Tech Meme

Richard Lawler / The Verge: A US judge denies Google a summary judgment in a $5B lawsuit over the company tracking users’ activities in Incognito mode, pushing the case closer to a trial  —  On Monday, a California judge denied Google’s request for summary judgment in a lawsuit filed by users alleging the company illegally invaded … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post: Sources: in late 2020, the NSA discovered that Chinese hackers had access to Japanese defense networks; the problem persisted until at least fall 2021  —  Tokyo has strengthened its defenses after a major cybersecurity breach, but gaps remain that could slow information-sharing with the Pentagon Lees verder op Tech Meme

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Developer logs: Apple is testing M3 Max with a 16-core CPU, a 40-core GPU, and 48GB of RAM, in a new MacBook Pro that Apple is expected to launch in 2024  —  – The chip has 16 central processing cores and 40 for graphics  — Company is testing flurry of new Macs as it seeks sales boost Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jane Friedman: An author finds multiple “garbage books” uploaded to Amazon under her name, most likely AI-generated, and on Goodreads, which removed them after her complaint  —  Update: Hours after this post was published, my Goodreads profile was cleaned of the offending titles. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: SoftBank reports ~$426M profit for Vision Fund in Q1, up from a ~$16.4B loss in Q1 2022 and ~$30B in FY2022; Vision Fund invested $1.6B in Q1; Arm lost ~$66.4M  —  – Paper losses on Alibaba led to SoftBank’s group net loss  — Arm tumbles to quarterly loss ahead of all-important IPO Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge: Matter’s biggest problem is that companies can’t agree on how to support Thread, a protocol Matter picked, especially for border routers joining mesh networks  —  The Thread protocol offers a robust mesh network designed to solve many of the smart home’s biggest problems. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Melissa Heikkilä / MIT Technology Review: Researchers tested 14 LLMs for political bias and found OpenAI’s GPT-4 was the most left-wing libertarian and Meta’s LLaMA was the most right-wing authoritarian  —  New research explains you’ll get more right- or left-wing answers, depending on which AI model you ask.  —  Should companies have social responsibilities? Lees verder op Tech Meme

Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch: Prosecraft, a site that compiled 27K+ books to compare and rank the “vividness” of their language, shuts down after writers’ backlash over its possible AI uses  —  On Monday morning, numerous writers woke up to learn that their books had been uploaded and scanned into a massive dataset without their consent. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Melissa Heikkilä / MIT Technology Review: Researchers tested 14 LLMs for political bias and found OpenAI’s GPT-4 was the most left-wing libertarian and Meta’s LLaMA was the most right-wing authoritarian  —  New research explains you’ll get more right- or left-wing answers, depending on which AI model you ask.  —  Should companies have social responsibilities? Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: Sources including current and former Stability AI employees describe a chaotic company led by an inexperienced CEO often unable to deliver on his lofty promises  —  After its breakout success with Stable Diffusion, the startup risks ceding its edge in the booming field of generative AI Lees verder op Tech Meme