Tech Meme

Bloomberg: A look at TikTok Shop, as big companies shun the e-commerce app, which has a clunky interface and is full of dubious merchandise, like a $50 plastic fork  —  At best, the social platform’s e-commerce arm is full of random impulse buys and silly trinkets.  At worst, it’s a breeding ground for bad actors and shady products. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Zheping Huang / Bloomberg: China approves 105 local games, including titles from Tencent and NetEase, after the announcement of a new set of restrictions led to a $80B rout last week  —  – Beijing approves games, seeks feedback on new restrictions  — Tencent and NetEase shares plunged on Friday on crackdown fear Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: Researchers: an updated Chameleon trojan uses an HTML page trick to disrupt biometrics on Android like Face Unlock to steal PINs and unlock the device at will  —  The Chameleon Android banking trojan has re-emerged with a new version that uses a tricky technique to take over devices … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Wall Street Journal: A profile of Yi He, a former talk-show host, who co-founded Binance with Changpeng Zhao and has sweeping control over its marketing and investment divisions  —  Yi He, a former talk-show host, has sweeping control over the crypto giant’s marketing and investment divisions. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jeremy White / New York Times: Researchers extract business and personal email addresses for 30+ NYT staff by fine tuning GPT-3.5 Turbo, bypassing the safeguards for privacy-related queries  —  This is a visualization of a large email database from the Enron Corporation, which is often used to train artificial intelligence systems, like ChatGPT. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sharon Goldman / VentureBeat: Researchers from Apple and Columbia University released Ferret, an open source multimodal LLM that can recognize and describe any shape in an image, in October  —  With little fanfare, researchers from Apple and Columbia University released an open source multimodal LLM, called Ferret, in October 2023. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Wall Street Journal: A look at Sam Altman’s history at Loopt and Y Combinator, where his side activities and personal projects riled colleagues and forced his departure from YC  —  The OpenAI CEO lost the confidence of top leaders in the three organizations he has directed, yet each time he’s rebounded to greater heights Lees verder op Tech Meme

Steven Scheer / Reuters: Nvidia and its staff donated $15M to Israeli nonprofits helping civilians affected by the Israel-Hamas war, the largest humanitarian fundraiser for the company  —  U.S. chipmaker Nvidia (NVDA.O) and its employees have donated $15 million to Israeli non-profit organisations … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Cecilia D’Anastasio / Bloomberg: A look at Take-Two’s $12B Zynga deal in 2022, just as casual games peaked post pandemic, Apple introduced ATT, and the mobile game market headed into a downturn  —  Video-game giant’s push into smartphone titles was expensive and late.  —  Excitement over the upcoming release of Grand Theft Auto VI … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ethan Zuckerman: A study estimates that there are 13.3B+ videos on YouTube, of which 4B+ were posted to the platform in 2023, and the median YouTube video has 39 views  —  I got interested in this question a few years ago, when I started writing about the “denominator problem”. Lees verder op Tech Meme