Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat: Frec, which uses AI to let customers create direct indexing investment strategies, comes out of stealth with $26.4M across a seed and a Series A led by Greylock  —  Emerging from stealth today, fintech startup Frec announced it has raised $26.4 million in seed and Series A funding led by Greylock … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kate Knibbs / Wired: Researchers demo “washing out” watermarks on AI images and adding watermarks to human-generated images, meaning online services can’t reliably flag AI content  —  In a new paper out this week, a group from the University of Maryland found it’s too easy to evade current methods of watermarking … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kif Leswing / CNBC: Google sets new requirements for emailers sending 5,000+ emails per day to Gmail users, effective February 2024, including adding a one-click unsubscribe button  —  – Google will make it harder for spammers to land in your email inbox, the company said Tuesday. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Georgia Wells / Wall Street Journal: In a letter to TikTok, Senators Blackburn and Blumenthal ask about executives who transferred from ByteDance to TikTok in the US despite “its independence”  —  In a letter to TikTok, Sens. Marsha Blackburn and Richard Blumenthal seek information about ties to parent company Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: Researchers find critical now-patched flaws allowing RCE in open-source AI model-serving tool TorchServe and vulnerable instances at tens of thousands of IPs  —  A set of critical vulnerabilities dubbed ‘ShellTorch’ in the open-source TorchServe AI model-serving tool impact tens of thousands … Lees verder op Tech Meme