Tech Meme

Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: Google announces passkeys on Workspace accounts in open beta, letting staff at 9M+ organizations sign in without a password, rolling out in the coming weeks  —  Google has taken a significant step toward a passwordless future with the start of an open beta for passkeys on Workspace accounts. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ilena Peng / Bloomberg: Carbon Health launches a GPT-4 tool to create medical records, using Amazon Transcribe Medical for transcription, and says nearly 90% are accepted without edits  —  A new tool uses GPT artificial intelligence to create medical records, allowing doctors to focus on their patients instead of their notes. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jon Porter / The Verge: To protest Reddit’s API pricing for third-party apps, r/videos, r/reactiongifs, r/earthporn, and other big subreddits plan to go private on June 12 for 48 hours  —  Some of Reddit’s biggest communities including r/videos, r/reactiongifs, r/earthporn, and r/lifeprotips are planning to set themselves … Lees verder op Tech Meme

New York Times: Internal document: Twitter’s US ad revenue from April 1 to the first week of May fell 59% YoY to $88M; sources say that performance is unlikely to improve soon  —  In internal forecasts, the company projected that ad sales would keep declining, handing a tough challenge to its new chief executive. Lees verder op Tech Meme

New York Times: Filling: the SEC sues Binance and CEO Changpeng Zhao, accusing Binance of mishandling customer funds, lying to regulators and investors, and more  —  The S.E.C. said the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange mixed “billions of dollars” in customer funds and secretly sent … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: Microsoft attributes recent zero-day attacks on the MOVEit Transfer tool to the Clop ransomware gang; responders say the gang can take weeks to issue demands  —  Microsoft has linked the Clop ransomware gang to recent attacks exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in the MOVEit Transfer platform to steal data from organizations. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Alexa Corse / Wall Street Journal: Stanford researchers: Twitter failed to stop 40+ known CSAM images from being posted in recent months; the issue seemed to be fixed in May after staff were told  —  Social-media platform has now improved its detection system, Stanford Internet Observatory was told Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sahar Elhabashi / Spotify: Spotify cuts ~200 jobs, or 2% of its staff, at its podcast unit, combines Parcast and Gimlet into a renewed Spotify Studios, and reports 100M+ podcast listeners  —  Below is an adaptation of an internal update on Spotify’s Podcast Business from Sahar Elhabashi, VP, Head of Podcast Business. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Reuters: Bank records: from 2019 to 2020, Binance executive Guangying Chen operated five Silvergate accounts belonging to Binance’s purportedly independent US affiliate  —  A senior Binance executive was the main operator for five bank accounts belonging to the giant cryptocurrency exchange’s purportedly … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Madhumita Murgia / Financial Times: An interview with sci-fi writer Ted Chiang on AI’s limits, how current machines are not conscious, his 2010 novella The Lifecycle of Software Objects, and more  —  The visionary author on the limits of AI, the uses of science fiction — and why there’s a ‘market opportunity for volleyballs’ Lees verder op Tech Meme