19:46 Een drugsbende heeft vrijdagavond twee havenarbeiders overvallen, wellicht in een poging een lading onderschepte drugs terug te krijgen. De vakbonden trekken aan de alarmbel over de jongste escalatie …Lees verder op De Tijd
TechCrunch: Hands-on with Google’s real-time scanning in Play Protect for sideloaded apps: it didn’t restrict five predatory loan apps and two fake apps from installing — Here’s our hands-on review of the new Android security feature — Android’s in-built security engine Google Play Protect … Lees verder op Tech Meme
xAI: Elon Musk’s xAI releases its AI model Grok, which it says surpasses other models in its compute class, including ChatGPT-3.5, to a “limited number” of US users — Grok is an AI modeled after the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, so intended to answer almost anything and, far harder, even suggest what questions to ask! Lees verder op Tech Meme
Wes Davis / The Verge: A look at AI companies’ responses, including from Meta, Google, Microsoft, and Apple, to possible US Copyright Office changes around AI and copyrighted content — The biggest companies in AI aren’t interested in paying to use copyrighted material as training data, and here are their reasons why. Lees verder op Tech Meme
Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: Okta’s autopsy report on its support system breach understated the role of a badly configured service account, the biggest contributing factor for the breach — If a transgression by a single employee breaches your network, you’re doing it wrong. — Identity and authentication management provider Okta … Lees verder op Tech Meme
xAI: Elon Musk’s xAI releases its AI model Grok, which the company says surpasses “all other models in its compute class, including ChatGPT-3.5 and Inflection-1” — Grok is an AI modeled after the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, so intended to answer almost anything and, far harder, even suggest what questions to ask! Lees verder op Tech Meme
Jason Schreier / Bloomberg: A look at BlizzCon 2023, the first in-person since 2019, which saw updates for WoW and more, and wasn’t sold out before the event began, unlike prior iterations — Tens of thousands of fans, a handful dressed up as their favorite characters from the video games Warcraft and Overwatch … Lees verder op Tech Meme
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Alex Cranz / The Verge: A eulogy for the Touch Bar, which held incredible promise but never got out of the proof-of-concept phase due to a lack of interest from developers and Apple — The Touch Bar was too ahead of its time. This happens occasionally. We finally reach the point we can make a really cool idea … Lees verder op Tech Meme
David Streitfeld / New York Times: A look at the disparity between Amazon’s drone delivery claims and the mundane reality, as only some small objects are delivered in perfect weather conditions — Amazon’s much-hyped drone project is dropping small objects on driveways. Some customers are not sure what it delivers beyond minestrone. Lees verder op Tech Meme