Tech Meme

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Emerging markets like India, where iPhone has a low market share, are starting to take off for Apple, attracting a lot of switchers to its ecosystem  —  Apple is turning its attention to emerging markets at a time when growth is slowing at home.  Also: Power On is now on Discord … Lees verder op Tech Meme

David Ingram / NBC News: Two OpenAI contractors, one of them earning $15 per hour, speak about their work labeling the training data used for the company’s products, like ChatGPT  —  Two OpenAI contractors spoke to NBC News about their work training the system behind ChatGPT.  —  Alexej Savreux, a 34-year-old in Kansas City … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jessica Lyons Hardcastle / The Register: The organizers of DEF CON AI Village, set to run from August 10 to 13 this year, say they will host “thousands” of people to find bugs and biases in LLMs  —  Can’t wait to see how these AI models hold up against a weekend of red-teaming by infosec’s village people Lees verder op Tech Meme

Patrick Kulp / Emerging Tech Brew: Q&A with Marissa Mayer on her startup Sunshine that makes an AI-based contacts organizer, what she could have done differently at Yahoo, AI’s future, and more  —  The former Yahoo chief says she wishes she had acquired Hulu instead of Tumblr.  —  After a decades-long career … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Krisztian Sandor / CoinDesk: Pepecoin, a meme coin launched in April, has a $1B+ market cap despite concerns about concentrated ownership; Arkham: a trader turned $263 into $3.8M in profits  —  A pseudonymous crypto trader bought trillions of the meme coin three weeks ago on UniSwap for $263, and still holds about $9 million … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Tim Higgins / Wall Street Journal: Elon Musk has latched onto “unregretted user-minutes”, an undefined metric for measuring Twitter’s success, after taking issue with mDAUs during the takeover  —  Six months into running the social-media company, the billionaire is talking about his own metric of success Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ryan Weeks / The Block: A look at Art Blocks, an NFT marketplace for generative art whose sales reportedly dropped to $6.5M in April 2023 from $587M in August 2021  —  – Volumes have fallen steeply for Art Blocks, the generative art platform that boomed in the last crypto bull run. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac: In an email, Twitter acknowledges a “security incident” that showed Circle tweets to users outside of the Circle in April 2023 and says the bug has been fixed  —  Back in April, several Twitter users were affected by a bug that showed private Twitter Circle tweets to random users in the For You tab. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac: In an email, Twitter acknowledges a “security incident” that showed Circle tweets to users outside of the Circle in April 2023 and says the bug has been fixed  —  Back in April, several Twitter users were affected by a bug that showed private Twitter Circle tweets to random users in the For You tab. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Tom Phillips / Eurogamer.net: The International Olympic Committee adds Fortnite to its Olympic Esports Series competition, which will also feature Just Dance and Gran Turismo  —  Five years after the IOC criticised shooters.  —  News by Tom Phillips Editor-in-chief  —  Fortnite has been named as a late addition … Lees verder op Tech Meme