Chavi Mehta / Reuters: Accenture plans to lay off 19,000 employees, or ~2.5% of its workforce, and lowers its annual forecasts, as the global economic slowdown weighs on IT spending  —  Accenture Plc said on Thursday it would cut about 19,000 jobs and lowered its annual revenue and profit projections … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Adi Robertson / The Verge: The FTC proposes banning difficult-to-cancel subscriptions via “click to cancel” rules requiring companies to make ending a subscription as simple as signing up  —  The US Federal Trade Commission is proposing a formal ban on subscriptions that are simple to start but difficult to stop. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Tom Warren / The Verge: The YouTube channel Linus Tech Tips was hacked on Thursday and posted videos for crypto scams to its 15.3M subscribers, the latest crypto scam breach on YouTube  —  Popular YouTube channel Linus Tech Tips has been hacked this morning, with the channel’s 15.3 million subscribers seeing videos … Lees verder op Tech Meme

OpenAI: OpenAI rolls out ChatGPT plugins, starting with a web browser and a code interpreter, and open sources the code for a knowledgebase retrieval plugin  —  We’ve implemented initial support for plugins in ChatGPT.  Plugins are tools designed specifically for language models with safety as a core principle … Lees verder op Tech Meme