Tech Meme

Reuters: Sources: SoftBank is in talks to acquire Vision Fund 1’s 25% stake in Arm, ahead of the chip designer’s Nasdaq IPO in September; SoftBank owns the remaining 75%  —  SoftBank Group Corp (9984.T) is in talks to acquire the 25% stake in Arm Ltd it does not directly own from Vision Fund 1 (VF1) … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Iain Thomson / The Register: Inside the Black Hat network operations center; volunteers on secondment built the network from scratch on the week of the event using their own equipment  —  NOC, NOC … Who’s there?  —  BLACK HAT Every summer, pandemics permitting, a group of volunteers gather in a Las Vegas hotel to run … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Lily Hay Newman / Wired: Mac security researcher Patrick Wardle says Apple’s macOS Background Task Management tool is “trivially” bypassed by “any malware that’s somewhat sophisticated”  —  The macOS Background Task Manager tool is supposed to spot potentially malicious software on your machine. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Katrina Manson / Bloomberg: How hackers at a novel DEF CON public contest are trying to expose flaws and biases in eight generative AI models produced by Google, Meta, OpenAI, and others  —  – At DEF CON conference, hacker gets model to say 9 + 10 = 21  — AI has chance to transform everything from finance to hiring Lees verder op Tech Meme

Iain Thomson / The Register: Inside the Black Hat network operations center, staffed by volunteers who built the network on the week of the event from scratch using their own equipment  —  NOC, NOC … Who’s there?  —  BLACK HAT Every summer, pandemics permitting, a group of volunteers gather in a Las Vegas hotel … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Steven Lee Myers / New York Times: How Sweden’s Psychological Defense Agency, a part of the Ministry of Defense, is combating online disinformation from foreign adversaries, especially Russia  —  The country has empowered a government agency to openly combat online disinformation coming from foreign adversaries, and especially the Kremlin. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Josef Adalian / Vulture: A look at bundles from smaller streaming services, telcos’ potential role in bundling, and big streaming services’ opposition to sharing the same user interface  —  This story first ran in Buffering, Vulture’s newsletter about the streaming industry.  Head to vulture.com/buffering and subscribe today! Lees verder op Tech Meme

Financial Times: Analysis: a basket of the top US streaming services will cost $87 per month this fall, vs. $73 a year ago; the average US cable TV package costs $83 per month  —  Top studios turn screws on customers with price rises that rival expensive cable TV bundles  —  The era of cheap streaming is ending … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Lily Hay Newman / Wired: Researcher Patrick Wardle says Apple’s macOS Background Task Management tool is “trivially” easy to bypass by “any malware that is somewhat sophisticated”  —  The macOS Background Task Manager tool is supposed to spot potentially malicious software on your machine. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Katrina Manson / Bloomberg: How hackers at DEF CON are trying to expose flaws and biases in AI models produced by Google, Meta, OpenAI, and others through a public contest  —  – At DEF CON conference, hacker gets model to say 9 + 10 = 21  — AI has chance to transform everything from finance to hiring Lees verder op Tech Meme