Tech Meme

BBC: An interview with Foxconn chairman Young Liu on shifting some supply chains away from China as China-US tensions rise, hoping to capture 5% of EVs, and more  —  iPhone maker Foxconn is betting big on electric cars and redrawing some of its supply chains as it navigates a new era of icy Washington-Beijing relations. Lees verder op Tech Meme

The Guardian: Meta faces pressure from UK MPs, consumer groups, and banks over its failure to prevent fraud on its platforms, estimated to cost UK households £250M in 2023  —  Exclusive: Calls for Meta to curb rise in scams on its platforms, which will cost UK households £250m this year Lees verder op Tech Meme

Marah Eakin / Wired: How Pixar used neural style transfer, a type of AI used to make photos look like popular artworks, to animate Ember, a lead character in its movie Elemental  —  It’s harder to make fire than you might think.  But the Pixar team was determined to do the impossible.  —  Pixar had a problem. Lees verder op Tech Meme

John Carreyrou / New York Times: A look at the orchestrated downfall of Kyle Roche, co-founder of Roche Freedman LLP, known for suing crypto companies and getting a verdict against Craig Wright  —  Kyle Roche was a rising star in the field of cryptocurrency law — until his career imploded.  Who orchestrated his downfall? Lees verder op Tech Meme

Megan Graham / Wall Street Journal: Duolingo says the company significantly scaled back TV ads, and its DAUs growing 62% YoY to 20.3M in Q1 2023 is due in part to efficient social media marketing  —  The language-learning app now relies more on memes—helping it climb to 20 million daily active users Lees verder op Tech Meme

Washington Post: Hands-on with an Adobe Photoshop beta’s Generative Fill AI feature, which lets users add objects to, remove content from, and expand images using text prompts  —  A new ‘generative fill’ AI capability can create joyful Photoshop edits — and frightening deepfakes Lees verder op Tech Meme

Lisa Bannon / Wall Street Journal: A look at US hospitals using sometimes flawed AI-based diagnosis tools, as some clinicians say they feel pressure from administrations to defer to the algorithm  —  Artificial intelligence raises difficult questions about who makes the call in a health crisis: the human or the machine? Lees verder op Tech Meme

Manish Singh / TechCrunch: Investors of Bengaluru-based Mojocare say they found “financial irregularities” at the health care startup, which has raised ~$23M from Sequoia India and others  —  Mojocare investors have found “financial irregularities” at the Indian health and wellness startup and are moving … Lees verder op Tech Meme

New York Times: WhatsApp keeps banning Taliban officials’ accounts due to US sanctions, causing disruptions at the nascent government, which relies on the app for communication  —  The Taliban administration is stuck in a cat-and-mouse game with WhatsApp, which is off-limits to the nascent government because of U.S. sanctions. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Frank Bajak / Associated Press: Microsoft says hacktivist group Anonymous Sudan’ DDoS attacks “temporarily impacted availability” of Azure, Teams, Outlook, and more services in early June 2023  —  In early June, sporadic but serious service disruptions plagued Microsoft’s flagship office suite … Lees verder op Tech Meme