Tech Meme

Cade Metz / New York Times: The Association for Computing Machinery awards Bob Metcalfe the Turing Award for his work on Ethernet at the Palo Alto Research Center in the 1970s  —  In the 1970s, Bob Metcalfe helped develop the primary technology that lets you send email or connect with a printer over an office network. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Luke Plunkett / Kotaku: Ubisoft unveils Ghostwriter and says the internal AI tool will help scriptwriters save time and create more realistic non-player character interactions  —  Ubisoft Ghostwriter is described by the company as ‘an AI tool’  —  Ubisoft, the publishers behind Assassin’s Creed, Far Cry and Ghost Recon … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Arian Khameneh / Wired: Researchers: Iran’s cyber army, or Cyberi, ramped up spear-phishing and adopted new tactics aiming to sow distrust among citizens as political unrest continues  —  Amid ongoing protests, the Iranian regime has lost control of its image, pushing it to employ increasingly drastic tactics where everyone loses. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jaron Schneider / PetaPixel: Digital photography site DPReview, owned by Amazon, is closing April 10; people can request downloads of photos or texts they uploaded to the site until April 6  —  DPReview, easily one of the most beloved publications among photography enthusiasts, will shut down and its content will be deleted. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Silicon Canals: Paris-based XXII, an AI-powered computer vision SaaS provider for the deployment and configuration of video stream analysis algorithms, raised a €22M Series A  —  Paris-based XXII, an AI-powered computer vision company, announced on Tuesday that it has secured €22M in a Series … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Mark Bergen / Bloomberg: GP Bullhound: European tech startups raised €30.5B in debt in 2022, up from €15.9B in 2021, as the global tech slump made raising new equity more difficult  —  European technology startups nearly doubled the amount of debt they took on last year, exposing them to the turmoil … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times: Just Eat Takeaway lays off 1,700 UK couriers and returns to a gig economy model, which CEO Jitse Groen had said “comes at the expense of society and workers”  —  Group previously sought to set itself apart in UK by moving away from gig economy  —  Just Eat Takeaway … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Silicon Canals: Paris-based XXII, an AI-powered computer vision SaaS provider for the deployment and configuration of video stream analysis algorithms, raised a €22M Series A  —  Paris-based XXII, an AI-powered computer vision company, announced on Tuesday that it has secured €22M in a Series … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Mark Bergen / Bloomberg: GP Bullhound: European tech startups raised €30.5B in debt in 2022, up from €15.9B in 2021, as the global tech slump made raising new equity more difficult  —  European technology startups nearly doubled the amount of debt they took on last year, exposing them to the turmoil … Lees verder op Tech Meme

João Carrasqueira / XDA Developers: Windows 11’s Snipping Tool appears to have a bug similar to Pixel’s Markup tool “aCropalypse” bug, which lets anyone reveal info edited out in some screenshots  —  Recently, we heard of a vulnerability in the screenshot tool of Google’s Pixel phones, referred to as aCropalypse … Lees verder op Tech Meme