Tech Meme

Phineas Rueckert / Forbidden Stories: Leaked documents detail how shadowy cybersecurity firm S2T is selling surveillance tools to clients with a track record of spying on journalists and dissidents  —  Hidden in a trove of leaked Colombian military documents, Forbidden Stories found a confidential brochure … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Chris Stokel-Walker / Wired: Q&A with David Wakeling of Allen & Overy, one of world’s largest law firms, on using using OpenAI-developed generative AI tool Harvey to write legal documents  —  Large law firms are using a tool made by OpenAI to research and write legal documents.  What could go wrong? Lees verder op Tech Meme

Wall Street Journal: US and EU officials accuse China of using its legal system to subvert foreign IP rights and help domestic firms in industries it deems important, including tech  —  Rulings nullify patents in industries it deems important, including technology, pharmaceuticals and rare-earth minerals Lees verder op Tech Meme

PYMNTS.com: Sydney-based DataMesh, which offers a payments processing system that it claims adapts to existing systems used by banks and merchants, raised a $30M Series A  —  DataMesh Group has raised $30 million in a Series A funding round to expand globally.  —  The Australian firm also plans … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Brandy Betz / CoinDesk: Chaos Labs, which offers an automated, on-chain risk management platform for DeFi protocols, raised a $20M seed led by Galaxy Digital and PayPal Ventures  —  Chaos Labs, a startup offering an automated economic security system for crypto protocols, has raised $20 million in a seed funding round co-led … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Andrew Chung / Reuters: SCOTUS declines to hear Wikimedia’s challenge of the NSA’s warrantless Upstream surveillance of foreign targets, leaving in place a lower court’s 2015 dismissal  —  The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to hear a bid by the operator of the popular Wikipedia internet encyclopedia … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Louis Rosenberg / VentureBeat: Berkeley study: researchers identified VR users with 94%+ accuracy using 100 seconds of motion data, after analyzing anonymized data of 50K+ Beat Saber players  —  Louis Rosenberg, Unanimous A.I.  —  A new paper from the University of California Berkeley reveals that privacy may be impossible … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jay Peters / The Verge: Meta’s Quest v50 update adds Direct Touch, an experimental setting that lets users “touch” virtual buttons and keyboards directly instead of via a pinch gesture  —  Hand tracking on Meta’s Quest VR headsets is about to get better.  With the new v50 update, you’ll be able to … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Igor Bonifacic / Engadget: Google rolls out a redesigned YouTube Music radio station feature, letting users pick up to 30 artists, apply mood filters, and tune parameters after creation  —  Almost every music streaming service on the market offers a radio feature, allowing you to create an automatically generated playlist around a song or artist you love. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Omar Faridi / Crowdfund Insider: Berlin-based Pliant, which offers a B2B corporate credit card service that integrates with accounting software, raised a $28M Series A led by SBI Investment  —  Berlin-based Pliant claims it is looking back at a very successful year 2022.  —  While entering seven additional European markets … Lees verder op Tech Meme