Tech Meme

Tom Wiggins / Wired: A look at the tactile devices from OneCourt, Field of Vision, and Touch2See that help visually impaired spectators follow live sports with their fingers  —  These three companies have developed tactile devices that help visually impaired spectators follow the live action playing out on the field. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ben Thompson / Stratechery: Q&A with Dan Kim and Hassan Khan, former officials at the CHIPS Program Office, on subsidizing supply versus coercing demand, the program’s future, and more  —  An interview with Dan Kim and Hassan Khan about their work distributing CHIPS program money, and why they are optimistic about U.S. industrial policy going forward. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ethan Mollick / One Useful Thing: Models like o3 and Gemini 2.5 Pro feel like “Jagged AGI”: unreliable, even at some mundane tasks, but still offering superhuman capabilities in many areas  —  New models and new thresholds  —  Amid today’s AI boom, it’s disconcerting that we still don’t know how to measure how smart … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: Paul Graham likened Palantir’s ICE work to “infrastructure of the police state”; a Palantir exec said Paul’s view is like Google’s when it killed Project Maven  —  One of the founders of startup accelerator Y Combinator offered unsparing criticism this weekend … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ionut Ilascu / BleepingComputer: In a clever attack, hackers were able to send phishing emails that appeared to come from “no-reply@google.com”, after a similar attack on PayPal users in March  —  In a rather clever attack, hackers leveraged a weakness that allowed them to send a fake email that seemed delivered … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Knight First Amendment Institute: A deep dive into AI as a normal technology vs. a humanlike intelligence and how major public policy based on controlling superintelligence may make things worse  —  An alternative to the vision of AI as a potential superintelligence  —  We articulate a vision of artificial intelligence (AI) as normal technology. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ruth Reader / Politico: After lobbying US Congress to shelve the Senate-passed KOSA bill in 2024, Meta has now made headway in lobbying for an app store age-verification bill  —  The Facebook founder is lobbying Congress to leave his firm alone — and making headway.  —  To protect kids online … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Financial Times: A look at the race to turn brainwaves into fluent speech, as researchers at universities in California and companies use brain implants and AI to make advances  —  Californian researchers and groups such as Precision Neuroscience use implants and AI to make advances in ‘voice prosthesis’ Lees verder op Tech Meme

Christopher Grimes / Financial Times: The success of A Minecraft Movie, set to hit $700M in ticket sales globally this weekend, signals Hollywood’s breakthrough in adapting video games into films  —  While superhero franchises flag, ‘A Minecraft Movie’ shows the industry has finally cracked the formula for translating popular games into films Lees verder op Tech Meme

Krishnapriya V.S. / The India Forum: India’s Open Network for Digital Commerce has struggled to break the near-duopoly of Zomato and Swiggy in online food delivery after cutting back on discounts  —  A near-duopoly of Zomato and Swiggy controls almost 95% of India’s digital platform-based food delivery market … Lees verder op Tech Meme