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A look at “the flattening”: tech companies laying off middle managers to improve efficiency and cut costs after hiring them in droves during the pandemic boom (Hannah Murphy/Financial Times) 24-04-2023

Hannah Murphy / Financial Times: A look at “the flattening”: tech companies laying off middle managers to improve efficiency and cut costs after hiring them in droves during the pandemic boom  —  Moves to carve out a layer of staff aim to speed up decisions but could leave a talent gap Lees verder op Tech Meme

A look at LAION, a free AI training dataset with 5B+ images used in Stable Diffusion and Google's Imagen, created by high school teacher Christoph Schuhmann (Bloomberg) 24-04-2023

Bloomberg: A look at LAION, a free AI training dataset with 5B+ images used in Stable Diffusion and Google’s Imagen, created by high school teacher Christoph Schuhmann  —  In front of a suburban house on the outskirts of the northern Germany city of Hamburg, a single word — “LAION” — is scrawled in pencil across a mailbox. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Super.com, formerly Snapcommerce, raised $60M in equity and $25M via a credit facility to launch a super app for deals, taking its total funding to nearly $200M (Christine Hall/TechCrunch) 24-04-2023

Christine Hall / TechCrunch: Super.com, formerly Snapcommerce, raised $60M in equity and $25M via a credit facility to launch a super app for deals, taking its total funding to nearly $200M  —  The current inflation environment has all of us looking for ways to cut costs and save some money. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Research in 2021: 60%+ of undersea internet cable faults are caused by fishing equipment or anchors; repairing one typically costs between $250K and $3M (Bloomberg) 24-04-2023

Bloomberg: Research in 2021: 60%+ of undersea internet cable faults are caused by fishing equipment or anchors; repairing one typically costs between $250K and $3M  —  On the evening of Oct. 14, the managing director of Shefa, a Faroese Telecom subsidiary, received a call from one of his technicians … Lees verder op Tech Meme

A poll of 1,500 US voters finds that 46% support a nationwide ban of TikTok and 35% oppose it; 62% of Republicans favor a ban, compared to 33% of Democrats (John D. McKinnon/Wall Street Journal) 24-04-2023

John D. McKinnon / Wall Street Journal: A poll of 1,500 US voters finds that 46% support a nationwide ban of TikTok and 35% oppose it; 62% of Republicans favor a ban, compared to 33% of Democrats  —  Majority of GOP voters support banning Chinese-owned app, compared with 33% of Democrats  —  WASHINGTON—Nearly half … Lees verder op Tech Meme