Tech Meme

Wall Street Journal: A look at Google’s Med-PaLM 2, an AI chatbot that answers medical questions, and more; sources: testing began in April with customers including the Mayo Clinic  —  Search company is fine-tuning chatbot technology via medical licensing exams  —  Google is testing an artificial-intelligence program trained … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Washington Post: Civil rights groups and academics say the ruling limiting the US government contacting tech companies could undermine 2024 election misinformation initiatives  —  Civil rights groups warn limits on government contacts could be a boon for election lies ahead of ‘the biggest election year the internet age has seen’ Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ana Swanson / New York Times: Chipmakers find it harder to operate in China but say that doing business there is key to their survival, as the country accounts for roughly a third of sales  —  Chipmakers are finding it increasingly hard to operate in China but say doing business in the country is still key to their survival. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Financial Times: Sources: banking lobby group UK Finance claims 61% of all reported authorized push payment fraud by volume go through Meta platforms; ~£485M was stolen in 2022  —  UK Finance presses ministers to force tech companies into taking more responsibility for authorised push payment fraud Lees verder op Tech Meme

Igor Bonifacic / Engadget: Twitch plans to launch ephemeral stories in October and a Discovery Feed consisting of a personalized mix of streamers’ clips this fall, both on its mobile app  —  The features will arrive this fall.  —  It’s probably safe to say no one could have predicted that LinkedIn would add Stories before Twitch, but here we are. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Pranshu Verma / Washington Post: How an AI-generated, error-filled Star Wars story created internal chaos at Gizmodo, an incident that speaks to a larger debate about the role of AI in the news  —  The error-filled story about Star Wars movies and TV shows demonstrates why artificial intelligence shouldn’t be involved in news-gathering, reporters said Lees verder op Tech Meme

Wes Davis / The Verge: Twitter lets users switch back to the previous version of TweetDeck, and appears to have restored legacy API access allowing some third-party apps to work again  —  Overnight, users across Twitter began reporting that the older, and much better, version of TweetDeck has returned along … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Reece Rogers / Wired: A comparison of users’ personal data collected by Threads, Twitter, Bluesky, Mastodon, Spill, and Hive Social, based on information from Apple’s App Store  —  Here’s what personal data is collected by Meta’s Threads, as well as by Twitter, Bluesky, Mastodon, Spill, and Hive Social. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Scharon Harding / Ars Technica: BotDefense, a project run by volunteer Reddit mods to remove spam bots on big subreddits like r/gaming and /r/aww, quits over the site’s “antagonistic actions”  —  Mod-made tool claims to have banned 144,926 spambot accounts.  —  The Reddit community is still reckoning … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Tim Higgins / Wall Street Journal: With the Threads launch, Mark Zuckerberg appeared to have some of his swagger back as the public face of the platform’s rollout, amid Elon Musk’s Twitter chaos  —  The Facebook co-founder is seizing the moment with a win after years of tumult  —  Elon Musk has done the once unimaginable … Lees verder op Tech Meme