CNBC: The FTC and 17 US states sue Amazon for allegedly using monopoly power to raise its prices, force sellers to pay fulfillment and ad fees, and harm its rivals — – Amazon is facing its first set of antitrust charges from the U.S. federal government after the Federal Trade Commission filed … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Wall Street Journal: Over a dozen senior execs left Binance over the past three months; Kaiko: Binance handled ~70% of all direct crypto trades at year’s start, now it handles ~50% — ‘Every battle is a do-or-die situation,’ Binance co-founder Yi He writes — After FTX crashed, the world of crypto seemed to belong to the largest exchange, Binance. Lees verder op Tech Meme
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: An OpenAI paper on GPT-4 with vision, or GPT-4V, shows some of the biases, shortcomings, and dangers of the model, and OpenAI’s efforts to add safeguards — When OpenAI first unveiled GPT-4, its flagship text-generating AI model, the company touted the model’s multimodality — in other words … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica: Review of macOS 14 Sonoma: a better stab at usable widgets, improved password manager, promising gaming enhancements, but more features are skipping Intel Macs — If at first you don’t create usable desktop widgets, try, try again. — I was preparing to write an intro calling macOS Sonoma … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch: The US FCC announces plans to reinstate net neutrality and “return to the successful rules the Commission adopted in 2015” — Net neutrality is back on the menu, citizens. After a long, long battle ending in eventual defeat during Trump’s presidency, the FCC is set to reinstate rules … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Wall Street Journal: Sources: OpenAI is pitching investors on a possible share sale that would value the startup at between $80B and $90B, almost triple its level earlier this year — Startup was valued at about $29 billion in share sale earlier this year — OpenAI is talking to investors about a possible share sale … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: Researchers detail a cross-origin attack affecting Chrome that lets a malicious site read pixels from another site; it exploits how modern GPUs compress images — A previously unknown compression side channel in GPUs can expose images thought to be private. Lees verder op Tech Meme
David Pierce / The Verge: Eddie Cue’s US v. Google testimony: Cue said Google was the only “valid” search choice for a deal; the DOJ noted Apple railed against Google’s privacy policies — Eddy Cue, in a dark suit, peered down at the monitor in front of him. The screens in the Washington, DC … Lees verder op Tech Meme
New York Times: Over half of the testimony in the Google antitrust trial so far has been given behind closed doors thanks to arguments from Google, Microsoft, Apple, and others — Efforts to seal testimony have increasingly raised questions as the federal antitrust case enters its third week in court. Lees verder op Tech Meme
Bloomberg: The CIA is planning to roll out a ChatGPT-style tool across the 18-agency US intelligence community to give analysts better access to open-source intelligence — – Intelligence agency looking for ‘needles in the needle field’ — Program will help sift through huge amounts of available data Lees verder op Tech Meme