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Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch: FCC fines a robocaller, which placed 5B+ calls pretending to sell auto warranties to collect personal information from people, a record $300M  —  The FCC’s robocaller penalties are growing as the agency tracks down and terminates their operations — this time resulting in a record $300 million forfeiture. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Mia Sato / The Verge: Patreon temporarily disables Payoneer payments after some creators were unable to access their earnings and some banks flagged subscriber payments as fraudulent  —  Two simultaneous issues with payments on Patreon are causing problems for both creators and fans. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Andrew Tarantola / Engadget: IBM, HuggingFace, and NASA release an open-source geospatial foundation model to support new climate and Earth science AIs that can track deforestation and more  —  The open-source model will serve as the basis for future forest, crop and climate change-monitoring AI. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ryan Smith / AnandTech: AMD announces the Radeon Pro W7600 for $599, $50 cheaper than its predecessor, and the W7500 for $429, both based on its new Navi 33 GPU, available later in Q3  —  As AMD continues to launch their full graphics product stacks based on their latest RDNA 3 architecture GPUs … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Patricia Nilsson / Financial Times: Germany-based chipmaker Infineon plans to spend a further €5B to build more capacity in Malaysia, for a €7B total investment, betting on growing EV chip demand  —  German chipmaker announces investment but pressure on existing automotive business leads to share price fall Lees verder op Tech Meme

Patricia Nilsson / Financial Times: Germany-based chipmaker Infineon plans to spend a further €5B to build more capacity in Malaysia, for a €7B total investment, betting on growing EV chip demand  —  German chipmaker announces investment but pressure on existing automotive business leads to share price fall Lees verder op Tech Meme

Claire Moses / New York Times: After Dutch e-bike maker VanMoof declared bankruptcy, owners of its $2,000+ bikes worry about replacing proprietary parts and losing app-enabled bike functions  —  VanMoof’s sleek electric bikes attracted fans, but the Dutch company’s demise has left owners unable to get repairs and worried that app-enabled functions may stop working. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch: Triller files for a NYSE IPO after scrapping a $5B SPAC merger in 2021 and a direct listing in 2022; Triller had $47.7M in revenue and a $195.6M loss in 2022  —  Triller has long teased its ambitions to go public, and now, the short form video platform seems to on its way to an IPO. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Krystal Hu / Reuters: CoreWeave, which offers Nvidia GPUs in the cloud, raised $2.3B in debt, collateralized by Nvidia chips; CoreWeave has raised $421M in equity so far in 2023  —  Specialized cloud provider CoreWeave has raised $2.3 billion in a debt facility led by Magnetar Capital and Blackstone (BX.N) … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: Instagram launches a feature to help protect users from unwanted DM images and videos: users are limited to one text-only request to those who don’t follow them  —  Instagram is launching a new feature that is designed to better protect users from unwanted images and videos in DMs, the company announced on Thursday. Lees verder op Tech Meme