Stephen Nellis / Reuters: The US Department of Commerce says the government “has not blocked chip sales to the Middle East”, after an Nvidia filing revealed new US export license rules  —  A U.S. Department of Commerce spokesperson on Thursday said the Biden administration “has not blocked chip sales to the Middle East.” Lees verder op Tech Meme

Mark Wilding / The Verge: Investigation: in July, IBM signed a £54.7M deal to develop a UK biometrics platform, including for facial recognition, despite a 2020 pledge to stop such work  —  IBM has returned to the facial recognition market — just three years after announcing it was abandoning work on the technology due … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: Bumble updates its community guidelines to crack down on bots, spam, ghosting, and doxxing, and says the company blocked 8.2M+ accounts in 2023, mostly using AI  —  Dating app company Bumble has released its updated community guidelines with an aim to crack down on bots, spam, ghosting, and doxing. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Benj Edwards / Ars Technica: University of Zürich and Intel researchers reveal Swift, an autonomous drone trained via deep reinforcement learning to beat human champions in FPV drone racing  —  University creates the first autonomous system capable of beating humans at drone racing. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch: Network security company LogicMonitor confirms “a security incident”, a source says due to assigning customers’ default passwords, like “Welcome@” plus a number  —  Some customers of the network security company LogicMonitor have been hacked due to the use of default passwords, TechCrunch has learned. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: Meta is testing a “For you on Threads” carousel in Instagram, with a button to open the Threads app, after adding a “Send to Instagram DM” button in Threads  —  Meta is continuously experimenting with features to bump up engagement on Threads, which has fallen off … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Mark Wilding / The Verge: Investigation: in July, IBM signed a £54.7M deal to develop a UK biometrics platform, including for facial recognition, despite a 2020 pledge to stop such work  —  IBM has returned to the facial recognition market — just three years after announcing it was abandoning work on the technology due … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: Bumble updates its community guidelines to crack down on bots, spam, ghosting, and doxxing, and says it has blocked 8.2M+ accounts this year, mostly using AI  —  Dating app company Bumble has released its updated community guidelines with an aim to crack down on bots, spam, ghosting, and doxing. Lees verder op Tech Meme