Tech Meme

Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg: Sources: Netflix’s ad-supported tier reached ~1M MAUs in the US after its second month, and the company fulfilled its forecasted deliveries to advertisers  —  Good afternoon from Los Angeles.  It’s good to be home and I hope your March Madness bracket is doing better than mine. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Faiz Siddiqui / Washington Post: Amid mounting safety concerns about Tesla’s FSD tech, former employees blame Elon Musk’s erratic leadership, cost-cutting measures like removing radar, and more  —  Tesla’s campaign to deliver a fully autonomous vehicle has suffered amid mounting safety concerns — and the boss’s Twitter distraction Lees verder op Tech Meme

Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: Researchers launch a free app to help artists prevent AI models from stealing their “artistic IP” by adding almost imperceptible “perturbations” to their art  —  Generative art’s style mimicry, interrupted  —  The asymmetry in time and effort it takes human artists … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Abner Li / 9to5Google: Researchers detail “aCropalypse”, a bug in Google Pixel’s Markup fixed in March 2023, where some edited screenshots can be retroactively unredacted or uncropped  —  Besides the Samsung Exynos modem issue, Android 13 QPR2 with the March 2023 security update fixes a vulnerability with the Pixel’s Markup screenshot tool. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Anna Tong / Reuters: Replika and Character.AI now block adult content in their chatbots, angering users who became deeply involved, some considering themselves married, with them  —  After temporarily closing his leathermaking business during the pandemic, Travis Butterworth found himself lonely and bored at home. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Carol E. Lee / NBC News: Source: in an upcoming testimony to Congress this Thursday, TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew plans to say TikTok has 150M MAUs in the US, up from 100M in August 2020  —  When TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew testifies before Congress on Thursday, he plans to unveil new internal data that suggests … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Abner Li / 9to5Google: Researchers detail a recently fixed “aCropalypse” bug in Google Pixel’s Markup tool, where some images edited by it can be retroactively unredacted or uncropped  —  Besides the Samsung Exynos modem issue, Android 13 QPR2 with the March 2023 security update fixes a vulnerability with the Pixel’s Markup screenshot tool. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Pete Schroeder / Reuters: The FDIC announces an agreement to sell Signature Bank’s assets to Flagstar Bank, a subsidiary of New York Community Bancorp  —  A subsidiary of New York Community Bancorp (NYCB.N) has entered into an agreement with U.S. regulators to purchase deposits and loans from New York-based Signature Bank … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Abner Li / 9to5Google: Researchers detail a recently fixed “aCropalypse” bug in Google Pixel’s Markup tool, where some images it edited can be retroactively unredacted or uncropped  —  Besides the Samsung Exynos modem issue, Android 13 QPR2 with the March 2023 security update fixes a vulnerability with the Pixel’s Markup screenshot tool. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Abner Li / 9to5Google: Researchers detail a recently fixed “aCropalypse” bug in Google Pixel’s Markup tool that let some screenshots be retroactively unredacted or uncropped  —  Besides the Samsung Exynos modem issue, Android 13 QPR2 with the March 2023 security update fixes a vulnerability with the Pixel’s Markup screenshot tool. Lees verder op Tech Meme