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Netflix brings password-sharing crackdown to India and other markets and says an “extra member” option won't be offered where it is newly enforcing restrictions (Manish Singh/TechCrunch) 20-07-2023

Manish Singh / TechCrunch: Netflix brings password-sharing crackdown to India and other markets and says an “extra member” option won’t be offered where it is newly enforcing restrictions  —  Netflix is bringing password-sharing crackdown to consumers in India and every other market starting today … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kevin Mitnick, a hacker best known for his crime spree in the 1990s, who later became a consultant, writer, and public speaker after leaving prison, dies at 59 (New York Times) 20-07-2023

New York Times: Kevin Mitnick, a hacker best known for his crime spree in the 1990s, who later became a consultant, writer, and public speaker after leaving prison, dies at 59  —  Mr. Mitnick, best known for a crime spree during the 1990s that involved the theft of thousands of data files and credit card numbers, died from pancreatic cancer. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Veel bewolking en van tijd tot tijd enkele buien KNMI : 20-07-2023

Veel bewolking en van tijd tot tijd enkele buien Verwachting voor vandaag en morgen Waarschuwingen er zijn geen waarschuwingen van kracht Vanochtend is het half tot zwaar bewolkt en komt er in het begin plaatselijk mist voor. Vooral in het zuiden is er kans op een enkele bui. Er staat weinig wind, in het Waddengebied staat een matige wind uit het noordwesten.Vanmiddag is er af en toe zon. Vooral in het zuiden komt er plaatselijk een bui voor. De maximumtemperaturen lopen uiteen van 18°C op de Wadden tot 23°C in het zuiden. Er staat een zwakke tot matige wind uit… Lees verder »Veel bewolking en van tijd tot tijd enkele buien KNMI : 20-07-2023

A study claims GPT-4's outputs grew worse from March to June, but some experts aren't convinced by the results and urge OpenAI to be less opaque about AI models (Benj Edwards/Ars Technica) 20-07-2023

Benj Edwards / Ars Technica: A study claims GPT-4’s outputs grew worse from March to June, but some experts aren’t convinced by the results and urge OpenAI to be less opaque about AI models  —  Either way, experts think OpenAI should be less opaque about its AI model architecture.  —  On Tuesday, researchers … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sources: Google is testing an AI-powered tool to produce news stories, pitching it to news orgs including NYT, WaPo, and News Corp as a helpmate for journalists (New York Times) 20-07-2023

New York Times: Sources: Google is testing an AI-powered tool to produce news stories, pitching it to news orgs including NYT, WaPo, and News Corp as a helpmate for journalists  —  The product, pitched as a helpmate for journalists, has been demonstrated for executives at The New York Times … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Tencent CEO Pony Ma pens an op-ed backing Chinese pledges to revive the private sector; Xiaomi CEO Lei Jun also endorsed the policies in a separate editorial (Zheping Huang/Bloomberg) 20-07-2023

Zheping Huang / Bloomberg: Tencent CEO Pony Ma pens an op-ed backing Chinese pledges to revive the private sector; Xiaomi CEO Lei Jun also endorsed the policies in a separate editorial  —  – Pony Ma becomes most prominent backer of Xi’s policies  — China’s third-richest person rarely voices his views Lees verder op Tech Meme

In Llama 2's commercial terms, Meta says companies with 700M+ MAUs must request a license, and users are prohibited from utilizing Llama 2 to improve other LLMs (Arun Padmanabhan/Moneycontrol) 20-07-2023

Arun Padmanabhan / Moneycontrol: In Llama 2’s commercial terms, Meta says companies with 700M+ MAUs must request a license, and users are prohibited from utilizing Llama 2 to improve other LLMs  —  Although Meta has announced that it will open-source its LLM and allow free usage for commercial and research purposes … Lees verder op Tech Meme

France designates Société Générale's blockchain unit Forge a digital asset service provider, issuing the country's first license under its new crypto rules (Emily Nicolle/Bloomberg) 19-07-2023

Emily Nicolle / Bloomberg: France designates Société Générale’s blockchain unit Forge a digital asset service provider, issuing the country’s first license under its new crypto rules  —  – Forge awarded permissions to act as custodian, trade crypto  — License will help meet demand from institutional clients: CEO Lees verder op Tech Meme

Adobe releases an emergency ColdFusion security update which fixes a zero-day RCE flaw used in the wild, after its July 11 fix was marked incomplete by Rapid7 (Lawrence Abrams/BleepingComputer) 20-07-2023

Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: Adobe releases an emergency ColdFusion security update which fixes a zero-day RCE flaw used in the wild, after its July 11 fix was marked incomplete by Rapid7  —  Adobe released an emergency ColdFusion security update that fixes critical vulnerabilities, including a fix for a new zero-day exploited in attacks. Lees verder op Tech Meme