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Eco, an a16z-backed payments startup that has raised $95M, announces decentralized, non-custodial payments wallet Beam, aiming to function like a “global Venmo” (Rita Liao/TechCrunch) 27-07-2023

Rita Liao / TechCrunch: Eco, an a16z-backed payments startup that has raised $95M, announces decentralized, non-custodial payments wallet Beam, aiming to function like a “global Venmo”  —  The crypto payments space is seeing a surge of activity these days as developers strive to make decentralized finance as user-friendly as web2 experiences. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sources in Hollywood and Silicon Valley discuss AI's impact: creatives view AI as an existential threat, studios see a cost saver, and both sides need a deal (Lucas Shaw/Bloomberg) 27-07-2023

Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg: Sources in Hollywood and Silicon Valley discuss AI’s impact: creatives view AI as an existential threat, studios see a cost saver, and both sides need a deal  —  Adam Conover started to worry a few months ago that a computer could take his job.  A comedian in Los Angeles … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Researchers: the guardrails on ChatGPT, Bard, and Claude can be bypassed by adding a long suffix of characters to prompts, generating false and toxic responses (Cade Metz/New York Times) 27-07-2023

Cade Metz / New York Times: Researchers: the guardrails on ChatGPT, Bard, and Claude can be bypassed by adding a long suffix of characters to prompts, generating false and toxic responses  —  A new report indicates that the guardrails for widely used chatbots can be thwarted, leading to an increasingly unpredictable environment for the technology. Lees verder op Tech Meme

How Russia's invasion led Ukraine to innovate in combat drones, including improving speed, flight range, and payload, and the implications for warfare globally (Washington Post) 27-07-2023

Washington Post: How Russia’s invasion led Ukraine to innovate in combat drones, including improving speed, flight range, and payload, and the implications for warfare globally  —  The advent of AI-enabled drones holds huge promise for Ukraine’s military but may also be exploited by nefarious non-state actors Lees verder op Tech Meme

Israeli startup Trustmi, which offers payments fraud prevention tools, raised a $17M Series A led by Cyberstarts, taking its total funding to $21M (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch) 27-07-2023

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Israeli startup Trustmi, which offers payments fraud prevention tools, raised a $17M Series A led by Cyberstarts, taking its total funding to $21M  —  Shai Gabay and Eli Ben-Nun, two entrepreneurs based in Israel, met in 2018 while working at Cynet, a cybersecurity startup developing extended detection and response tools. Lees verder op Tech Meme

iOS 17 beta 4 code hints at a rumored Action button, offering quick access to Shortcuts, Silent Mode, Camera, and more, similar to the Watch Ultra's button (Steve Moser/MacRumors) 27-07-2023

Steve Moser / MacRumors: iOS 17 beta 4 code hints at a rumored Action button, offering quick access to Shortcuts, Silent Mode, Camera, and more, similar to the Watch Ultra’s button  —  Apple released the fourth beta of iOS 17 to developers yesterday, and among the changes in the latest beta are some new code snippets … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Lindsey Graham and Elizabeth Warren announce the Digital Consumer Protection Commission Act, seeking an independent regulator to license and police Big Tech (New York Times) 27-07-2023

New York Times: Lindsey Graham and Elizabeth Warren announce the Digital Consumer Protection Commission Act, seeking an independent regulator to license and police Big Tech  —  Mr. Graham, a Republican, is the senior senator from South Carolina.  Ms. Warren, a Democrat, is the senior senator from Massachusetts. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Source: about 10 years ago, Tesla rigged the dashboard to overstate battery range; in 2022, Tesla created a “Diversion Team” to suppress thousands of complaints (Reuters) 27-07-2023

Reuters: Source: about 10 years ago, Tesla rigged the dashboard to overstate battery range; in 2022, Tesla created a “Diversion Team” to suppress thousands of complaints  —  About a decade ago, Tesla rigged the dashboard readouts in its electric cars to provide “rosy” … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Indian political parties court big and small social media influencers ahead of the 2024 elections, offering to pay for political messages with no disclosures (Srishti Jaswal/Rest of World) 27-07-2023

Srishti Jaswal / Rest of World: Indian political parties court big and small social media influencers ahead of the 2024 elections, offering to pay for political messages with no disclosures  —  As the campaign for the 2024 elections in India goes digital, social media influencers have become a powerful tool to try and shape voter behavior. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Slack experienced an “outage across the app” starting around 5AM ET for about an hour, including issues with sending messages and search (Jon Porter/The Verge) 27-07-2023

Jon Porter / The Verge: Slack experienced an “outage across the app” starting around 5AM ET for about an hour, including issues with sending messages and search  —  Slack, the workplace chat app, experienced an outage this morning, with messages failing to send on the service. Lees verder op Tech Meme