Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch: Uber rolls out new tools to identify US riders or Uber Eats users who consistently give bad ratings or feedback to get refunds, to reduce unfair deactivations  —  Uber is introducing new features geared toward addressing the issues of unfair deactivations that ride-hail and delivery drivers often face. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Harry McCracken / Fast Company: A profile of, and interview with, tech YouTuber Marques Brownlee on how he changed tech gadget reviews, business strategy, reaching 17.7M subscribers, and more  —  Marques Brownlee has rewired the way people shop for gadgets—and how companies sell them.  Inside the humble workshop … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Javier Espinoza / Financial Times: Sources: EU regulators plan to file anti-competitive charges against Adobe’s $20B Figma deal as early as this week; the duo announced the deal in September 2022  —  EU preparing to file anti-competitive charges, according to people familiar with probe  —  Adobe’s $20bn deal to buy Figma … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg: RIL, a nonprofit coalition of tech VCs and executives, releases voluntary guidelines for startups to build AI responsibly, signed by Bain, IVP, and 33 other VCs  —  The new guidelines are part of an effort to enact some guardrails for potentially thousands of startups across the AI industry. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Cory Weinberg / The Information: Sources: ByteDance’s revenue rose 40%+ YoY to $29B in Q2, with markets outside of China accounting for nearly 20% of its total, and H1 2023 revenue hit ~$54B  —  ByteDance is closing the revenue gap with Facebook owner Meta Platforms as it generates more sales from advertising and e-commerce. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Scott Patterson / Wall Street Journal: A look at Aurora, the Intel- and HPE-made, Argonne National Laboratory-based supercomputer, set to be the first to hit two quintillion operations per second  —  That’s two billion billion operations a second, enough to explore the brain and discover drugs  —  LEMONT, Ill.—Inside … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sylvia Westall / Bloomberg: Sources: Yandex plans to sell its entire Russian business, including its search engine, not just a 51% stake, amid pressures relating to the war in Ukraine  —  – Deal to sell Russian unit may be announced in December  — Dutch-registered Yandex previously planned to sell a 51% stake Lees verder op Tech Meme

Paul Alcorn / Tom’s Hardware: Top500: the AMD-based Frontier remains the fastest supercomputer at 1.194 EFlop/s, above the Argonne National Laboratory’s Intel-based Aurora at 585.34 PFlop/s  —  Intel’s oft-delayed Aurora remains a work in progress.  —  The Top500 organization released its semi-annual list … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Andy Maxwell / TorrentFreak: Filing: Google sues two men in California who allegedly used 65 Google accounts to spam Google with fraudulent DMCA takedown notices targeting up to 620K URLs  —  Two men who allegedly used 65 Google accounts to bombard Google with fraudulent DMCA takedown notices targeting up to 620,000 URLs … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Cory Weinberg / The Information: Sources: ByteDance’s revenue rose 40% YoY to $29B in Q2, with markets outside of China accounting for nearly 20% of its total; H1 2023 revenue was ~$54B  —  ByteDance is closing the revenue gap with Facebook owner Meta Platforms as it generates more sales from advertising and e-commerce. Lees verder op Tech Meme