Tech Meme

Debby Wu / Bloomberg: TSMC reports Q1 revenue up 3.6% YoY to ~$16.7B, below analysts forecasts, and March revenue down 15% YoY to ~$4.8B as electronics demand continues to fall  —  Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. missed sales estimates for the second consecutive quarter in a sign of continued weakness in global electronics demand. Lees verder op Tech Meme

IDC: Apple’s Mac shipments fell 40.5% YoY globally in Q1 2023, the largest drop among PC makers, as combined PC shipments fell 29% YoY to 56.9M units  —  Weak demand, excess inventory, and a worsening macroeconomic climate were all contributing factors for the precipitous drop in shipments … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: Shanghai-based SenseTime demos chatbot SenseChat, available in Chinese and English, image tool Miaohua, and video tool Ruying, powered by its SenseNova LLM  —  SenseTime Group Inc. showed off a suite of new artificial-intelligence services developed with the company’s access to vast troves … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: Shanghai-based SenseTime announces AI model SenseNova and chatbot SenseChat, available in Chinese and English, following Baidu’s Ernie Bot  —  SenseTime Group Inc. showed off a suite of new artificial-intelligence services developed with the company’s access to vast troves of data and deep computing power … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Monica Chin / The Verge: Dell XPS 13 (2023) review: thin, light, nice screen, and improved battery life, but only two ports, quiet speakers, and worse performance than similar models  —  The latest XPS 13 is good enough — but no longer good enough to top the market. … The Dell XPS 13 has long … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Molly White / @molly0xfff: [Thread] A look at a report from FTX debtors on the company’s control failures, like awful recordkeeping, lying about using cold wallets, and sloppy key storage  —  The new team in charge of the FTX bankruptcy have released their first interim report on the failures of control at FTX and related businesses. It’s 43 pages long, let’s go through it 🧵 https://www.courtlistener.com/ … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Cat Zakrzewski / Washington Post: As Congress weighs regulating AI, consumer advocates and the tech industry converge on Washington, DC to influence US lawmakers, most of whom lack AI expertise  —  After years of inaction on Big Tech — and the explosive success of ChatGPT — lawmakers aim to avoid similar mistakes with artificial intelligence Lees verder op Tech Meme

Igor Bonifacic / Engadget: In a reversal, Twitter lets users like, retweet, and reply to tweets with Substack links, but searches with “Substack” still just give results for “newsletter”  —  In a reversal of a limitation the platform put in place earlier in the week, Twitter is once again allowing users … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Sources: ~270 US Apple Stores held staff meetings about unionization risks in the past two weeks, using a unionized Towson, Maryland store as a cautionary tale  —  Apple is continuing its push to keep retail stores from unionizing.  Also: A deep look inside efforts to diversify the company’s product … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Aric Toler / bellingcat: The leaked Pentagon Ukraine documents seem to have first appeared on Discord, followed by 4chan, before spreading to Telegram, Twitter, and major media outlets  —  In recent days, the US Justice Department and Pentagon have begun investigating an apparent online leak of sensitive documents, including some that were marked “Top Secret”. Lees verder op Tech Meme