Tech Meme

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: Bumble updates its community guidelines to crack down on bots, spam, ghosting, and doxxing, and says it has blocked 8.2M+ accounts this year, mostly using AI  —  Dating app company Bumble has released its updated community guidelines with an aim to crack down on bots, spam, ghosting, and doxing. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Mark Wilding / The Verge: Investigation: in July, IBM signed a £54.7M deal to develop a UK biometrics platform, including for facial recognition, despite a 2020 pledge to stop such work  —  IBM has returned to the facial recognition market — just three years after announcing it was abandoning work on the technology due … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: Meta is testing a “For you on Threads” carousel in Instagram, with a button to open the Threads app, after adding a “Send to Instagram DM” button in Threads  —  Meta is continuously experimenting with features to bump up engagement on Threads, which has fallen off … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch: Network security company LogicMonitor confirms “a security incident”, a source says due to assigning customers’ default passwords, like “Welcome@” plus a number  —  Some customers of the network security company LogicMonitor have been hacked due to the use of default passwords, TechCrunch has learned. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Abner Li / 9to5Google: YouTube Music redesigns its Now Playing screen on Android and iOS with larger cover art and a comments section, after launching real-time lyrics last week  —  After pulling a variant at the start of this year, YouTube Music is rolling out the latest redesign of Now Playing on Android and iOS, adding a comments section. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Carly Page / TechCrunch: Cybersecurity giant Malwarebytes lays off 100+ employees in preparation of a major restructuring to separate its consumer and corporate-facing business units  —  Cybersecurity giant Malwarebytes this week laid off 100 employees as it prepares for a major restructuring that will see the business split into two, TechCrunch has learned. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Mark Wilding / The Verge: Investigation: IBM signed a £54.7M deal to develop a UK biometrics platform, including for facial recognition, in July, despite a 2020 pledge to quit such work  —  IBM has returned to the facial recognition market — just three years after announcing it was abandoning work on the technology due … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: Meta is showing a “For you on Threads” carousel on the Instagram app for some users, with a button to open the Threads app  —  Meta is continuously experimenting with features to bump up engagement on Threads, which has fallen off after the initial rush of excitement and installs. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Meta releases FACET, an AI benchmarking tool for evaluating the “fairness” of AI models that classify and detect things in photos and videos, including people  —  Continuing on its open source tear, Meta today released a new AI benchmark, FACET, designed to evaluate the “fairness” … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Gillian Tan / Bloomberg: Sources: CoreWeave, which offers Nvidia GPUs in the cloud, seeks a ~10% equity sale at a $5B to $8B valuation; source: CoreWeave projects $1.5B in 2024 revenue  —  – Company counts Nvidia, Magnetar as existing equity investors  — Startup raised $2.3 billion in debt from Blackstone, others Lees verder op Tech Meme