Tech Meme

Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times: Sony sold 50M PS5 consoles in the three years since its November 2020 launch, almost as fast as the PS4 reached 50M, and outsold Xbox by almost 3:1 in 2023  —  Sony outsells Microsoft’s Xbox and Nintendo’s Switch as sector recovers from post-pandemic slump  —  Resurgent sales … Lees verder op Tech Meme

ProPublica: Analysis of 2K misleading Israel-Hamas war posts on X, viewed 500M+ times: verified users posting debunked claims are thriving and Community Notes can’t keep up  —  Co-published with Tow Center for Digital Journalism … “My sisters have died,” the young boy sobbed, chest heaving, as he wailed into the sky. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Hannah Murphy / Financial Times: Sources: X set up a 10-person team to help reach $100M in US political ad spend in 2024, to offset other ad losses, a goal industry executives are skeptical of  —  Plans for new political ads team to hit $100mn in sales ahead of US presidential election are met with industry scepticism 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 to create AI 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

Sopan Deb / New York Times: NASA engineers streamed an HD cat video from 18.6M miles away, the farthest ever, using lasers instead of radio frequencies to achieve speeds of 267 Mbps  —  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

Bloomberg: Sources: ByteDance’s 2023 sales surged to $110B+, broadly matching 2022’s 30% growth rate, despite economic turbulence in China and scrutiny in the US and India  —  – TikTok’s Chinese owner expects revenue growth of about 30% … The world’s most valuable startup’s growth broadly matched … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sam Tobin / Reuters: The UK Supreme Court rules that AI can’t be a patent “inventor”, rejecting a bid to register patents by US computer scientist Stephen Thaler, in a landmark case  —  An American computer scientist on Wednesday lost his bid to register patents over inventions created … Lees verder op Tech Meme

John Yoon / New York Times: A look at South Korea’s AI industry, one of the world’s most competitive and diverse, as startups train on Korean language and culture to compete with US giants  —  While they lag behind their U.S. counterparts, their focus on non-English languages could help loosen the American grip on artificial intelligence. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jon Porter / The Verge: The EU designates Pornhub, XVideos, and Stripchat as Very Large Online Platforms under the DSA, meaning stricter rules on age verification and 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

Ellen Huet / Bloomberg: A look at the tech sector’s longevity obsession, with Jeff Bezos, Sam Altman, Larry Page, and others pledging millions of dollars to firms pursuing longer life  —  Tech titans, venture capitalists, crypto enthusiasts and AI researchers have turned longevity research into something between the hottest science and a tragic comedy. Lees verder op Tech Meme