Tech Meme

Jane Zhang / Bloomberg: Alibaba reports Q4 revenue up 2% YoY to ~$30B, ~$3.2B net income, up from a ~$2.6B loss in Q4 2022, and plans to spin off its cloud unit and take others public  —  Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. will begin exploring initial public offerings for its logistics and grocery arms … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Washington Post: A survey of 70 cybersecurity experts: 64% favored reauthorization of FISA’s Section 702, set to expire at the end of 2023, with some kind of change  —  Welcome to The Cybersecurity 202!  It’s good to be back from Denver.  There, a 6-year-old repeatedly defeated me and/or incapacitated … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Suvashree Ghosh / Bloomberg: Binance Australia can no longer offer Aussie dollar deposits due to a decision by Cuscal, “our payment processor’s partner bank”, and warns of disruptions  —  The Australian arm of crypto exchange Binance suffered a setback on Thursday after the local platform lost access … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Sources detail Apple’s headset ahead of WWDC: a shift from a vision of eyeglasses to ski goggles, Tim Cook’s design noninvolvement, selling at cost, and more  —  Many times throughout its history, Apple Inc. has redefined consumer technology by breathing new life into an existing category … Lees verder op Tech Meme

The Record: Q&A with FBI’s Bryan Smith on how the agency generated over 300 decryption keys from Hive’s servers and gave them to victims, saving ~$130M in ransom payments  —  While there was excitement when they actually got that access, there was no time to kind of enjoy that moment … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Madhumita Murgia / Financial Times: AI pioneer Yoshua Bengio, who won the 2018 Turing Award with Geoffrey Hinton and Yann LeCun, says governments need to move fast to “protect the public”  —  Computer science professor becomes latest expert to voice concerns over rapid rollout of large language models Lees verder op Tech Meme

Mark Harris / TechCrunch: An investigation finds only ~$15M in donations to OpenAI when the organization was a nonprofit are definitively traceable to Elon Musk, below $50M-$100M claims  —  Years of tax filings give the most complete picture yet of OpenAI’s early finances  —  It’s no secret that Elon Musk … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Diana Li / Bloomberg: Grammarly announces Grammarly Business, using generative AI to summarize key points in email strings, compose replies, and more, rolling out in June 2023  —  Grammarly Inc., a software company known for its writing assistant, is trying to expand its business to the office by harnessing artificial intelligence. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Financial Times: At a meeting with Japan’s Prime Minister, TSMC, Samsung, Intel, Micron, and other chipmakers announce plans to expand investment and partnerships in the country  —  Seven of the world’s largest semiconductor makers have set out plans to increase manufacturing and deepen tech partnerships … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Temitayo Lawal / Rest of World: A look at Nigeria’s government-backed digital currency, eNaira, which has failed to convert crypto users and has been hindered by limited internet access  —  The government-backed eNaira, meant as a hedge against inflation, hasn’t converted crypto users and has been hindered by limited internet access. Lees verder op Tech Meme