Lauren Smiley / Wired: How San Francisco’s citizen surveillance culture, with incidents often posted to X, helped unravel the story of a bloody street attack, causing viral outrage — When a homeless man attacked a former city official, footage of the onslaught became a rallying cry. Lees verder op Tech Meme
Munsif Vengattil / Reuters: Letters: Samsung, Qualcomm, and others oppose India’s plan to use ATSC 3.0 to bring live TV to phones, saying the hardware changes will add $30+ to each device — Samsung and Qualcomm are among those opposing India’s choice of technology to bring live TV broadcasts on smartphones … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Caroline O’Donovan / Washington Post: Amazon cuts the price of an annual One Medical membership from $199 to $99 for Prime users, part of its plans to significantly expand its health care footprint — The tech giant will offer cheaper health care to Prime members via One Medical, a long-expected integration that could significantly expand its health care footprint Lees verder op Tech Meme
Jane Zhang / Bloomberg: Source: in a letter to staff, ByteDance offers to buy back stock at $160 per share, up from $155 in April 2023; ByteDance says the goal is to provide liquidity — – The price is up from April’s employee buyback of $155 each — ByteDance has grown at expense of incumbents Meta and Tencent Lees verder op Tech Meme
Juro Osawa / The Information: Sources: Sequoia Capital China, ZhenFund, and other big Chinese VCs have quietly invested in US AI startups in the past year, undeterred by US security concerns — Major Chinese venture capital firms are quietly investing in American artificial intelligence startups, undeterred by growing concerns … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Gearoid Reidy / Bloomberg: A look at Nintendo’s movie push, as the company partners with Sony to work on a live-action Zelda movie, after the huge success of The Super Mario Bros. Movie — It’s dangerous to go alone, and in teaming up with Sony and the man who made Marvel successful, Nintendo shows it has learned from past mistakes. Lees verder op Tech Meme
RT Watson / The Block: Binance releases a self-custody crypto wallet within its app, letting users “swap thousands of tokens across” more than 30 networks — – The world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange launches a self-custody wallet that works within the Binance app. — The announcement was made during its conference in Turkey. Lees verder op Tech Meme
Tobias Mann / The Register: Microsoft and Oracle sign a multi-year deal to “support the explosive growth of AI services”, meaning Microsoft can access Oracle’s Nvidia A100s and H100 GPUs — Frenemies in multi-year deal to offload AI inference to Big Red super-cluster — Demand for Microsoft’s AI services … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Salvador Rodriguez / Wall Street Journal: Meta plans to require advertisers to disclose running political ads with media altered by AI or other software, starting in early 2024, ahead of the US election — Facebook parent said new policy to go into effect beginning next year, ahead of U.S. presidential primaries Lees verder op Tech Meme
Margi Murphy / Bloomberg: Ahead of the 2024 US election, Microsoft plans to offer a new free tool to help US politicians fight deepfakes by authenticating their videos and photos — – Tool offering comes as concerns grow over fake photos, videos — Microsoft says Russia is ‘huge’ cyber, disinformation threat Lees verder op Tech Meme