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Surface Laptop Go 3 review: premium design but low-resolution screen, no keyboard backlighting, limited port selection, and too expensive for what it offers (Monica Chin/The Verge) 12-10-2023

Monica Chin / The Verge: Surface Laptop Go 3 review: premium design but low-resolution screen, no keyboard backlighting, limited port selection, and too expensive for what it offers  —  The Go 3 is a nice-looking and well-built device, but the $999 price makes no sense. … The chassis looks identical … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Atlassian plans to acquire video messaging platform Loom for around $975M, made up of $880M in cash and the rest in stock, closing in Q1 2024 (Akash Sriram/Reuters) 12-10-2023

Akash Sriram / Reuters: Atlassian plans to acquire video messaging platform Loom for around $975M, made up of $880M in cash and the rest in stock, closing in Q1 2024  —  Atlassian (TEAM.O) said on Thursday it had agreed to acquire privately held video messaging platform Loom for about $975 million … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Elliptic: the Russia-linked unidentified FTX hackers who stole $415M to $432M in November 2022 started moving the haul in October, the first time in 2023 (Andy Greenberg/Wired) 12-10-2023

Andy Greenberg / Wired: Elliptic: the Russia-linked unidentified FTX hackers who stole $415M to $432M in November 2022 started moving the haul in October, the first time in 2023  —  Whoever looted FTX on the day of its bankruptcy has now moved the stolen money through a long string of intermediaries—and eventually some that look Russian in origin. Lees verder op Tech Meme

At SBF's trial, the personal dynamics between him and his friends are a vital component of the case, making clear how much his inner circle has turned on him (New York Times) 12-10-2023

New York Times: At SBF’s trial, the personal dynamics between him and his friends are a vital component of the case, making clear how much his inner circle has turned on him  —  The FTX founder’s criminal trial has made clear just how much his inner circle has turned against him. Lees verder op Tech Meme

As Pat Gelsinger tries to revive Intel, a self-imposed deadline to add a big foundry client in 2023 looms and, even then, revenue from a deal may be years away (Bloomberg) 12-10-2023

Bloomberg: As Pat Gelsinger tries to revive Intel, a self-imposed deadline to add a big foundry client in 2023 looms and, even then, revenue from a deal may be years away  —  – Wall Street waiting for Gelsinger to name major foundry client  — Record-setting factory build-out hinges on lining up customers Lees verder op Tech Meme

Goldman Sachs offloads major BNPL player GreenSky for an undisclosed sum to a group of money managers, after acquiring the company for $1.7B in 2021 (Rob Copeland/New York Times) 12-10-2023

Rob Copeland / New York Times: Goldman Sachs offloads major BNPL player GreenSky for an undisclosed sum to a group of money managers, after acquiring the company for $1.7B in 2021  —  Goldman sells the consumer lender GreenSky after significant losses, less than two years after buying it. Lees verder op Tech Meme

How Google Chrome's Discover feed on Android serves up misleading propaganda to Russian audiences; a source says Russian-languages services are a lower priority (Bloomberg) 12-10-2023

Bloomberg: How Google Chrome’s Discover feed on Android serves up misleading propaganda to Russian audiences; a source says Russian-languages services are a lower priority  —  Mobile users in Russia are being served pro-war propaganda from sources Google has blocked elsewhere. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Caroline Ellison's well-prepared testimony painted Sam Bankman-Fried as the ultimate decision-maker at FTX and a corrupting influence on his subordinates (Zack Abrams/The Block) 12-10-2023

Zack Abrams / The Block: Caroline Ellison’s well-prepared testimony painted Sam Bankman-Fried as the ultimate decision-maker at FTX and a corrupting influence on his subordinates  —  – Government prosecutors completed their direct examination of former Alameda Research CEO Caroline Ellison on Wednesday in the fraud trial of Sam Bankman-Fried. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Filing: India accuses 30+ staff of Chinese smartphone maker Vivo of visa violations and says Vivo siphoned off ~$13B to its Chinese parent via a “masking layer” (Reuters) 12-10-2023

Reuters: Filing: India accuses 30+ staff of Chinese smartphone maker Vivo of visa violations and says Vivo siphoned off ~$13B to its Chinese parent via a “masking layer”  —  Many employees of Chinese smartphone maker Vivo and its Indian affiliates concealed their employment when seeking visas … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Current advanced LLMs from OpenAI and others have many flaws but they will, decades from now, be recognized as the first true examples of AGI, similar to ENIAC (Noema) 12-10-2023

Noema: Current advanced LLMs from OpenAI and others have many flaws but they will, decades from now, be recognized as the first true examples of AGI, similar to ENIAC  —  Today’s most advanced AI models have many flaws, but decades from now, they will be recognized as the first true examples of artificial general intelligence. Lees verder op Tech Meme