Tech Meme

Bart Meijer / Reuters: The European Commission finds Broadcom’s proposed $61B VMware acquisition may restrict competition in the market for some hardware parts, like storage adapters  —  The European Commission on Wednesday said the proposed $61 billion takeover by U.S. chipmaker Broadcom (AVGO.O) … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Wall Street Journal: Documents: the US House Judiciary Committee subpoenaed the FTC over its Twitter privacy investigation, saying the agency didn’t comply with a March 10 request  —  Rep. Jim Jordan , the chair of the Judiciary Committee, said the FTC has made burdensome demands of Twitter and its owner, Elon Musk. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Financial Times: Sources: Thoma Bravo lost the race to acquire Qualtrics, which sold to Silver Lake and CPP for $12.5B in March 2023, due to US antitrust investigation fears  —  Qualtrics eventually sold for $12.5bn to Silver Lake and CPP in largest leveraged buyout of year Lees verder op Tech Meme

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: Google launches Assured Open Source Software to help developers defend against supply chain attacks for free, with support for 1,000+ Java and Python packages  —  About a year ago, Google announced its Assured Open Source Software (Assured OSS) service, a service that helps developers defend … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Wall Street Journal: Documents: the House Judiciary Committee subpoenaed the FTC over its Twitter privacy investigation, saying the agency failed to comply with an earlier request  —  Rep. Jim Jordan , the chair of the Judiciary Committee, said the FTC has made burdensome demands of Twitter and its owner, Elon Musk. Lees verder op Tech Meme

New York Times: NPR “will no longer be active on Twitter” after the social network took “actions that undermine our credibility” by implying NPR is not editorially independent  —  The broadcaster said that the label undermined its credibility “by falsely implying that we are not editorially independent.” Lees verder op Tech Meme

Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: LinkedIn partners with CLEAR to help US users verify their identity via a government ID and phone number or via company email  —  LinkedIn is introducing new ways to verify your identity and where you work, the company announced on Wednesday.  Unlike with Twitter and Meta … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sharon Goldman / VentureBeat: Databricks releases Dolly 2.0, the next version of its LLM released two weeks ago, and a dataset trained on 15K records generated by its employees  —  Today Databricks released Dolly 2.0, the next version of the large language model (LLM) with ChatGPT-like human interactivity … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Tom Warren / The Verge: Nvidia RTX 4070 review: the most affordable RTX 40-series GPU yet at $599 with solid 1440p performance, but only 12GB of VRAM and struggles with 4K gaming  —  The RTX 4070 is the most affordable RTX 40-series GPU yet, with solid 1440p performance. … I could end this Nvidia RTX 4070 review early … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: Intel Foundry Services partners with Arm to build low-power SoCs, giving customers using Arm’s designs access to Intel’s A18 process to make their chips  —  Intel Corp. said today its Intel Foundry Services business unit is partnering with the British chip design firm Arm Ltd … Lees verder op Tech Meme