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Financial Times: How Unilever, Siemens, Maersk, and other big companies are using AI to negotiate contracts, find new suppliers, and navigate other complex supply chain issues  —  Geopolitical tensions and new laws requiring companies to monitor environmental and human rights abuses in their supply networks drive interest Lees verder op Tech Meme

Joyce Lee / Reuters: Anthropic raised $100M from South Korea-based SK Telecom, which also invested in Anthropic in May 2023, as the two aim to build a telco-focused multilingual LLM  —  South Korea’s largest telco SK Telecom (017670.KS) said it will invest $100 million in U.S. artificial intelligence firm Anthropic … Lees verder op Tech Meme

David Streitfeld / New York Times: A look at publishers’ legal fight against the Internet Archive’s book lending program; the Internet Archive agreed to drop the publishers’ “full book catalogs”  —  In the pandemic emergency, Brewster Kahle’s Internet Archive freely lent out digital scans of its library.  Publishers sued. Lees verder op Tech Meme

David Streitfeld / New York Times: A look at publishers’ legal fight against the Internet Archive’s book lending program; the parties reached a deal Friday to remove some books from the archive  —  In the pandemic emergency, Brewster Kahle’s Internet Archive freely lent out digital scans of its library.  Publishers sued. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Gary Marcus / The Road to AI We Can Trust: Generative AI could be a dud, so we shouldn’t build around the premise that the tech is world-changing, which in hindsight may turn out to have been unrealistic  —  With the possible exception of the quick to rise and quick to fall alleged room-temperature superconductor LK-99 … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch: Q&A with an FBI agent on targeting and taking down DDoS-for-hire sites, why Christmas is the busiest DDoS time, how attacks have changed over 10 years, and more  —  In an interview at Black Hat, FBI agents explain how they target and take down DDoS-for-hire sites Lees verder op Tech Meme

Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: Some iPhone 14 Pro users complain that the “Maximum Capacity” rating of their phone’s battery has already dropped to around 90% after less than a year  —  iPhone 14 Pro users are growing increasingly concerned about the state of their iPhone’s battery health. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Reuters: Sources: SoftBank is in talks to acquire Vision Fund 1’s 25% stake in Arm, ahead of the chip designer’s Nasdaq IPO in September; SoftBank owns the remaining 75%  —  SoftBank Group Corp (9984.T) is in talks to acquire the 25% stake in Arm Ltd it does not directly own from Vision Fund 1 (VF1) … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Iain Thomson / The Register: Inside the Black Hat network operations center; volunteers on secondment built the network from scratch on the week of the event using their own equipment  —  NOC, NOC … Who’s there?  —  BLACK HAT Every summer, pandemics permitting, a group of volunteers gather in a Las Vegas hotel to run … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Lily Hay Newman / Wired: Mac security researcher Patrick Wardle says Apple’s macOS Background Task Management tool is “trivially” bypassed by “any malware that’s somewhat sophisticated”  —  The macOS Background Task Manager tool is supposed to spot potentially malicious software on your machine. Lees verder op Tech Meme