Vittoria Elliott / Wired: Research: YouTube and Koo, an Indian X-style alternative, are allowing hateful content that violates their policies, less than a month before national elections  —  In the lead up to India’s elections, researchers have discovered a deluge of divisive and hate-filled content. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Manish Singh / TechCrunch: Paytm shares fell 20% on February 2, after falling 20% on February 1, as the company reels from the RBI clampdown; Paytm lost $2.1B in market cap in two days  —  Shares of Paytm fell another 20% Friday before hitting the lower circuit that temporarily halts trading as the Indian financial services firm reels … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kevin Roose / New York Times: Hands-on with Perplexity and the $20-per-month Perplexity Pro tier, which show that AI-powered search engines could loosen Google’s grip on the search market  —  A start-up called Perplexity shows what’s possible for a search engine built from scratch with artificial intelligence. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Anna Nicolaou / Financial Times: Sources: some independent record labels are pushing back on Apple’s plans to pay more for spatial audio tracks, saying it benefits larger record companies  —  Groups behind Adele and Phoebe Bridgers among those against songs recorded in higher-quality audio receiving more money Lees verder op Tech Meme

Rebecca Falconer / Axios: Former CIA employee Joshua Schulte, who was convicted for leaking secrets to WikiLeaks, was sentenced to 40 years in prison on February 1 for espionage and more  —  A former CIA software engineer who was convicted of carrying out the largest data breach in the agency’s history was sentenced … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Mike Scarcella / Reuters: Filing: Google asks a US judge to overturn a jury verdict favoring Epic that found Google abused its market dominance in setting rules for the Play Store  —  Alphabet’s Google (GOOGL.O) has asked a U.S. judge to throw out a jury verdict for “Fortnite” maker Epic Games that found the tech giant abused … Lees verder op Tech Meme