Tech Meme

Cagan Koc / Bloomberg: Dutch media reports that a former ASML employee in China accused of stealing data went to work for Huawei in 2022; it’s unclear if they still work for Huawei  —  – ASML accused the former employee of stealing technical data  — US seeks to prevent China from accessing some chip tech Lees verder op Tech Meme

NBC News: The White House announces 31 communities across the US as regional Tech Hubs that can compete for $40M to $75M each in grants  —  The hubs are located in 32 states and Puerto Rico and will be able to compete for $40 million to $75 million each in grants.  —  WASHINGTON — The White House … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Chainalysis: From July 2022 to June 2023, the US led the world with $1T+ in “value received on chain”, but most stablecoin inflows to top services went via non-US exchanges  —  This post is an excerpt from our 2023 Geography of Cryptocurrency Report.  Download your copy now! Lees verder op Tech Meme

Umar Shakir / The Verge: Amazon rolls out passkey support on iOS and the web, letting users log in via their devices’ biometrics, and says support for Android is “coming soon”  —  Amazon’s rolling out passkey support for its online site and mobile shopping apps.  Customers can log in to Amazon using … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jay Goldberg / Digits to Dollars: How Qualcomm is tech’s “problem child”: a tense relationship with Apple, sued by Arm, investigated by regulators, disagreements with Google over Pixel, and more  —  Almost from the moment of its birth Qualcomm had to fight the world.  It is hard for us to understand today … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ionut Ilascu / BleepingComputer: Cisco releases patches for two zero-day flaws that hackers exploited on 50K+ IOS XE devices; researchers note hacked hosts recently dropped from 60K to ~300  —  Cisco has addressed the two vulnerabilities (CVE-2023-20198 and CVE-2023-20273) that hackers exploited to compromise tens of thousands of IOS XE devices over the past week. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Wes Davis / The Verge: Microsoft updates Excel to fix automatic conversions, after scientists reworked the alphanumeric symbols used to represent genes in 2020 to avoid Excel issues  —  In 2020, scientists decided just to rework the alphanumeric symbols they used to represent genes rather than try to deal … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Hayden Field / CNBC: Databricks plans to acquire enterprise data firm Arcion, which raised $18M+, for $100M; Databricks raised $500M last month and bought MosaicML for $1.3B in June  —  – Databricks agreed to acquire Arcion, an enterprise data company, for $100 million on Monday, including incentives … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Samrhitha Arunasalam / Reuters: EngageSmart says Vista Equity Partners plans to take the payments software vendor private for ~$4B, or $23 per share; EngageSmart raised $378M in its 2021 IPO  —  Payments software vendor EngageSmart (ESMT.N) said on Monday it would be taken private by Vista Equity Partners for about $4 billion … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Push Square: Sony says Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 sold 2.5M copies in the first 24 hours after its October 20 release, becoming the fastest-selling PlayStation Studios game ever  —  Over 2.5 million copies in 24 hours  —  Well, it looks like Sony’s got another blockbuster on its hands. Lees verder op Tech Meme