Tech Meme

New York Times: Kevin Mitnick, a hacker best known for his crime spree in the 1990s, who later became a consultant, writer, and public speaker after leaving prison, dies at 59  —  Mr. Mitnick, best known for a crime spree during the 1990s that involved the theft of thousands of data files and credit card numbers, died from pancreatic cancer. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Manish Singh / TechCrunch: Netflix brings password-sharing crackdown to India and other markets and says an “extra member” option won’t be offered where it is newly enforcing restrictions  —  Netflix is bringing password-sharing crackdown to consumers in India and every other market starting today … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ionut Ilascu / BleepingComputer: Researchers identify 200K+ OpenAI credentials for sale on the dark web in the form of stealer logs, as hackers show an increased interest in generative AI tools  —  Threat actors are showing an increased interest in generative artificial intelligence tools, with hundreds of thousands … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Benj Edwards / Ars Technica: A study claims GPT-4’s outputs grew worse from March to June, but some experts aren’t convinced by the results and urge OpenAI to be less opaque about AI models  —  Either way, experts think OpenAI should be less opaque about its AI model architecture.  —  On Tuesday, researchers … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Arun Padmanabhan / Moneycontrol: In Llama 2’s commercial terms, Meta says companies with 700M+ MAUs must request a license, and users are prohibited from utilizing Llama 2 to improve other LLMs  —  Although Meta has announced that it will open-source its LLM and allow free usage for commercial and research purposes … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Zheping Huang / Bloomberg: Tencent CEO Pony Ma pens an op-ed backing Chinese pledges to revive the private sector; Xiaomi CEO Lei Jun also endorsed the policies in a separate editorial  —  – Pony Ma becomes most prominent backer of Xi’s policies  — China’s third-richest person rarely voices his views Lees verder op Tech Meme

New York Times: Sources: Google is testing an AI-powered tool to produce news stories, pitching it to news orgs including NYT, WaPo, and News Corp as a helpmate for journalists  —  The product, pitched as a helpmate for journalists, has been demonstrated for executives at The New York Times … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: Adobe releases an emergency ColdFusion security update which fixes a zero-day RCE flaw used in the wild, after its July 11 fix was marked incomplete by Rapid7  —  Adobe released an emergency ColdFusion security update that fixes critical vulnerabilities, including a fix for a new zero-day exploited in attacks. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Emily Nicolle / Bloomberg: France designates Société Générale’s blockchain unit Forge a digital asset service provider, issuing the country’s first license under its new crypto rules  —  – Forge awarded permissions to act as custodian, trade crypto  — License will help meet demand from institutional clients: CEO Lees verder op Tech Meme

Mike Oitzman / The Robot Report: Beijing-based ForwardX Robotics, which makes autonomous mobile robots for warehouses, raised an additional $30M on July 7, bringing its Series C total to $61M  —  ForwardX Robotics, a global leader in vision-based AMR technology, is thrilled to announce the successful completion of its latest funding round … Lees verder op Tech Meme