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Meta's Oversight Board says Meta shouldn't have removed two Israel-Hamas war videos, as they were valuable to showing human suffering, its first expedited cases (Sheila Dang/Reuters) 19-12-2023

Sheila Dang / Reuters: Meta’s Oversight Board says Meta shouldn’t have removed two Israel-Hamas war videos, as they were valuable to showing human suffering, its first expedited cases  —  Meta Platform’s (META.O) Oversight Board said on Tuesday that the social media company erred in removing two videos depicting hostages … Lees verder op Tech Meme

NetChoice, which represents TikTok, Meta, X, Snap, and others, sues Utah over its laws requiring kids and teens to obtain parental consent to use social media (Hannah Schoenbaum/Associated Press) 19-12-2023

Hannah Schoenbaum / Associated Press: NetChoice, which represents TikTok, Meta, X, Snap, and others, sues Utah over its laws requiring kids and teens to obtain parental consent to use social media  —  A trade group that represents TikTok and other major tech companies sued Utah on Monday over its first-in-the-nation laws requiring children … Lees verder op Tech Meme

The FBI, the UK, Denmark, Germany, Spain, and Australia seize ransomware gang ALPHV's dark web leak website; the US also seized “several websites” run by ALPHV (Carly Page/TechCrunch) 19-12-2023

Carly Page / TechCrunch: The FBI, the UK, Denmark, Germany, Spain, and Australia seize ransomware gang ALPHV’s dark web leak website; the US also seized “several websites” run by ALPHV  —  An international group of law enforcement agencies have seized the dark web leak site of the notorious ransomware gang known as ALPHV, or BlackCat. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Meta adds tongue tracking in an update to its OpenXR extension, letting developers bring the feature to the Quest Pro; Meta Avatars SDK hasn't yet added support (David Heaney/UploadVR) 19-12-2023

David Heaney / UploadVR: Meta adds tongue tracking in an update to its OpenXR extension, letting developers bring the feature to the Quest Pro; Meta Avatars SDK hasn’t yet added support  —  Quest Pro’s face tracking now includes your tongue too.  —  In our review of Quest Pro last year, we pointed out how moving … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Chinese GPU maker Moore Threads unveils the MTT S4000, which lags Nvidia's 2020-era Ampere, working with China's Lenovo and others to boost its KUAE ecosystem (Matthew Connatser/Tom's Hardware) 19-12-2023

Matthew Connatser / Tom’s Hardware: Chinese GPU maker Moore Threads unveils the MTT S4000, which lags Nvidia’s 2020-era Ampere, working with China’s Lenovo and others to boost its KUAE ecosystem  —  Beefy clusters with 200 petaops of AI compute.  —  Chinese GPU manufacturer Moore Threads announced the MTT S4000 … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Walmart expands its Affirm partnership and says more than 4,500 Walmart stores now offer BNPL at self checkout kiosks; AFRM jumps 15%+ (Paige Smith/Bloomberg) 19-12-2023

Paige Smith / Bloomberg: Walmart expands its Affirm partnership and says more than 4,500 Walmart stores now offer BNPL at self checkout kiosks; AFRM jumps 15%+  —  – Partnership grows to more stores, a self-checkout option  — Affirm building out its presence during in-store transactions Lees verder op Tech Meme

Hackers post 1.67TB of Insomniac Games' internal data, including for an upcoming Wolverine game, HR files, Slack screenshots, and a Marvel-Sony X-Men agreement (David Hollingworth/Cyber Daily) 19-12-2023

David Hollingworth / Cyber Daily: Hackers post 1.67TB of Insomniac Games’ internal data, including for an upcoming Wolverine game, HR files, Slack screenshots, and a Marvel-Sony X-Men agreement  —  The Rhysida ransomware gang publishes 98 per cent of leaked data minutes after the ransom deadline passes – Wolverine game files included. Lees verder op Tech Meme

The failed Figma acquisition leaves Adobe with ~$6B in cash, likely to be used for AI development and stock buybacks; ADBE is up 75%+ in 2023 amid AI excitement (Bloomberg) 19-12-2023

Bloomberg: The failed Figma acquisition leaves Adobe with ~$6B in cash, likely to be used for AI development and stock buybacks; ADBE is up 75%+ in 2023 amid AI excitement  —  – Startups like Canva, Figma and OpenAI remain a risk to growth  — Investors banking on AI to boost Adobe’s customers and sales Lees verder op Tech Meme