Identify Critical Roles to Improve Performance https://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/identify-critical-roles-to-improve-performance/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #DIgitalTransformation

In Taiwan, Douyin, Xiaohongshu, and other lifestyle and shopping apps are increasingly becoming part of China's information war, aided by a shared language (Emma Graham-Harrison/The Guardian) http://www.techmeme.com/230814/p4?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon#a230814p4

Anthropic raised $100M from South Korea-based SK Telecom, which also invested in Anthropic in May 2023, as the two aim to build a telco-focused multilingual LLM (Joyce Lee/Reuters) http://www.techmeme.com/230814/p1?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon#a230814p1

A look at the years of warnings about AI from researchers, including several women of color, who say we need to take the problems and risks seriously today (Lorena O'Neil/Rolling Stone) http://www.techmeme.com/230814/p3?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon#a230814p3

How Unilever, Siemens, Maersk, and other big companies are using AI to negotiate contracts, find new suppliers, and navigate other complex supply chain issues (Financial Times) http://www.techmeme.com/230814/p2?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon#a230814p2

Why is it so hard to create new types of pain relievers? https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/08/11/1077750/why-is-it-so-hard-to-create-new-types-of-pain-relievers/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #Biotechnology #biotechnology

Fireblocks discloses BitForge, a set of zero-day flaws affecting widely-used crypto wallet providers; Coinbase, Binance, and Zengo have patched BitForge flaws (Tom Mitchelhill/Cointelegraph) http://www.techmeme.com/230810/p3?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon#a230810p3

Some TikTok content creators are using AI to recreate the likeness of deceased or missing children, giving them "voices" to narrate what happened to them (Jennifer Hassan/Washington Post) http://www.techmeme.com/230810/p6?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon#a230810p6

X unveils Sensitivity Settings and Enhanced Blocklist to boost brand safety and control for advertisers, rolling out over the next few weeks in the Ads Manager (Nicola Agius/Search Engine Land) http://www.techmeme.com/230810/p5?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon#a230810p5

The United States has always been a terrible place to be sick and disabled. Ableism is baked into our myths of bootstrapping and self-reliance, in which health is virtue and illness is degeneracy. It is long past time for a bedrock shift, for all of us. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/08/09/madeline-miller-long-covid-post-pandemic/

Demystifying Emissions Reporting https://hbr.org/2023/08/demystifying-emissions-reporting?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #DigitalTransformation

AI chatbots aren’t just for answering questions or writing cover letters. For some people, they’ve become close friends - https://www.wsj.com/articles/when-you-and-ai-become-bffs-ecbcda1e #AI

These new tools could help protect our pictures from AI https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/08/01/1077072/these-new-tools-could-help-protect-our-pictures-from-ai/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #Artificialintelligence #ArtificialIntelligence

Hernâni Vaz Antunes confesses payments to Alexandre Fonseca, former CEO of Altice, will have received 490,000 euros between 2017 and 2018 through companies in the United Arab Emirates and against false invoices. https://www.jornaldenegocios.pt/empresas/detalhe/hernani-vaz-antunes-confessa-pagamentos-a-alexandre-fonseca #Portugal #Telecoms #5G

The absurd studies against hybrid and remote work keep coming powered by click a it - ‪This study only reflects the working methods of people based in Chennai, India. The socioeconomic and cultural context is very important. The Yahoo title is clickbait considering that Musk and Zuckerberg are not living in Chennai.‬ #FutureOfWork

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Krakow-based Android phone monitoring app LetMeSpy plans to shut down by the end of August 2023 after a hacker breached and deleted its server data in June (Zack Whittaker/TechCrunch) http://www.techmeme.com/230805/p6?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon#a230805p6

Nansen: payouts to NFT creators fell 98% from a peak of $269M in January 2022 to $4.3M in July 2023, as OpenSea and Blur cut royalty rates amid a bear market (Sidhartha Shukla/Bloomberg) http://www.techmeme.com/230805/p7?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon#a230805p7

Russian independent news outlet Meduza says Apple removed its flagship podcast from Apple Podcasts; source: Roskomnadzor asked Apple to remove the show (Meduza.io) http://www.techmeme.com/230805/p9?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon#a230805p9

How Waymo and Cruise are struggling to win over San Francisco residents, showing the challenges they may face in expanding driverless cars across the US (Wall Street Journal) http://www.techmeme.com/230805/p8?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon#a230805p8

The FBI is investigating a ransomware attack on Prospect Medical Holdings, which runs 16 hospitals and 166 outpatient clinics and centers in CA, CT, PA, and RI (Jonathan Greig/The Record) http://www.techmeme.com/230805/p11?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon#a230805p11