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Santiago Pérez / Wall Street Journal: How two former hosts on Russian state TV became key advisers to the Salvadoran government’s adoption of bitcoin while having crypto investments in the country  —  Former Russia state TV hosts advise government and have crypto investments in the country  —  SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jeremy C. Owens / MarketWatch: Micron reports Q2 revenue of $3.69B, vs. $3.71B est., down from $7.79B YoY, and a record net loss of $2.31B due to an inventory write-down of $1.43B  —  Chip company writes off more than $1.4 billion in inventory as sales get chopped in half and memory-chip market melts down … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Malathi Nayak / Bloomberg: A US federal judge finds Google flouted a court order requiring it to save records of employee chats in antitrust litigation over its Play Store policies  —  Alphabet Inc.’s Google flouted a court order requiring it to save records of employee chats in antitrust litigation … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Malathi Nayak / Bloomberg: Filing: Twitter wins an order from a California court to subpoena GitHub for information on FreeSpeechEnthusiast, the alleged leaker of some Twitter source code  —  Twitter Inc. moved closer to finding the individual responsible for leaking parts of its proprietary source code … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: Cerebras open sources seven GPT-based LLMs, ranging from 111M to 13B parameters and trained using its Andromeda supercomputer for AI, on GitHub and Hugging Face  —  Artificial intelligence chipmaker Cerebras Systems Inc. today announced it has trained and now released seven GPT-based large language models … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: Google plans to add a “Perspectives” carousel, showcasing experts and others under Top Stories, and an “About this author” feature for US English searches  —  Google is introducing new ways for users to verify information on Search, the company announced on Tuesday. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Andy Greenberg / Wired: Researchers say North Korean hackers are likely laundering stolen crypto by renting cloud compute to mine fresh coins, avoiding more scrutinized crypto mixers  —  A spy group working for the Kim regime has been feeding stolen coins into crypto mining services in an effort to throw tracers off their trail. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Malathi Nayak / Bloomberg: Filing: a California court grants Twitter’s request to subpoena GitHub for information on FreeSpeechEnthusiast, the alleged leaker of some Twitter source code  —  Twitter Inc. moved closer to finding the individual responsible for leaking parts of its proprietary source code … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Zac Bowden / Windows Central: Microsoft announces a second-generation Surface Hub 2S is coming later in 2023 and will become the first “touch-enabled board” to run Teams Rooms on Windows  —  “Teams Rooms on Windows” will ship on the new Surface Hub 2S.  —  What you need to know Lees verder op Tech Meme

Lena Masri / Reuters: A review of 2,000+ court cases: Russia uses facial recognition and video surveillance systems to find and arrest hundreds of protesters or even prevent protests  —  A Reuters review of more than 2,000 court cases shows how Russia uses facial recognition to identify and sweep up the Kremlin’s opponents. Lees verder op Tech Meme