Tech Meme

John Gruber / Daring Fireball: After Twitter cut off API access, Tapbots and The Iconfactory update Tweetbot and Twitterrific, asking subscribers to consider declining prorated refunds  —  Long story short: If you’re a subscriber to either Tweetbot or Twitterrific, you can help them out with three simple steps: Lees verder op Tech Meme

Elizabeth Weil / New York Magazine: A profile of Emily M. Bender, a computational linguist at the University of Washington who co-wrote a paper in 2020 to illustrate what LLMs can and cannot do  —  Nobody likes an I-told-you-so.  But before Microsoft’s Bing started cranking out creepy love letters; before Meta’s Galactica spewed racist rants … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Financial Times: Staff and analysts: the ~$43B FIS-Worldpay deal suffered from incompatibility, Worldpay’s slow response to changing user needs, and more, resulting in the split  —  Integration was difficult but the deal itself had always been misguided  —  Since it was founded by former UK policeman Nick Ogden … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Martin Smolár / WeLiveSecurity: Researchers detail UEFI bootkit BlackLotus, capable of bypassing UEFI Secure Boot even on up-to-date Windows 11 systems and selling for $5K since October 2022  —  The first in-the-wild UEFI bootkit bypassing UEFI Secure Boot on fully updated UEFI systems is now a reality Lees verder op Tech Meme

Paul Sawers / TechCrunch: Paris-based Sesamm, which uses NLP to generate insights helping companies adhere to their ESG goals, raised a €35M Series B2, taking its total funding to €50.5M  —  Sesamm, a French startup that helps financial firms and corporates adhere to their ESG goals by using natural language processing … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: China’s Big Fund pledged to invest ~$1.9B in memory chipmaker YMTC, suggesting Beijing is again increasing spending on its beleaguered industry after US curbs  —  China has pledged to invest an additional $1.9 billion in the country’s biggest maker of memory chips, a deal that may herald … Lees verder op Tech Meme

New York Times: A look at India’s homegrown digital payments system UPI, run by a nonprofit organization NPCI, which is now used by ~300M individuals and 50M merchants  —  India’s homegrown instant payment system has remade commerce and pulled millions into the formal economy.  —  Reporting from New Delhi, Mumbai and Kerala in India Lees verder op Tech Meme

Martin Smolár / WeLiveSecurity: Researchers detail UEFI bootkit BlackLotus, capable of bypassing UEFI Secure Boot even on up-to-date Windows 11 systems and selling for $5K since October 2022  —  The first in-the-wild UEFI bootkit bypassing UEFI Secure Boot on fully updated UEFI systems is now a reality Lees verder op Tech Meme

CoinDesk: Filing: crypto-friendly US bank Silvergate delays its annual report, citing investigations from regulators, Congress, and the DOJ; SI plunges 30%+  —  Shares fell over 10% in after-hours trading.  —  Christy Goldsmith Romero … Commissioner  —  U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission Lees verder op Tech Meme

Paul Sawers / TechCrunch: Paris-based Sesamm, which uses NLP to generate insights helping companies adhere to their ESG goals, raised a €35M Series B2, taking its total funding to €50.5M  —  Sesamm, a French startup that helps financial firms and corporates adhere to their ESG goals by using natural language processing … Lees verder op Tech Meme