Matt Burgess / Wired: An analysis of cookie pop-ups on the top 10,000 most popular websites: dozens share date with 1,000+ companies, and thousands share data with 100+ companies  —  Cookie pop-ups now show the number of “partners” that websites may share data with.  Here’s how many of these third-party companies … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Tim De Chant / TechCrunch: Paris-based Greenly, whose carbon accounting software helps SMBs track their carbon emissions, raised a $52M Series B, and reports $10M+ in ARR in 2023  —  Plenty of major corporations have announced net-zero emissions targets.  And while that alone won’t be enough to move the needle on climate change … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Zephyr Teachout / The Atlantic: The TikTok divestment bill fits into a long and important US tradition of forbidding a hostile foreign power from controlling a major communication platform  —  America has a long history of shielding infrastructure and communication platforms from foreign control. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kate Knibbs / Wired: Fairly Trained certifies KL3M, an LLM claimed to be built without the permissionless use of copyrighted materials by legal tech consultancy startup 273 Ventures  —  OpenAI claimed it’s “impossible” to build good AI models without using copyrighted data.  An “ethically created” … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Michael Kan / PCMag: Canadian regulatory agency ISED clarifies its stance on banning Flipper Zero, saying the aim is to restrict the use of such devices “to legitimate actors only”  —  A Canadian regulatory agency says the aim is to restrict the Flipper Zero ‘to legitimate actors only.’  —  Michael Kan Lees verder op Tech Meme

Yossi Matias / The Keyword: In a research paper, Google Research details how AI enabled the company to provide accurate flood forecasting in over 80 countries up to seven days in advance  —  A paper published in Nature today shows how Google Research uses AI to accurately predict riverine flooding and help protect livelihoods … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Financial Times: Court docs: Sachin Dev Duggal, the CEO of London-based Builder.ai that raised a $250M Series D in 2023, is a suspect in a money laundering probe in India  —  Court documents show Sachin Dev Duggal and Saurabh Dhoot face questions from authorities over past business dealings Lees verder op Tech Meme

Rachel Metz / Bloomberg: OpenAI says it hasn’t yet set a timeline for the release of Sora, as the company tries to catch up to other text-to-video AI startups like Runway AI  —  Software that can create convincing video from text prompts is progressing fast, raising questions about disinformation as well as the economics of AI. Lees verder op Tech Meme

David Gilbert / Wired: X suspended accounts of some journalists and researchers who posted the alleged real name of neo-Nazi cartoonist Stonetoss after Stonetoss appealed to Elon Musk  —  Researchers and journalists have been blocked on X from sharing the alleged identity of the neo-Nazi cartoonist Stonetoss. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ashley Gold / Axios: After a classified briefing on TikTok, the Senate Commerce Committee Chair Maria Cantwell says “the next steps might be something more public, like a hearing”  —  – But Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer has not committed to putting the bill on the floor anytime soon. Lees verder op Tech Meme