Tech Meme

Mia Sato / The Verge: Music labels are taking down AI voice clone songs from streaming services by citing copyright infringement, an approach experts say is not so straightforward  —  Major record labels are going after AI-generated songs, arguing copyright infringement.  Legal experts say the approach is far from straightforward. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Tage Kene-Okafor / TechCrunch: Nigerian payment service provider Nomba raised a $30M pre-Series B led by Base 10 Partners at a $150M+ valuation, per YC, following a $5M Series A in 2019  —  Nigerian payment service provider Nomba has raised $30 million in a pre-Series B investment to support the delivery of bespoke payment solutions for African businesses. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Lizette Chapman / Bloomberg: Bolt co-founder Ryan Breslow launches Love.com, a marketplace with 600+ health supplements that raised $15M+; Breslow famously attacked Stripe’s founders  —  Wellness startup Love, the latest company co-founded by Silicon Valley’s favorite provocateur Ryan Breslow, is open for business. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Will Douglas Heaven / MIT Technology Review: A profile and interview of Geoffrey Hinton, who laid the foundations for LLMs via backpropagation, worked with OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever, and more  —  “I have suddenly switched my views on whether these things are going to be more intelligent than us.” Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kris Holt / Engadget: BeReal rolls out RealPeople, a curated timeline of “the world’s most interesting people”, first to the UK, as the startup seeks to reverse slowing growth  —  Days after it started offering users the option to post more than once per day, BeReal is rolling out another new feature. Lees verder op Tech Meme

New York Times: An Amnesty report details Israel’s Red Wolf facial recognition system at checkpoints in Hebron and East Jerusalem, helping restrict Palestinians’ movements  —  The Israeli government is using computer vision to monitor Palestinian travel across checkpoints, according to the report. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Brody Ford / Bloomberg: IBM CEO Arvind Krishna says the company plans to slow or stop back-office hiring, impacting ~26K staff, and ~30% could “easily” be replaced by AI in five years  —  International Business Machines Corp. Chief Executive Officer Arvind Krishna said the company expects to pause hiring … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Samantha Cole / VICE: Pornhub disabled its website in Utah following a new age verification law for porn sites, instead showing a video asking users to talk to their representatives  —  People in Utah who visit Pornhub will now be greeted by adult performer Cherie DeVille asking them to tell their representatives to change their age verification law. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Alexandra S. Levine / Forbes: Internal records show ByteDance uses word lists, extending beyond standard moderation blocklists, to detect or suppress content; TikTok denies using the lists  —  A moderation system run by ByteDance staff in China uses word lists to detect or suppress content about everything from TikTok rival YouTube … Lees verder op Tech Meme

New York Times: The current push for age restrictions on certain online content in the US echoes the Communications Decency Act of 1996, which was struck down by SCOTUS in 1997  —  In the 1990s, the U.S. government limited what young people could see online, but lost a court fight challenging those rules. Lees verder op Tech Meme