Dan Sabbagh / The Guardian: In a U-turn, the UK bans TikTok from ministers’ and civil servants’ work phones after a National Cyber Security Centre review, following the EU and the US  —  Move brings Britain in line with US and Europe and reflects worsening relations with China  —  Britain is to ban the Chinese owned … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Microsoft: A live stream of Microsoft’s The Future of Work with AI event, where the company is expected to demo adding OpenAI’s tech to its 365 and Office apps  —  Humans are hard-wired to dream, to create, to innovate.  But today, we spend too much time consumed by the drudgery of work, on tasks that zap our time, creativity, and energy. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: Microsoft plans to bring OpenAI’s GPT-4 to Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Word, and its other apps in the coming months, calling the feature Microsoft 365 Copilot  —  Microsoft Corp.’s effort to overhaul its entire lineup with OpenAI technology has spread to one of the company’s oldest and best-known products: its Office apps. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Margaux Nijkerk / CoinDesk: Ethereum developers set a target date of around April 12 for the long-awaited Shanghai hard fork, delayed from its initial March target  —  Ethereum developers agreed to April 12 for the long-awaited upgrade that will enable staked ETH withdrawals.  Once the date is confirmed by developers on GitHub, it will be set in stone. Lees verder op Tech Meme