Tech Meme

Wall Street Journal: Citizen Lab: Russia’s PROTEI is selling internet censorship software to Iranian telco Ariantel, for monitoring and intercepting all Iranians’ communications  —  Tehran is receiving advanced surveillance software after providing drones for Ukraine battlefield  —  How We Know Russia Is Using Iranian Drones in Ukraine Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: Google and ADT debut ADT Self Setup, a SimpliSafe-like security system integrated with nearly all Nest products and also offers sensors, a keypad, and more  —  Nearly three years after the two companies first announced a partnership, we’re finally seeing Google and ADT debut the product that makes it worth it. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Politico: Documents and sources: Belgian intelligence is investigating Huawei to determine if the company’s Brussels lobbying office has direct ties to China’s government  —  Belgium’s intelligence service is scrutinizing the operations of technology giant Huawei as fears of Chinese espionage grow around … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Dina Bass / Bloomberg: In a bid to compete with GitHub Copilot, Google partners with AI coding company Replit, which will use Google’s LLMs for its Ghostwriter product  —  Alphabet Inc.’s Google is striking a partnership to combine its artificial intelligence language models with software from startup Replit Inc … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kari McMahon / The Block: EigenLabs, working on an ETH “restaking” protocol, raised a $50M Series A led by Blockchain Capital, with Coinbase Ventures, Polychain Capital among investors  —  – EigenLabs, the team behind restaking protocol EigenLayer, closed its $50 million Series A funding round. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Gary Marcus / The Road to AI We Can Trust: Discounting AI’s short-term risks, from phishing to fraud to propaganda, because artificial general intelligence is not here yet leaves society ill-prepared  —  Superintelligence may or may not be imminent.  But there’s a lot to be worried about, either way.  —  Is AI going to kill us all? Lees verder op Tech Meme

Stratechery: Plugins turn ChatGPT into an aggregator, signaling a major shift in ambition that puts OpenAI well on its way to becoming the next major consumer tech platform  —  Yesterday’s episode of Sharp Tech discussed AI risk and the incredibly uncertain environment we are entering. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Gary Marcus / The Road to AI We Can Trust: Discounting the short-term risks of AI, from phishing to propaganda, simply because artificial superintelligence is not here yet will leave society ill-prepared  —  Superintelligence may or may not be imminent.  But there’s a lot to be worried about, either way.  —  Is AI going to kill us all? Lees verder op Tech Meme

Emma Roth / The Verge: Apple begins a multi-month roll out of its Apple Pay Later service in the US, for online and in-app purchases on iOS 16.4 and iPadOS 16.4  —  Apple is finally launching Apple Pay Later, the company’s take on the buy now, pay later (BNPL) business.  The company has announced that users can use … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Stratechery: With the launch of plugins, ChatGPT has become an aggregator that puts OpenAI on a path to becoming the next major consumer tech platform  —  Yesterday’s episode of Sharp Tech discussed AI risk and the incredibly uncertain environment we are entering.  You can listen at the above link … Lees verder op Tech Meme