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A look at iPhone's upcoming Lightning to USB-C transition; sources: Magic Keyboard for the iPad Pro coming next year will have an aluminum top case (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg) 03-09-2023

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: A look at iPhone’s upcoming Lightning to USB-C transition; sources: Magic Keyboard for the iPad Pro coming next year will have an aluminum top case  —  Also: The company confirms the date of its Sept. 12 iPhone 15 event and aims to overhaul device production with 3D printers. Lees verder op Tech Meme

As Instagram and other social media feeds get swamped with influencers' professionally created content, average users move to private posting and closed groups (Insider) 03-09-2023

Insider: As Instagram and other social media feeds get swamped with influencers’ professionally created content, average users move to private posting and closed groups  —  Group chats and messaging apps killed it … Tati Bruening, a 22-year-old content creator and photographer, just wants to share memes and post about cooking green beans. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Foxconn founder Terry Gou resigns as a company board member due to “personal reasons”, less than a week after announcing a bid to be Taiwan's next president (Reuters) 03-09-2023

Reuters: Foxconn founder Terry Gou resigns as a company board member due to “personal reasons”, less than a week after announcing a bid to be Taiwan’s next president  —  Terry Gou, the billionaire founder of major Apple (AAPL.O) supplier Foxconn (2317.TW), resigned as a company board member … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Senior YouTube staff express concerns over Shorts drawing away audiences from long-form videos, which produce more revenue but may be “dying out” as a format (Cristina Criddle/Financial Times) 03-09-2023

Cristina Criddle / Financial Times: Senior YouTube staff express concerns over Shorts drawing away audiences from long-form videos, which produce more revenue but may be “dying out” as a format  —  Concerns raised that TikTok rival is drawing audiences away from the platform’s longer-form videos Lees verder op Tech Meme

The SF Fire Department says two Cruise driverless taxis blocked an ambulance carrying a patient who later died at a hospital; Cruise claims it was not at fault (Yiwen Lu/New York Times) 03-09-2023

Yiwen Lu / New York Times: The SF Fire Department says two Cruise driverless taxis blocked an ambulance carrying a patient who later died at a hospital; Cruise claims it was not at fault  —  Two Cruise taxis delayed an ambulance carrying a car accident victim to a hospital, a department report said.  The company said it was not at fault. Lees verder op Tech Meme

EU study: social media companies have failed to stop pro-Russian disinformation and the “reach and influence of Kremlin-backed accounts” grew further in 2023 (James Clayton/BBC) 03-09-2023

James Clayton / BBC: EU study: social media companies have failed to stop pro-Russian disinformation and the “reach and influence of Kremlin-backed accounts” grew further in 2023  —  Social media companies have failed to stop “large-scale” Russian disinformation campaigns since the invasion of Ukraine, the EU has said. Lees verder op Tech Meme

California Forever, the company backed by tech billionaires that intends to build a city in the Bay Area's Solano County, unveils a website explaining its plans (New York Times) 02-09-2023

New York Times: California Forever, the company backed by tech billionaires that intends to build a city in the Bay Area’s Solano County, unveils a website explaining its plans  —  A former Goldman Sachs trader moved to the Bay Area to make it in tech.  He ended up buying rural land with money from some of Silicon Valley’s wealthiest people. Lees verder op Tech Meme

X updated its privacy policy to let the company use data X collects to train its AI models; Musk says X may use “just public data, not DMs or anything private” (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch) 03-09-2023

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: X updated its privacy policy to let the company use data X collects to train its AI models; Musk says X may use “just public data, not DMs or anything private”  —  X’s recently updated privacy policy informed its users it would now collect biometric data as well as users’ job … Lees verder op Tech Meme

A look at AI chatbots from Baidu, ByteDance, and other Chinese companies, rolled out publicly after China's approval, and how they deal with sensitive content (Zheping Huang/Bloomberg) 02-09-2023

Zheping Huang / Bloomberg: A look at AI chatbots from Baidu, ByteDance, and other Chinese companies, rolled out publicly after China’s approval, and how they deal with sensitive content  —  China has approved the first batch of AI chatbots for public rollout, and I tested them out.  But first…  Test time Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sources: Apple, Nvidia, Alphabet, Intel, Samsung, AMD, Synopsys, and others plan to invest between $25M and $100M each in Arm's IPO; Amazon decided against (Echo Wang/Reuters) 02-09-2023

Echo Wang / Reuters: Sources: Apple, Nvidia, Alphabet, Intel, Samsung, AMD, Synopsys, and others plan to invest between $25M and $100M each in Arm’s IPO; Amazon decided against  —  Customers of Arm Holdings Ltd including Apple Inc (AAPL.O), Nvidia Corp (NVDA.O), Alphabet Inc (GOOGL.O) and Advanced Micro Devices Inc … Lees verder op Tech Meme