Nikkei Asia: Sources say Apple is in talks with suppliers to make MacBooks in Thailand and the company has been mass producing the Apple Watch in the country for over a year — U.S. tech giant turning out Apple Watch in Southeast Asian country — For Apple and other tech companies … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Sankalp Phartiyal / Bloomberg: Sources: Apple made $7B+ worth of iPhones in India in the FY ended March 2023, exporting ~$5B worth; India accounts for ~7% of iPhones made, up from ~1% in 2021 — Apple Inc. assembled more than $7 billion of iPhones in India last fiscal year, tripling production in the world’s fastest … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Facundo Iglesia / Rest of World: A look at Argentinian crypto company Generación Zoe and its pastor founder Leonardo Cositorto, who is accused of a $120M+ Zoe Cash investment scam — Generación Zoe promised investors massive returns thanks to market-predicting “robots” and a cryptocurrency backed by gold. Lees verder op Tech Meme
Sankalp Phartiyal / Bloomberg: Sources: Apple made $7B+ of iPhones in India in the FY ended March 2023, exporting ~$5B worth; India accounted for ~7% of iPhones made, up from ~1% in 2021 — Apple Inc. assembled more than $7 billion of iPhones in India last fiscal year, tripling production in the world’s fastest-growing smartphone arena … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Facundo Iglesia / Rest of World: A look at Argentinian crypto company Generación Zoe and its pastor founder Leonardo Cositorto, who is accused of a $120M+ Zoe Cash investment scam — Generación Zoe promised investors massive returns thanks to market-predicting “robots” and a cryptocurrency backed by gold. Lees verder op Tech Meme
David McCabe / New York Times: The fight for a Montana bill to ban TikTok, which passed in the Senate and will likely pass in the House, previews the legally perilous road for a federal push — The fight has shown the difficult test and legally perilous road facing lawmakers or the White House if they try to enact a national ban on the social media service. Lees verder op Tech Meme
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: A study finds that assigning ChatGPT a persona, like “a bad person” or a certain historical figure, using the API, increases the chatbot’s toxicity sixfold — It’s no secret that OpenAI’s viral AI-powered chatbot, ChatGPT, can be prompted to say sexist, racist and pretty vile things. Lees verder op Tech Meme
Sara Fischer / Axios: PBS has not tweeted from its main Twitter handle since April 8, after Twitter labeled it “Government-funded Media”, and says it has no plans to resume tweeting — PBS has not tweeted from its main Twitter handle since April 8, following Elon Musk’s decision to label the outlet “government-funded news.” Lees verder op Tech Meme
Washington Post: A teenage member of the Discord server where classified Pentagon documents were shared claims the leaker, who went by the name “OG”, worked on a military base — The man behind a massive leak of U.S. government secrets that has exposed spying on allies, revealed the grim prospects … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: Italy outlines compliance demands for lifting ChatGPT suspension order, requiring OpenAI to publish info about its data processing, adopt age gating, and more — Italy’s data protection watchdog has laid out what OpenAI needs to do for it to lift an order against ChatGPT issued at the end of last month … Lees verder op Tech Meme