Tech Meme

Financial Times: Elon Musk is stepping back from DOGE in May, spending 1-2 days per week on government work, as tariffs, customer anger, and Chinese competition weigh on Tesla  —  Billionaire’s foray into government coincided with increased competition from Chinese rivals  —  In the days following Donald … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: Adobe unveils its Firefly Image Model 4 and Model 4 Ultra, launches a redesigned Firefly web app, is testing a new Adobe Content Authenticity web app, and more  —  Adobe on Thursday launched the latest iteration of its Firefly family of image generation AI models, a model for generating vectors … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Dan Milmo / The Guardian: Ofcom outlines 40+ child safety measures for websites and apps to introduce from July 2025 or face large fines under the Online Safety Act, including age checks  —  Companies will be legally required to block children’s access to harmful content under UK’s Online Safety Act or face large fines Lees verder op Tech Meme

Dominic Preston / The Verge: LinkedIn expands its free verification system to the wider web, letting sites display LinkedIn verification, starting with Adobe’s new Content Authenticity app  —  Adobe is one of the first companies to offer users a ‘Verified on LinkedIn’ badge. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: US v. Google: DuckDuckGo CEO Gabriel Weinberg testifies that Chrome is worth “upwards of $50B if it went on the market” based on “back-of-the-envelope” math  —  – DuckDuckGo CEO estimated potential sale price at DOJ hearing  — Justice Department has asked that court order Chrome’s sale Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ryan Browne / CNBC: Revolut reports 2024 revenue up 72% YoY to £3.1B, net profit up 149% YoY to £1.1B, and wealth unit revenue up 298% YoY to £506M; its loan book grew 86% to £979M  —  LONDON — British fintech firm Revolut on Thursday announced it topped $1 billion in annual profit for the first time … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Nathan Vifflin / Reuters: STMicro reports Q1 revenue down 27.3% YoY to $2.52B, below its $2.51B guidance, and projects Q2 revenue down 16.2% YoY to $2.71B, excluding any tariff changes  —  STMicroelectronics (STMPA.PA) forecast improving sales for the second quarter on Thursday after its first-quarter result … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: İFÖD: Bluesky restricted access to 72 accounts in Turkey at the government’s request; the accounts are available on third-party apps using the AT Protocol  —  Government censorship has found its way to Bluesky, but there’s currently a loophole thanks to how the social network is structured. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Naomi Nix / Washington Post: Meta’s Oversight Board rules that two posts disparaging trans women are not hate speech, in the first major test since Meta weakened its rules in January 2025  —  Meta’s top public policy officials issued an unexpected warning last year to the company’s Oversight Board: Two upcoming cases … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Reece Rogers / Wired: Q&A with Margaret Mitchell, an AI ethics researcher at Hugging Face, on the SHADES dataset, designed to test AI models for bias in languages beyond English  —  Margaret Mitchell, an AI ethics researcher at Hugging Face, tells WIRED about a new dataset designed to test AI models for bias in multiple languages. Lees verder op Tech Meme