Kim Na-young / Yonhap News Agency: South Korea-based Naver signs a 2024 to 2029 deal with Saudi Arabia to build digital twins of Riyadh, Medina, Jeddah, Dammam, and Mecca, sources say for $100M+  —  South Korean tech giant Naver Corp. said Tuesday it has struck a deal with the Saudi Arabian government to create a digital twin platform … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: Byju’s CFO Ajay Goel resigns after six months as the edtech delays its FY 2022 earnings; Byju’s President of Finance Nitin Golani takes over on October 30  —  – Goel will return to Vedanta after six months as Byju’s CFO  — Byju’s appoints Nitin Golani as India chief finance officer Lees verder op Tech Meme

David Pierce / The Verge: A look at POSSE, a decade-old idea that a user should Publish (on your) Own Site and Syndicate Elsewhere, and the challenges of building a system based on that  —  The platform era is ending.  Rather than build new Twitters and Facebooks, we can create a stuff-posting system that works better for everybody. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Melissa Heikkilä / MIT Technology Review: A look at Nightshade and Glaze, UChicago researchers’ tools that help artists “mask” or even “poison” their work to break AI models later trained on the data  —  The tool, called Nightshade, messes up training data in ways that could cause serious damage to image-generating AI models. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Casey Newton / Platformer: Hands-on with DALL-E 3: suggests more detailed prompts, restrictive, denies art requests in the style of living artists, and shows how quickly AI is improving  —  To understand how quickly AI is improving, forget ChatGPT — use an image generator  —  Earlier this month … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Melissa Heikkilä / MIT Technology Review: A look at Nightshade and Glaze, UChicago researchers’ tools that help artists “mask” or even “poison” their work to break AI models later trained on the data  —  The tool, called Nightshade, messes up training data in ways that could cause serious damage to image-generating AI models. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: 1Password detected suspicious activity on its Okta instance for managing employee-facing apps, and “found no compromise of user data or other sensitive systems”  —  1Password CTO says investigation found no compromise of user data or sensitive systems. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kim Na-young / Yonhap News Agency: South Korea-based Naver signs a 2024 to 2029 deal, sources say for $100M+, with Saudi Arabia to build digital twins of Riyadh, Medina, Jeddah, Dammam, and Mecca  —  South Korean tech giant Naver Corp. said Tuesday it has struck a deal with the Saudi Arabian government to create a digital twin platform … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Melissa Heikkilä / MIT Technology Review: A look at Nightshade and Glaze, UChicago researchers’ tools that help artists “mask” or even “poison” their work to break AI models later trained on the data  —  The tool, called Nightshade, messes up training data in ways that could cause serious damage to image-generating AI models. Lees verder op Tech Meme