Tech Meme

Guy Chazan / Financial Times: Germany’s “Silicon Saxony”, set to become the home of TSMC’s European fab, may be undermined by a lack of local workers and rising anti-immigrant sentiment  —  Industry concerned rise of anti-immigration movements in state of Saxony will hinder efforts to attract foreign talent Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sapna Maheshwari / New York Times: After social media upended the fashion and beauty magazine industries, some women turn to Facebook Groups and Substack to find curated recommendations  —  People still want to know what to wear and what is actually worth buying — and they want to trust the person telling them. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Manish Singh / TechCrunch: Paytm founder Vijay Shekhar Sharma plans to buy 10.3% stake in Paytm from Ant, an unusual deal to make him Paytm’s largest shareholder without paying any cash  —  Vijay Shekhar Sharma, founder and chief executive of Paytm, has entered into a deal with Ant Financial to acquire a 10.30% stake … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Fahad Abuljadayel / Bloomberg: Saudi Arabia’s PIF reports a $15.6B loss in 2022 after its Vision Fund and tech investments cratered; assets under management reached $595.5B due to Aramco  —  – Softbank’s fund saw a record loss of $32 billion in 2022  — Current estimates place the PIF’s assets at $777 billion Lees verder op Tech Meme

Josh Zumbrun / Wall Street Journal: Researchers show how ChatGPT 3.5 performs better than ChatGPT 4.0 in several tasks, often math related, highlighting the issue of “drift” in improving AI models  —  AI chatbots have stoked fears that they could spin out of control, but they also suffer from a type of deterioration called ‘drift’ Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: UK researchers train a deep learning model that can steal data from keyboard keystrokes recorded using a microphone with 95% accuracy overall and 93% on Zoom  —  A team of researchers from British universities has trained a deep learning model that can steal data from keyboard keystrokes recorded using … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Filipe Pacheco / Bloomberg: China’s Hua Hong Semiconductor raises $2.96B in its Shanghai IPO, the largest in the Asia Pacific region in 2023; the company is already listed in Hong Kong  —  – Company raised nearly $3 billion through the share sale  — It is the largest listing in the Asia Pacific region this year Lees verder op Tech Meme

New York Times: Indiana is converting 10K acres of corn and bean fields into an innovation park, hoping to transform the state into a microchip manufacturing and research hub  —  The state has little experience with semiconductors, but the Biden administration has promised to unleash opportunity in … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Casey Newton / Platformer: Some US lawmakers are quickly advancing an anti-sex, anti-speech agenda in the name of kids’ online safety, which could soon entangle every adult internet user  —  Today let’s talk about a right we currently take for granted that may soon disappear: the ability to browse and post to most websites anonymously. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Meduza.io: Meduza, an outlet covering Russian news, says Apple Podcasts removed its flagship podcast and then restored the show two days later without providing reasons  —  Meduza has received a notice from Apple, informing our media that our flagship podcast “What Happened” has been removed from the Apple Podcasts streaming platform. Lees verder op Tech Meme