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

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

Srishti Jaswal / Rest of World: Indian political parties court big and small social media influencers ahead of the 2024 elections, offering to pay for political messages with no disclosures  —  As the campaign for the 2024 elections in India goes digital, social media influencers have become a powerful tool to try and shape voter behavior. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jon Porter / The Verge: Slack experienced an “outage across the app” starting around 5AM ET for about an hour, including issues with sending messages and search  —  Slack, the workplace chat app, experienced an outage this morning, with messages failing to send on the service. 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

Jon Porter / The Verge: Slack reports an “outage across the app” starting around 5AM ET, including issues with sending messages and search  —  Slack, the workplace chat app, is having some issues this morning, with messages failing to send on the service.  Reports began spiking on DownDetector … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: Meta forecasts 20% revenue growth in Q3, returning to pre-pandemic and pre-ATT levels, potentially creating cover for expensive AI and metaverse investments  —  – Meta’s current quarter sales projection beats estimates  — Company continues to increase spending on metaverse, AI Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kim Mackrael / Wall Street Journal: The EU opens an antitrust investigation into whether Microsoft abuses its dominant position by bundling Teams with Office, the first investigation in 10+ years  —  Probe marks the first time in a decade that Microsoft has come under formal investigation by Brussels Lees verder op Tech Meme