Tech Meme

Washington Post: Verizon report: median amount lost from business email compromise is $50K in recent years and median ransomware damage doubled to $26K over the last two years  —  Welcome to The Cybersecurity 202!  I’m often recommending TV shows and movies here, but I’d like to recommend the book “Recursion,” by Blake Crouch. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Emma Roth / The Verge: Apple Vision Pro’s biggest potential advantage will be the ability for developers to easily plug their iOS and iPadOS apps into visionOS using familiar tools  —  Apple’s developers already have the tools they need to create apps for the system. … It has dual 4K displays … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Guy Chazan / Financial Times: Germany’s finance minister said there is no money in the budget to meet Intel’s demand for €10B in subsidies for its €17B plant in Magdeburg, Germany  —  Christian Lindner’s refusal to meet US chipmaker’s financial demands causes split within government Lees verder op Tech Meme

Wes Davis / The Verge: Reddark: over 200 subreddits have gone dark in protest after Reddit CEO Steve Huffman’s recent remarks on API changes in an AMA, and thousands plan to follow  —  The version of Reddit we’ll see over the next few days may be a shell of itself.  Hundreds of subreddits have pledged to go dark, with thousands more planning to follow. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Guy Chazan / Financial Times: Germany’s finance minister said there is no money in the budget to meet Intel’s demand for €10B in subsidies for its €17B plant in Magdeburg, Germany  —  Christian Lindner’s refusal to meet US chipmaker’s financial demands causes split within government Lees verder op Tech Meme

Thomas Germain / Gizmodo: Researchers claim their model can detect academic writing from ChatGPT with 99%+ accuracy at the document level and 92% accuracy at the paragraph level  —  Researchers say their algorithm can detect scientific writing by robots with surprising accuracy.  —  Scientists from the University … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Platformer: Sources: Twitter is refusing to pay its Google Cloud bills as its contract ends on June 30, and is now planning to move off the platform altogether  —  Musk won’t pay his Google Cloud bill — and the company’s trust and safety systems are hanging in the balance Lees verder op Tech Meme

Benj Edwards / Ars Technica: In a test, researchers find that 90%+ of 1,008 jokes generated by GPT-3.5 were not new but rather the same 25 jokes likely learned during the model’s training  —  When tested, “Over 90% of 1,008 generated jokes were the same 25 jokes.”  —  On Wednesday, two German researchers … Lees verder op Tech Meme

David Yaffe-Bellany / New York Times: Three Arrows Capital’s co-founders spent the past year surfing, meditating, and traveling, both unwilling to apologize for their crypto hedge fund’s collapse  —  The implosion of Three Arrows Capital, a cryptocurrency hedge fund, devastated the industry.  Its two founders spent the next year surfing … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Washington Post: NHTSA data shows Tesla’s FSD and Autopilot were involved in 736 US crashes since 2019, far more than reported; the most recent data includes 17+ fatal incidents  —  Tesla’s driver-assistance system, known as Autopilot, has been involved in far more crashes than previously reported Lees verder op Tech Meme