Tech Meme

Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times: Q&A with sci-fi author Neal Stephenson about inventing the metaverse concept, his blockchain startup Lamina1, not using ChatGPT to help write novels, and more  —  Neal Stephenson’s science-fiction writing has predicted (and inspired) innovations from cryptocurrency to Alexa. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Melissa Heikkilä / MIT Technology Review: Midjourney temporarily bans some words about the human reproductive system to prevent generating shocking or gory images, while the company “improves things”  —  Midjourney says it’s a temporary measure to stop people from using its system to create shocking or gory images. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Melissa Heikkilä / MIT Technology Review: Midjourney temporarily bans some words about the human reproductive system to prevent generating shocking or gory images, while the company “improves things”  —  Midjourney says it’s a temporary measure to stop people from using its system to create shocking or gory images. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Wall Street Journal: How thieves watch iPhone owners tap their passcodes in public before stealing their phones to lock victims out of accounts, access data, and loot financial apps  —  The passcode that unlocks your phone can give thieves access to your money and data; ‘it’s like a treasure box’ Lees verder op Tech Meme

Melissa Heikkilä / MIT Technology Review: Midjourney temporarily bans some words about the human reproductive system to prevent generating shocking or gory images, while the company “improves things”  —  Midjourney says it’s a temporary measure to stop people from using its system to create shocking or gory images. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Politico: Inca Digital: Huobi and KuCoin, both based in Seychelles, still let traders transact with debit cards issued by sanctioned Russian banks on their P2P platforms  —  Two of the world’s largest crypto exchanges failed to take steps to prevent sanctioned Russian banks from using their platforms … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Mitchell Clark / The Verge: A major outage has taken down Dish Network’s websites, apps, and customer support systems; sources say remote employees can’t connect to their VPNs and work  —  Since Thursday morning, Dish Network has been experiencing a major outage that’s taken down the company’s main websites, apps … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Glenn Peoples / Billboard: Source: TikTok’s test in Australia limiting how much licensed music some users’ can access is to study what is trending, how users access its service, and more  —  The short-form video app known for breaking viral hits, is using music in a different way Down Under.  —  What’s TikTok without music? Lees verder op Tech Meme

Scott Chipolina / Financial Times: Elliptic: pro-Ukraine causes received $200M+ in crypto donations in 2022, including $80M+ sent to Ukraine’s government; pro-Russian entities got less than $5M  —  Plus updates on all the big names, including Binance and FTX … Crypto’s impact on geopolitical issues does not often make for uplifting reading. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Anton Shilov / Tom’s Hardware: Report: 69,190 semiconductor patents were filed globally in 2022, up 9% YoY; Chinese companies accounted for 55%, US companies 26%, and UK companies 0.26%  —  The U.K. only accounted for 0.26% of the global total.  —  China is neither the world’s largest developer of chips nor the world’s largest maker of semiconductors. Lees verder op Tech Meme