Yoel Roth / New York Times: Twitter’s former head of trust and safety reflects on Donald Trump and Elon Musk attacking him, the resulting abuse, fact-checking, the Twitter Files, and more  —  When I worked at Twitter, I led the team that placed a fact-checking label on one of Donald Trump’s tweets for the first time. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Carly Page / TechCrunch: Researchers find a GitHub repo run by Microsoft’s AI research unit that exposed 38TB of sensitive data, like secret keys and 30K+ Microsoft staff Teams messages  —  Microsoft AI researchers accidentally exposed tens of terabytes of sensitive data, including private keys and passwords … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: Sources: Amazon is hiring Microsoft’s former CPO Panos Panay to run the Alexa and Echo unit; longtime hardware chief Dave Limp said in August he is retiring  —  Amazon.com Inc. is hiring Microsoft Corp.’s product chief to run the division responsible for Alexa and the Echo smart speakers … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Federico Viticci / MacStories: Review of iOS and iPadOS 17: a bigger bet on widgets and the modularization of apps, nice tweaks to Stage Manager, but visionOS stole the spotlight this year  —  Well, last year was weird.  —  For the first time since I started writing annual reviews of Apple’s two mobile operating systems … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jason Schreier / Bloomberg: At an all-hands, Unity discusses potential changes to its new controversial fees, like capping fees to 4% of a game’s revenue for customers with $1M+ revenue  —  Maker of video-game development tools backtracks after customers threaten boycott  —  Video-game tool maker Unity Software Inc … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Patreon: Sources: external code contributions to the Android Open Source Project will need at least two Google reviewers’ approval starting next month  —  By now, I’m sure you’re aware that the Android operating system running on your phone is based on open source code provided by Google. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jon Victor / The Information: As Google prepares its Gemini multimodal LLM, a source says OpenAI is racing to debut GPT-Vision, which integrates multimodal image and text features into GPT-4  —  As fall approaches, Google and OpenAI are locked in a good ol’ fashioned software race, aiming to launch the next generation of large-language models: multimodal. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: Microsoft Paint gets support for layers and image transparency, 38 years after its launch, rolling out to Windows Insiders first  —  Microsoft is finally rolling out support for layers and image transparency to the Paint image editor application 38 years after its launch. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Rachel Metz / Bloomberg: AI writing startup Writer, used by L’Oréal, Spotify, and Uber to create digital marketing campaigns, raised $100M led by Iconiq Growth at a $500M+ valuation  —  The company’s technology can write and summarize a wide range of text. … Led by Chief Executive Officer May Habib … Lees verder op Tech Meme