Tech Meme

Jon Porter / The Verge: Fairphone announces the €699 Fairphone 5, offering a 6.46-inch 90Hz OLED display, dual 50 megapixel cameras, and 30W fast charging, shipping on September 14  —  The Fairphone 5 is the latest sustainably produced and repairable handset from Dutch smartphone company Fairphone. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Caiwei Chen / Rest of World: Chinese sextortion scammers have flooded X, harassing political dissidents and influential opinion leaders since the site added paid blue checks in April 2023  —  Scammers are targeting Chinese-language users, harassing political dissidents and influential figures. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Seattle-based Hyperproof, which offers SaaS risk and compliance management tools, raised $40M led by Riverwood Capital, taking its total funding to $66.5M  —  Hyperproof, a software-as-a-service risk and compliance management company, today announced that it raised $40 million in a funding round led … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jon Porter / The Verge: Fairphone announces the €699 Fairphone 5, offering a 6.46-inch 90Hz OLED display, dual 50 megapixel cameras, and 30W fast charging, shipping on September 14  —  The Fairphone 5 is the latest sustainably produced and repairable handset from Dutch smartphone company Fairphone. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jordan Fragen / VentureBeat: Data.ai and IDC expect consumers to spend $108B on mobile games in 2023, or 55% of global spending on games, followed by $43B on consoles and $40B on PC/Mac  —  While the games industry isn’t growing according to Data.ai and IDC’s latest report, spending declines are leveling off faster than expected. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Financial Times: UAE-linked G42, MBZUAI, and Cerebras announce Jais, an open-source, bilingual LLM for Arabic speakers; the UAE previously trained Falcon on 300+ Nvidia CPUs  —  Jais software part of regional powers’ effort to take world-leading role in technology’s development Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jon Porter / The Verge: Fairphone announces the €699 Fairphone 5, offering a 6.46-inch 90Hz OLED display, dual 50 megapixel cameras, and 30W fast charging, shipping on September 14  —  The Fairphone 5 is the latest sustainably produced and repairable handset from Dutch smartphone company Fairphone. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jordyn Holman / New York Times: Republican AGs from 16 states write to the SEC over concerns about Shein filing for a US IPO and urge the agency to order an investigation on using forced labor  —  A group of state attorneys general urged the S.E.C. to make the fast fashion company prove it doesn’t use forced labor if it files to go public. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Steve Dent / Engadget: Samsung launches Food, a “personalized” AI-based food and recipe app in eight languages and 104 countries, drawing on a 160K+ recipes from Whisk, bought in 2019  —  It builds on Whisk, an app it acquired a few years back.  —  As it promised last week, Samsung has launched Food … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jon Porter / The Verge: Fairphone announces the €699 Fairphone 5, offering a 6.46-inch 90Hz OLED display, dual 50-megapixel cameras, and 30W fast charging, shipping on September 14  —  The Fairphone 5 is the latest sustainably produced and repairable handset from Dutch smartphone company Fairphone. Lees verder op Tech Meme