Tech Meme

Bloomberg: Sources: Google, Meta, and Apple want Congress to limit Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which expires in 2023 if not reauthorized  —  Top tech companies are mounting a push to limit how US intelligence agencies collect and view texts, emails and other information about their users … Lees verder op Tech Meme

TechCrunch: After Russia-linked Clop ransomware gang claimed to hit 130 companies, victims are slowly coming forward, many of which used the GoAnywhere file transfer tool  —  Clop claimed it mass-hacked 130 organizations.  Now the list of known victims is growing  —  The number of victims affected … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Chris Stokel-Walker / BuzzFeed News: Bellingcat founder Eliot Higgins says Midjourney seems to have banned him after he made images of Trump’s arrest; the word “arrested” is now banned on the tool  —  “I suspect it was pushing my luck when I did the [Twitter] thread,” said Bellingcat founder Eliot Higgins. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Washington Post: A look at ByteDance and TikTok’s lobbying before Shou Zi Chew’s hearing, including Axios ads and private lawmaker meetings, mirroring Meta’s well-worn tactics  —  The app, owned by Beijing-headquartered ByteDance, is adopting the lobbying tactics of many of its American tech company peers Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sahil Patel / The Information: Sources: Meta rehires veteran manager Nick Grudin, who left to join NFT startup Dapper Labs in August 2022, to oversee media and creator relationships  —  Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg’ effort to cut back on middle managers isn’t stopping the company hiring more middle managers. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Dina Bass / Bloomberg: GitHub announces Copilot X, adding chat and voice features to help coders with certain tasks, powered by OpenAI’s GPT-4, available via a waitlist  —  Microsoft Corp.’s GitHub unit created one of the first widely deployed programs using OpenAI’s language-generation tools … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Mozilla announces Mozilla.ai, an AI-focused startup with $30M in seed funding from the Mozilla Foundation to work on open source and “trustworthy” AI  —  On the eve of its 25th anniversary, Mozilla, the not-for-profit behind the Firefox browser, is launching an AI-focused startup. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Chris Welch / The Verge: Amazon announces new Fire TVs, launches a cheaper TV lineup, says over 200M Fire TV devices have been sold, and rolls out Luna in the UK, Germany, and Canada  —  Amazon announced today that it has sold a total of over 200 million Fire TV devices.  That number is a combination of Fire TV streamers … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kate Beioley / Financial Times: The UK CMA says Broadcom’s $69B VMware acquisition could make servers more expensive and requests remedies, warning of a potential in-depth investigation  —  Competition and Markets Authority says it may launch in-depth probe if concerns are not addressed  —  The UK competition regulator … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ashley Carman / Bloomberg: Memo: Spotify has spent less than 10% of its $100M Creator Equity Fund, launched in February 2022 to promote diversity following the Joe Rogan controversy  —  Spotify Technology SA’s $100 million Creator Equity Fund, designed to promote diversity in music and podcasts following controversial comments … Lees verder op Tech Meme