Tech Meme

Joseph Menn / Washington Post: Hacker group Cult of the Dead Cow plans to detail P2P protocol Veilid, to encrypt social media and apps, at Def Con next week, its biggest release in 10 years  —  Cult of the Dead Cow is a hacker collective whose members at one time included Texas politician Beto O’Rourke Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: China releases draft rules to limit smartphone use by minors, including two hour limits for those age 16 to 18, although enforcement remains unclear  —  – Aims to prevent kids from spending too much time on phones  — Beijing has pursued campaigns to alleviate burden on minors Lees verder op Tech Meme

Financial Times: Analysts and executives say the UK risks becoming an also-ran in the race to roll out 5G, despite starting in 2019, due to limited investment and the Huawei ban  —  Expansion of high-speed mobile networks hit by factors including limited investment and disruption from ban on Huawei kit Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jen Christensen / CNN: An early-stage study of 80,000 women in Sweden who underwent a mammogram in 2021 and 2022 finds AI-supported screening increased breast cancer detection by 20%  —  Artificial intelligence found more breast cancers than doctors with years of training and experience and cut doctors’ mammogram … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: X now lets XBlue subscribers hide their verified checkmarks, although “the checkmark may still appear in some places” and some features “may not be available”  —  Social media company X, formerly Twitter, now lets paid users hide their verification checkmarks. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Abner Li / 9to5Google: X renames TweetDeck to XPro; the URL remains tweetdeck.twitter.com and much of the copy is unchanged, including the “Tweet like a pro” tagline  —  With the rename and rebrand complete on the web, Android, and iOS, X is now turning its attention to TweetDeck, which is now called “XPro.” Lees verder op Tech Meme

Matt Day / Bloomberg: Amazon plans to roll out the biggest overhaul to its grocery business since buying Whole Foods in the coming weeks, including one cart for supermarket offerings  —  It’s revamping stores, unifying online shopping carts and offering fresh-food delivery to customers who aren’t Prime subscribers. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Chris Welch / The Verge: Microsoft rolls out spatial audio for Teams on Windows and macOS after a few months of testing; the audio of each person on a call now has a distinct position  —  After a few months of testing the feature, Microsoft has widely rolled out spatial audio for its Teams desktop app on Windows and macOS. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Alex Pasternack / Fast Company: An interview with Google Jigsaw engineer Lucy Vasserman on how OpenAI and others use Jigsaw’s AI tool Perspective for flagging toxic speech to evaluate LLMs  —  OpenAI, Anthropic, and others are using Jigsaw’s Perspective—designed to moderate toxic human speech—to evaluate their large language models. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: The Cyberspace Administration of China releases draft rules to curtail smartphone use by minors, although enforcement of the rules remains unclear  —  – Aims to prevent kids from spending too much time on phones  — Beijing has pursued campaigns to alleviate burden on minors Lees verder op Tech Meme