Tech Meme

Jon Fingas / Engadget: Meta rolls out a Variance Reduction System, its AI ad-targeting tech meant to comply with its DOJ settlement and reduce discrimination in housing ads, in the US  —  Meta is acting on its vow to reduce ad discrimination through technology.  The company is rolling out a Variance Reduction System … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Javier Paz / Forbes: A breakdown of Binance’s known assets, using data from Nansen and others, estimates the exchange has around $50B, including ~$10B in BNB, down 24% from November  —  The outflow of cash from Binance is worse than the CEO Changpeng Zhao indicated last month, and it’s become considerably more severe since then, a Forbes analysis shows. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Rachel Syme / New Yorker: A profile of Bela Bajaria, Netflix’s global head of TV who leads its hyper-aggressive strategy to adapt successful show formats to different parts of the world  —  Bela Bajaria, who oversees the streaming giant’s hyperaggressive approach to TV-making, says success is about “recognizing that people like having more.” Lees verder op Tech Meme

Chainalysis: A look at the US government’s crypto-related sanctions strategy, the types of entities sanctioned, and the impact of the sanctions on the crypto crime ecosystem  —  Agencies like the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) of the U.S. Department of the Treasury and its equivalents … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Washington Post: A New York University study finds Russian troll Twitter accounts had a minimal impact on 2016 US election voters; 1% of users accounted for 70% of the exposure  —  Welcome to The Cybersecurity 202!  I caught up on some time hanging out with friends this past weekend.  Friends are cool. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: Sources: former FTX engineering chief Nishad Singh, who has not been accused of wrongdoing, met with US federal prosecutors last week to seek a cooperation deal  —  Former FTX engineering chief Nishad Singh met with federal prosecutors in a bid to become the third member of Sam Bankman-Fried’s inner circle … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: The FAA proposes a February 1, 2024 deadline for airlines to replace or retrofit altimeters that can’t filter out 5G signals, preventing full C-Band deployment  —  About 1,000 planes have altimeters listening to signals in the wrong frequencies.  —  The Federal Aviation Administration … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Belle Lin / Wall Street Journal: Southwest Airlines’ recent meltdown exposed an over-reliance on aging crew-assignment software SkySolver, forcing the company to return to manual scheduling  —  The airline industry is long overdue for a tech overhaul that takes full advantage of the cloud and data integration, analysts say Lees verder op Tech Meme

Clive Thompson / MIT Technology Review: A profile of blockchain auditing service CertiK, which inspects smart contracts to help clients like Yuga Labs avoid critical bugs that can lead to lost crypto  —  Programming errors on the blockchain can mean $100 million lost in the blink of an eye.  Ronghui Gu and his company CertiK are trying to help. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Evelyn Cheng / CNBC: A look at China’s growing, Beijing-endorsed “virtual people” industry, including scandal-free influencers, performers, and customer service representatives  —  – Tech company Baidu said the number of virtual people projects it’s worked on for clients has doubled since last year … Lees verder op Tech Meme