David Pierce / The Verge: WhatsApp announces Channels, a one-to-many broadcast tool that is “a private way to follow what matters”, and plans to add payment services in the future  —  June 8, 2023 … The newest feature in WhatsApp brings a very different kind of messaging to the world’s most popular chat app. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sapna Maheshwari / New York Times: In a letter, two US senators accuse TikTok of misleading the Congress on handling of US user data, demanding answers to 12+ questions by the end of next week  —  Two senators sent a letter to TikTok’s C.E.O. on Tuesday with questions about how user data may be stored and accessed in China following new reports in May. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Rohan Goswami / CNBC: Court filings: Binance’s lawyers allege SEC Chair Gary Gensler offered to be an advisor to the company in March 2019 when he was teaching at MIT Sloan  —  – According to a new filing from Binance’s lawyers, SEC Chair Gary Gensler offered to be an advisor to the crypto exchange in 2019. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Miles Kruppa / Wall Street Journal: Internal email: Google plans to include office attendance records in performance reviews and consider new requests to work remotely full-time as an exception  —  Search giant, which asks most workers to be in an office 3 days a week, will consider attendance as part of performance Lees verder op Tech Meme

Camomile Shumba / CoinDesk: The UK FCA plans to introduce tough crypto advertising rules, classifying crypto as “restricted mass market investments”, banning incentives to invest, and more  —  The Financial Conduct Authority said it will treat crypto like a high risk investment, and will consult on new guidance for its rules on promotions. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Isaiah Poritz / Bloomberg Law: A radio host files a defamation lawsuit against OpenAI over ChatGPT’s hallucination, alleging it generated a false legal complaint accusing him of embezzlement  —  OpenAI LLC is facing a defamation lawsuit from a Georgia radio host who claimed the viral artificial intelligence program ChatGPT generated … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Will Douglas Heaven / MIT Technology Review: DeepMind’s AlphaDev, an AI for discovering enhanced algorithms, devised new C++ sorting algorithms that are up to 70% faster and have been added to the language  —  The AI-generated algorithms are already being used by millions of developers.  —  DeepMind’s run of discoveries in fundamental computer science continues. Lees verder op Tech Meme