|
February 24, 2024, 2:30 AM
|
Mediagazer
memeorandum
WeSmirchTop News
| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google says poor image tuning and Gemini becoming more cautious than intended made the model “overcompensate in some cases, and be over-conservative in others” — Google announced yesterday that it disabled image generation of people in Gemini following criticism about its historical accuracy.
More: The Keyword, XDA Developers, Axios, VentureBeat, MSPoweruser, The Indian Express, Maginative, SiliconANGLE, Android Central, SFist, Gizmodo, From the New World, The Information, Thurrott, TechCrunch, The Verge, NBC News, BetaNews, CCN.com, KGTV-TV, Phandroid, and Reuters
Threads: @jacaranda7, @crumbler, @goldman, @vishwanathsarang, and @daveleebbg. Bluesky: @glinden.bsky.social
X: @elonmusk, @yishan, @yishan, @benhylak, @willoremus, @googlepubpolicy, @modestproposal1, @tomcoates, @illneil, @grimezsz, @stevesi, @natesilver538, @chatgptapp, @tomcoates, @natesilver538, @carnage4life, @jlgolson, @elonmusk, @natesilver538, @maxwinebach, @daniel_271828, @stevesi, @lutherlowe, @yishan, @daniel_271828, @tomcoates, @kane, and @fchollet. Forums: r/Bard
| Aditya Soni / Reuters: |
Nvidia crossed a $2T market cap intraday on February 23, after adding $277B to its market value on February 22, Wall Street's largest one-day gain on record — Nvidia (NVDA.O) hit $2 trillion in market value on Friday, riding on an insatiable demand for its chips that made the Silicon Valley firm …
More: Financial Times, The Information, Tom's Hardware, The Information, Wall Street Journal, Investopedia, Cryptopolitan, Financialexpress, Business Times, Bloomberg, CNBC, Maginative, DatacenterDynamics, International Business Times, Times of India, COINOTAG NEWS, Axios, Global News, CoinGape, The Verge, Livemint, Wall Street Journal, Proactive, Dexerto, Barron's Online, Business Post, BNN Bloomberg, Daily Mail, NTD, TipRanks Financial, Anadolu Ajansı …, Business Standard, NewsBytes, and MacDailyNews
Threads: @benedictevans. X: @jonerlichman, @pitdesi, @schmidhuberai, @astutealligator, @jimchuong, @0xjaypeg, @growing_daniel, @netcapgirl, @grdecter, @sawyermerritt, @carnage4life, @grdecter, @hadley, and @carnage4life
| Lauren Goode / Wired: |
More: Quartz and The Decoder
X: @benbajarin, @sandraupson, @brij, and @laurengoode
LinkedIn: Steven Levy and Lauren Goode
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Jeff Bezos is investing $100M, Microsoft is investing $95M, and Nvidia $50M in humanoid robot startup Figure's ~$675M funding round at a ~$2B valuation — - Figure AI also gets investments from Intel, Samsung and Amazon — Company, valued at roughly $2 billion, is raising $675 million
More: Reuters, Cryptopolitan, Business Insider, Investing.com, Daily Mail, The Hill, and PYMNTS.com
| Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac: |
X starts rolling out audio and video calling to all users, after previously limiting the feature to Premium subscribers; users can disable calling in settings — The social platform X introduced a new feature last year that lets users make and receive audio and video calls, just like apps such as FaceTime and WhatsApp.
More: Social Media Today and New York Times
Threads: @joanwestenberg. Bluesky: @nowhere.bsky.social. X: @lindayax, @enriquebrgn, @katebevan, @alexselbyb, @nate_esparza, @psythor, @bobdaduck, @quinnypig, @kettlebelldan, and @thezedwards
| Lauren Feiner / The Verge: |
The US FTC claims in an administrative complaint that H&R Block steered customers to higher-cost online tax filing products and made them difficult to downgrade — The Federal Trade Commission is taking action against tax prep company H&R Block for allegedly wasting consumers' time and money.| Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch: |
Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg sparred with a trans Tumblr user over an account ban, revealing her side blog names, which are private, sparking community outcry — Matt Mullenweg, CEO of Tumblr owner Automattic, is supposed to be on sabbatical. Instead, he's arguing with Tumblr users …
More: Know Your Meme Editorials, elerium on Tumblr, and boccher on Tumblr
X: @photomatt, @butchjpg, @mad_h0pz, @quendergeer, @awawawhoami, @hologramvin, @masterzora, @b0tster, @instantsunrise, @mad_h0pz, @mad_h0pz, @raqueldesigns, @mad_h0pz, @mad_h0pz, @asilbwrites, @epistemophagy, @webdevlaw, @awawawhoami, @mad_h0pz, @photomatt, @pissvortex, @laraisuncool, @pissvortex, @gertritude, @mad_h0pz, @pissvortex, @mad_h0pz, @mad_h0pz, @mad_h0pz, @mad_h0pz, and @mad_h0pz. Forums: r/technology
| Theodore Schleifer / Puck: |
A look at Marc Andreessen and a16z's political efforts, including starting the Keep Startups in America PAC and giving millions to a pro-crypto dark money group — Late last month, Marc Andreessen was holding court in the Waldorf, the site of the former Trump hotel in downtown D.C. …
Threads: @kalihays1. X: @teddyschleifer, @teddyschleifer, @teddyschleifer, @teddyschleifer, @teddyschleifer, and @teddyschleifer
| Brian Heater / TechCrunch: |
Humane postpones the delivery of its Ai Pin for “priority access” customers from March to “mid-April”, with the remaining preorders arriving “shortly after” — Hardware is difficult, to paraphrase a famous adage. First-generation products from new startups … | Nikkei Asia: |
TSMC inaugurates its first plant in Kumamoto, Japan, paving the way to make smartphone and auto-related chips for Sony and Renesas by the end of 2024 — Japanese semiconductor subsidies came faster than in the U.S. and elsewhere — Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. opened its factory in Kumamoto, Japan, on Feb. 24.
More: Benzinga, TechPowerUp, DigiTimes, and Bloomberg
| Sabrina Ortiz / ZDNet: |
Microsoft releases PyRIT, a tool that the company's AI Red Team has been using to more efficiently check for risks in its generative AI systems, such as Copilot — Despite the advanced capabilities of generative AI (gen AI) models, we have seen many instances of them going rogue, hallucinating …
More: Microsoft Azure on GitHub, Microsoft Security Blog, FinTech Global, The Hacker News, SecurityWeek, Security Affairs, Windows Report, MSPoweruser, TechRadar, MediaNama, and ITPro
Mastodon: @cigitalgem@sigmoid.social. X: @clementdelangue. LinkedIn: Pascal Belaud, Yonatan Zunger, Scott Prather, Pete Bryan, and Richard Lundeen
| Priya Anand / Bloomberg: |
New York City-based Fabric, which uses AI to automate clinical and administrative work in health care, raised a $60M Series A led by General Catalyst — Have worrying symptoms? Ask the AI. — Fabric Labs Inc., a startup that uses artificial intelligence to automate clinical …
More: General Catalyst, Fabric, VC News Daily, FinSMEs, HIT Consultant, and PYMNTS.com. LinkedIn: Rick Liebling
| Counterpoint Research: |
Global cumulative shipments of 5G smartphones crossed 2B in less than five years, a faster adoption rate than 3G or 4G; Apple and Samsung together shipped 1B — - Nearly 70% of all 5G shipments came from developed smartphone markets. — Apple and Samsung were the top 5G smartphone brands …
More: AppleInsider, Patently Apple, and Sammy Fans
| The Information: |
Sources: some US lawmakers are pushing for an import ban on goods sold on Temu, saying the company hasn't done enough to stop suppliers from using forced labor — A number of U.S. lawmakers are pushing for a ban on imports of goods sold on Temu, the fast-growing shopping site known …
More: The Verge
| Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu / Financial Times: |
In a first, the UK ICO orders the leisure center operator Serco to stop using facial recognition and fingerprint scanning to monitor attendance and pay workers — UK watchdog cracks down for first time on an employer processing biometric data of workers — Outsourcer Serco has been ordered …
More: Infosecurity, Information Commissioner's …, Reuters, and The Guardian
X: @rdbinns, @robertjbateman, and @iconews
| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: staff warned Meta in 2023 that its Facebook and Instagram subscription tools were being misused by adults profiting from exploiting their own children — Employees offered suggestions to reduce risks of misuse of subscription accounts featuring minors.
More: The Verge, Mashable, ABC7, Benzinga, and New York Times
Threads: @katienotopoulos, @renee.diresta, and @jonkeeganstories
Forums: r/neoliberal and r/technology
Sponsor Posts
Google:
Gemini 2.5 Pro: Our most intelligent AI model — Gemini 2.5 Pro (experimental) is now available, with thinking capabilities, enhanced performance, and improved accuracy. Try it at no cost in the Gemini app.
Gemini 2.5 Pro: Our most intelligent AI model — Gemini 2.5 Pro (experimental) is now available, with thinking capabilities, enhanced performance, and improved accuracy. Try it at no cost in the Gemini app.
UiPath:
Introducing the UiPath Platform™ for agentic automation — UiPath's new platform empowers enterprises to experience the full power of AI to transform industries
Introducing the UiPath Platform™ for agentic automation — UiPath's new platform empowers enterprises to experience the full power of AI to transform industries
Zoho:
2025: World Password Day is now also World Passkey Day — Since 2013, the first Thursday of May has been recognized as World Password Day to spread awareness about good password practices and protecting our online accounts.
2025: World Password Day is now also World Passkey Day — Since 2013, the first Thursday of May has been recognized as World Password Day to spread awareness about good password practices and protecting our online accounts.
IDrive:
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data — Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Box data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data — Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Box data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.Featured Podcasts
Hard Fork:
The Dangers of A.I. Flattery + Kevin Meets the Orb + Group Chat Chat
The future is already here. Each week, journalists Kevin Roose and Casey Newton explore and make sense of the latest in the rapidly changing world of tech.
Subscribe to Hard Fork.
The Logan Bartlett Show:
EP 141 Ben Lamm (Founder & CEO, Colossal Biosciences) On The Breakthroughs Making De-Extinction Actually Possible
A podcast hosted by Logan Bartlett, an investor at Redpoint Ventures, covering tech with industry insiders.
Subscribe to The Logan Bartlett Show.
Techmeme Ride Home:
Judge Refers Apple For A Criminal Investigation
The day's tech news, every day at 5pm ET. Fifteen minutes and you're up to date.
Subscribe to Techmeme Ride Home.
Great Chat:
What's the deal with Deel?
A podcast mostly about tech. Brought to you weekly by Angela Du, Sally Shin, Mac Bohannon, Helen Min, and Ashley Mayer.
Subscribe to Great Chat.
Lenny's Podcast:
The rise of Cursor: The $300M ARR AI tool that engineers can't stop using | Michael Truell (co-founder and CEO)
Interviews with world-class product leaders and growth experts to uncover actionable advice to help you build, launch, and grow your own product.
Subscribe to Lenny's Podcast.
Uncapped with Jack Altman:
Josh Kopelman from First Round Capital
Conversations with people I admire about things I'm genuinely interested in.
Subscribe to Uncapped with Jack Altman.
About This Page
This is a Techmeme archive page. It shows how the site appeared at 2:30 AM ET, February 24, 2024.
The most current version of the site as always is available at our home page. To view an earlier snapshot click here and then modify the date indicated.
From Mediagazer
Associated Press:Jack Herrera / Columbia Journalism Review:
Naman Ramachandran / Variety:
Upcoming Tech Events
More News
| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Threads: @parkerortolani, @mergesort, @soupsoup, @crumbler, @mehtology, @mathewi, @crumbler, and @mgsiegler
X: @raywongy, @browsercompany, and @testingcatalog
| Sarah Scire / Nieman Lab: |
More: Digital Information World, 9to5Google, Gizmodo, Search Engine Roundtable, and The Verge
Threads: @kalihays1 and @sheiladangit
Mastodon: @stefan@stefanbohacek.online, @mhoye@mastodon.social, @aulia.me@aulia.me, and @bruno_j_navarro …
X: @chosford1, @walldo, @tdasilvarosa, @susancb, @liahaberman, @tomgara, @giovanni_bouden, and @laurahazardowen. Forums: Slashdot
| Brendan Farrington / Associated Press: |
More: New York Times, Florida Politics, The Daily Beast, Default, Reuters, Tech Xplore, and Politico
Threads: @stowns3 and @altspesh68
Earlier Picks
| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
More: Windows Insider Blog, Benzinga, Android Headlines, Android Authority, Engadget, MobileSyrup, PetaPixel, Thurrott, TechSpot, PCMag, Redmond Pie, Pureinfotech, Tom's Guide, Liliputing, The Register, WinBuzzer, Windows Central, Laptop Mag, TechRadar, XDA Developers, Gizmochina, MSPoweruser, Windows Latest, and Neowin
| ABC News: |
More: AT&T News …, The Hill, Axios, USA Today, Bloomberg, 9to5Mac, Washington Post, SlashGear, MacDailyNews, Business Insider, Orlando Sentinel, UPROXX, Vibe, Ars Technica, Android Authority, ZDNet, Tom's Guide, New York Post, CNN, Benzinga, Newser, Cyber Daily, Neowin, NBC News, Cybernews.com, CNET, TmoNews, Gizmodo, PYMNTS.com, Digital Trends, CRN, PhoneArena, Inc.com, and Silicon Valley Business …
LinkedIn: Evan Schuman and Tom Gorup
Forums: r/PrepperIntel, r/cordcutters, r/tmobile, r/ATT, and r/technology
| Jessica Lyons / The Register: |
More: SC Media, TechCrunch, BleepingComputer, CNN, STAT, CRN, DataBreachToday.com, Forrester, Axios, aha.org, Wall Street Journal, Optum Solutions, US Securities …, MedCity News, The Hill, Fortune, TechCrunch, Reuters, Cybernews.com, CBS News, Dark Reading, Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, HealthcareInfoSecurity.com, The Record, and PYMNTS.com
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
More: Bluesky, Thurrott, and Manton Reece
Mastodon: @pixel@desu.social, @isagalaev@mastodon.social, @mackuba@martianbase.net, @pixel@desu.social, @Obdurodon@hachyderm.io, @fenarinarsa@shelter.moe, and @fediversereport …
Bluesky: @bsky.app, @davelee.bsky.social, and @bsky.app
Forums: Hacker News, r/Mastodon, r/BlueskySocial, Lobsters, and Slashdot
| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
More: Analytics India Magazine, The Keyword, Reddit Upvoted, PhoneArena, Fortune, GSMArena.com, The Hill, Engadget, Bloomberg, Associated Press, Search Engine Roundtable, TechRadar, Tom's Guide, The Verge, The Wrap, One Man & His Blog, Quartz, and MobileSyrup
X: @kylebrussell, @markhachman, @rustybrick, @glenngabe, @cherthedev, @mmitchell_ai, @reuters, @mrjnowlin, @toddlombardo, @basedtorba, @annatonger, @reuters, @chirag_mehta, and @brij
LinkedIn: Mark Kirstein, Kyle Enfield, Emil Protalinski, and David Callahan
| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
More: The Keyword, Forbes, Thurrott, Maginative, Gizchina, Livemint, TalkAndroid.com, Voicebot.ai, MySmartPrice, TechRadar, Business Standard, MSPoweruser, Digital Information World, NewsBytes, Neowin, TechCrunch, Android Central, BGR, Forbes, XDA Developers, Android Police, Gizmodo, ZDNet, Search Engine Journal, MacRumors, and 9to5Google
| Ismail Shakil / Reuters: |
More: Federal Trade Commission, The Verge, Ars Technica, TechCrunch, Federal Trade Commission, Security Boulevard, Forrester, Channel Futures, Dark Reading, CNN, Digital Trends, TechRadar, Metacurity, BleepingComputer, FinTech Global, Benzinga, Cybernews.com, TechSpot, Tech Monitor, Gizchina, The Hacker News, SiliconANGLE, The Register, and 404 Media
Mastodon: @paulknightly@mstdn.social and @AlesandroOrtiz@infosec …
X: @jason_kint, @josephfcox, @wendyndavis, and @ftc
LinkedIn: Jevan Hutson, Samuel A.A. Levine, and Joelle Dvir
Forums: r/OverwatchTMZ, r/technology, and r/technology