Tech Meme

Martin Matishak / The Record: The White House unveils cyber initiatives to bolster K-12 schools’ defenses, including up to $200M over three years from the FCC, amid rising ransomware attacks  —  The Biden administration on Monday will announce a host of federal and private industry initiatives to strengthen the digital defenses … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Hayden Field / CNBC: Zoom updates its terms to let the company train its AI models using customer data, Zoom says only for users who consented, but doesn’t offer a way to opt out  —  – Zoom’s terms of service update establishes the video platform’s right to use some customer data for training its AI models. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Niket Nishant / Reuters: Neuralink, the brain-computer interface startup cofounded by Elon Musk, raised a $280M Series D led by Founders Fund; it was reportedly valued at $5B in June  —  Elon Musk’s brain chip startup Neuralink has raised $280 million in a funding round led by Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kristi Hines / Search Engine Journal: OpenAI publishes information about GPTBot, which it uses to crawl the web, making it straightforward for site admins to opt out using the robots.txt file  —  Learn more about OpenAI’s web crawler, GPTBot, and how to restrict or limit its access to your website content. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Wayne Ma / The Information: Sources: Apple has a deal where TSMC effectively eats the cost of chip defects, saving billions for Apple, which will get 3nm chips about a year before rivals  —  When Apple’s next iPhone goes on sale in September, its upgraded core processor will be more powerful than that of any rival smartphone. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Wayne Ma / The Information: Sources: TSMC and Apple have a deal where TSMC basically eats the cost of chip defects; Apple will save billions of dollars and get 3nm chips long before rivals  —  When Apple’s next iPhone goes on sale in September, its upgraded core processor will be more powerful than that of any rival smartphone. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Alex Webb / Bloomberg: How Lionel Messi coming to MLS may help Apple attract international TV+ subscribers, as the service has almost no content made for non-English-speaking markets  —  Messi+ Apple TV+ has come a long way in a relatively short period of time.  The streaming service won an Academy Award for best picture with CODA. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Chris Krebs / Financial Times: The SEC’s recent cyber regulations should drive industry awareness, but the incident reporting rules are redundant, misdirected, and overlap with CISA reporting  —  The new SEC rules are redundant and misdirected: business needs to know how to deal with the government Lees verder op Tech Meme

Anna Irrera / Bloomberg: PayPal debuts PYUSD, a Paxos-issued stablecoin and fully backed by USD deposits, short-term Treasuries, and cash equivalents, rolling out to US users gradually  —  – PayPal USD will be pegged to dollar, issued by Paxos Trust  — Stablecoins have yet to take off in consumer-payment sector Lees verder op Tech Meme

Reuters: Researchers: North Korean hackers placed backdoors at Russian rocket design bureau NPO Mashinostroyeniya for at least five months in 2022 to see emails and more  —  An elite group of North Korean hackers secretly breached computer networks at a major Russian missile developer for at least five months … Lees verder op Tech Meme