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Financial Times: Comparing OpenAI’s ChatGPT, for in-depth replies, and Google’s Bard, for natural dialog, on summarizing an article, telling a joke, picking stocks, and more  —  We ask the generative AI systems from OpenAI and Google to pick stocks, tell jokes and imagine the Xi-Putin summit Lees verder op Tech Meme

Dan Seifert / The Verge: Unlike most boring modern laptops, Framework’s repairable, sustainable, and upgradeable models are exciting, harking back to the early 2000s era of computing  —  It’s not often that I get too excited about new laptops these days.  Modern laptops are extremely capable devices, with few glaring flaws. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Amsterdam-based Fourthline, which offers AI tools for ID checks and compliance to finance companies, raised €50M led by Finch, taking its total funding to €70M  —  As digital financial services become more advanced, so too do the efforts of malicious hackers and fraudsters to crack … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Yana Gaur / Reuters: Western Digital discloses a network security incident, taking some systems offline, and says the hacker obtained internal data but the scope is so far unknown  —  Data storage devices maker Western Digital Corp (WDC.O) on Monday said it is looking into a network security incident … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Marissa Newman / Bloomberg: Research: Israeli tech startups raised $1.7B in Q1 2023, the lowest since 2018, weighed down by a global slowdown and protests over a proposed judicial overhaul  —  Investment in Israeli tech companies has dropped to the lowest quarterly rate in nearly five years, a result of the global downturn … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Amsterdam-based Fourthline, which offers AI tools for ID checks and compliance to finance companies, raised €50M led by Finch, taking its total funding to €70M  —  As digital financial services become more advanced, so too do the efforts of malicious hackers and fraudsters to crack … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Amsterdam-based Fourthline, which offers AI tools for ID checks and compliance to finance companies, raised €50M led by Finch, taking its total funding to €70M  —  As digital financial services become more advanced, so too do the efforts of malicious hackers and fraudsters to crack … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Matthew Goldstein / New York Times: A look at problems at Digital World Acquisition Corp, which plans to take Truth Social public by September 8, after CEO Patrick Orlando was ousted  —  The merger of Digital World and Trump Media has been held up by investigations, but executives are rushing to complete the deal by a Sept. 8 deadline. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Danny Nelson / CoinDesk: After an uproar, the Arbitrum Foundation plans to break up a controversial governance package into separate votes, including on its 750M ARB token allocation  —  The backtracking will see Arbitrum hold a standalone vote on its 750 million token allocation.  —  The Arbitrum Foundation … Lees verder op Tech Meme

New York Times: Sources: in November 2021, five days after Joe Biden put NSO on a Commerce Department blocklist, a US government front company licensed NSO’s geolocation tool  —  The Biden administration has been trying to choke off use of hacking tools made by the Israeli firm NSO. Lees verder op Tech Meme