Tech Meme

Brody Ford / Bloomberg: IBM CEO Arvind Krishna says the company plans to slow or stop back-office hiring, impacting ~26K staff, and ~30% could “easily” be replaced by AI in five years  —  International Business Machines Corp. Chief Executive Officer Arvind Krishna said the company expects to pause hiring … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Samantha Cole / VICE: Pornhub disabled its website in Utah following a new age verification law for porn sites, instead showing a video asking users to talk to their representatives  —  People in Utah who visit Pornhub will now be greeted by adult performer Cherie DeVille asking them to tell their representatives to change their age verification law. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Alexandra S. Levine / Forbes: Internal records show ByteDance uses word lists, extending beyond standard moderation blocklists, to detect or suppress content; TikTok denies using the lists  —  A moderation system run by ByteDance staff in China uses word lists to detect or suppress content about everything from TikTok rival YouTube … Lees verder op Tech Meme

New York Times: The current push for age restrictions on certain online content in the US echoes the Communications Decency Act of 1996, which was struck down by SCOTUS in 1997  —  In the 1990s, the U.S. government limited what young people could see online, but lost a court fight challenging those rules. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Dan Seifert / The Verge: OnePlus Pad review: a bright screen, excellent build quality, and snappy performance, but limited built-in apps, subpar keyboard and stylus, and a mid-tier CPU  —  OnePlus’ first tablet brings high-end features and specs to a midrange price point.  It reminds me of the OnePlus we used to know. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: A glitch on Twitter’s desktop website has been randomly logging out some users and preventing some from logging back in, adding to the service’s list of issues  —  Twitter is not dead yet, it’s just randomly logging out a number of its users.  After reporting earlier today that Twitter … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica: Apple uses its Rapid Security Response feature, announced at WWDC 2022, to push a non-beta public update for the first time to iOS, iPadOS, and macOS users  —  Rapid Security Response updates haven’t been released to the public until today.  —  When it announced iOS 16, iPadOS 16 … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Tom Warren / The Verge: Microsoft partners with PayPal, Stripe, and GoDaddy to launch a payments system inside Teams that lets SMBs in the US and Canada collect money during meetings  —  Microsoft is launching a payments system inside Microsoft Teams that lets small businesses earn money from appointments, classes … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Samantha Cole / VICE: Pornhub has disabled its website in Utah amid a new age verification law for porn sites, replacing it with a video asking users to talk to their representatives  —  People in Utah who visit Pornhub will now be greeted by adult performer Cherie DeVille asking them to tell their representatives to change their age verification law. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Amazon rolls out Fire TV Channels, its FAST video experience for Fire TV devices, after monthly hours streamed of FAST content grew 300%+ in the past six months  —  Amazon is doubling down on free, ad-supported content with today’s introduction of Fire TV Channels, its new, free and ad-supported … Lees verder op Tech Meme