Tech Meme

Devindra Hardawar / Engadget: Meta Quest 3S review: fast performance, comfortable, excellent controllers, and large app library, but Fresnel lenses lead to artifacts and average MR cameras  —  It’s not Meta’s first $300 VR headset, but it’s still a tremendous accomplishment.  —  You can think of the $300 Meta Quest 3S as a basic Honda Accord of VR headsets. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: Adobe launches its AI video model Firefly Video Model in public beta in Premiere Pro, including letting users extend footage and generate video from prompts  —  Adobe is making the jump into generative AI video.  The company’s Firefly Video Model, which has been teased since earlier this year … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Evan Ratliff / Bloomberg: A look at the legal dispute between OpenAI and Open AI, run by Guy Ravine, who bought the open.ai domain and filed to trademark “Open AI” in December 2015  —  Guy Ravine’s Open AI (with a space) owns a trademark and website that OpenAI (no space) wants. Lees verder op Tech Meme

John Pavlus / Quanta Magazine: Q&A with physicist Lenka Zdeborová on how the physics of phase transitions in matter can help model the behavior of algorithms, understanding LLMs, and more  —  Quanta spoke with Zdeborová about the similarities between water and algorithms, using physics … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Cristina Criddle / Financial Times: LinkedIn says US C-suite users are up 35% and UK C-suite users are up 30% in five years, and their content gets 4x more engagement than other members’ content  —  Pressure is growing on C-suite executives to raise their online game — but they must beware of oversharing Lees verder op Tech Meme

Tom Warren / The Verge: Internet Archive founder Brewster Kahle says the service is now back in a “provisional, read-only manner”, after a DDoS attack and data breach on October 9  —  The Internet Archive is back online in a read-only state after a cyberattack brought down the digital library and Wayback Machine last week. Lees verder op Tech Meme

John Pavlus / Quanta Magazine: Q&A with physicist Lenka Zdeborová on how the physics of phase transitions in matter can help model the behavior of algorithms, understanding LLMs, and more  —  Quanta spoke with Zdeborová about the similarities between water and algorithms, using physics … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Financial Times: The UK appoints Microsoft UK CEO Clare Barclay to lead its new Industrial Strategy Advisory Council, which will focus on growing eight sectors, including tech  —  Clare Barclay will lead new statutory body tasked with helping Britain win investment away from rival nations Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sam Kim / Bloomberg: South Korean government data: tech exports slowed for a straight second month, indicating slowing global demand; DRAM had its slowest growth since December 2023  —  South Korea’s exports of technology products slowed for a straight second month in an indication global demand may be peaking out … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ann Cao / South China Morning Post: Chinese local media: Chinese video surveillance tech supplier Hikvision plans to lay off 1,000+ R&D staff; Hikvision denied any “large-scale lay-offs”  —  The Hangzhou-based company says it is optimising its research manpower, while denying large-scale lay-offs Lees verder op Tech Meme