Tech Meme

Bloomberg: China imposes restrictions on exporting two metals used to make chips and other electronics, starting August 1, which will likely raise costs for manufacturers  —  China imposed restrictions on exporting two metals that are crucial to parts of the semiconductor, telecommunications … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Daniel Thomas / Financial Times: Sources: Netflix plans to develop targeted and tailor-made ad formats, including “episodic” campaigns, and discussed the plans with ad executives at Cannes  —  US streaming service introduced ad-supported subscriptions last year  —  Netflix will develop increasingly targeted … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Wall Street Journal: Sources: Meta held talks with Tencent and other Chinese tech companies on selling the Quest in China, but Mark Zuckerberg’s China comments may cause issues  —  Meta is in talks with Tencent to bring Meta’s Quest VR headset to a huge new market, but potential partners worry about Zuckerberg’s past criticisms of China Lees verder op Tech Meme

Alfred Cang / Bloomberg: China imposes restrictions on exporting two metals used to make chips and other electronics, starting August 1, which will likely raise costs for manufacturers  —  China imposed restrictions on exporting two metals used to make semiconductors and other electronics, a move that’s likely … Lees verder op Tech Meme

New York Times: A look at the cottage industry of Russian tech contractors, many owned by oligarch-linked Citadel Group, building digital surveillance tools for use by the FSB  —  Russia is incubating a cottage industry of new digital surveillance tools to suppress domestic opposition to the war in Ukraine. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: TweetDeck users report major problems, including notifications and entire columns failing to load, after Elon Musk’s new read-limits; home timelines still load  —  Over the weekend, Elon Musk limited the number of tweets users can read in a day, which he said was to prevent data scraping. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Wall Street Journal: How some crypto miners want to repurpose their rigs to train AI models, which isn’t easy or cheap but may be more affordable than AWS and cloud alternatives  —  Demand for high-end chips allows cryptocurrency companies to repurpose idle equipment  —  The boom in demand for high-end chips powering … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Stuart A. Thompson / New York Times: A look at uncensored and loosely moderated AI chatbots like WizardLM-Uncensored and Open Assistant, which set off polarizing debates on free speech and risks  —  A new generation of chatbots doesn’t have many of the guardrails put in place by companies like Google and OpenAI, presenting new possibilities — and risks. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kevin Purdy / Ars Technica: Red Hat’s new source code policy doesn’t violate the GPL itself but makes verifying the company’s GPL compliance harder, angering the open-source community  —  A (reasonably) condensed version of two weeks’ worth of heated GPL argument.  —  When CentOS announced in 2020 that it was shutting … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Benedict Evans: An analysis of whether AI will destroy, displace, create, and accelerate jobs in the coming years like other waves of automation, or if this time is different  —  Pretty much everyone in tech agrees that generative AI, Large Language Models and ChatGPT are a generational change … Lees verder op Tech Meme