Tech Meme

Emma Roth / The Verge: Reports: 50+ Twitter staff were laid off over the weekend, including Twitter’s product lead Esther Crawford, and Revue founder Martijn de Kuijper  —  Crawford headed up various projects at Twitter, including the company’s Blue with verification subscription as well as Twitter’s forthcoming payments platform. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Zoë Schiffer / @zoeschiffer: Source: Esther Crawford, who has become one of the most influential leaders at Twitter after Musk’s takeover, is out as chief executive of Twitter Payments  —  Just got confirmation that Esther Crawford, chief executive of Twitter Payments, is out. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Emma Roth / The Verge: Reports: 50+ Twitter staff were laid off on Saturday, including Twitter’s product lead Esther Crawford, and Revue founder Martijn de Kuijper  —  Crawford headed up various projects at Twitter, including the company’s Blue with verification subscription as well as Twitter’s forthcoming payments platform. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Zoë Schiffer / @zoeschiffer: Source: Esther Crawford, who has become one of the most influential leaders at Twitter after Musk’s takeover, is out as chief executive of Twitter Payments  —  Just got confirmation that Esther Crawford, chief executive of Twitter Payments, is out. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Zoë Schiffer / @zoeschiffer: Source: Esther Crawford, who has become one of the most influential leaders at Twitter after Musk’s takeover, is out as chief executive of Twitter Payments  —  Just got confirmation that Esther Crawford, chief executive of Twitter Payments, is out. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Zoë Schiffer / @zoeschiffer: Source: Esther Crawford, who became one of the most influential executives at Twitter after Musk’s takeover, is out as Director of Product Management  —  Just got confirmation that Esther Crawford, chief executive of Twitter Payments, is out. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Inside Apple Exploratory Design Group, which works on a glucose monitor, other advanced tech, and was behind some of the chip and battery tech in iPhones, Macs  —  Apple has a secret team working to bring noninvasive glucose monitoring to its smartwatch, but that’s not all it’s pursuing. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Molly White: The recovery of ~120K stolen ether by Jump and Oasis demonstrates the centralization of DeFi enabled by multisig-controlled upgradable smart contracts  —  Wormhole, Jump Crypto, and Oasis demonstrate the centralization threat introduced by multisig-controlled upgradable smart contracts. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Drew Harwell / Washington Post: Some AI companies are hiring “prompt engineers”, who create and refine text prompts for AI systems to understand their faults and coax optimal results  —  When Riley Goodside starts talking with the artificial-intelligence system GPT-3, he likes to first establish his dominance. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Mia Sato / The Verge: Editors at some literary magazines say they are getting overwhelmed by AI-generated submissions, potentially crowding out genuine submissions from newer writers  —  A short story titled “The Last Hope” first hit Sheila Williams’ desk in early January. Lees verder op Tech Meme