Techstrong News Recap – May 22, 2023
On May 22, William Willis covered the Supreme Court’s ruling in favor of law protecting internet companies from user posts, the Montana governor signing the TikTok ban into law and OpenAI’s release of a mobile app for ChatGPT. He also talked about Meta unveiling CodeCompose, a new AI code-writing platform. Finally, he previewed articles from DevOps.com, Digital CxO and Techstrong.ai, which covered a survey showing software supply chain problems in spite of DevOps adoption, key technologies that are overhauling vehicle fleet management and the launch of our new AI site Techstrong.ai.
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Hi. Good everyone. Here are the headlines from May 22nd.
First up, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of Google, Twitter, and Facebook dismissing lawsuits, holding them accountable for terrorist attacks, but avoided addressing the broader issue of Section two 30, the federal law, protecting social media companies from liability for user content. In Turkish nightclub case, the court unanimously rejected the lawsuit while in the Paris attack case it returned the case to a lower court with little substance remaining. The court found claims lacking evidence of aiding the attacks, but raised a question about the platform's immunity under Section two 30 that may reemerge.
In other cases, the ruling is seen as a win for the tech industry with concerns of internet disruption with companies like Yelp, Reddit, Microsoft, Craigslist, Twitter, and Facebook. Having warned that limiting liability could hinder searches for jobs, restaurants, merchandises, and more on social media platforms. Next, Montana has signed a groundbreaking bill that bans TikTok from operating in the state.
The new regulations in Montana extend beyond the existing TikTok bans in other states, and at the federal level. Supporters argue that TikTok being Chinese owned, poses the national security risk. By enabling data harvesting in the spread of probing misinformation, the law will prohibit.
TikTok downloads in Montana impose a $10,000 daily fine on app stores in TikTok for each access or download. However, experts are questioning the laws and enforceability in Apple, and Google's ability to prevent TikTok downloads specifically in Montana is uncertain the battle over the TikTok ban is expected to unfold in court as TikTok is claimed that the law infringes un free speech rights. In other news chat Chip p t is now accessible as the smartphone app.
The free chat chip p t app was introduced for iPhones in the United States late, late last week with plans for an Android version in the near future. The app contains some new features, and most notably, the ability to interact with the chatbot using voice commands. Disti distinguishing itself from the web version OpenAI, the company responsible for chat.
G B T has emphasized that the app will provide an ad-free experience ensuring a seamless user interface, and it includes a feature that synchronizes conversation history across different devices. OpenAI announced the launch of the app in a blog post stating that the initial release is in the United States and will progressively expand to other countries. The app proudly carries the designation of being the official app by open AI on the app store guaranteeing users the authentic chat p t experience.
Zooming out though the app store has become rife with AI chatbot applications and the release of this official chat p t app could have mixed implications for clone apps attempting to profit from similar technology. Next up, meta unveiled code composed a generative AI coding tool similar to GitHub's co-pilot at an AI infrastructure event. Although it's not publicly available yet, Meta's internal teams are already benefiting from the tools code suggestions and popular ides code compose offers, annotations and import statements, complete lines of code, and leverages surrounding code and comments.
7 billion Parameters. While meta claims high acceptance rates for its suggestions, it does not address any controversies surrounding code generate AI and copyright infringement. Meta stated that code composed was trained using public code under open source licenses too.
While security concerns may have been raised, meta assures developers are not obliged to follow suggestions and that emphasizes its commitment to security. com, we have an article looking at a survey that shows, despite the successes of DevOps, software, supply chain, security problems still exist. While 82% of respondents have adopted DevOps, 41% say that they still lack visibility in the development process.
com. On digital CX o, we have an article looking at technologies that are reshaping vehicle fleet management. Many companies are looking to modernize their vehicles and 86% of the ones that have reported a solid return on investment in connected fleet technology.
com. ai. Alan Shimmel gives us a rundown into what to expect with a new site that will cover all things ai.
ai, and that's today's Techstrong News Recap.





