Tech Meme

Mike Butcher / TechCrunch: New York-based OpenFin, which offers tools for financial institutions to build unified, digital workspaces, raised a $35M Series D led by Bank of America  —  Not unlike a post-Internet-era Bloomberg Terminal, OpenFin was a startup which joined the revolutionary world of user interfaces to fast-moving information, back in 2010. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: TikTok CEO Shou Chew says Oracle has begun reviewing TikTok’s source code and the app is “on track” to have all US user data hosted and overseen by Oracle  —  ByteDance Ltd.’s TikTok is “on track” with its undertaking to have all US user data hosted and overseen by Oracle Corp. … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Wired: Multilingual language models may not be effective tools to moderate content on social networks due the systems’ shortcomings in detecting harmful content  —  Social media companies claim new language models can remove harmful content in every language.  But those systems’ shortcomings can have vast consequences. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Andy Robinson / Video Games Chronicle: Sony says it sold ~600K PS VR2 units during the first six weeks of availability since launching on February 22, 8% more than PS VR sales six weeks from launch  —  THE PS5 HEADSET SOLD AROUND 600,000 UNITS IN ITS FIRST SIX WEEKS  —  PlayStation VR2’s early sales are ahead of what its PS4-powered predecessor managed, Sony has claimed. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Philip Bump / Washington Post: Elon Musk’s intent in buying Twitter apparently was not only to dismantle a traditional media tool but also to turn Twitter into a right-wing media heavyweight  —  It was only a year ago that Elon Musk, then simply the guy who was hoping to buy Twitter, insisted that his politics sat squarely at the center of the national spectrum. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: Google launches the Mobile Vulnerability Rewards Program, a bug bounty program for its Android applications, offering rewards ranging from $500 to $30K  —  Google has launched the Mobile Vulnerability Rewards Program (Mobile VRP), a new bug bounty program that will pay security researchers … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Takashi Mochizuki / Bloomberg: Tokyo-based taxi-hailing app Go says it raised ~$72M from Goldman Sachs at a ~$1B valuation and commands 70% of the Japanese market, outpacing Uber and Didi  —  Goldman Sachs Group Inc. has made Japan’s leading taxi-hailing provider, Go Inc., a unicorn with its biggest startup investment in the country. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jon Porter / The Verge: Samsung demos multiple OLED panels, including a long rollable display and one that measures heart rate, blood pressure, and stress levels from a user’s finger  —  The Rollable Flex is an interesting new flexible screen from Samsung Display that can be unrolled from just 49mm to 254.4mm, over five times its length. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Andy Greenberg / Wired: Elliptic: some Chinese chemical suppliers accept cryptocurrency for fentanyl ingredients and the majority use “three specific exchanges” based outside of China  —  And it’s happening in plain sight.  —  Fentanyl has long been one of the most dangerous wares … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch: Microsoft adds native support for rar, 7-zip, tar, gz, and other archive formats to Windows 11, via the libarchive open-source project  —  It’s 1999, and my friends and I are surfing warez sites using Internet Explorer on our 98SE gaming rig.  Finally we push past the scams and porn to find … Lees verder op Tech Meme