Tech Meme

Wall Street Journal: Some TikTok creators say the app created business opportunities, as they contemplate life after a possible ban, like moving to Instagram Reels or YouTube Shorts  —  The platform created business opportunities for some users.  Now, they’re planning for what might come next Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: Early screenshots show Microsoft is testing a non-custodial Ethereum crypto wallet built into Edge that lets users send and receive cryptocurrencies and NFTs  —  Microsoft is working on a non-custodial built-in Ethereum crypto wallet for Microsoft Edge to allow users to send and receive cryptocurrency and NFTs. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Financial Times: Some investors are concerned that SVB’s collapse and its US government rescue, after Silicon Valley investors’ lobbying, could lead to tougher tech regulation  —  Late last Saturday night, Jason Calacanis, a prominent internet entrepreneur and investor, hit the caps button on his keyboard … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: The FBI arrests “Pompompurin”, a New York man who allegedly ran BreachForums, a dark web site that hosted the stolen databases of almost 1K companies and sites  —  Federal agents have arrested a Peekskill, New York, man they say ran the notorious dark web data-breach site “BreachForums” under the name “Pompompurin.” Lees verder op Tech Meme

Financial Times: How tech from London-based AI startup Synthesia, backed by Kleiner Perkins and GV, is being used to make deepfake news videos promoted by Venezuela’s government  —  UK tech company developed software used in fake news videos promoted by authoritarian government Lees verder op Tech Meme

Tom Warren / The Verge: Interview with Microsoft VP of design and research Jon Friedman about the company’s vision for 365 Copilot, lessons learned from Bing AI, ethical concerns, more  —  Copilot is more than just a chatbot.  Microsoft is slowly building an AI assistant that it has dreamed about for years. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Wall Street Journal: Several TikTok creators say it created business opportunities and contemplate life after a possible ban, including moving to Instagram Reels or YouTube Shorts  —  The platform created business opportunities for some users.  Now, they’re planning for what might come next Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: Microsoft is testing a built-in, non-custodial Ethereum crypto wallet for Microsoft Edge to let users send and receive cryptocurrency and NFTs  —  Microsoft is working on a non-custodial built-in Ethereum crypto wallet for Microsoft Edge to allow users to send and receive cryptocurrency and NFTs. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Patrick McGee / Financial Times: Q&A with Dina Srinivasan, author of The Antitrust Case Against Facebook, on Meta and Google’s ad duopoly, the US antitrust cases, concerns about Apple, and more  —  In February 2019, Dina Srinivasan, then an independent scholar, published an academic paper entitled ‘The Antitrust Case Against Facebook’ … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Maria Bustillos / The Nation: A look at four publishers’ lawsuit against the Internet Archive, which hinges on defining the legal ownership of ebooks, ahead of oral arguments on March 20  —  Or that they haven’t already started to pollute Google searches.  And if publishers win their lawsuit against the Internet Archive … Lees verder op Tech Meme