Tech Meme

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Denver-based Elevate, which provides a dashboard for employees to manage their pre-tax benefits, raised $28M led by Anthemis, bringing its total funding to $43M  —  Elevate, a consumer benefits administration platform, today announced that it raised $28 million in a funding round led by Anthemis … Lees verder op Tech Meme

@twitterwrite: Twitter increases the tweet length for Blue subscribers to 10,000 characters, up from the 4,000 set in February 2023, and adds bold and italic text formatting  —  We’re making improvements to the writing and reading experience on Twitter! Starting today, Twitter now supports Tweets up to 10,000 characters in length, with bold and italic text formatting. Sign up for Twitter Blue to access these new features, and apply to enable… https://twitter.com/… Lees verder op Tech Meme

Igor Bonifacic / Engadget: WhatsApp rolls out new device verification and account protection features, including defenses against SIM jacking and other social engineering attacks  —  WhatsApp has begun rolling out a handful of new security features.  The most notable sees the company doing more to protect users … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kris Holt / Engadget: Meta open sources AI project Animated Drawings, which turns doodles into animations, with a dataset of nearly 180K drawings, after releasing a web tool in 2021  —  Meta has open-sourced an artificial intelligence project that lets anyone bring their doodles to life. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Emily Parker / CoinDesk: A look at the impact of TerraUSD’s collapse and FTX’s implosion on the South Korean crypto industry, as the media reports TerraUSD had ~200K local victims  —  The collapse of Terra continues to reverberate in Do Kwon’s homeland, but there are signs of progress, CoinDesk’s Emily Parker reports. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Tonya Riley / CyberScoop: Hacking Policy Council launches to advocate for laws that protect security researchers’ work; founding members include HackerOne, Bugcrowd, Google, and Intel  —  “There are advocacy groups for reptile owners but not hackers, so that seems like a miss,” said Ilona Cohen of HackerOne. Lees verder op Tech Meme

James Vincent / The Verge: Sam Altman says OpenAI won’t train GPT-5 for “some time” and the open letter to pause AI training missed “most technical nuance about where we need the pause”  —  In a discussion about threats posed by AI systems, Sam Altman, OpenAI’s CEO and co-founder … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Financial Times: Sources: the European parliament is close to finalizing tough new measures on AI, including forcing chatbot makers to reveal use of copyrighted material  —  Proposals include requiring chatbot makers to reveal if they are using copyrighted material  —  The European parliament is preparing tough … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sheila Dang / Reuters: Sensor Tower: Twitter’s top 50 advertisers spent $83M over the past two months, down from $102M YoY; Mars, AT&T, Volkswagen, and Stellantis haven’t returned  —  Twitter-owner Elon Musk has said advertisers are returning to the social media platform, but statements from several companies … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Richard Waters / Financial Times: Intel becoming a chip foundry is its biggest business shift in nearly 40 years, meaning US industrial policy rests on one of tech’s most complex turnarounds yet  —  Once the leading player in the semiconductor industry, the company is attempting to pull off one of tech’s most complex turnrounds Lees verder op Tech Meme