Sam Tobin / Reuters: The UK Supreme Court rules that AI can’t be a patent “inventor”, denying a US computer scientist’s bid for two patents for an AI’s creations, in a landmark case — A U.S. computer scientist on Wednesday lost his bid to register patents over inventions created … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Bloomberg: Miami-based Bird files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, listing $100M to $500M in liabilities; the NYSE began delisting the e-scooter rental company in September 2023 — The Miami, Florida based company listed assets and liabilities of between $100 million and $500 million in a court filing. Lees verder op Tech Meme
Paresh Dave / Wired: Interviews with 20 Meta and Google staff say FTC consent decrees sometimes blocked data harvesting, but the agreements are now outdated and inadequate — Google’s doomed social network Buzz led US regulators to force Google and Meta to monitor their own data use. Lees verder op Tech Meme
Tim Hardwick / MacRumors: Apple resolved an outage for Apple Card, Apple Cash, Apple Pay, and Wallet that started around 6:15AM ET; users had reported IAP issues and more — There is an Apple Card, Apple Cash, Apple Pay and Wallet outage that is causing some users to experience issues with Apple Cash transaction notifications … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Sopan Deb / New York Times: NASA engineers streamed an HD cat video across 18.6M miles, the farthest ever, using laser communications instead of radio frequencies for a 267 Mbps data rate — Using laser communication, NASA streamed a cat video from almost 20 million miles away, or 40 round trip flights to the moon. Lees verder op Tech Meme
Jon Porter / The Verge: The EU designates Pornhub, XVideos, and Stripchat as Very Large Online Platforms under the DSA, facing stricter rules to verify ages and stop illegal content — Porn sites Pornhub, XVideos, and Stripchat face stricter requirements to verify the ages of their users after being officially designated as … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Cissy Zhou / Nikkei Asia: A profile of PDD, Pinduoduo and Temu’s parent company, which has grown rapidly since its founding in 2015, despite allegations of malware and counterfeit goods — Efforts to surpass Alibaba at home and chase Amazon abroad come with human cost — HONG KONG — It was 2006 … Lees verder op Tech Meme
New York Times: Investors are spending hundreds of millions on FTX bankruptcy claims, betting that its new leadership will recover funds that Sam Bankman-Fried misappropriated — Investors are spending hundreds of millions of dollars on FTX bankruptcy claims, betting that the firm’s new leaders will recover … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Tim Hardwick / MacRumors: Apple’s System Status page reports an ongoing outage for Apple Card, Apple Cash, Apple Pay, and Wallet since 6:15AM ET; users have reported IAP issues and more — There is an Apple Card, Apple Cash, Apple Pay and Wallet outage that is causing some users to experience issues … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Bloomberg: Stanford researchers: LAION-5B, a dataset of 5B+ images used by Stability AI and others, contains 1,008+ instances of CSAM, possibly helping AI to generate CSAM — The dataset has been used to build popular AI image generators, including Stable Diffusion. — A massive public dataset used … Lees verder op Tech Meme