Tech Meme

Jon Porter / The Verge: Nick Clegg says Meta plans to let Instagram and Facebook users opt out of its recommendation algorithms, part of its broader work to comply with the EU DSA  —  Instagram and Facebook users in Europe are getting more options to opt out of Meta’s recommendation algorithms, the company has explained in a blog post today. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: Arm spent 3,500+ words in its 330-page IPO prospectus explaining the risks in China, a critical market that accounted for ~24% of its sales in the year to March  —  – Geopolitical tensions, China economic woes hurting sales  — Power struggle with fired China unit CEO still casts shadow Lees verder op Tech Meme

Financial Times: AlphaSense: ~40% of companies in the S&P 500 mentioned AI or related terms in their latest earnings calls, but only 16% mentioned AI in their regulatory filings  —  S&P 500 groups from a burrito maker to a cruise-ship operator tout promise of emerging technology Lees verder op Tech Meme

Tom Warren / The Verge: To appease the UK, Microsoft restructures its Activision deal by agreeing to sell off Activision cloud gaming rights to Ubisoft; the UK CMA will now investigate  —  Microsoft is restructuring its proposed Activision Blizzard deal to transfer cloud gaming rights for current and new Activision Blizzard games to Ubisoft. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jennifer Elias / CNBC: Google CFO Ruth Porat and other executives have either shifted roles or left the company in recent months, as the search giant tries to find its own identity  —  – A string of decade-long Google executives have changed jobs in the last several months.  — Some have wanted to seek … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Lacey Rose / The Hollywood Reporter: Bill Simmons, Ben Shapiro, Kara Swisher, and other podcast hosts, executives, and agents on how the industry has changed, not reaching “peak podcast”, and more  —  The most powerful people in podcasting weigh in with their predictions, plans and biggest pet peeves. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Matthew Green / A Few Thoughts on Cryptographic Engineering: A look at Worldcoin from a privacy-skeptical point of view, including likely risks and how the project doesn’t link users’ transaction data with its ID database  —  Recently a reader wrote in and asked if I would look at Sam Altman’s Worldcoin, presumably to give thoughts on it from a privacy perspective. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kylie Robison / Fortune: Elon Musk says X will remove headlines from link previews in posts with news articles, so that the previews display only the lead image and the news site’s URL  —  X, the social media platform previously known as Twitter, is planning a major change in how news articles appear on the service … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Financial Times: Nvidia’s A800 and H800 chips, hobbled for the Chinese market to meet US rules, have seen huge demand as they more are powerful than anything else before 2023  —  Nvidia’s processors are weakened for the Chinese market, but are still more powerful than the alternatives Lees verder op Tech Meme

Gian Volpicelli / Politico: China’s metaverse proposals at the UN’s ITU include a digital identity system, akin to the country’s social credit system, that experts say invades user privacy  —  China wants to define how a new, promising technology called the metaverse works — and it is pushing proposals that bear … Lees verder op Tech Meme