Tech Meme

Che Pan / South China Morning Post: Chinese chipmaker SMIC reports Q1 revenue down 20.6% YoY to $1.46B and net income down 48.3% YoY to $231.1M, both beating analyst estimates  —  Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp (SMIC) , China’s top contract chip maker, posted its biggest drop in quarterly revenue in over a decade … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Dylan Tokar / Wall Street Journal: A look at Microsoft’s Trust Code compliance training video series, headed into season seven, that has hooked employees with popular characters and cliffhangers  —  Instead of a finger-wagging snoozer about corporate misbehavior, ‘Trust Code’ has flawed characters, dramatic cliffhangers and fans worldwide Lees verder op Tech Meme

Haaretz: A profile of Andreas Fink, a Swiss telecom expert whose services let state agencies, like Israeli disinformation unit Team Jorge, attack phone networks globally  —  The international mobile system is exposed and a loophole allows hackers, cybercriminals and states to geolocate targets and even hijack email and web accounts. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: Tech companies increasingly hire in South and Central America because remote workers there often accept lower pay than in the US but have the same time zones  —  Pandemic-era labor shortages made it hard for Austin-based Fetch Package Inc. to fill positions in the US. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Ireland-based Everseen, which uses computer vision to spot potential retail theft, raised a €65M Series A led by Crosspoint, taking its total funding to ~€82M  —  In 2007, Alan O’Herlihy, who previously worked with large SAP installations as well as retail, set out to find … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jamie Crawley / CoinDesk: Robinhood reported crypto trading revenue of $38M for Q1 2023, down ~30% YoY and 1% QoQ, and says it has ~$11.5B worth of crypto in assets, up 36% from Q4 2022  —  The trading platform also reported holding around $11.5 billion worth of crypto in assets under custody, an increase of 36% versus the fourth quarter. Lees verder op Tech Meme

New York Times: Taiwan’s chip sector, built by TSMC’s skilled workers, risks losing its global dominance due to a demographic crisis, demanding work culture, and competing jobs  —  Taiwan’s world-dominating microchip sector was built by TSMC’s skilled employees.  But a demographic crisis … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ryan Gallagher / Bloomberg: A look at Tel Aviv-based Rayzone, whose surveillance system Echo, sold to governments, exploits ad data to track people via their phones  —  The innovation at the heart of the advertising technology industry is automated auctions to trade real-time data about mobile phone users … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Alvise Armellini / Reuters: Italy’s AGCM opens an investigation into Apple over exempting its own apps from ATT, a day after the EU confirmed sending Apple Pay questionnaires to retailers  —  Italy’s antitrust agency AGCM said on Thursday it had opened a probe into U.S. technology giant Apple (AAPL.O) for alleged abuse of its dominant position in the apps market. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jon Porter / The Verge: Fairphone Fairbuds XL review: modular design, lovely controls, and great ANC, but the sound isn’t great, no 3.5mm port, and multipoint connectivity is confusing  —  With readily available spare parts and a modular construction, Fairphone’s first over-ear headphones are a suitable companion to its repairable smartphones. Lees verder op Tech Meme