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An investigation finds that Barstool Sports apparently controls 40+ “burner” X accounts to launder viral copyright-protected videos for its legitimate accounts (Robert Silverman/The Daily Beast) 11-09-2023

Robert Silverman / The Daily Beast: An investigation finds that Barstool Sports apparently controls 40+ “burner” X accounts to launder viral copyright-protected videos for its legitimate accounts  —  A Daily Beast investigation found more than 40 content-swiping Twitter accounts apparently controlled by Barstool … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Tests show Threads' new search function blocks words like “sex”, “gore”, and “vaccines”; Meta admits “covid” is a blocked term but declines to disclose others (Taylor Lorenz/Washington Post) 11-09-2023

Taylor Lorenz / Washington Post: Tests show Threads’ new search function blocks words like “sex”, “gore”, and “vaccines”; Meta admits “covid” is a blocked term but declines to disclose others  —  Public health experts expressed anger with the platform’s moderation policies … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Nvidia claims TensorRT-LLM will double the H100's performance for running inference on leading LLMs when the open-source library arrives in NeMo in October (Dylan Martin/CRN) 11-09-2023

Dylan Martin / CRN: Nvidia claims TensorRT-LLM will double the H100’s performance for running inference on leading LLMs when the open-source library arrives in NeMo in October  —  The AI chip giant says the open-source software library, TensorRT-LLM, will double the H100’s performance for running inference … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Guardio Labs details a campaign that uses fake and compromised Facebook accounts to send 100K+ Messenger phishing messages per week, targeting business accounts (Bill Toulas/BleepingComputer) 11-09-2023

Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: Guardio Labs details a campaign that uses fake and compromised Facebook accounts to send 100K+ Messenger phishing messages per week, targeting business accounts  —  Hackers use a massive network of fake and compromised Facebook accounts to send out millions of Messenger phishing messages … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Nvidia claims its upcoming open-source library TensorRT-LLM will double the H100's performance for running inference on leading LLMs when it debuts next month (Dylan Martin/CRN) 11-09-2023

Dylan Martin / CRN: Nvidia claims its upcoming open-source library TensorRT-LLM will double the H100’s performance for running inference on leading LLMs when it debuts next month  —  The AI chip giant says the open-source software library, TensorRT-LLM, will double the H100’s performance for running inference … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Guardio Labs details a campaign using fake and compromised Facebook accounts to send 100K+ Messenger phishing messages per week, targeting business accounts (Bill Toulas/BleepingComputer) 11-09-2023

Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: Guardio Labs details a campaign using fake and compromised Facebook accounts to send 100K+ Messenger phishing messages per week, targeting business accounts  —  Hackers use a massive network of fake and compromised Facebook accounts to send out millions of Messenger phishing messages … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sources: seeking to shore up its finances, Embracer is considering its options for US-based Borderlands developer Gearbox, acquired for $1.4B in February 2021 (Reuters) 11-09-2023

Reuters: Sources: seeking to shore up its finances, Embracer is considering its options for US-based Borderlands developer Gearbox, acquired for $1.4B in February 2021  —  Embracer (EMBRACb.ST) is considering options for its U.S. game developer Gearbox Entertainment including a sale … Lees verder op Tech Meme

WhatsApp releases an Android beta that adds a “Third-party chats” screen, revealing how Meta plans to comply with the EU's DMA chat interoperability regulations (WABetaInfo) 11-09-2023

WABetaInfo: WhatsApp releases an Android beta that adds a “Third-party chats” screen, revealing how Meta plans to comply with the EU’s DMA chat interoperability regulations  —  WhatsApp is rolling out a new update through the Google Play Beta Program, bringing the version up to 2.23.19.8. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Microsoft drops software support for the first-generation Surface Duo, three years after its launch; the Android smartphone received only two major OS updates (Zac Bowden/Windows Central) 11-09-2023

Zac Bowden / Windows Central: Microsoft drops software support for the first-generation Surface Duo, three years after its launch; the Android smartphone received only two major OS updates  —  On its third birthday, the original Surface Duo is no longer supported by Microsoft.  —  What you need to know Lees verder op Tech Meme

Survey: 22% of US workers worry that tech will replace their job, up from 15% in 2021, 17% in 2019, and 13% in 2017, a jump driven by college-educated workers (Lydia Saad/Gallup) 11-09-2023

Lydia Saad / Gallup: Survey: 22% of US workers worry that tech will replace their job, up from 15% in 2021, 17% in 2019, and 13% in 2017, a jump driven by college-educated workers  —  WASHINGTON, D.C. — Fear of becoming obsolete, or FOBO, remains uncommon among U.S. workers, but it has grown more in the past … Lees verder op Tech Meme