Tech Meme

Pranav Dixit / Business Insider: Apptopia: Meta’s engagement is steady despite some calls for a Meta boycott over fact-checking and DEI changes; TikTok ban may have overshadowed user concerns  —  – Meta’s engagement is steady after the company cut fact-checking and diversity programs.  — A potential TikTok ban might’v … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: The FBI warns that North Korean IT workers are abusing their access to steal source code and extort US companies that have been tricked into hiring them  —  The FBI warned today that North Korean IT workers are abusing their access to steal source code and extort U.S. companies that have been tricked into hiring them. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Rolling Stone: Sources: Trump’s team members don’t buy Zuckerberg’s right-wing conversion as entirely genuine; one senior official says he has a “lot more ass-kissing” to do  —  Trump’s aides and allies aren’t ready to buy the Facebook chief’s right-wing conversion.  “He can’t just snap his fingers and make the past not happen” Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: Meta begins a “limited, early test” of ads in Threads in the US and Japan, with the goal of making the ads “as interesting as organic content”  —  Meta’s X rival Threads said Friday that it is now testing ads with select brands in the U.S. and Japan. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Sources: Apple moved Kim Vorrath, a company veteran known for fixing troubled products, to its AI group to help improve Siri and Apple Intelligence  —  – Kim Vorrath previously worked on Vision Pro, iPhone software  — The company is racing to catch up in artificial intelligence Lees verder op Tech Meme

Meghan Bobrowsky / Wall Street Journal: Zuckerberg says Meta is building an AI engineer that will “start contributing increasing amounts of code to our R&D efforts” and is planning a 2GW+ data center  —  Social-media giant to spend between $60 billion and $65 billion, Zuckerberg says Lees verder op Tech Meme

New York Times: Instagram suspended the accounts of two abortion pill providers and Facebook removed their posts; Meta blamed “over-enforcement” and restored some accounts  —  Some posts related to obtaining abortion pills were recently hidden on Instagram and Facebook and some accounts were suspended, before being later restored. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kyle Chan / High Capacity: How China’s progress across overlapping industries like lidar, drones, robotics, smartphones, AI, EVs, and batteries forms a mutually reinforcing feedback loop  —  EVs, batteries, lidar, drones, robotics, smartphones, AI.  China’s progress across a range of overlapping industries creates a mutually reinforcing feedback loop. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Saritha Rai / Bloomberg: Sources: Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance is buying Nvidia’s AI chips and plans to build a 3GW data center in Jamnagar, India, set to be the world’s largest by capacity  —  – Reliance joins rush of tech companies building data centers … Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Group is building what may become … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Financial Times: X refuses to remove a video of the stabbing of a Sydney bishop watched by Axel Rudakubana minutes before murdering three kids in UK’s Southport last summer  —  Axel Rudakubana was able to view Australian clip before murdering three young children despite pleas from authorities Lees verder op Tech Meme