Tech Meme

Abner Li / 9to5Google: YouTube increases the US price for YouTube Premium from $11.99 to $13.99 per month and for YouTube Music from $9.99 to $10.99 per month  —  The price of an individual YouTube Premium subscription is increasing by $2 to $13.99 per month in the US.  —  YouTube has yet to announce this price increase … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Annie Palmer / CNBC: Amazon plans to roll out its Amazon One palm scanning payment tech to all of its more than 500 Whole Foods Market stores in the US by the end of 2023  —  – Amazon is bringing its pay-by-palm system to all of its Whole Foods stores by the end of the year.  — Amazon One lets users enter … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Makena Kelly / The Verge: A look at Gigi Sohn’s unsuccessful nomination to the FCC, announced in October 2021 before she withdrew nearly 500 days later after a fierce opposition campaign  —  ‘Dark money’ and the never-ending election cycle kept a qualified consumer advocate out of the Federal Communications Commission. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Yiwen Lu / New York Times: Cerebras launches the first of three supercomputers for Abu Dhabi-based G42 as part of its Condor Galaxy network; G42 trained an Arabic GPT model in April 2023  —  The new supercomputer, made by the Silicon Valley start-up Cerebras, was unveiled as the A.I. boom drives demand for chips and computing power. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: Google plans to begin gradually enabling Privacy Sandbox APIs for Chrome developers on July 24 after releasing Chrome 115, a milestone in phasing out cookies  —  The first phase of Google’s long-standing plan to kill third-party cookies in Chrome is nearly complete. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Zoe Kleinman / BBC: Apple threatens to remove FaceTime and iMessage from the UK rather than weaken security under a proposed security bill amendment, dubbed a “snooper’s charter”  —  Apple says it will remove services such as FaceTime and iMessage from the UK rather than weaken security if new proposals are made law and acted upon. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Reuters: Sources: North Korea-linked hackers breached JumpCloud in late June and used their access to target crypto clients; JumpCloud says <5 customers were impacted  —  A North Korean government-backed hacking group penetrated an American IT management company and used it as a springboard to target … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Yang Jie / Wall Street Journal: TSMC says its Arizona factory will miss its target of mass production of 4nm chips by 2024 due to US skilled worker shortages, aiming instead for 2025  —  Taiwanese semiconductor maker forecasts sales drop this year but predicts boom in AI-related business  —  The world’s top contract chip maker … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: Analysis: Microsoft’s 1,000%+ stock rise under Satya Nadella, most recently driven by AI, takes his total windfall to above $1B, following Tim Cook’s Apple arc  —  – Figure includes equity grants, salary, bonuses and dividends  — Haul puts executive in exclusive club of corporate titans Lees verder op Tech Meme

New York Times: Caroline Ellison’s private Google Docs detail her thinking before FTX’s collapse, including doubts over running Alameda and her breakup with Sam Bankman-Fried  —  Ms. Ellison, a top executive in Sam Bankman-Fried’s business empire, recorded her thoughts on private Google documents that offer … Lees verder op Tech Meme