Tech Meme

Bloomberg: The Nobel in Chemistry goes to David Baker “for computational protein design” and DeepMind’s Demis Hassabis and John Jumper “for protein structure prediction”  —  – Demis Hassabis, John Jumper share half the $1.1 million award  — Remainder goes to David Baker for building new proteins Lees verder op Tech Meme

Liana Baker / Bloomberg: KKR-owned BMC Software plans to split: BMC for enterprise mainframes and BMC Helix for enterprise software; BMC will get ~66% of BMC Software’s $2.3B in revenue  —  – Tech provider to become standalone firms BMC and BMC Helix  — BMC had pursued IPO at a valuation of up to $15 billion Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Ring unveils a new $20 per month Ring Home Premium subscription, adding 24/7 recording and AI-powered Smart Video Search from November 5 in the US  —  Amazon is revamping its subscription offerings for its Ring video doorbells and cameras.  —  A new service, called Ring Home Premium … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: Glassdoor launches short videos, polls, and images to foster engagement on its platform, and now has 63M monthly unique visitors, up from 55M in early 2021  —  Workplace and salary review platform Glassdoor is drawing inspiration from LinkedIn’s roadmap as it is launching short videos … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Zac Bowden / Windows Central: Microsoft issues the final Surface Duo 2 security update ahead of its end of support on October 21; the Duo 2, released in October 2021, got one Android update  —  Microsoft has issued the final security update for Surface Duo 2 ahead of its end of support date on October 21. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Seth Fiegerman / Bloomberg: OpenAI says it suspects that China-linked SweetSpecter tried to phish its employees earlier in 2024, posing as a ChatGPT user to send customer support emails  —  The unsuccessful effort involved posing as a ChatGPT user. … OpenAI said a group with apparent ties to China tried to carry … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awards the Nobel Prize in Chemistry to David Baker for “computational protein design” and Demis Hassabis and John Jumper  —  – Demis Hassabis, John Jumper share half the $1.1 million award  — Remainder goes to David Baker for building new proteins Lees verder op Tech Meme

New York Times: How Withheld for Privacy and other proxy services that help domain operators shield their identities have turned Iceland into a global hub for illicit activity  —  A Reykjavik building that houses a penis museum and an H&M is also the virtual home to an array of perpetrators of identity theft, ransomware and disinformation. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Allison Johnson / The Verge: MediaTek unveils the 3nm Dimensity 9400 mobile SoC, featuring a CPU with eight “big” cores and its own 8th-gen NPU, claiming 80% “faster LLM prompt performance”  —  MediaTek has formally announced its new flagship mobile chipset, the Dimensity 9400. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kati Pohjanpalo / Bloomberg: The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awards the Nobel Prize in Chemistry to David Baker for “computational protein design” and Demis Hassabis and John Jumper  —  Three scientists were awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry for breakthrough research into proteins. Lees verder op Tech Meme