Joshua Bote / SFGATE: Evernote lays off most of its remaining US and Chile staff, and plans to relocate nearly all its operations to Europe; Bending Spoons acquired Evernote in 2023  —  Evernote, the note-taking app once heralded by Engadget as the “king of note-taking apps,” has laid off most of its staff … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Reece Rogers / Wired: A comparison of what personal data Threads, Twitter, Bluesky, Mastodon, Spill, and Hive Social collect from users, based on their listings in Apple’s App Store  —  Here’s what personal data is collected by Meta’s Threads, as well as by Twitter, Bluesky, Mastodon, Spill, and Hive Social. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Wes Davis / The Verge: Twitter reinstates the older, and much better, version of TweetDeck, and appears to have restored legacy API access, letting some third-party apps work again  —  Overnight, users across Twitter began reporting that the older, and much better, version of TweetDeck has returned along … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Financial Times: Sources: banking lobby group UK Finance claims 61% of all reported authorized push payment fraud by volume passes through Meta’s apps; ~£485M was stolen in 2022  —  UK Finance presses ministers to force tech companies into taking more responsibility for authorised push payment fraud Lees verder op Tech Meme

Wall Street Journal: A look at Google’s Med-PaLM 2, an AI chatbot for answering medical questions and more; sources: testing began in April 2023 with customers like the Mayo Clinic  —  Search company is fine-tuning chatbot technology via medical licensing exams  —  Google is testing an artificial-intelligence program trained … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Financial Times: Sources: Sequoia’s China unit HongShan set up an office in Singapore and may compete with Sequoia’s India-based Peak XV Partners for Southeast Asia investments  —  Plans to expand into south-east Asia dealmaking from city-state puts it in direct competition with India-based Peak XV Lees verder op Tech Meme

Wall Street Journal: The Snap Star creator program, Snap’s new revenue-sharing incentive, is showing early signs of traction as part of a broader effort to reverse declining revenue  —  Social-media app Snapchat is trying to counter declining sales  —  Snap’s efforts to lure creators and their followers … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Wes Davis / The Verge: Following similar lawsuits, Sarah Silverman and two other authors sue OpenAI and Meta, claiming LLaMA and ChatGPT were trained on copyright-infringing material  —  Comedian and author Sarah Silverman, as well as authors Christopher Golden and Richard Kadrey — are suing OpenAI and Meta each … Lees verder op Tech Meme