Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch: Citizen Lab and Microsoft detail mercenary spyware from Tel Aviv-based QuaDream used to hack iOS 14-based iPhones of journalists, politicians, and an NGO worker  —  Microsoft and Citizen Lab have new reports out about QuaDream, a little-known Israeli mercenary spyware provider. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: Google launches an Android auto-archiving feature, which removes over 60% of an unused app’s local data when the device is low on storage, catching up to iOS  —  On Monday, Google launched a new auto-archiving feature, which removes more than 60% of an unused app’s data from an Android phone to save storage space on the device. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: London-based Infogrid, which uses AI to analyze IoT data on building occupancy, air quality, and more, raised a $90M Series B led by Northzone  —  Infogrid, a startup that uses AI to collect and analyze data on things like air quality, occupancy and energy consumption, today announced … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Frank Chaparro / The Block: a16z releases State of Crypto 2023, which tries to explain the dichotomy between market and product cycles and has an index showing stable product development  —  – a16z has released its latest State of Crypto report.  — It also produced a new index that shows stable product development … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sayan Sen / Neowin: Microsoft finally fixes 5 year old Windows Defender high CPU bug on Mozilla Firefox  —  It looks like a bug nearly half a decade old has finally been fixed by Microsoft and Mozilla.  The issue was related to Windows Defender and its Antimalware Service Executable (MsMpEng.exe) … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Mark Tyson / Tom’s Hardware: Microsoft fixes a Windows Defender bug, first reported in 2018, that caused CPU usage spikes in some apps, especially Firefox, in Windows 10 and Windows 11  —  Post-fix you may see MsMpEng.exe CPU usage drop by up to 75%.  —  A performance-sapping conflict between Mozilla Firefox … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: Google launches an app auto-archiving feature on Android, removing over 60% of an app’s local data when the device is low on storage, catching up to iOS  —  On Monday, Google launched a new auto-archiving feature, which removes more than 60% of an unused app’s data from an Android phone to save storage space on the device. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kali Hays / Insider: Sources: Elon Musk is working on a new generative AI project at Twitter, recently buying ~10K GPUs, after poaching researchers from DeepMind in recent months  —  – CEO Elon Musk is upping the computational power at Twitter to proceed with an AI play.  — Musk has criticized ChatGPT … Lees verder op Tech Meme