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Wall Street Journal: A look at Harry and Meghan’s Hollywood flop in streaming’s era of slower growth; sources: Netflix is unlikely to renew their $100M deal, which runs through 2025  —  They arrived three years ago with royal star power amid a streaming boom, but have notched more cancellations and rejections than produced shows Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: Japan announces a $6.3B deal to buy and privatize JSR, a maker of photoresists that controls the global supply of key chipmaking chemicals with two other firms  —  Japan’s government unveiled a $6.3 billion deal to buy out and privatize JSR Corp., taking direct control of the world leader … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kevin J. Delaney / Charter: Q&A with Microsoft’s Jared Spataro on AI tools advancing knowledge work, increasing worker creativity, being “usefully wrong”, automating work away, and more  —  Microsoft over the past few years has released some of the most interesting research about how people work … Lees verder op Tech Meme

New York Times: As the use of AI-generated ads in political campaigns increases globally, consultants, election researchers, and lawmakers push for setting up new guardrails  —  Gaps in campaign rules allow politicians to spread images and messaging generated by increasingly powerful artificial intelligence technology. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Grace Kay / Insider: Blind: ~56% of US tech workers would accept equal or less pay in a new role, and ~45% of those say the uncertain job market is the main reason they would do so  —  – The majority of tech workers in a Blind survey said they’d accept equal or lower pay.  — Many of those surveyed attributed … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Yuval Mann / Ynetnews: An interview with early Waze investors Yahal Zilka and Ehud Levy on why they invested, the impact of Google’s acquisition on Israel’s tech industry, and more  —  The disregard for map companies, the dilemma between BlackBerry and iPhone, the indifference on the part of Tim Cook … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jessica Gould / Gothamist: NYC says the MOVEit flaw exposed ~45K students’ data, following March 2022’s breach of ~820K students’ data via the Illuminate Education grading software hack  —  We rely on your support to make local news available to all  —  Make your contribution now and help Gothamist thrive in 2023. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Phoebe Liu / Forbes: A profile of Christina Cacioppo, the co-founder and CEO of data security compliance startup Vanta, which has an ~$80M ARR, a $1.6B valuation, and raised $203M  —  The Stanford graduate built a fast-growing software company to automate what had previously been a manual process. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Nina Jankowicz / The Atlantic: While there are effective laws outlawing the sharing of nonconsensual deepfake porn in some states, such as Virginia and California, the US needs a federal law  —  Because I was in the public eye, somebody synthesized explicit videos of me.  —  Recently, a Google Alert informed me that I am the subject of deepfake pornography. Lees verder op Tech Meme

New York Times: As the use of AI-generated ads in political campaigns increases, political consultants, election researchers, and lawmakers push for setting up new guardrails  —  Gaps in campaign rules allow politicians to spread images and messaging generated by increasingly powerful artificial intelligence technology. Lees verder op Tech Meme