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A history of Vine's failure to build relationships with its top creators, who Vine leadership resented for gaming the app's ranking algorithm and their humor (Taylor Lorenz/Washington Post) 30-09-2023

Taylor Lorenz / Washington Post: A history of Vine’s failure to build relationships with its top creators, who Vine leadership resented for gaming the app’s ranking algorithm and their humor  —  The wildly popular video app’s contentious relationship with its own power users offers a cautionary tale for social platforms Lees verder op Tech Meme

Leaked internal messages from 2020 and 2021 detail Huawei's efforts to lobby Greek officials; filings: Huawei's 2022 sales in Greece rose 56% YoY to €258M (New York Times) 30-09-2023

New York Times: Leaked internal messages from 2020 and 2021 detail Huawei’s efforts to lobby Greek officials; filings: Huawei’s 2022 sales in Greece rose 56% YoY to €258M  —  Leaked internal messages detail efforts by the Chinese tech giant to court Greek officials and fight an American-led effort against its technology. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Data and sources: TikTok Shop was on pace to handle $6B+ worth of transactions in Indonesia in 2023, before its ban in the country, and $17B+ in Southeast Asia (Juro Osawa/The Information) 30-09-2023

Juro Osawa / The Information: Data and sources: TikTok Shop was on pace to handle $6B+ worth of transactions in Indonesia in 2023, before its ban in the country, and $17B+ in Southeast Asia  —  TikTok just cannot escape government scrutiny.  Even as the hugely popular ByteDance-owned app expands in the U.S. despite … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Research: ahead of Slovakia's parliamentary elections, AI-generated deepfake videos of politicians are spreading on Facebook, Telegram, and other platforms (Olivia Solon/Bloomberg) 30-09-2023

Olivia Solon / Bloomberg: Research: ahead of Slovakia’s parliamentary elections, AI-generated deepfake videos of politicians are spreading on Facebook, Telegram, and other platforms  —  Videos featuring AI-generated deepfake voices of politicians are spreading on social media ahead of the Slovak parliamentary elections this weekend … Lees verder op Tech Meme

A look at FTX 2.0 Coalition, a group of creditors led by FTX CEO John Ray III that has almost 3,000 members and is looking to relaunch the exchange without SBF (Joel Khalili/Wired) 30-09-2023

Joel Khalili / Wired: A look at FTX 2.0 Coalition, a group of creditors led by FTX CEO John Ray III that has almost 3,000 members and is looking to relaunch the exchange without SBF  —  As SBF’s trial approaches, a group of FTX creditors want to relaunch the collapsed exchange.  It’s not as crazy as it sounds. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Researchers report critical vulnerabilities in the Exim mail transfer agent allowing remote code execution; Exim is used by as many as 253K servers (Dan Goodin/Ars Technica) 30-09-2023

Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: Researchers report critical vulnerabilities in the Exim mail transfer agent allowing remote code execution; Exim is used by as many as 253K servers  —  Remote code execution requiring no authentication fixed. 2 other RCEs remain unpatched.  —  Thousands of servers running the Exim mail transfer agent … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Meta quietly unveils Llama 2 Long, which has been trained with longer sequences, outperforming GPT-3.5 Turbo and Claude 2 when responding to long user prompts (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat) 29-09-2023

Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: Meta quietly unveils Llama 2 Long, which has been trained with longer sequences, outperforming GPT-3.5 Turbo and Claude 2 when responding to long user prompts  —  Meta Platforms showed off a bevy of new AI features for its consumer-facing services Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Letter: the US SEC told Bolt the startup likely won't face enforcement action after a 15-month probe into whether Bolt violated securities laws when fundraising (Forbes) 29-09-2023

Forbes: Letter: the US SEC told Bolt the startup likely won’t face enforcement action after a 15-month probe into whether Bolt violated securities laws when fundraising  —  In a letter viewed by Forbes, the SEC said that it does not intend to recommend any action against the startup following … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Letterboxd's founders sell a majority stake to Canadian company Tiny; a source says the deal values the film-focused social network with ~10M users at $50M+ (Benjamin Mullin/New York Times) 29-09-2023

Benjamin Mullin / New York Times: Letterboxd’s founders sell a majority stake to Canadian company Tiny; a source says the deal values the film-focused social network with ~10M users at $50M+  —  Two designers from New Zealand built a wildly popular social network for movie buffs.  Now, they’re cashing in (and sticking around for the sequel). Lees verder op Tech Meme

Letter: SEC told Bolt that it will likely not face any enforcement action after a ~15 month probe into whether Bolt violated securities laws during fundraising (Forbes) 29-09-2023

Forbes: Letter: SEC told Bolt that it will likely not face any enforcement action after a ~15 month probe into whether Bolt violated securities laws during fundraising  —  In a letter viewed by Forbes, the SEC said that it does not intend to recommend any action against the startup following … Lees verder op Tech Meme