Tech Meme

Mark Kleinman / Sky News: Source: HSBC intends to rebrand Silicon Valley Bank UK as HSBC Innovation Banking, and plans to announce the change during London Tech Week in June  —  Europe’s biggest lender will next month announce that SVBUK is being renamed HSBC Innovation Banking, Sky News learns.  —  City editor @MarkKleinmanSky Lees verder op Tech Meme

Columbia Journalism Review: A look at media coverage of generative AI over the past six months, as journalists and academics criticize the hype and provide ways to improve reporting  —  The Tow Center looked at how news organizations have been covering generative AI over the past six months. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Lily Hay Newman / Wired: An interview with Niels Provos and David Mazieres, co-inventors of popular password-hashing function bcrypt, which turns 25 this year, on password security  —  The co-inventor of “bcrypt” is reflecting on the ubiquitous function’s 25 years and channeling cybersecurity’s core themes into electronic dance music. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Song Jung-a / Financial Times: South Korea’s Naver plans to offer versions of its ChatGPT-like AI model to governments worried about US data controls, addressing political and cultural issues  —  Localised versions to address political and cultural sensitivities as well as US data controls Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: Nvidia announces a range of AI products and updates, including the DGX GH200 supercomputer platform, data center networking tools, and a robotics platform  —  In a two-hour presentation in Taiwan, Nvidia Corp. Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang unveiled a new batch of products and services tied … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Matthew Gault / VICE: A look at hCaptcha, a reCAPTCHA alternative used by Discord and others, which trains ML systems and generative adversarial networks using AI-generated images  —  Discord’s captcha is asking users to identify a ‘Yoko,’ a snail-like object that does not exist and was created by AI.  —  Matthew Gault Lees verder op Tech Meme

Damilare Dosunmu / Rest of World: Activists and telecom experts say the Kenyan government’s plan to track counterfeit phones, approved by the Supreme Court, is “excessive” and threatens privacy  —  The Supreme Court granted the communications regulator permission to implement a program that combats counterfeits. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Michael Brooks / MIT Technology Review: An interview with IBM VP of Quantum Computing Jay Gambetta on the company’s plan to build a 100,000-qubit computer within 10 years, finding scientists, and more  —  The company wants to make large-scale quantum computers a reality within just 10 years.  —  Late last year, IBM took the record … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sara Korolevich / Checkr: A survey of 3,000 US workers, an equal number of Boomers, Gen Xers, Millennials, and Gen Zers, finds 85% of them have used AI tools to perform tasks at work  —  – Select a topic to scroll directly to it:  — Summary of key findings  — Current AI usage and planning for the future Lees verder op Tech Meme

Matthew Gault / VICE: A look at hCaptcha, a reCAPTCHA alternative used by Discord and others that is using AI-generated images to train ML systems and generative adversarial networks  —  Discord’s captcha is asking users to identify a ‘Yoko,’ a snail-like object that does not exist and was created by AI.  —  Matthew Gault Lees verder op Tech Meme