Tech Meme

Christian Vasquez / CyberScoop: A group of operational technology cybersecurity vendors launches ETHOS, an open-source portal to share early warnings about threats to critical infrastructure  —  The biggest companies working in industrial cybersecurity are building an early-warning platform called ETHOS to share threat intelligence. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Margi Murphy / Bloomberg: How Alethea, Graphika, and other startups are fighting disinformation, charging companies and governments $100K+ per year after raising $300M+ from 2018 to 2022  —  Shawn Eib was on the case as soon as customers started pulling billions of dollars from Silicon Valley Bank. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Matthew Gault / VICE: Common ChatGPT phrases like “as an AI language model” and “I cannot generate inappropriate content” are appearing in and exposing fake Amazon reviews and tweets  —  The phrase ‘as an AI language model’ is starting to flood Amazon user reviews and Twitter bot accounts. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kris Holt / Engadget: BeReal claims 20M+ DAUs and is testing letting users post three snapshots per day; Apptopia: BeReal had less than 6M DAUs in March 2023 and ~15M in October 2022  —  BeReal, Apple’s iPhone app of the year for 2022, wants you to know that it’s still going strong. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Alex Konrad / Forbes: Sources: Twitter signed ~$20M to Black, Latinx, and female VC fund managers after George Floyd’s murder; Twitter stopped paying and is trying to sell the stakes  —  Covering venture capital, cloud and startups  —  With Twitter expected to default on millions still due … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kris Holt / Engadget: BeReal says it has 20M+ DAUs and is testing allowing more than one post a day; Apptopia said BeReal had less than 6M DAUs in March 2023 and ~15M in October 2022  —  BeReal, Apple’s iPhone app of the year for 2022, wants you to know that it’s still going strong. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Alex Konrad / Forbes: Sources: Twitter committed ~$20M to Black, Latinx, and female VC fund managers after George Floyd’s murder; now it’s trying to sell those stakes and back out  —  Covering venture capital, cloud and startups  —  With Twitter expected to default on millions still due, investors at VC firms … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Abner Li / 9to5Google: Google updates Google Authenticator for Android and iOS with a new icon and Google Account synchronization, letting users back up their 2FA codes to the cloud  —  Google is finally addressing a big gap of its 2FA (two-factor authentication) code app by adding sync capabilities … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Blake Brittain / Reuters: SCOTUS declines to hear a case regarding AI-generated inventions, after a lower court ruled patents can be issued only to human inventors, and not to AI systems  —  The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a challenge by computer scientist Stephen Thaler to the U.S. Patent … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Malathi Nayak / Bloomberg: A US appeals court affirms a lower court’s 2021 ruling largely rejecting claims by Epic that Apple’s App Store policy banning third-party app stores is illegal  —  Apple Inc. won an appeals court ruling upholding its App Store’s policies in an antitrust challenge brought by Epic Games Inc. Lees verder op Tech Meme