Tech Meme

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: YouTube now lets creators take an educational training course when they receive a warning, which YouTube lifts if they don’t violate the same policy for 90 days  —  YouTube announced this morning a change to its Community Guidelines that impact creators who break its rules. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Associated Press: The UN Human Rights Office: 120K+ people in Myanmar and ~100K people in Cambodia “may be held in situations where they are forced to carry out online scams”  —  The U.N. human rights office says criminal gangs have forced hundreds of thousands of people in Southeast Asia … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Reuters: Similarweb and Data.ai: Meta blocking news in Canada barely impacted Canadians’ Facebook usage, backing Meta’s claim that news has little value for the company  —  Meta’s (META.O) decision to block news links in Canada this month has had almost no impact on Canadians’ usage of Facebook … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Alex Heath / The Verge: Snap rolls out Dreams, Snapchat’s take on the generative AI selfies that Lensa and others popularized, charging $1 for an eight-photo pack; the first is free  —  After releasing its My AI chatbot earlier this year, Snapchat is now jumping on the AI selfie bandwagon with a new feature called Dreams. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Gerrit De Vynck / Washington Post: Google unveils SynthID, a tool that can embed an invisible digital “watermark” into AI-generated images, available now to Cloud customers for Imagen-made images  —  The tech giant is among companies pushing out AI tools while promising to build more tools to protect against their misuse Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: YouTube lets creators take an educational training course when they receive a warning, which YouTube lifts if they don’t violate the same policy within 90 days  —  YouTube announced this morning a change to its Community Guidelines that impact creators who break its rules. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Juli Clover / MacRumors: Apple announces a September 12 event at 10am PT at Apple Park titled “Wonderlust”, where four iPhone 15 models, the Apple Watch Series 9, and more are expected  —  Apple today announced plans to hold a special event on Tuesday, September 12 at 10:00 a.m. Pacific Time. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: WhatsApp launches a new native macOS app via its website, coming soon to the App Store, that lets eight users join video calls and 32 users join audio calls  —  WhatsApp said that it has launched a new native app for Mac today.  The app will allow users to participate in video calls … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sheera Frenkel / New York Times: Meta removes the largest Chinese influence campaign to date; the campaign spans thousands of accounts, and many are still active on TikTok, X, and Reddit  —  The campaign began at least four years ago and spanned thousands of accounts on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, X, Substack and Chinese websites, Meta said. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Abner Li / 9to5Google: Google says Duet AI for Workspace will cost $30/month/user for enterprise, consumer pricing will come in the coming months, and Workspace has 10M paying users  —  Back at I/O in May, Google announced that Duet AI would be the brand for generative AI in Workspace (and Cloud). Lees verder op Tech Meme