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Drew Harwell / Washington Post: Some AI companies are hiring “prompt engineers”, who create and refine text prompts for chatbots to understand the AI systems’ flaws and coax optimal results  —  When Riley Goodside starts talking with the artificial-intelligence system GPT-3, he likes to first establish his dominance. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ranjan Roy / Margins: How the potential of voice as a platform was wasted: closed ecosystems, overly ambitious proclamations, distorted monopolistic incentives, and too much capital  —  Sometimes innovation just ain’t enough … I have four Echo devices in my household.  For years, we used them to control … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Molly White: Jump and Oasis recovering ~120K stolen ether demonstrates how multisig-controlled upgradeable smart contracts undermine trustlessness and censorship-resistance  —  Wormhole, Jump Crypto, and Oasis demonstrate the centralization threat introduced by multisig-controlled upgradable smart contracts. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ax Sharma / BleepingComputer: Sources: the cyberattack on Dish Network was “by an outside bad actor, a known threat agent” and the company is working with an external vendor to fix the issue  —  American TV giant and satellite broadcast provider, Dish Network has mysteriously gone offline with its websites … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kate Lindsay / The Verge: As AI tools and CGI creations get better at pretending to be human, some creators online are sometimes being asked to prove that they’re human  —  Last April, 27-year-old Nicole posted a TikTok video about feeling burned out in her career.  When she checked the comments the next day, however, a different conversation was going down. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Zoë Schiffer / @zoeschiffer: Source: Esther Crawford, who has become one of the most influential leaders at Twitter after Musk’s takeover, is out as chief executive of Twitter Payments  —  Just got confirmation that Esther Crawford, chief executive of Twitter Payments, is out. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Silicon Canals: Boston-based Electra Vehicles, which provides AI-based cloud and onboard software to optimize EV battery systems, raised a $21M Series A led by United Ventures  —  Boston, USA-based Electra Vehicles, a B2B electric vehicle AI software company, announced on Wednesday that it has raised $21M … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Emma Roth / The Verge: Reports: 50+ Twitter staff were laid off over the weekend, including Twitter’s product lead Esther Crawford, and Revue founder Martijn de Kuijper  —  Crawford headed up various projects at Twitter, including the company’s Blue with verification subscription as well as Twitter’s forthcoming payments platform. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Zoë Schiffer / @zoeschiffer: Source: Esther Crawford, who has become one of the most influential leaders at Twitter after Musk’s takeover, is out as chief executive of Twitter Payments  —  Just got confirmation that Esther Crawford, chief executive of Twitter Payments, is out. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Emma Roth / The Verge: Reports: 50+ Twitter staff were laid off on Saturday, including Twitter’s product lead Esther Crawford, and Revue founder Martijn de Kuijper  —  Crawford headed up various projects at Twitter, including the company’s Blue with verification subscription as well as Twitter’s forthcoming payments platform. Lees verder op Tech Meme