Tech Meme

Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: Elon Musk calls a Nov. 15 X post of his a mistake that “handed a loaded gun to those who hate me and arguably to those who are antisemitic” for which he’s sorry  —  I should in retrospect not have replied to that one person and should have written in greater length what i meant. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Lora Kolodny / CNBC: Elon Musk dismisses fear of advertisers leaving X after his controversial posts: “If somebody’s gonna try to blackmail me with advertising … go fuck yourself”  —  – In recent weeks, Musk has promoted and sometimes verbally endorsed what the White House called “antisemitic and racist hate” … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Emily Bary / MarketWatch: Snowflake reports Q3 revenue up 32% YoY to $734.2M, vs. $714M est., and projects Q4 product revenue of $716M to $721M, vs. $696M est.; SNOW jumps 6%+  —  Snowflake’s stock moves higher in the extended session  —  Snowflake Inc.’s stock was rocketing more than 8% higher in Wednesday’s … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ari Levy / CNBC: Salesforce reports Q3 revenue up 11% YoY to $8.72B, vs. $8.72B est., and raises its FY 2024 forecast for operating cash flow growth; CRM jumps 6%+  —  – Salesforce’s growth rate has slipped in 2023 as businesses look for ways to cut costs.  — However, Salesforce’s stock has jumped … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: The US sanctions Sinbad, a crypto mixer allegedly used by the North Korean Lazarus hacking group, and the US, the Netherlands, and Poland seize the service  —  The U.S. Department of the Treasury has sanctioned the Sinbad cryptocurrency mixing service for its use as a money-laundering tool by the North Korean Lazarus hacking group. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Todd Spangler / Variety: Netflix plans to add Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy to its mobile app, the App Store, and Google Play on December 14, available to its users at no extra charge  —  The three classic titles in “Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy – The Definitive Edition will be available Dec. 14 for Netflix customers … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Alex Ivanovs / Stack Diary: Researchers develop a “divergence attack” that makes ChatGPT emit sequences copied from its training data, by prompting the LLM to repeat a word numerous times  —  Large language models, like ChatGPT, are trained on vast amounts of text data from books, websites, and other sources. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Susan Heavey / Reuters: The Senate Judiciary Committee says the CEOs of Meta, X, TikTok, Snap, and Discord plan to testify on online child sexual exploitation at a January 31 hearing  —  The chief executives of social media companies Meta (META.O), X, TikTok, Snap (SNAP.N) and Discord will testify … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: Mozilla says Firefox extensions compatible with Android will be “openly available” to users on December 14, with over 400 coming at launch  —  Mozilla is opening the floodgates on extensions for Firefox on Android, with hundreds of new add-ons arriving in December. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jay Peters / The Verge: Intuit Mailchimp plans to shut down TinyLetter on February 29, 2024, to focus on its core Mailchimp marketing product; Mailchimp acquired TinyLetter in 2011  —  Mailchimp is shutting TinyLetter, a service that I loved that let individuals easily write and publish simple but nice-looking email newsletters. Lees verder op Tech Meme