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New York Times: Indiana is converting 10,000 acres of fields into an innovation park, with the goal of transforming 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

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Apple acknowledges the US “smartphone market has been in a decline for the last couple of quarters”; sources: iPhone 15 sales will start around September 22  —  On the cusp of the iPhone 15 debut, Apple has finally admitted what has long been clear: The industry is facing a smartphone slowdown. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Misha Glenny / Financial Times: A profile of Clop, a Russian-speaking ransomware group responsible for the MOVEit hack and believed to be operating out of Russia and Ukraine  —  They hold global businesses to ransom and seem to act with impunity — but behind them lies a tangled geopolitical web Lees verder op Tech Meme

Casey Newton / Platformer: 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  —  Anti-speech laws are spreading from states to Congress, and the future of online speech could hang in the balance Lees verder op Tech Meme

Reuters: Elon Musk says X will fund the legal bills of people who have been “unfairly treated” by their employer “due to posting or liking something on this platform”  —  Elon Musk has said his X social media platform will fund the legal bills of people who have been treated unfairly … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Juby Babu / Reuters: Elon Musk says X will fund the legal bills of people who have been “unfairly treated” by their employer “due to posting or liking something on this platform”  —  Elon Musk has said his X social media platform will fund the legal bills of people who have been treated unfairly … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jonathan Greig / The Record: The FBI is investigating a ransomware attack on Prospect Medical Holdings, which runs 16 hospitals and 166 outpatient clinics and centers in CA, CT, PA, and RI  —  A major hospital network with arms in multiple states is dealing with widespread network outages due to a cyberattack, which the FBI confirms is ransomware. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Varsha Bansal / Wired: Some workers say on-demand home services startup Urban Company, which helped Indian women enter the gig economy, pushed them out for not meeting steep targets  —  Home services platform Urban Company helped Indian women get into the gig economy.  Now they say it’s setting impossible targets and then abandoning them. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Meduza.io: Russian independent news outlet Meduza says Apple removed its flagship podcast from Apple Podcasts; source: Roskomnadzor asked Apple to remove the show  —  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

Wall Street Journal: How Waymo and Cruise are struggling to win over San Francisco residents, showing the challenges they may face in expanding driverless cars across the US  —  Alphabet’s Waymo and General Motors’ Cruise are struggling to win over San Francisco residents and officials, a major hurdle in their nationwide expansion. Lees verder op Tech Meme