Robert Booth / The Guardian: TikTok plans to block under-18 users from using beauty filters, and says it is tightening its systems to block under-13 users from the platform  —  Social media platform under pressure to improve security as it announces plans to block under-13s from signing up Lees verder op Tech Meme

Samantha Cole / 404 Media: Bluesky says it is up to outside organizations to respect user consent, after a Hugging Face employee posted a dataset of 1M posts from its API for ML research  —  A machine learning librarian at Hugging Face just released a dataset composed of one million Bluesky posts … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Arjun Kharpal / CNBC: Huawei’s HarmonyOS NEXT in the Mate 70, 70 Pro, 70 Pro+, and X6 is its first fully self-developed OS that reportedly no longer uses open-source Android code  —  Huawei on Tuesday launched the Mate 70 series of smartphones that can run on the company’s latest self-developed operating system … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jeffrey Funk / American Affairs Journal: Study: about 85% of US unicorn startups that have gone public were unprofitable in 2023, despite most having been founded more than fifteen years earlier  —  Financial losses for today’s start-ups are much more common than they were decades ago, and the losses are much bigger. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: Roblox is offering 25% more Robux for users buying on the web and via gift cards than those making an IAP via Apple’s App Store or Google’s Play Store  —  As scrutiny around Apple and Google’s app store fees ramps up around the world, Roblox is now offering users who buy its game currency … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Paul Triolo / American Affairs Journal: A look at the evolution of China’s semiconductor industry and Huawei under US export controls, as GPUs become the new focal point of US-China tech competition  —  Since I last wrote about China’s responses to U.S. export controls in these pages, in February 2024, much has changed … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Financial Times: Sources: Elon Musk has given investors, who backed his $44B Twitter acquisition, 25% of the shares in xAI, which is set to close a $5B round at a $50B valuation  —  Investors hit by losses following billionaire’s takeover of social media platform reap rewards from shares in his AI start-up Lees verder op Tech Meme

Arjun Kharpal / CNBC: Huawei’s HarmonyOS NEXT in Mate 70 series of smartphones is the company’s first fully self-developed OS that reportedly no longer uses open-source Android code  —  Huawei on Tuesday launched the Mate 70 series of smartphones that can run on the company’s latest self-developed operating system … Lees verder op Tech Meme