Tech Meme

Jeff Mason / Reuters: Biden says tech companies have a responsibility to ensure AI products are safe before making them public and that it remains to be seen whether AI is dangerous  —  U.S. President Joe Biden said on Tuesday it remains to be seen whether artificial intelligence is dangerous … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kif Leswing / CNBC: Piper Sandler survey of 5,690 US teens in February 2023: 29% owned a VR device, but of those, 14% used it weekly, flat vs. fall 2022, and only 4% used it daily  —  – Virtual reality hasn’t caught on with American teens, according to a new survey from Piper Sandler released on Tuesday. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Joshua Benton / Nieman Lab: A look at BloombergGPT, an LLM announced on March 30 and trained on general purpose datasets and Bloomberg’s archives of news, filings, financial docs, and more  —  The news and data giant has — with a relatively small team — built a generative AI that it says outperforms the competition on its own specific information needs. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Charlize Alcaraz / BetaKit: Canada’s privacy commissioner launches an investigation into OpenAI in response to a complaint alleging the non-consensual collection and use of personal data  —  The Canadian privacy commissioner has launched an investigation into OpenAI, the company behind the artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot ChatGPT. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Alexander Martin / The Record: The FBI and over a dozen global partners seize Genesis Market, one of the top cyber fraud forums that sold stolen credentials and tools to weaponize that data  —  Genesis Market was seized on Tuesday in an FBI-led operation involving more than a dozen international partners … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Tom Bristow / Politico: The UK ICO fines TikTok £12.7M, down from a £27M fine proposed in September 2022, for having ~1.4M UK users under the age of 13 and misusing their personal data  —  The ICO estimates that 1.4 million children in the UK were on TikTok in 2020.  —  LONDON — The U.K.’s data regulator … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Alexander Martin / The Record: Genesis Market, a stolen credentials marketplace and one of the top cyber fraud platforms, was seized in an FBI-led operation with over a dozen global partners  —  Genesis Market was seized on Tuesday in an FBI-led operation involving more than a dozen international partners … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Tom Bristow / Politico: The UK ICO fines TikTok £12.7M, down from a £27M fine proposed in September 2022, for having ~1.4M UK users under the age of 13 and misusing their personal data  —  The ICO estimates that 1.4 million children in the UK were on TikTok in 2020.  —  LONDON — The U.K.’s data regulator … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Tim Hardwick / MacRumors: Apple’s System Status says the company resolved a Weather service issue that made the app slow or unavailable on iOS, iPadOS, watchOS, and macOS for 12+ hours  —  Apple is currently experiencing issues with its weather data provider, leaving many users unable to see live weather information and forecasts for regions in the Weather app. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Tom Bristow / Politico: The UK ICO fines TikTok £12.7M for misusing children’s personal data, saying the app “should have done better”, down from a £27M fine proposed in September 2022  —  The ICO estimates that 1.4 million children in the UK were on TikTok in 2020. Lees verder op Tech Meme