Tech Meme

Tim Hardwick / MacRumors: Apple’s new M3 Pro has fewer performance and GPU cores than the M2 Pro and 25% less memory bandwidth than the M1 Pro and M2 Pro  —  Apple’s latest M3 Pro chip in the new 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro has 25% less memory bandwidth than the M1 Pro and M2 Pro chips used in equivalent models from the two previous generations. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Reuters: Tesla wins its first trial in the US over allegations that Autopilot led to a death, in a jury trial in California state court  —  Tesla (TSLA.O) on Tuesday won the first U.S. trial over allegations that its Autopilot driver assistant feature led to a death, as a jury found there was not a manufacturing defect in the system. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Zeba Siddiqui / Reuters: The US says 40 countries plan to sign a pledge to never pay a ransom to cybercriminals and to work toward eliminating the hackers’ funding mechanism  —  Forty countries in a U.S.-led alliance plan to sign a pledge never to pay ransom to cybercriminals and to work toward eliminating … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ryan Browne / CNBC: DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis pushes back on claims by Meta’s Yann LeCun that he, Sam Altman, and Dario Amodei are fearmongering to achieve AI regulatory capture  —  – Google DeepMind boss Demis Hassabis told CNBC that the company wasn’t trying to achieve “regulatory capture” when it came to the discussion on how best to approach AI. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Maria Heeter / The Information: Healthcare automation company Olive AI, valued at $4B in July 2021, says it is shutting down and has sold parts of its business to Waystar and Humata Health  —  Olive AI, the healthcare automation company once valued at $4 billion, has sold itself off in pieces to healthcare companies Waystar … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Dan Milmo / The Guardian: The Guardian says its reputation was hurt after news aggregator Microsoft Start placed an AI-generated poll about a woman’s death next to an article about her  —  Publisher says poll speculating on cause of woman’s death that appeared next to Guardian article caused ‘significant reputational damage’ Lees verder op Tech Meme

Abner Li / 9to5Google: Google updates Chrome on iOS to let users move the address bar to the bottom of the screen, like Safari; Chrome on Android does not get the feature  —  Visually, Chrome on iOS is pretty different from the Android version.  That disparity continues to grow today with the new ability to move … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Christopher Dring / GamesIndustry.biz: Despite several video games with record sales in 2023 and strong overall sales, the industry is still facing layoffs, fewer job openings, and studio closures  —  We look at the data to analyse the video games industry’s current contradictory crisis  —  Feature by Christopher Dring Head of Games B2B Lees verder op Tech Meme

Taylor Lorenz / Washington Post: A look at some of the creators who report and aggregate news on TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, and more, as people under 35 move away from traditional news outlets  —  One recent study concluded consumers are looking for news that “feels more relevant,” giving a boost to creators on social media Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Palo Alto Networks acquires Tel Aviv-based Dig Security, which helps organizations manage and protect data assets in the cloud, sources say for $400M  —  We reported in September that Palo Alto was getting ready to make yet more security acquisitions out of Israel, specifically of Dig Security and Talon. Lees verder op Tech Meme