Tech Meme

Wall Street Journal: A profile of UK teenage hacker Arion Kurtaj, a Lapsus$ member who leaked GTA VI videos in 2022 and was found guilty in 2023 of hacking Nvidia, Uber, and others  —  The City of London Police had put the teenage boy in the suburban Travelodge to protect him.  They even set up a code … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Wall Street Journal: eMarketer expects Google’s share of the US search ad market to drop below 50% in 2025 for the first time in 10+ years, as Amazon, Apple, and others make gains  —  A flurry of new offerings for advertisers is hitting the market  —  Google’s grip on the nearly $300 billion search advertising business is loosening. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sylvia Pfeifer / Financial Times: Dealroom: US VCs made up 65% of 2024 VC investments in European defense startups, up from 18% in 2023, for a total of $458M, or 3x+ more than in any prior year  —  American venture capital funds have provided the lion’s share of investment to the nascent sector this year Lees verder op Tech Meme

Financial Times: A look at the fall of Byju’s, India’s most valuable startup in 2022 at an estimated $22B, as the edtech startup faces insolvency and Indian and US lawsuits  —  Edtech company’s legal battles from Delaware to Bengaluru have exposed corporate governance issues Lees verder op Tech Meme

John Foley / Financial Times: Among US companies founded in the past 20 years, only Meta and Uber have become “scale insurgent”, with $10B in annual revenue and $1B of operating cash flow  —  More companies are reaching the $1bn valuation milestone, but growing from horned foal to winged steed is getting tougher Lees verder op Tech Meme

Anton Shilov / Tom’s Hardware: Amkor and TSMC sign an MOU to collaborate on advanced chip packaging for AI, HPC, PC, and mobile processors at Amkor’s planned $1.6B facility in Peoria, Arizona  —  Apple and Nvidia rejoice.  —  When Amkor announced plans to build a $1.6 billion chip test and packaging facility near Peoria … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: An interview with AWS CEO Matt Garman on generative AI, AWS’ AI chatbot Q, shutting down services, investing in open source, open sourcing projects, and more  —  It was quite a surprise when Adam Selipsky stepped down as the CEO of Amazon’s AWS cloud computing unit. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Matteo Wong / The Atlantic: Q&A with UCLA’s Terence Tao, widely considered the world’s greatest living mathematician, about OpenAI’s o1, how AI might be useful to mathematicians, and more  —  Terence Tao, the world’s greatest living mathematician, has a vision for AI.  —  Terence Tao, a mathematics professor at UCLA, is a real-life superintelligence. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Isabel Hilton / Yale E360: Taiwan, which is highly dependent on imported fossil fuels, is struggling to meet its chip industry’s energy demands; TSMC uses ~9% of Taiwan’s electricity  —  As the world’s largest producer of advanced computer chips, Taiwan is struggling to meet demand for electricity. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Wall Street Journal: eMarketer: Google’s share of the US search ad market is expected to drop below 50% in 2025 for the first time in 10+ years, as Amazon, Apple, and others gain  —  A flurry of new offerings for advertisers is hitting the market  —  Google’s grip on the nearly $300 billion search advertising business is loosening. Lees verder op Tech Meme