Tech Meme

Makena Kelly / The Verge: Meta says it remains committed to rolling out default E2EE for Messenger, which has opt-in E2EE, by the end of 2023, and shortly afterwards for Instagram DMs  —  Meta plans to roll out default end-to-end encryption for its Messenger product by the end of this year, the company confirmed in a blog post Tuesday. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Shubham Sharma / VentureBeat: Nvidia and VMware extend partnership to help companies iterate on open models like Llama 2 for their AI apps, using Nvidia’s NeMo framework on VMware’s cloud  —  VMware and Nvidia today extended their decade-long strategic collaboration to announce a new fully-integrated solution focused on generative AI training and deployment. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Leah Nylen / Bloomberg: Sources: Thoma Bravo plans to close its $2.3B acquisition of ID verification software maker ForgeRock this week after the US DOJ declined to challenge the deal  —  – Justice Department probed identify management software overlap  —  Thoma Bravo LLC will close its $2.3 billion acquisition … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Joseph Cox / 404 Media: A look at the dire state of Americans’ privacy, worsened by credit bureaus’ data policies; Telegram bots sell troves of personal info on targets for ~$15 in BTC  —  Most Americans have very little choice but to provide their personal information to credit bureaus. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Dave James / PC Gamer: Nvidia announces DLSS 3.5 with AI-powered Ray Reconstruction, designed to recognize patterns within a noisy image and improve clarity, available on all RTX GPUs  —  Bringing AI to bear on those noisy traced rays.  —  Nvidia has announced a gorgeous new update to its Deep Learning Super Sampling technology. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: Ivanti warns of a Sentry API authentication bypass flaw being exploited in the wild, after hackers used another Ivanti zero-day to breach Norway’s government  —  US-based IT software company Ivanti warned customers today that a critical Sentry API authentication bypass vulnerability is being exploited in the wild. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Nilay Patel / The Verge: Q&A with Fandom CEO Perkins Miller on the wiki hosting service’s origin as Wikipedia’s sister company, Pottermore, acquiring TV Guide, ads, FanDNA, AI, and more  —  Today, I’m talking with Perkins Miller.  He’s the CEO of Fandom, which runs thousands of wikis for everything from Disney … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Leah Nylen / Bloomberg: Sources: Thoma Bravo will close its $2.3B acquisition of identity software provider ForgeRock this week after the US DOJ declined to challenge the deal  —  – Justice Department probed identify management software overlap  —  Thoma Bravo LLC will close its $2.3 billion acquisition … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Emanuel Maiberg / 404 Media: A look at CivitAI, a site for sharing AI models that generate images mostly trained on material scraped without consent, as non-consensual AI porn proliferates  —  Generative AI tools have empowered amateurs and entrepreneurs to build mind-boggling amounts of non-consensual porn. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Brody Ford / Bloomberg: IBM plans to sell its weather business, including Weather.com and business-oriented offerings, to private equity firm Francisco Partners for an undisclosed sum  —  IBM’s consumer-facing weather services such as Weather.com and business-oriented offerings will be acquired … Lees verder op Tech Meme