Tech Meme

Vikas SN / Moneycontrol: Q&A with Slack CTO Cal Henderson on how the pandemic changed Slack and workplace habits, acquisition by Salesforce, generative AI, India market, and more  —  The pandemic accelerated changes that were already happening in the workplace and took us forward five or 10 years in terms of workplace habits … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Mark Gimein / The Atlantic: As safety demands strip Llama 2, ChatGPT, and others of anything remotely controversial, some programmers are building uncensored LLMs without safety guardrails  —  A chatbot that can’t say anything controversial isn’t worth much.  Bring on the uncensored models. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Frank Bajak / Associated Press: A look at Replicator, a Pentagon initiative expected to accelerate hard decisions on what AI tech is reliable enough to deploy, including on weaponized systems  —  NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. (AP) — Artificial intelligence employed by the U.S. military has piloted pint-sized surveillance drones … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Mat Di Salvo / Decrypt: A Bitcoin user seems to have accidentally paid a record $3M fee for a $5M transaction and sent $2M; in September, Paxos paid $500K, now returned, to send $2,000  —  Someone accidentally paid over $3 million in fees to send $2 million in BTC.  —  A luckless Bitcoin sender seemingly made a costly mistake … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Reuters: A profile of Binance CEO Richard Teng, who faces the tough task of transforming the company’s culture amid spiraling compliance costs and an ongoing SEC lawsuit  —  Spiralling compliance costs, ongoing legal headaches and a shrinking share of the market: Binance’s new chief Richard Teng faces … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Natasha Singer / New York Times: Unsealed docs in a lawsuit by 30+ state AGs: Meta received 1.1M+ reports of under-13s on Instagram since early 2019 yet it “disabled only a fraction” of those  —  Meta “routinely documented” children under 13 on Instagram and “unlawfully” collected their data, according to a newly unsealed complaint. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Adobe: US online Black Friday sales hit $9.8B, up 7.5% YoY; Salesforce, which uses different metrics, says online sales hit $16.4B in the US and $70.9B globally  —  A rush of deep discounts and the growth of flexible payment options were the drivers behind $9.8 billion in online sales … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Anton Shilov / Tom’s Hardware: Dutch media: Chimera, a China-linked hacker group, infiltrated Dutch semiconductor giant NXP’s network between 2017 and 2020 and stole chip designs and more  —  The full extent of the security breach is unknown.  —  Chimera, a Chinese-linked hacker group, has infiltrated the network … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Patrick McKenzie / Bits about Money: A look at Binance and CZ’s “Bond villain” compliance strategy and how their settlements will allow the US to deflate Binance while minimizing collateral damage  —  James Bond films have a certain formula to them.  It is more interesting when seen from the perspective of the villain. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kevin O’Reilly / iFixit News: A side-by-side teardown of the Steam Deck OLED and Lenovo Legion Go: both are designed to be repaired by users; Steam Deck OLED scores 9/10 and Legion Go 7/10  —  The holiday gaming season has brought us two cutting-edge handheld gaming devices.  In one corner, we have the upstart Legion Go … Lees verder op Tech Meme