Mike Pearl / Mashable: Some critics of Twitter Blue, including @dril, Kara Swisher, and Twitch streamer Hasan Piker, say Twitter gave them unwanted Blue checkmarks  —  If you can’t beat ‘em verify ‘em. … The latest speed bump in the rollout of Twitter’s revamped verification policy under new owner Elon Musk is here: Spite checkmarks. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jaron Lanier / New Yorker: AI’s mythology as tech for creating independent, intelligent beings instills fear; “data dignity” and seeing AI as a social collaboration could address worries  —  There are ways of controlling the new technology—but first we have to stop mythologizing it. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sam Reynolds / CoinDesk: A California judge rules that the RR/BAYC NFTs, which feature primates in similar poses to the Bored Ape Yacht Club NFTs, violate Yuga Labs’ BAYC trademarks  —  Use of BAYC trademarks by Ripps’ RR/BAYC was intended to confuse consumers, a U.S. judge in California has ruled Lees verder op Tech Meme

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Sources detail Apple XR headset’s external battery and charging cable, and a look at Apple’s app strategy of throwing everything but the kitchen sink at users  —  Apple is taking a scattershot approach to the upcoming Reality headset’s features, hoping that a wide variety of options will get consumers to try the product. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Zoe Kleinman / BBC: Twitter restores gold badges to some news organizations, including the BBC, The New York Times, and Bellingcat; the BBC and Bellingcat say they did not pay  —  Some Twitter accounts with more than one million followers have had their blue tick badges re-instated by Twitter without paying to subscribe. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Financial Times: Sources: the UK plans to propose a bill next week letting the CMA’s digital markets unit target Big Tech companies with £25B+ global revenue or £1B UK revenue  —  Draft bill expected within days that will put CMA’s digital markets unit on a statutory footing Lees verder op Tech Meme

Monica Chin / The Verge: US PIRG Education Fund: Chromebooks are less sustainable and more costly for schools than other devices due to their short lifespans and lack of repairability  —  Back in early 2020, as the covid pandemic drove classrooms online, school districts found themselves needing to bulk purchase affordable laptops … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Katherine Sayre / Wall Street Journal: A look at GeoComply, which says its tech checks 10B online sports bets per year on 400M+ devices to verify if the wagers occur in a US state where they’re legal  —  Even before online wagering on sports was legal in the U.S., Anna Sainsbury and David Briggs predicted that gambling apps would need to know where their customers were. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Meir Orbach / CTech: Boston-based cloud infrastructure startup Volumez, which develops controller orchestration software, raised a $20M Series A led by Koch Disruptive Technologies  —  Volumez’s controller-less architecture composes direct Linux data paths between media and applications, helping companies convert knowledge … Lees verder op Tech Meme