Mitchell Clark / The Verge: Google plans to shut Currents, its Google+ replacement for G Suite launched in 2019, on August 8 so users don’t have to work in a “separate, siloed destination”  —  / It’ll wind down starting in 2023 and be replaced with Spaces … Google has announced that it’ll shut down Currents … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Paul Sawers / TechCrunch: Denmark-based LMS365, an online learning management system for Microsoft 365 and Teams, raised $20M in its first institutional funding round  —  Danish company LMS365, an online learning management system (LMS) built for use inside Microsoft products, has raised $20 million in its first institutional round of funding. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Yoshihiro Sato / Bloomberg: Taiwan Ministry of Finance data: chipmaking machine exports to the US rose 42.6% YoY to $71.3M in March 2023, while exports to China dropped 33.7% YoY  —  US purchases of machines to make computer chips from Taiwan rose to a record in March, as the Biden administration works to reinvigorate the domestic semiconductor industry. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: Google releases Android 14 Beta 1 for Pixel devices, adding sharesheet custom actions, a more prominent back arrow, per-app language preferences, and more  —  Google’s Android development cycle runs on a rather predictable cadence these days.  Today, after two developer previews … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: A study finds that assigning ChatGPT a persona using its API, like “a bad person” or a certain historical figure, increases the chatbot’s toxicity sixfold  —  It’s no secret that OpenAI’s viral AI-powered chatbot, ChatGPT, can be prompted to say sexist, racist and pretty vile things. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Facundo Iglesia / Rest of World: A look at Argentinian crypto company Generación Zoe and its pastor founder Leonardo Cositorto, who is accused of a $120M+ Zoe Cash investment scam  —  Generación Zoe promised investors massive returns thanks to market-predicting “robots” and a cryptocurrency backed by gold. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Moira Donovan / MIT Technology Review: A look at researchers’ use of deep neural networks to examine historical documents and the risks, such as models slipping bias or falsifications into records  —  The historians of tomorrow are using computer science to analyze how people lived centuries ago.  —  It’s an evening in 1531, in the city of Venice. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: Ethereum successfully completes its Shanghai, or Shapella update, letting users withdraw staked ether tokens; ~1.2M ETH are expected to be withdrawn in a week  —  The Ethereum blockchain, the most important commercial highway in the digital-asset sector, successfully implemented a widely anticipated software upgrade. Lees verder op Tech Meme