Tech Meme

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: What to expect from Apple’s “Wonderlust” event on September 12: four iPhone 15 models with USB-C, the Apple Watch Series 9 with a new chip and sensors, and more  —  Company will spotlight titanium iPhone 15 Pro and cameras, switch to USB-C chargers and faster smartwatches. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Amitoj Singh / CoinDesk: Local media: Turkey sentences Faruk Fatih Özer, the CEO of defunct crypto exchange Thodex, to 11,196+ years; 400K+ users of Thodex lost $2B+ in crypto deposits  —  Thodex was one of Turkey’s largest crypto exchanges before it suddenly went offline in April 2021 and Özer went missing. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Financial Times: Sources: Turkey-based grocery delivery startup Getir is raising $500M from Mubadala, Michael Moritz, and others at a $2.5B valuation, vs. $11.8B in March 2022  —  Istanbul-based grocery app company, which had been valued at nearly $12bn in early 2022, raises $500mn Lees verder op Tech Meme

Manish Singh / TechCrunch: Reliance’s Jio Platforms partners with Nvidia to build AI cloud infrastructure and work on building an LLM trained on India’s diverse languages  —  Reliance Industries’s Jio Platforms has partnered with GPU giant Nvidia to work on building a large language model that is trained on India’s diverse languages … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Richard Lai / Engadget: Huawei debuts the Mate 60 Pro+ and the Mate X5 foldable, both likely powered by Huawei’s mysterious HiSilicon Kirin 9000S; sources say the phones are 5G devices  —  The Mate 60 Pro+ and Mate X5 are likely based on Huawei’s locally-made chip.  —  Following Huawei’s surprise launch … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: X updates its TOS to ban scraping and crawling without “prior written consent”, effective September 29, likely to stop companies training AI models on its data  —  Elon Musk-owned X, formerly Twitter, has updated its terms of service to prohibit scraping and crawling — likely to fend off any AI models training on its data. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Wall Street Journal: Sources: Spotify plans to test a free audiobook bundle for its paying subscribers that offers up to 20 hours of content per month, as part of an audiobook push  —  Audio streamer to test program with listeners to learn about customer demand for audiobooks  —  Spotify plans to test … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Mackenzie Hawkins / Bloomberg: The US Department of Commerce opens an official probe “to obtain more information” on a “purported 7nm chip” made by SMIC in China powering Huawei’s Mate 60 Pro  —  – Commerce working to get more information on purported 7nm chip  — It’s touched off a debate about the efficacy of US sanctions Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sean Lyngaas / CNN: An excerpt from Walter Isaacson’s Elon Musk biography: Musk cut off Starlink internet access near Crimea to disrupt a Ukrainian sneak attack on a Russian fleet  —  Elon Musk secretly ordered his engineers to turn off his company’s Starlink satellite communications network near the Crimean coast … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: X updates its TOS to ban scraping or crawling without “prior written consent”, effective September 29, likely to stop AI models from training on its data  —  Elon Musk-owned X, formerly Twitter, has updated its terms of service to prohibit scraping and crawling — likely to fend off any AI models training on its data. Lees verder op Tech Meme