Tech Meme

Justin Sink / Bloomberg: In a Fox News interview, Donald Trump downplays TikTok’s national security risk, saying China makes smartphones, PCs, and more and “isn’t that a bigger threat?”  —  President Donald Trump downplayed the national security risk posed by TikTok in an interview with Fox News on Wednesday … Lees verder op Tech Meme

New York Times: A profile of Chinese AI lab DeepSeek, which says its new open-source DeepSeek-V3 model rivals US models while using fewer AI chips to train, costing just $6M  —  The company built a cheaper, competitive chatbot with fewer high-end computer chips than U.S. behemoths like Google and OpenAI, showing the limits of chip export control. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: China and Southeast Asian nations pledge to deal with cybercrime centers, extending efforts that China’s Global Times says has led to the arrest of 70K+ people  —  China, Thailand and other nations have reached a deal to target cybercrime centers that have taken root in Southeast Asian nations … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Dina Bass / Bloomberg: The OpenAI-led Stargate announcement mentioned Microsoft as the only tech partner, but Microsoft is poised to benefit from the JV by offloading computing costs  —  – OpenAI-led venture lets Microsoft offload AI computing costs  — Software giant could still decide to invest more in future Lees verder op Tech Meme

Andy Chalk / PC Gamer: A GDC survey of 3,000+ developers: 80% are currently making PC games, up from 66% in 2024, compared to 38% for the PlayStation 5 and 34% for the Xbox Series X/S  —  Interest in PC game development is higher than ever.  —  It’s kind of funny to look back on all the times PC gaming has been declared dead … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sankalp Phartiyal / Bloomberg: Sources: India’s technology ministry asked Apple, Google, and other smartphone makers to provide Indians direct access to the state-backed GOV.in app store  —  India is trying to pry open the doors of the world’s biggest app stores, setting up a likely clash with Apple Inc. and Alphabet Inc … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Washington Post: Some TikTok users say the app has changed, expressing trepidation and paranoia over its complimentary mentions of Trump in its goodbye and welcome back messages  —  After TikTok briefly went dark, some users started seeing it in a different light.  —  When Alex Pearlman rejoined TikTok … Lees verder op Tech Meme

New York Times: How Ross Ulbricht’s allies, including crypto investors, libertarian politicians, and his mother, Lyn Ulbricht, persuaded Trump to pardon the Silk Road founder  —  Libertarian and crypto allies of Ross Ulbricht, who was serving a life sentence for distributing drugs on his Silk Road website … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jonathan Briskman / Sensor Tower: State of Mobile 2025: in 2024, app downloads on iOS and Google Play dropped ~1% YoY to 136B, while revenue from IAP, paid apps, and games rose 13% YoY to $150B  —  The mobile market is stronger than ever as we enter 2025, with a recovering mobile gaming market adding to the rapid growth seen in non-gaming. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Manish Singh / TechCrunch: An Indian tribunal suspends restrictions preventing WhatsApp from sharing user data with Meta for ads, temporarily lifting a five-year ban imposed by the CCI  —  An Indian tribunal on Thursday suspended restrictions that would have barred WhatsApp from sharing user data with its parent company Meta … Lees verder op Tech Meme