Blake Brittain / Reuters: SCOTUS declines to hear a case regarding AI-generated inventions, after a lower court ruled patents can be issued only to human inventors, and not to AI systems  —  The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a challenge by computer scientist Stephen Thaler to the U.S. Patent … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Abner Li / 9to5Google: Google updates Google Authenticator for Android and iOS with a new icon and Google Account synchronization, letting users back up their 2FA codes to the cloud  —  Google is finally addressing a big gap of its 2FA (two-factor authentication) code app by adding sync capabilities … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Tim Keary / VentureBeat: Google announces Google Cloud Security AI Workbench, powered by the Sec-PaLM LLM, to rival tools like Microsoft’s GPT-4-based Security Copilot  —  Today in the Moscone Center, San Francisco, at RSA Conference 2023 (RSAC), Google Cloud announced Google Cloud Security AI Workbench … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Lizette Chapman / Bloomberg: Analysts, investors, and founders expect a hard year for tech, including more down rounds; PitchBook says 400+ unicorns, or one-third, haven’t raised since 2021  —  The startup world has had a tough year — plagued by mass layoffs, plummeting venture capital investment and the chaotic collapse of Silicon Valley Bank. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Reuters: The trial of Nathaniel Chastain, a former OpenSea PM accused of NFT insider trading, begins this week, one of the first such cases involving digital assets  —  U.S. prosecutors will square off this week against a former employee of OpenSea, the world’s largest marketplace for non-fungible tokens … Lees verder op Tech Meme