Tech Meme

David Streitfeld / New York Times: A look at publishers’ legal fight against the Internet Archive’s book lending program; the Internet Archive agreed to drop the publishers’ “full book catalogs”  —  In the pandemic emergency, Brewster Kahle’s Internet Archive freely lent out digital scans of its library.  Publishers sued. Lees verder op Tech Meme

David Streitfeld / New York Times: A look at publishers’ legal fight against the Internet Archive’s book lending program; the parties reached a deal Friday to remove some books from the archive  —  In the pandemic emergency, Brewster Kahle’s Internet Archive freely lent out digital scans of its library.  Publishers sued. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Gary Marcus / The Road to AI We Can Trust: Generative AI could be a dud, so we shouldn’t build around the premise that the tech is world-changing, which in hindsight may turn out to have been unrealistic  —  With the possible exception of the quick to rise and quick to fall alleged room-temperature superconductor LK-99 … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch: Q&A with an FBI agent on targeting and taking down DDoS-for-hire sites, why Christmas is the busiest DDoS time, how attacks have changed over 10 years, and more  —  In an interview at Black Hat, FBI agents explain how they target and take down DDoS-for-hire sites Lees verder op Tech Meme

Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: Some iPhone 14 Pro users complain that the “Maximum Capacity” rating of their phone’s battery has already dropped to around 90% after less than a year  —  iPhone 14 Pro users are growing increasingly concerned about the state of their iPhone’s battery health. 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

Duncan Riley / SiliconANGLE: ShapesXR, which offers an XR app creation and collaboration platform to clients like Meta, Qualcomm, and ByteDance, raised an $8.6M seed led by Supernode Global  —  Spatial apps creation and collaboration platform startup ShapesXR today announced that it has raised $8.6 million in new funding … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Sources: Apple is planning a major “Watch X” redesign for the 10th anniversary; a look at the M3 roadmap, including a top M3 Ultra with 32 CPU and 80 GPU cores  —  Apple’s next line of smartwatches is expected to be a minor upgrade.  Behind the scenes, though … Lees verder op Tech Meme