A provocative paper from researchers at Microsoft claims A.I. technology shows the ability to understand the way people do. Critics say those scientists are kidding themselves.Lees verder op New York Times
10:00 Ooit behoorden Vlaamse basisschoolleerlingen tot de wereldtop voor leesvaardigheid, vandaag scoren onze tienjarigen slechter dan de doorsneeleerling in meer dan 50 andere landen. Corona is niet de eni…Lees verder op De Tijd
10:23 Kamerlid Michael Freilich (N-VA) doet in Brussel aangifte van ‘strafbare feiten’ in het Bpost-dossier, net nu Bpost-voorzitster Audrey Hanard in het parlement tekst en uitleg moet geven. Heeft ze de a…Lees verder op De Tijd
Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: An interview with Kevin Systrom on Artifact’s new writer features, serving writers as a key to the news app’s growth, matching consumers with writers, and more — Artifact aims to unlock new, cross-platform audience relationships for people who write for a living Lees verder op Tech Meme
Jay Peters / The Verge: WhatsApp debuts Chat Lock, letting users put chats in a password/biometrics-protected folder and get notifications that don’t show the sender or message content — WhatsApp is getting a new “Chat Lock” feature intended to make it easier to keep conversations more private. Lees verder op Tech Meme
Kia Kokalitcheva / Axios: Source: Twitter buys recruiting startup Laskie for “tens of millions” in cash and stock, its first deal of the Elon Musk era; PitchBook: Laskie had raised $6M — Twitter appears to have made its first deal of the Elon Musk era: Buying a job-matching tech startup called Laskie, Axios has learned. Lees verder op Tech Meme
Alexander Osipovich / Wall Street Journal: Court filings show Jump Trading secretly purchased tens of millions of dollars worth of TerraUSD and made ~$1B in profit a year before the coin’s collapse — Chicago firm made about $1 billion through dealings with crypto mogul Do Kwon’s company, according to the agency Lees verder op Tech Meme
Bloomberg: MTN plans to build a $320M East2West inland fiber cable connecting ten African countries in Q4 2023, following its subsea cable that landed in Cape Town in 2022 — MTN Group Ltd., Africa’s biggest mobile-phone operator, plans to build a $320 million inland fiber cable to connect ten countries … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Ciara O’Brien / The Irish Times: Irish Council for Civil Liberties: 75% of the Irish DPC’s GDPR decisions in EU-level cases since 2018 have been overruled by the European Data Protection Board — Meta, Google, Airbnb, Yahoo!, Twitter, Microsoft, Apple and Tinder account for 87^% of cross-border GDPR complaints to Ireland’s DPC Lees verder op Tech Meme
06:27 Chemiereus 3M moet aan een gezin uit Zwijndrecht een voorlopige schadevergoeding betalen van 2.000 euro. De Antwerpse vrederechter oordeelt dat het gezin ‘bovenmatig hinder’ ondervond.Lees verder op De Tijd