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Dutch engineer Bram Moolenaar, who in 1991 released and then maintained the very popular Vim open-source code editor, died on August 3 at 62 (Samuel Axon/Ars Technica) 08-08-2023

Samuel Axon / Ars Technica: Dutch engineer Bram Moolenaar, who in 1991 released and then maintained the very popular Vim open-source code editor, died on August 3 at 62  —  The open source software legend left us on August 3 at age 62.  —  Computing as we know it today was built in no small part by individuals … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Google launches group E2E encryption for its Messages app and says RCS will now be turned on by default in Messages for both new and existing users (Abner Li/9to5Google) 08-08-2023

Abner Li / 9to5Google: Google launches group E2E encryption for its Messages app and says RCS will now be turned on by default in Messages for both new and existing users  —  After testing group end-to-end encryption for the past few months, Google Messages has now fully rolled it out and is enabling RCS by default too. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Cloud data management startup Rubrik acquires NYC-based Laminar, which helps companies manage public cloud data security, sources say for around $200M to $250M (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch) 08-08-2023

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Cloud data management startup Rubrik acquires NYC-based Laminar, which helps companies manage public cloud data security, sources say for around $200M to $250M  —  Cybersecurity startups, in particular those hatched in Israel, have been getting scooped up a rapid pace by larger tech companies looking … Lees verder op Tech Meme

A look at archive.today, an opaque service for accessing paywalled content that hosts ~1,000TB and uses a Russian analytics engine and Europe-based data centers (Jpatokal/Gyrovague) 08-08-2023

Jpatokal / Gyrovague: A look at archive.today, an opaque service for accessing paywalled content that hosts ~1,000TB and uses a Russian analytics engine and Europe-based data centers  —  Do you like reading articles in publications like Bloomberg, the Wall Street Journal or the Economist, but can’t afford to pay … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Google debuts Project IDX, an AI-enabled browser-based dev environment that uses Visual Studio Code Open Source and integrates with Google's PaLM 2-based Codey (Frederic Lardinois/TechCrunch) 08-08-2023

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: Google debuts Project IDX, an AI-enabled browser-based dev environment that uses Visual Studio Code Open Source and integrates with Google’s PaLM 2-based Codey  —  Google today announced the launch of Project IDX, its foray into offering an AI-enabled browser-based development environment … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Dutch engineer Bram Moolenaar, who in 1991 released and then maintained the very popular Vim open source code editor, has died at 62 (Samuel Axon/Ars Technica) 08-08-2023

Samuel Axon / Ars Technica: Dutch engineer Bram Moolenaar, who in 1991 released and then maintained the very popular Vim open source code editor, has died at 62  —  The open source software legend left us on August 3 at age 62.  —  Computing as we know it today was built in no small part by individuals … Lees verder op Tech Meme

EchoStar co-founder Charlie Ergen strikes a deal to merge Dish and EchoStar, a move aimed at getting the funds for a wireless network to rival AT&T and Verizon (Wall Street Journal) 08-08-2023

Wall Street Journal: EchoStar co-founder Charlie Ergen strikes a deal to merge Dish and EchoStar, a move aimed at getting the funds for a wireless network to rival AT&T and Verizon  —  Deal aims to give Dish the financial flexibility it needs to compete in the next generation of wireless Lees verder op Tech Meme

Stability AI launches StableCode, an LLM that generates code based on open-source BigCode project's data, supporting Python, Go, Java, JavaScript, C, and C++ (Sean Michael Kerner/VentureBeat) 08-08-2023

Sean Michael Kerner / VentureBeat: Stability AI launches StableCode, an LLM that generates code based on open-source BigCode project’s data, supporting Python, Go, Java, JavaScript, C, and C++  —  Stability AI is well known for its Stable Diffusion text-to-image generation model, but that’s not all the generative AI startup is interested in developing. Lees verder op Tech Meme

WhatsApp introduces screen sharing during video calls, rolling out gradually on Android, iOS, and Windows, and support for Landscape mode on video calls (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch) 08-08-2023

Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: WhatsApp introduces screen sharing during video calls, rolling out gradually on Android, iOS, and Windows, and support for Landscape mode on video calls  —  WhatsApp today introduced screen sharing as its latest feature to enhance the video calling experience on its platform … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Unlike in Gonzalez v. Google, SCOTUS in the next year can't just punt the NetChoice cases challenging social media content moderation laws in Texas and Florida (Jeff Kosseff/Wired) 08-08-2023

Jeff Kosseff / Wired: Unlike in Gonzalez v. Google, SCOTUS in the next year can’t just punt the NetChoice cases challenging social media content moderation laws in Texas and Florida  —  Forget Gonzalez v. Google.  There’s another dispute that will come before the justices in the next year and this time they will … Lees verder op Tech Meme