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Dutch chipmaker NXP alerts customers to a breach involving their personal data, discovered on July 14; NXP declines to say how many customers had been impacted (Carly Page/TechCrunch) 05-09-2023

Carly Page / TechCrunch: Dutch chipmaker NXP alerts customers to a breach involving their personal data, discovered on July 14; NXP declines to say how many customers had been impacted  —  Dutch chipmaker NXP Semiconductors has alerted customers to a data breach involving their personal information. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Visa expands its USDC stablecoin settlements to Solana, partnering with Worldpay and Nuvei for pilots, and has already moved millions of USDC via VisaNet (Vishal Chawla/The Block) 05-09-2023

Vishal Chawla / The Block: Visa expands its USDC stablecoin settlements to Solana, partnering with Worldpay and Nuvei for pilots, and has already moved millions of USDC via VisaNet  —  – Visa expanded its USDC stablecoin settlement capabilities to Solana, forming partnerships with Worldpay and Nuvei for pilot programs. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Meta plans to eliminate the Facebook News tab in the UK, France, and Germany in early December 2023 and won't sign new deals for news content in those countries (Mark Bergen/Bloomberg) 05-09-2023

Mark Bergen / Bloomberg: Meta plans to eliminate the Facebook News tab in the UK, France, and Germany in early December 2023 and won’t sign new deals for news content in those countries  —  The company will “deprecate” the news tab — a Facebook feature to prominently display news material — for users in the UK, Germany and France. Lees verder op Tech Meme

An in-depth profile of OpenAI, Sam Altman, CTO Greg Brockman, and others, who all see ChatGPT and GPT-4 as stepping stones along the way to building an AGI (Steven Levy/Wired) 05-09-2023

Steven Levy / Wired: An in-depth profile of OpenAI, Sam Altman, CTO Greg Brockman, and others, who all see ChatGPT and GPT-4 as stepping stones along the way to building an AGI  —  The young company sent shock waves around the world when it released ChatGPT.  But that was just the start.  The ultimate goal: Change everything. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Intel and Tower Semiconductor say the Israeli contract chipmaker will invest $300M in Intel's New Mexico factory, after their $5.4B merger collapsed in August (Yuvraj Malik/Reuters) 05-09-2023

Yuvraj Malik / Reuters: Intel and Tower Semiconductor say the Israeli contract chipmaker will invest $300M in Intel’s New Mexico factory, after their $5.4B merger collapsed in August  —  Intel (INTC.O) will offer foundry services to Tower Semiconductor (TSEM.TA) in a new deal that will see the Israeli contract … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Israel-based Upwind, which helps detect and counter cloud infrastructure threats, raised $50M led by Greylock at a $300M valuation, taking its funding to $80M (Marissa Newman/Bloomberg) 05-09-2023

Marissa Newman / Bloomberg: Israel-based Upwind, which helps detect and counter cloud infrastructure threats, raised $50M led by Greylock at a $300M valuation, taking its funding to $80M  —  – Year-old cloud security firm Upwind valued at $300 million  — Curry’s Penny Jar joins round led by Greylock, Cyberstarts Lees verder op Tech Meme

How Spotify's $1B+ bet on building a podcast empire has not paid off: most shows are not profitable, debates over exclusivity, cutting original shows, and more (Wall Street Journal) 05-09-2023

Wall Street Journal: How Spotify’s $1B+ bet on building a podcast empire has not paid off: most shows are not profitable, debates over exclusivity, cutting original shows, and more  —  The prospect of podcast riches led to aggressive investments in celebrity deals and original programming for what appeared a sky’s-the-limit media frontier Lees verder op Tech Meme

Analysis: lawyers, accountants, consultants, and more have charged $700M+ in fees since 2022 in the bankruptcies of FTX, Celsius, Voyager, BlockFi, and Genesis (New York Times) 05-09-2023

New York Times: Analysis: lawyers, accountants, consultants, and more have charged $700M+ in fees since 2022 in the bankruptcies of FTX, Celsius, Voyager, BlockFi, and Genesis  —  Bankruptcy lawyers and other corporate turnaround specialists have reaped major fees from the bankruptcies of five cryptocurrency companies, including FTX. Lees verder op Tech Meme

TikTok hires UK cybersecurity company NCC to audit its data controls and protections, and provide independent verification, as part of Project Clover (Supantha Mukherjee/Reuters) 05-09-2023

Supantha Mukherjee / Reuters: TikTok hires UK cybersecurity company NCC to audit its data controls and protections, and provide independent verification, as part of Project Clover  —  TikTok has hired British cybersecurity firm NCC (NCCG.L) to audit its data controls and protections, and provide independent verification … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Filing: SoftBank prices Arm's shares at $47 and $51, aiming to raise up to $4.87B by selling 95.5M shares, for a $52B+ valuation and the biggest US IPO of 2023 (Manya Saini/Reuters) 05-09-2023

Manya Saini / Reuters: Filing: SoftBank prices Arm’s shares at $47 and $51, aiming to raise up to $4.87B by selling 95.5M shares, for a $52B+ valuation and the biggest US IPO of 2023  —  SoftBank Group’s (9984.T) Arm is aiming to raise up to $4.87 billion in the chip designer’s U.S. initial public offering, a regulatory filing showed on Tuesday. Lees verder op Tech Meme