Jay Peters / The Verge: Bluesky resumes new sign-ups after a temporary pause to resolve performance issues caused by “record high-traffic” — / ‘We will temporarily be pausing Bluesky sign-ups while our team continues to resolve the existing performance issues.’ Lees verder op Tech Meme
Benedict Evans: Analysis of whether in the coming years AI will destroy, displace, create, and accelerate jobs like other waves of automation, or if this time it’s different — Pretty much everyone in tech agrees that generative AI, Large Language Models and ChatGPT are a generational change … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Stuart A. Thompson / New York Times: A look at uncensored and loosely moderated AI chatbots like WizardLM-Uncensored and Open Assistant setting off a polarizing debate about free-speech and risks — A new generation of chatbots doesn’t have many of the guardrails put in place by companies like Google and OpenAI, presenting new possibilities — and risks. Lees verder op Tech Meme
Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: Report: Apple is working on new external display for Macs that can double as a smart home display in low-power mode, to release next year “at the earliest” — In the latest Power On newsletter, Mark Gurman writes that he understands Apple is working on a new Mac external display option … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Bernhard Warner / New York Times: How researchers at Amazon and other companies are making AI-powered devices and bots more conversational by tackling the voice disentanglement issue — For Alexa to speak like a Dubliner, Amazon researchers had to crack a problem that’s vexed data scientists for years: voice disentanglement. Lees verder op Tech Meme
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Sources: Apple is exploring hearing health and body-temperature features for AirPods, while planning cheaper models and a shift to a USB-C port for the case — Apple is working on a slew of changes for its popular AirPods earbuds, seeking to expand its wearables business. Lees verder op Tech Meme
Madhumita Murgia / Financial Times: Thousands of performers who signed their voice rights away in perpetuity years ago are now being forced to compete with AI-cloned versions of their voices — Performers forced to compete with themselves as companies’ use of technology for cloning prompts calls to update copyright law Lees verder op Tech Meme
Jay Peters / The Verge: The moderators of r/IAmA say they won’t solicit and coordinate celebrity AMAs as Reddit “has all the funds they need to hire people” for work done by volunteers — The moderators of Reddit’s IAmA community will no longer solicit and coordinate ask me anything (AMA) … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Andy Baio / Waxy.org: A developer says Twitter appears to be DDoSing itself via a Twitter web app JavaScript bug, which could be tied to Elon Musk’s emergency blocks and rate limits — For the last two days, Elon Musk has claimed that Twitter is under attack from “several hundred organizations” who were conducting … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Jay Peters / The Verge: Bluesky “temporarily” pauses new sign-ups to resolve performance issues caused by “record high-traffic”; Bluesky’s status page says “All Systems Operational” — / ‘We will temporarily be pausing Bluesky sign-ups while our team continues to resolve the existing performance issues.’ Lees verder op Tech Meme