Tech Meme

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Meta reforms its penalty system based on Oversight Board recommendations, focusing more on explanations of policy and less on penalizing users with “timeouts”  —  “Facebook jail,” the name the social network’s users have bestowed on the company’s system for determining policy violations, is getting an overhaul. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ankush Khardori / New York Magazine: An interview with SEC chair Gary Gensler on meeting Sam Bankman-Fried and FTX executives in March 2022 and October 2021, how tokens are securities, and more  —  As recently as a year ago, Sam Bankman-Fried seemed to be an unstoppable force in official Washington. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Allison Johnson / The Verge: Samsung Galaxy S23 review: much improved battery life, sensibly sized, and top-notch performance, but 3x telephoto lens is short and Samsung’s One UI is average  —  The Galaxy S23 and S23 Plus are the very definition of iterative updates.  They’re still some of the best high-end mobile devices out there … Lees verder op Tech Meme

New York Times: In its superseding indictment, the US charges that SBF and two unnamed FTX executives made 300+ “unlawful” political donations, including using customer funds  —  Prosecutors accused FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried and two unnamed people of making unlawful campaign donations using customers’ money. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Tom Warren / The Verge: Microsoft says Sydney is an “old codename” for a chatbot tested with some Bing users in India since 2020; sources say Sydney had less personality until 2022  —  Microsoft’s Bing AI chatbot history dates back at least six years, with Sydney first appearing in 2021. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Adam Rawnsley / Rolling Stone: Twitter under Elon Musk has yet to publish transparency reports detailing government content removal demands; the company published its last report in July 2022  —  “That shit went out the window right after Elon came in,” one former staffer says of Twitter’s previously routine transparency reports Lees verder op Tech Meme

Haje Jan Kamps / TechCrunch: Amsterdam-based Source.ag, whose AI helps commercial greenhouse crop growers maximize their yields, raised a $23M Series A, taking its total funding to $33M  —  Based in the Netherlands, blossoming agtech startup Source.ag has announced a $23 million Series A funding round to help grow its business … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Austin-based ProsperOps, whose software automatically optimizes cloud resources, raised a $72M Series A led by H.I.G. Growth, after previously raising ~$800K  —  The cloud is growing expensive.  According to a recent survey from ESG, more than half of companies say that their spending … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Stephen Lurie / Wired: A look at IMDb’s top 300 contributors, including one who wrote 35K+ plot summaries, and the history of the Amazon-owned crowdsourced website predating Wikipedia  —  Powered by obsessed film buffs, it’s a crowdsourced juggernaut that’s older than Google and Wikipedia.  Now AI is threatening to steal the starring role. Lees verder op Tech Meme

New York Times: After the US passed the industry-supported $52B CHIPS Act, chipmakers turn cutthroat to snag a bigger share of the federal cash, setting off a lobbying frenzy  —  Semiconductor companies, which united to get the CHIPS Act approved, have set off a lobbying frenzy as they argue for more cash than their competitors. Lees verder op Tech Meme