Tech Meme

New York Times: UK convenience stores are increasingly using facial recognition tech to combat shoplifting, which critics say is a disproportionate solution for minor crimes  —  British merchants are increasingly using the technology to combat shoplifting, raising questions about its spread as artificial intelligence rapidly improves it. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: Analysis: the Clop ransomware group has breached 122 organizations and stolen the data of ~15M people to date by exploiting a zero-day flaw in Progress’ MOVEit  —  The dramatic fallout continues, with as many as 122 organizations now breached.  —  The dramatic fallout continues … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jack Schickler / CoinDesk: The EU Commission publishes its digital euro legislative plans, including privacy and financial stability safeguards; some backers question the CBDC’s benefits  —  Officials want a digital payment system available to “everyone, everywhere, for free.”  —  BRUSSELS, Belgium … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: Y Combinator received a record 24K applications for its latest cohort and accepted less than 1%, of which ~35% are AI-focused and 50% use AI in their business  —  More than one-third of the famed startup accelerator Y Combinator’s latest batch of companies are focused specifically on artificial intelligence. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Lindsey Adler / Wall Street Journal: MLB partners with Uplift Labs, which uses AI and images captured by two iPhone cameras to detect players’ flaws, forecast their potential, and flag injury risk  —  The most important thing a baseball team can do ahead of the amateur draft is predict future success for developing young ballplayers. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kwaku Gyasi / Bloomberg: Chicago-based public cloud infrastructure startup Fly.io, which has data centers in 37 regions globally, raised a $70M Series C led by EQT at a $467M valuation  —  Fly.io, a tech startup whose public cloud infrastructure enables developers to deploy applications, has raised $70 million … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: A look at Anonymous Sudan, a self-described hacktivist group that researchers tied to Russia and that has targeted Microsoft, Sweden, Israel, the US, and others  —  A hacking group responsible for a series of outages at Microsoft Corp. earlier this month had spent the previous months attacking targets … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Mark Bergen / Bloomberg: OpenAI plans to open an office in London, its first office outside the US, due to “world-class talent”; Sam Altman had floated Poland and France  —  ChatGPT creator OpenAI Inc. has chosen London as the home of its first corporate office outside the US, according to a company statement issued Wednesday. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: An interview with senior Binance executive Yi He, who has been out of the global spotlight and has children with CZ, on regulators, compliance, Okcoin, and more  —  One senior Binance executive has managed to stay out of the global spotlight over the past six years and counting … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: An interview with senior Binance executive Yi He, who has stayed out of the spotlight and has children with CZ, on regulators, compliance, Okcoin, and more  —  One senior Binance executive has managed to stay out of the global spotlight over the past six years and counting … Lees verder op Tech Meme