Tech Meme

Thomas Germain / Gizmodo: Some publishers say they have seen a sharp drop in Facebook traffic since May 2023; Echobox: the share of traffic to publisher sites from Facebook fell ~50% YoY  —  With no communication from the company, publishers relying on Facebook traffic are at the mercy of the inscrutable algorithm, and they say it’s punishing them. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Alex Barinka / Bloomberg: Snap hopes to use My AI chatbot interactions to personalize ads; 150M+ Snapchat users, or ~20% of MAUs, sent 10B messages to My AI since its late February debut  —  Snap Inc., the maker of the Snapchat app, is testing ways that its popular new artificial intelligence chatbot can boost the company’s advertising business. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: Sources: Germany and Intel agree on subsidies worth ~€10B for its chip plant in Magdeburg, up from an initial agreement on €6.8B, as part of a ~€30B project  —  Germany and Intel Corp. sealed an agreement for the US company to receive an enlarged subsidy package worth about €10 billion … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: Sources: Germany and Intel agree on subsidies worth ~€10B for its chip plant in Magdeburg, up from an initial agreement on €6.8B, as part of a ~€30B project  —  Germany and Intel Corp. sealed an agreement for the US company to receive an enlarged subsidy package worth about €10 billion … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Carly Page / TechCrunch: The BlackCat ransomware gang threatens to release 80GB of data allegedly stolen from Reddit; the company says BlackCat’s claims relate to a February 5 attack  —  Hackers are threatening to release confidential data stolen from Reddit unless the company pays a ransom demand – and reverses its controversial API price hikes. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: Sources: Germany and Intel agree on subsidies worth €10B for its chip plant in Magdeburg, up from an initial agreement on €6.8B, part of a €30B project  —  Germany and Intel Corp. sealed an agreement for the US company to receive an enlarged subsidy package worth about €10 billion … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Gabriela Galindo / Wired: How Apple is trying to gain IP rights over depictions of apples globally, worrying Fruit Union Suisse that the 111-year-old company may need to change its logo  —  Apple, the company, wants rights to the image of apples, the fruit, in Switzerland—one of dozens of countries where it’s flexing its legal muscles. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Tim Hakki / Decrypt: Twitter suspends Explain This Bob, a GPT-4 chatbot tied to the BOB Token, after Elon Musk called the account a “scam”; Musk replied “I love Bob” in April 2023  —  The move marks an abrupt about-face for Musk, who had previously engaged with the bot’s content on Twitter. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Nikou Asgari / Financial Times: Sources: internal teams at Singapore-based Crypto.com trade tokens for profit on the exchange and elsewhere, a little-known fact since the company’s 2016 launch  —  Singapore group has desk to profit from market moves  —  Crypto.com, the exchange endorsed by Hollywood actor Matt Damon … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Dewi Kurniawati / Reuters: SpaceX launches Indonesia’s largest telecom satellite as part of a $540M project to offer internet in remote areas; the SATRIA-1 has a 150GB/second throughput  —  Indonesia and Elon Musk’s rocket company SpaceX on Monday launched the country’s largest telecommunication satellite from the United States … Lees verder op Tech Meme