Tech Meme

Kyle Bradshaw / 9to5Google: Google discontinues its Glass Enterprise Edition 2 headset and plans to support it until September 15, 2023; existing devices and software will continue to work  —  Google has announced today that it will no longer be selling its Glass Enterprise Edition 2 headsets, with support set to be discontinued later this year. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: Microsoft says it patched an Outlook zero-day, exploitable without user interaction, used by Russian hackers to target European organizations in 2022  —  Microsoft has patched an Outlook zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2023-23397) exploited by a hacking group linked to Russia’s military intelligence service GRU … Lees verder op Tech Meme

CNBC: Representative Ken Buck says the GOP won’t impose tougher antitrust rules on Google, Amazon, and Apple in 2023; Jim Jordan doesn’t want to give Biden more power  —  – The new Republican leadership in the U.S. House doesn’t appear to have the appetite to impose tougher antitrust rules on the tech giants. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Gareth Vipers / Wall Street Journal: The FBI: US citizens lost $10.3B to online scammers in 2022, up from $6.9B in 2021, and crypto investment fraud losses hit $2.57B in 2022, up from $907M in 2021  —  Cryptocurrency investment fraud nearly tripled in 2022 from the year before  —  Americans lost more than $10 billion … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: LinkedIn announces AI-powered writing suggestions, initially for writing profiles, using OpenAI’s GTP-4, and for recruiters writing job ads, using GPT-3.5  —  Earlier this month, when LinkedIn started seeding “AI-powered conversation starters” in people’s news feeds to boost engagement on its platform … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Umar Shakir / The Verge: Zipline unveils Platform 2 Zip, a drone that can do a 10-mile delivery in 10 minutes to small landing zones via a tethered “delivery droid” from up to 300 feet  —  Zipline is revealing its new drone delivery platform today that the company says is capable of making a 10-mile delivery … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Joanna Stern / Wall Street Journal: Inside the iPhone refurbishment process at New Jersey-based US Mobile Phones, from trade-in to refurbish to resale; Apple devices dominate consumer trade-ins  —  When you trade in a smartphone, here’s how it gets refurbished and makes companies money Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sara Fischer / Axios: Snap plans to begin publishing its guidelines for serving personalized Snapchat content after previously sharing them with publishing partners and some creators  —  Snapchat on Wednesday said it will begin publishing guidelines that detail what types of content gets algorithmically distributed in its app to users. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Fabiano Maisonnave / Associated Press: An investigation finds that illegal miners in Brazil use SpaceX’s Starlink for coordinating logistics, making payments, and warning of law enforcement raids  —  Brazilian federal agents aboard three helicopters descended on an illegal mining site on Tuesday in the Amazon rainforest. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Joanna Stern / Wall Street Journal: Inside the iPhone refurbishment process at New Jersey-based US Mobile Phones, from the trade-in to refurbish to resale; iPhones dominate consumer trade-ins  —  When you trade in a smartphone, here’s how it gets refurbished and makes companies money Lees verder op Tech Meme