Tech Meme

Ted Chiang / New Yorker: Similar to McKinsey and other consultancy firms, AI advancements may help concentrate wealth, disempower workers, and “sharpen the knife blade of capitalism”  —  As it’s currently imagined, the technology promises to concentrate wealth and disempower workers.  Is an alternative possible? Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Ireland-based Everseen, which uses computer vision to spot potential retail theft, raised a €65M Series A led by Crosspoint, taking its total funding to ~€82M  —  In 2007, Alan O’Herlihy, who previously worked with large SAP installations as well as retail, set out to find … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Dylan Tokar / Wall Street Journal: A look at Microsoft’s Trust Code training video series, heading into its seventh season, which has hooked employees with popular characters and cliffhangers  —  Instead of a finger-wagging snoozer about corporate misbehavior, ‘Trust Code’ has flawed characters, dramatic cliffhangers and fans worldwide Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: SoftBank reports Vision Fund lost ~$2B in Q4, down from ~$16B in Q4 2022, leading to a ~$32B full-year loss; investments for the year to March fell to ~$3B  —  SoftBank Group Corp. lost money in its Vision Fund investment unit again despite a rebound in tech stocks, as the Japanese conglomerate … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Haaretz: A profile of Andreas Fink, a telecom expert whose services are used for attacking phone networks globally, including by Israeli disinformation unit Team Jorge  —  The international mobile system is exposed and a loophole allows hackers, cybercriminals and states to geolocate targets and even hijack email and web accounts. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: Microsoft released at least 48 security fixes for Windows and other software, including for two zero-day vulnerabilities under active exploitation  —  Microsoft today released software updates to fix at least four dozen security holes in its Windows operating systems and other software … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Vivian Salama / Wall Street Journal: Documents and officials: the US is investigating if Rockwell Automation’s software facility in China is exposing critical government assets to a cyberattack  —  Investigation of Rockwell looks at whether its software might allow access to critical U.S. government and industrial infrastructure Lees verder op Tech Meme

Mike Rogoway / Oregonian: Amazon secures an estimated $1B in tax breaks for five data centers in Morrow County, Oregon, which local officials hope will generate $12B in Amazon spending  —  Port of Morrow commissioners signed off Wednesday on a contentious package of tax incentives for five more Amazon data centers in eastern Oregon … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bob Van Voris / Bloomberg: A US judge sentences Nickolas Sharp, who worked for IoT maker Ubiquiti, to six years in prison, rejecting claims that his data theft made the company safer  —  An engineer who worked for billionaire Robert Pera’s Ubiquiti Inc. got six years in prison after a judge rejected his claim that his plan … Lees verder op Tech Meme

New York Times: US livestream shopping sales are estimated to hit $32B in 2023; PitchBook: investors poured $380M+ into US live shopping companies in 2022, up from $36M in 2020  —  The market for selling goods in real time online is relatively small, but a number of start-ups and big tech names are betting American consumers will catch on. Lees verder op Tech Meme