Tech Meme

Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: US and international cybersecurity authorities say the LockBit ransomware gang extorted ~$91M in the US since 2020, following approximately 1,700 attacks  —  U.S. and international cybersecurity authorities said in a joint LockBit ransomware advisory that the gang successfully extorted roughly … Lees verder op Tech Meme

River Davis / Wall Street Journal: A look at Japanese ride-hailing app Go, which controls ~75% of the local market, as some taxi operators say founder Ichiro Kawanabe pushed them to avoid Uber  —  Challenge in Japan shows how local operators can derail ride-hailing app’s overseas ambitions  —  TOKYO—Uber has been outmaneuvered … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Dan Seifert / The Verge: Amazon Fire Max 11 review: cheap, nice screen, and decent stylus, but anemic app store, very limited multitasking, cramped aspect ratio, and bad trackpad  —  The Fire Max 11 has the most advanced and refined hardware of any Amazon tablet yet.  But it is held back by the same old problems. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kenneth Chang / New York Times: IBM details using a 127-qubit quantum processor to simulate the behavior of 127 atom-scale bar magnets, known as an Ising model, taking under a millisecond  —  A quantum computer came up with better answers to a physics problem than a conventional supercomputer. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Cloud data management company Informatica acquires London-based data access controls startup Privitar, which has raised $150M+ and was valued at $400M+ in 2020  —  One of the recurring themes in the area of enterprise IT these days is consolidation, and today we’re getting another dose of it in the area of enterprise data management. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Forbes: A profile of Guangying “Heina” Chen, a mysterious associate of Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao who appears repeatedly in the SEC’s lawsuit against the exchange  —  CEO Changpeng “CZ” Zhao’s mysterious associate Guangying Chen emerges as a key player in his company’s operations … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Chris Plante / Polygon: Q&A with Phil Spencer on AI in games, using Xbox player data and ML, Game Pass lessons, “living games”, games built within Minecraft, looking to 2024, and more  —  Phil Spencer talks with Polygon about the future of living games, Xbox’s huge 2024, AI, and more Lees verder op Tech Meme

Axios: Sens. Josh Hawley and Richard Blumenthal introduce a bill denying Section 230 protections for generative AI content; experts are split on whether §230 applies  —  Sens. Josh Hawley and Richard Blumenthal want to clarify that the internet’s bedrock liability law does not apply to generative AI … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Thomas Seal / Bloomberg: Vodafone and Three agree to combine to create the UK’s largest mobile network, pending regulatory approval, and will take on £6B in debt; Vodafone will own 51%  —  Vodafone Group Plc and CK Hutchison Holdings Ltd. agreed to combine their UK mobile businesses in a deal that will create … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Chris Plante / Polygon: Q&A with Phil Spencer on AI in games, using Xbox data and machine learning, Game Pass lessons, “living games”, expanding Minecraft, looking to 2024, and more  —  Phil Spencer talks with Polygon about the future of living games, Xbox’s huge 2024, AI, and more  —  Did Xbox really lose the console war? Lees verder op Tech Meme