Tech Meme

Maureen Farrell / New York Times: SVB’s collapse is a tale of ambition and management mistakes from focusing on innovation over the mundane work of managing risk and ensuring financial prudence  —  While its leader extolled innovation and the future of tech, the bank paid less attention to risk management and was caught flat-footed by economic change. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kyle Bradshaw / 9to5Google: Google discontinues its Glass Enterprise Edition 2 headset and plans to support it until September 15, 2023; existing devices and software will continue to work  —  Google has announced today that it will no longer be selling its Glass Enterprise Edition 2 headsets, with support set to be discontinued later this year. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: Microsoft patches an Outlook zero-day, exploitable without user interaction, that the company says Russian hackers used to target European organizations in 2022  —  Microsoft has patched an Outlook zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2023-23397) exploited by a hacking group linked … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jonathan Stempel / Reuters: The US charges exiled Chinese businessman Guo Wengui with leading a conspiracy to defraud his online followers out of $1B+ and arrests him; the DOJ seizes $634M  —  The U.S. government on Wednesday charged exiled Chinese businessman Guo Wengui with fraud, accusing him of orchestrating … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Paul Murray / New York Magazine: A journey into Meta’s Horizon Worlds to find friends and metaverse true believers, raising questions about Zuckerberg’s vision of the internet’s next iteration  —  In September, my family and I move from our home in Dublin to a fancy East Coast college town, where I’ll be teaching for the semester. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Gareth Vipers / Wall Street Journal: The FBI: US citizens lost $10.3B to online scammers in 2022, up from $6.9B in 2021, and crypto investment fraud losses hit $2.57B in 2022, up from $907M in 2021  —  Cryptocurrency investment fraud nearly tripled in 2022 from the year before  —  Americans lost more than $10 billion … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: Microsoft says it patched an Outlook zero-day, exploitable without user interaction, used by Russian hackers to target European organizations in 2022  —  Microsoft has patched an Outlook zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2023-23397) exploited by a hacking group linked to Russia’s military intelligence service GRU … Lees verder op Tech Meme

CNBC: Representative Ken Buck says the GOP won’t impose tougher antitrust rules on Google, Amazon, and Apple in 2023; Jim Jordan doesn’t want to give Biden more power  —  – The new Republican leadership in the U.S. House doesn’t appear to have the appetite to impose tougher antitrust rules on the tech giants. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: LinkedIn announces AI-powered writing suggestions, initially for writing profiles, using OpenAI’s GTP-4, and for recruiters writing job ads, using GPT-3.5  —  Earlier this month, when LinkedIn started seeding “AI-powered conversation starters” in people’s news feeds to boost engagement on its platform … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Umar Shakir / The Verge: Zipline unveils Platform 2 Zip, a drone that can do a 10-mile delivery in 10 minutes to small landing zones via a tethered “delivery droid” from up to 300 feet  —  Zipline is revealing its new drone delivery platform today that the company says is capable of making a 10-mile delivery … Lees verder op Tech Meme