Tech Meme

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Adobe adds Firefly-based Generative Expand, which “expands images beyond their original bounds”, to the Photoshop beta and support for prompts in 100 languages  —  Adobe is building on Firefly, its family of generative AI models, with a feature in Photoshop that … Lees verder op Tech Meme

The Verge: Sony has sold over 40M PS5s since its launch in November 2020, up from 10M in July 2021, despite the “unprecedented challenges of COVID” and supply chain issues  —  / Despite supply chain issues and the problems caused by the pandemic, Sony says the PS5 supply is now ‘well-stocked.’ Lees verder op Tech Meme

Rita Liao / TechCrunch: Eco, an a16z-backed payments startup that has raised $95M, announces decentralized, non-custodial payments wallet Beam, aiming to function like a “global Venmo”  —  The crypto payments space is seeing a surge of activity these days as developers strive to make decentralized finance as user-friendly as web2 experiences. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg: Sources in Hollywood and Silicon Valley discuss AI’s impact: creatives view AI as an existential threat, studios see a cost saver, and both sides need a deal  —  Adam Conover started to worry a few months ago that a computer could take his job.  A comedian in Los Angeles … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Cade Metz / New York Times: Researchers: the guardrails on ChatGPT, Bard, and Claude can be bypassed by adding a long suffix of characters to prompts, generating false and toxic responses  —  A new report indicates that the guardrails for widely used chatbots can be thwarted, leading to an increasingly unpredictable environment for the technology. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Washington Post: How Russia’s invasion led Ukraine to innovate in combat drones, including improving speed, flight range, and payload, and the implications for warfare globally  —  The advent of AI-enabled drones holds huge promise for Ukraine’s military but may also be exploited by nefarious non-state actors Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Israeli startup Trustmi, which offers payments fraud prevention tools, raised a $17M Series A led by Cyberstarts, taking its total funding to $21M  —  Shai Gabay and Eli Ben-Nun, two entrepreneurs based in Israel, met in 2018 while working at Cynet, a cybersecurity startup developing extended detection and response tools. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Steve Moser / MacRumors: iOS 17 beta 4 code hints at a rumored Action button, offering quick access to Shortcuts, Silent Mode, Camera, and more, similar to the Watch Ultra’s button  —  Apple released the fourth beta of iOS 17 to developers yesterday, and among the changes in the latest beta are some new code snippets … Lees verder op Tech Meme

New York Times: Lindsey Graham and Elizabeth Warren announce the Digital Consumer Protection Commission Act, seeking an independent regulator to license and police Big Tech  —  Mr. Graham, a Republican, is the senior senator from South Carolina.  Ms. Warren, a Democrat, is the senior senator from Massachusetts. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Reuters: Source: about 10 years ago, Tesla rigged the dashboard to overstate battery range; in 2022, Tesla created a “Diversion Team” to suppress thousands of complaints  —  About a decade ago, Tesla rigged the dashboard readouts in its electric cars to provide “rosy” … Lees verder op Tech Meme