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Google's Mandiant says dozens of Fortune 100 companies have unwittingly hired North Korean IT workers in a scheme, active since 2018, operated by group UNC5267 (Jonathan Greig/The Record) 25-09-2024

Jonathan Greig / The Record: Google’s Mandiant says dozens of Fortune 100 companies have unwittingly hired North Korean IT workers in a scheme, active since 2018, operated by group UNC5267  —  It’s difficult to imagine a bigger hiring blunder.  —  Google said it has been contacted by several major U.S. companies recently … Lees verder op Tech Meme

A look at Caroline Ellison's motivations in the FTX fraud, including her relationship with SBF; the judge said he had “never seen” a cooperator like Ellison (Elizabeth Lopatto/The Verge) 25-09-2024

Elizabeth Lopatto / The Verge: A look at Caroline Ellison’s motivations in the FTX fraud, including her relationship with SBF; the judge said he had “never seen” a cooperator like Ellison  —  The story of Sam Bankman-Fried was obvious enough: a Shakespearean level of arrogance that led to tragedy. Lees verder op Tech Meme

The Allen Institute for AI releases the Multimodal Open Language Model, or Molmo, in 1B and 70B-parameter sizes, the most capable open source AI model yet (Will Knight/Wired) 25-09-2024

Will Knight / Wired: The Allen Institute for AI releases the Multimodal Open Language Model, or Molmo, in 1B and 70B-parameter sizes, the most capable open source AI model yet  —  A compact and fully open source visual AI model will make it easier for AI to take control of your computer—hopefully in a good way. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Biden plans to sign a new bill that weakens some environmental rules on federally funded chip projects, breaking with environmental groups and House Democrats (Politico) 25-09-2024

Politico: Biden plans to sign a new bill that weakens some environmental rules on federally funded chip projects, breaking with environmental groups and House Democrats  —  The White House’s environmental and manufacturing goals are now on a collision course, after Congress voted and Biden approved … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai says the US search and ads antitrust lawsuits are “going to take time … to play out” and an appeal “will likely take many years” (Alicia Clanton/Bloomberg) 25-09-2024

Alicia Clanton / Bloomberg: Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai says the US search and ads antitrust lawsuits are “going to take time … to play out” and an appeal “will likely take many years”  —  – Company faces two separate challenges from Justice Department … “It’s going to take time for it to play out … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Book excerpt: how Activision CEO Bobby Kotick and Blizzard co-founder Mike Morhaime, once the industry's unstoppable pair, had a falling out starting in 2013 (Jason Schreier/Bloomberg) 25-09-2024

Jason Schreier / Bloomberg: Book excerpt: how Activision CEO Bobby Kotick and Blizzard co-founder Mike Morhaime, once the industry’s unstoppable pair, had a falling out starting in 2013  —  Bobby Kotick and Mike Morhaime were the video game industry’s unstoppable pair, until they fought each other.  An excerpt from the new book Play Nice. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Reddit begins rolling out its ML-powered translations in Brazil, Spain, Germany, Italy, the Philippines, and 30+ others on the web, mobile, and desktop (Paul Sawers/TechCrunch) 25-09-2024

Paul Sawers / TechCrunch: Reddit begins rolling out its ML-powered translations in Brazil, Spain, Germany, Italy, the Philippines, and 30+ others on the web, mobile, and desktop  —  Reddit is bringing machine learning-powered translations to more than 35 new locales in Europe, Asia and Latin America in a move designed … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Google files an EU antitrust complaint against Microsoft, alleging it engages in unfair cloud practices and is “exploiting” its customers' reliance on Windows (Javier Espinoza/Financial Times) 25-09-2024

Javier Espinoza / Financial Times: Google files an EU antitrust complaint against Microsoft, alleging it engages in unfair cloud practices and is “exploiting” its customers’ reliance on Windows  —  Search giant seeks antitrust probe of Big Tech rival over dominance of Azure platform Lees verder op Tech Meme

Whatfix, which helps companies demo how to use third-party software, raised a $125M Series E led by Warburg Pincus at an estimated ~$900M valuation (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch) 25-09-2024

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Whatfix, which helps companies demo how to use third-party software, raised a $125M Series E led by Warburg Pincus at an estimated ~$900M valuation  —  Digital transformation — upgrading a company’s legacy apps and processes with new tech — has long been a buzzy and lucrative business. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Manchester-based Vsim, which is building a robotics simulation service, raised a $21.5M seed from EQT Ventures and others, taking its total funding to $24M (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch) 25-09-2024

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Manchester-based Vsim, which is building a robotics simulation service, raised a $21.5M seed from EQT Ventures and others, taking its total funding to $24M  —  One of Nvidia’s fundamental breakthroughs has involved processors that power detailed, compute-intensive graphical simulations … Lees verder op Tech Meme