company’s Starlink satellite communications network near the Crimean coast … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: X updates its TOS to ban scraping or crawling without “prior written consent”, effective September 29, likely to stop AI models from training on its data  —  Elon Musk-owned X, formerly Twitter, has updated its terms of service to prohibit scraping and crawling — likely to fend off any AI models training on its data. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Reuters: Source: encouraged by the Indian government, Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance has held talks with foreign chipmakers to become potential partners in chip manufacturing  —  Billionaire Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Industries (RELI.NS) has begun exploring a foray into semiconductor manufacturing … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Amitoj Singh / CoinDesk: Local media: Turkey sentences Faruk Fatih Özer, the CEO of defunct crypto exchange Thodex, to 11,196+ years; 400K+ users of Thodex lost $2B+ in crypto deposits  —  Thodex was one of Turkey’s largest crypto exchanges before it suddenly went offline in April 2021 and Özer went missing. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Timmy Shen / The Block: Ant Group debuts ZAN, a blockchain service aimed at institutional clients and individual Web3 developers in overseas markets, including Hong Kong and Singapore  —  – Ant Group said ZAN will focus on serving institutional and individual clients in overseas markets including Hong Kong and Singapore. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Anna Tong / Reuters: Similarweb: ChatGPT’s worldwide desktop and mobile website visits fell 3.2% MoM to 1.43B in August, following ~10% drops from each of the previous two months  —  OpenAI’s ChatGPT, the wildly popular artificial intelligence chatbot launched in November, saw monthly website visits decline … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Echo Wang / Reuters: Wyoming-based Brand Engagement Network, which sells conversational AI tech like chatbots to companies, plans to go public via a SPAC merger at a $358M valuation  —  Artificial intelligence startup Brand Engagement Network (BEN) on Thursday agreed to go public through a merger … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Wall Street Journal: Sources: Spotify plans to test a free audiobook bundle for its paid subscribers, including up to 20 hours of content a month, as part of a push into audiobooks  —  Audio streamer to test program with listeners to learn about customer demand for audiobooks  —  Spotify plans to test … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Carly Page / TechCrunch: Square says it has resolved a day-long outage that has left some small business owners unable to access accounts or process credit card payments  —  Fintech giant Square says its services are coming back online after a day-long outage left small business owners unable to process payments. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Amitoj Singh / CoinDesk: Local media: Turkey sentenced Faruk Fatih Özer, the CEO of defunct crypto exchange Thodex, to 11,196 years; 400K+ users of Thodex have lost $2B+ in deposits  —  Thodex was one of Turkey’s largest crypto exchanges before it suddenly went offline in April 2021 and Özer went missing. Lees verder op Tech Meme