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Local media: Turkey sentences Faruk Fatih Özer, the CEO of defunct crypto exchange Thodex, to 11,196+ years; 400K+ users of Thodex lost $2B+ in crypto deposits (Amitoj Singh/CoinDesk) 08-09-2023

Amitoj Singh / CoinDesk: Local media: Turkey sentences Faruk Fatih Özer, the CEO of defunct crypto exchange Thodex, to 11,196+ years; 400K+ users of Thodex lost $2B+ in crypto deposits  —  Thodex was one of Turkey’s largest crypto exchanges before it suddenly went offline in April 2021 and Özer went missing. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Reliance's Jio Platforms partners with Nvidia to build AI cloud infrastructure and work on building an LLM trained on India's diverse languages (Manish Singh/TechCrunch) 08-09-2023

Manish Singh / TechCrunch: Reliance’s Jio Platforms partners with Nvidia to build AI cloud infrastructure and work on building an LLM trained on India’s diverse languages  —  Reliance Industries’s Jio Platforms has partnered with GPU giant Nvidia to work on building a large language model that is trained on India’s diverse languages … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Huawei debuts the Mate 60 Pro+ and the Mate X5 foldable, both likely powered by Huawei's mysterious HiSilicon Kirin 9000S; sources say the phones are 5G devices (Richard Lai/Engadget) 08-09-2023

Richard Lai / Engadget: Huawei debuts the Mate 60 Pro+ and the Mate X5 foldable, both likely powered by Huawei’s mysterious HiSilicon Kirin 9000S; sources say the phones are 5G devices  —  The Mate 60 Pro+ and Mate X5 are likely based on Huawei’s locally-made chip.  —  Following Huawei’s surprise launch … Lees verder op Tech Meme

X updates its TOS to ban scraping and crawling without “prior written consent”, effective September 29, likely to stop companies training AI models on its data (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch) 08-09-2023

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: X updates its TOS to ban scraping and crawling without “prior written consent”, effective September 29, likely to stop companies training AI models on its data  —  Elon Musk-owned X, formerly Twitter, has updated its terms of service to prohibit scraping and crawling — likely to fend off any AI models training on its data. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sources: Spotify plans to test a free audiobook bundle for its paying subscribers that offers up to 20 hours of content per month, as part of an audiobook push (Wall Street Journal) 08-09-2023

Wall Street Journal: Sources: Spotify plans to test a free audiobook bundle for its paying subscribers that offers up to 20 hours of content per month, as part of an audiobook push  —  Audio streamer to test program with listeners to learn about customer demand for audiobooks  —  Spotify plans to test … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Square says the company has resolved a day-long outage that has left some small business owners unable to access their accounts or process credit card payments (Carly Page/TechCrunch) 08-09-2023

Carly Page / TechCrunch: Square says the company has resolved a day-long outage that has left some small business owners unable to access their accounts or process credit card payments  —  Fintech giant Square says its services are coming back online after a day-long outage left small business owners unable to process payments. Lees verder op Tech Meme

What to expect from Apple's “Wonderlust” event on September 12: four iPhone 15 models with USB-C, the Apple Watch Series 9 with a new chip and sensors, and more (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg) 08-09-2023

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: What to expect from Apple’s “Wonderlust” event on September 12: four iPhone 15 models with USB-C, the Apple Watch Series 9 with a new chip and sensors, and more  —  Company will spotlight titanium iPhone 15 Pro and cameras, switch to USB-C chargers and faster smartwatches. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Local media: Turkey sentences Faruk Fatih Özer, the CEO of defunct crypto exchange Thodex, to 11,196+ years; 400K+ users of Thodex lost $2B+ in crypto deposits (Amitoj Singh/CoinDesk) 08-09-2023

Amitoj Singh / CoinDesk: Local media: Turkey sentences Faruk Fatih Özer, the CEO of defunct crypto exchange Thodex, to 11,196+ years; 400K+ users of Thodex lost $2B+ in crypto deposits  —  Thodex was one of Turkey’s largest crypto exchanges before it suddenly went offline in April 2021 and Özer went missing. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sources: Turkey-based grocery delivery startup Getir is raising $500M from Mubadala, Michael Moritz, and others at a $2.5B valuation, vs. $11.8B in March 2022 (Financial Times) 08-09-2023

Financial Times: Sources: Turkey-based grocery delivery startup Getir is raising $500M from Mubadala, Michael Moritz, and others at a $2.5B valuation, vs. $11.8B in March 2022  —  Istanbul-based grocery app company, which had been valued at nearly $12bn in early 2022, raises $500mn Lees verder op Tech Meme

The US Department of Commerce opens an official probe “to obtain more information” on a “purported 7nm chip” made by SMIC in China powering Huawei's Mate 60 Pro (Mackenzie Hawkins/Bloomberg) 08-09-2023

Mackenzie Hawkins / Bloomberg: The US Department of Commerce opens an official probe “to obtain more information” on a “purported 7nm chip” made by SMIC in China powering Huawei’s Mate 60 Pro  —  – Commerce working to get more information on purported 7nm chip  — It’s touched off a debate about the efficacy of US sanctions Lees verder op Tech Meme