Tech Meme

Mackenzie Hawkins / Bloomberg: The US Commerce Department begins an official probe to “obtain more information” on a “purported” 7nm chip made by SMIC in China used in Huawei’s Mate 60 Pro  —  – Commerce working to get more information on purported 7nm chip  — It’s touched off a debate about the efficacy of US sanctions Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sean Lyngaas / CNN: An excerpt from Walter Isaacson’s Elon Musk biography says Musk cut off Starlink internet service access to disrupt a Ukrainian sneak attack on a Russian fleet  —  Elon Musk secretly ordered his engineers to turn off his company’s Starlink satellite communications network near the Crimean coast … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Alex Barinka / Bloomberg: TikTok’s Shop marketplace goes live for some US users, presenting a feed of “recommended” random products, including several counterfeit Chinese goods  —  The social app’s Shop marketplace, key to its growth strategy, is so far hard to navigate. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Lily Hay Newman / Wired: The US and the UK sanction 11 more alleged Trickbot ransomware gang members, and the US DOJ unseals indictments against nine alleged Trickbot and Conti members  —  Authorities have sanctioned 11 alleged members of the cybercriminal groups, while the US Justice Department unsealed three federal indictments … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Forbes: Inside Apple’s impossible war on child exploitation, as the company scrapped its on-device CSAM scanning system and key team members behind the initiative left  —  Apple spent years trying to design a system that would stop the spread of child sexual abuse material on iPhones and iCloud. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sarah Wynn / The Block: The FBI says North Korea-linked Lazarus Group was responsible for the theft of $41M in crypto from online casino and betting site Stake around September 4, 2023  —  – The FBI said North Korea-affiliated Lazarus Group was responsible for a $41 million theft this week from crypto-based sports betting platform Stake.com. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Joe Warminsky / The Record: Apple releases macOS, iOS, iPadOS, and watchOS updates to address two zero-day flaws that Citizen Lab says were used to deliver NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware  —  Apple released software updates on Thursday to address two zero-day vulnerabilities that researchers said were used … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Erin Woo / The Information: X Head of Brand Safety Elyana Thierry left in June per her LinkedIn page, months after being elevated to the role after the previous head resigned in the summer  —  The head of brand safety at X, the company formerly known as Twitter, has left the company, according to her LinkedIn page … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sam Kessler / CoinDesk: Former FTX Digital Markets co-CEO Ryan Salame pleads guilty to US campaign finance and money transmitting charges and will forfeit $1.5B+ as part of the deal  —  Salame admitted to being a “straw donor” to secretly funnel millions of dollars to Republican political candidates while Bankman-Fried donated to Democrats. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Forbes: Imbue, formerly Generally Intelligent, which claims to have access to 10K Nvidia H100 GPUs to train its AI “agents”, raised a $200M Series B at a $1B valuation  —  The startup, one of very few woman-led AI unicorns, has a $1 billion valuation and access to 10,000 Nvidia H100 GPUs … Lees verder op Tech Meme