Tech Meme

Clive Cookson / Financial Times: A look at the UK’s new DARPA-inspired Advanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA), which has a four-year £800M budget to invest in breakthrough tech like AI  —  Head of Advanced Research and Invention Agency tells FT it has appointed directors charged with selecting projects Lees verder op Tech Meme

Roger Montti / Search Engine Journal: WordPress.com debuts a 100-year domain name registration for $38K, offering managed hosting and 24/7 customer service; domains are typically capped at 10 years  —  WordPress announces the availability of 100-year domain name registrations that include 24/7 assistance and managed web hosting Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ben Cohen / Wall Street Journal: A profile of New Jersey-based CoreWeave, which offers Nvidia GPUs in the cloud, and has a ~$2B valuation, fewer than 250 staff, and 700 clients, like Microsoft  —  It’s not just Nvidia.  There is another big winner of the AI boom—and it’s now competing with some of the world’s most valuable companies. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jonathan Greig / The Record: Cisco Talos: North Korea-backed Lazarus is using a new malware variant to target internet backbone infrastructure and health care entities in Europe and the US  —  A notorious hacking group working on behalf of the North Korean government is using a new strain of malware to attack healthcare entities … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jack Schickler / CoinDesk: Hackers access some customer data at FTX, Genesis, and BlockFi by SIM swapping an employee of Kroll, which manages creditor claims for the bankrupt companies  —  A ‘cybersecurity incident’ affected Kroll, which gathers customer claim data on behalf of bankrupt companies.  —  Register Now Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ana Paula Pereira / Cointelegraph: Nansen: ~90% of PayPal’s stablecoin is held in issuer Paxos Trust’s wallets, suggesting a “lack of demand from crypto users for PYUSD” that launched on August 7  —  PayPal’s stablecoin debut raised hopes for broader adoption and an introduction of cryptocurrencies to the masses. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Joe Wituschek / BGR: X launches a private beta of X Hiring, a job posting feature for verified organizations, allowing them to “organically reach millions of relevant candidates”  —  Who goes to LinkedIn to look for a job?  Nah, those days are over.  X is the new place to find your next employer. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Emily Baker-White / Forbes: Sources: at TikTok, Oracle staff reviewing the app’s source code sit at desks beneath TikTok-controlled cameras, a requirement directly from China’s government  —  Under a draft agreement between ByteDance and CFIUS, Oracle would be TikTok’s partner — and a government proctor. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Eri Sugiura / Financial Times: Huawei and Ericsson renew a multiyear global patent cross-licensing deal for 5G and other tech; Huawei owns 20% of global 5G patents, the most of any company  —  Agreement gives Chinese group a boost after being subject to bans in Europe and the US  —  Huawei has sealed a multiyear patent … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Forbes: Sources: EvolutionaryScale, founded by members of Meta’s recently axed protein-folding team to build LLMs for biology, raised a $40M+ seed at a $200M valuation  —  Former Meta researchers who developed an AI language model for biology have launched a new startup and raised at least $40 million, Forbes has learned. Lees verder op Tech Meme