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CASM Technology and the Institute for Strategic Dialogue report: the average weekly number of antisemitic tweets more than doubled after Elon Musk's acquisition (Washington Post) 20-03-2023

Washington Post: CASM Technology and the Institute for Strategic Dialogue report: the average weekly number of antisemitic tweets more than doubled after Elon Musk’s acquisition  —  Happy Monday!  If you thought it was a busy news cycle last week, buckle up.  Send tips to: cristiano.lima@washpost.com. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Andy Jassy says Amazon plans to lay off an additional 9,000 employees, mostly in AWS, PXT, Advertising, and Twitch, after cutting 18,000+ jobs in January 2023 (Annie Palmer/CNBC) 20-03-2023

Annie Palmer / CNBC: Andy Jassy says Amazon plans to lay off an additional 9,000 employees, mostly in AWS, PXT, Advertising, and Twitch, after cutting 18,000+ jobs in January 2023  —  – Amazon will lay off 9,000 more employees in the coming weeks, CEO Andy Jassy said in a memo to staff on Monday. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Microsoft plans to launch an app store for Android and iOS games as soon as 2024 if regulators clear its $75B Activision bid and the EU's DMA rules take effect (Tim Bradshaw/Financial Times) 20-03-2023

Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times: Microsoft plans to launch an app store for Android and iOS games as soon as 2024 if regulators clear its $75B Activision bid and the EU’s DMA rules take effect  —  Xbox boss Phil Spencer says store could launch as soon as next year if regulators clear Activision Blizzard deal Lees verder op Tech Meme

Runway, which helped make Stable Diffusion, unveils its Gen 2 system for creating three-second video snippets from text-based prompts, available via a waitlist (Rachel Metz/Bloomberg) 20-03-2023

Rachel Metz / Bloomberg: Runway, which helped make Stable Diffusion, unveils its Gen 2 system for creating three-second video snippets from text-based prompts, available via a waitlist  —  Artificial intelligence has made remarkable progress with still images.  For months, services like Dall-E and Stable Diffusion … Lees verder op Tech Meme

OpenAI's GPT-4 failed the CFA Institute's sample of the finance world's toughest exam, scoring eight out of 24, even though the answers are on the CFA's website (Bryce Elder/Financial Times) 20-03-2023

Bryce Elder / Financial Times: OpenAI’s GPT-4 failed the CFA Institute’s sample of the finance world’s toughest exam, scoring eight out of 24, even though the answers are on the CFA’s website  —  Artificial intelligence versus arbitrary irrelevance  —  It’s an algorithmic mystery box that inspires fear, awe and derision in equal measure. Lees verder op Tech Meme

An interview with Sam Altman on how “people should be happy” OpenAI is a “little bit scared of” its tools, GPT-4's rollout, large-scale disinformation, and more (ABC News) 20-03-2023

ABC News: An interview with Sam Altman on how “people should be happy” OpenAI is a “little bit scared of” its tools, GPT-4’s rollout, large-scale disinformation, and more  —  “This will be the greatest technology humanity has yet developed,” he said.  —  OpenAI CEO Sam Altman speaks with ABC News, Mar. 15, 2023. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Research: ByteDance's video editing app CapCut, launched in 2020, has 200M+ MAUs and had 400M+ downloads in 2022, up 43% YoY and above TikTok in recent weeks (Raffaele Huang/Wall Street Journal) 20-03-2023

Raffaele Huang / Wall Street Journal: Research: ByteDance’s video editing app CapCut, launched in 2020, has 200M+ MAUs and had 400M+ downloads in 2022, up 43% YoY and above TikTok in recent weeks  —  CapCut, the video-editing tool from ByteDance, helps users go viral on TikTok, Instagram and YouTube  —  How TikTok Could Become a U.S. Company Lees verder op Tech Meme

How open-source intelligence, or OSINT, researchers are using public data to untangle the mystery of the Nord Stream pipeline sabotage, helping to debunk claims (Matt Burgess/Wired) 20-03-2023

Matt Burgess / Wired: How open-source intelligence, or OSINT, researchers are using public data to untangle the mystery of the Nord Stream pipeline sabotage, helping to debunk claims  —  Open source intelligence researchers are verifying and debunking opaque claims about who ruptured the gas pipelines in the Baltic Sea. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Report from the Institute for Strategic Dialogue and CASM Technology: the average weekly number of antisemitic tweets more than doubled after Musk took over (Washington Post) 20-03-2023

Washington Post: Report from the Institute for Strategic Dialogue and CASM Technology: the average weekly number of antisemitic tweets more than doubled after Musk took over  —  Happy Monday!  If you thought it was a busy news cycle last week, buckle up.  Send tips to: cristiano.lima@washpost.com. Lees verder op Tech Meme

TrendForce: NAND flash revenue dropped 45% YoY and 25% QoQ in Q4 2022 and is expected to drop 8.1% QoQ in Q1 2023; NAND's per-bit costs may reach all-time lows (Anton Shilov/AnandTech) 20-03-2023

Anton Shilov / AnandTech: TrendForce: NAND flash revenue dropped 45% YoY and 25% QoQ in Q4 2022 and is expected to drop 8.1% QoQ in Q1 2023; NAND’s per-bit costs may reach all-time lows  —  Softened demand for PCs and smartphones coupled with NAND memory bits oversupply has sent prices of 3D NAND memory into a dive in recent quarters. Lees verder op Tech Meme