Tech Meme

Kathrin Hille / Financial Times: At TSMC’s annual meeting, geopolitics took center stage for the first time, as CEO Mark Liu defended the US expansion, saying the plans were “not all downside”  —  Shareholders question strategy but chair says new foundries outside Taiwan can help it maintain global leadership Lees verder op Tech Meme

Priya Anand / Bloomberg: Reddit defends its usage-based API pricing, arguing the company “needs to be fairly paid to continue supporting high-usage third-party apps”  —  A number of Reddit forums plan to go dark for two days later this month to protest the company’s decision to increase prices for third-party app developers. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Alex Konrad / Forbes: Sequoia plans to split into three firms, Sequoia in the US and Europe, HongShan in China, and Peak XV in India and Southeast Asia, “no later than” March 2024  —  Venture capital’s biggest global brand is breaking up, with Sequoia’s China and India and Southeast Asia funds relaunching … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Justin Ling / Wired: Internal 4chan emails, chat logs, and moderation decisions reveal how the site’s team of moderators, called “janitors”, allowed racism and violence to take over  —  Internal company documents reveal how the imageboard’s chaotic moderation allowed racism and violence to take over. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Benj Edwards / Ars Technica: Apple avoided mentioning AI at WWDC, instead referring to machine learning and transformers while describing features; M2 Ultra was touted for training models  —  Apple prefers using “machine learning,” or just having AI work in the background.  —  Amid notable new products … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ian King / Bloomberg: Filing: Intel plans to sell 35M+ shares in Mobileye, raising around $1.48B for its spending plans; after the sale, Intel will retain an ~88% stake in Mobileye  —  Intel Corp., the largest US chipmaker by revenue, will sell part of its holdings in Mobileye Global Inc., raising about $1.48 billion for its ambitious spending plans. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch: Hands-on with Apple Vision Pro, which seems to be a genuine leapfrog in capability and execution of XR, offering near perfect eye tracking and gesture control  —  After a roughly 30 minute demo that ran through the major features that are yet ready to test I came away convinced that Apple … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kanishka Singh / Reuters: Microsoft agrees to pay $20M to settle FTC charges that the company violated COPPA by collecting personal data from children without their parents’ consent  —  Microsoft (MSFT.O) will pay $20 million to settle U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) charges that the tech company illegally collected … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ryan Smith / AnandTech: Intel details PowerVia, a backside power delivery technology promising performance and manufacturing benefits, set to be introduced in its chips in 2024  —  At next week’s annual VLSI Symposium, Intel will be presenting a trio of highly-anticipated papers about their progress … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Manish Singh / TechCrunch: Byju’s files a complaint in the New York Supreme Court claiming lenders “unlawfully” accelerated the terms of a $1.2B term loan B raised in November 2021  —  Indian edtech giant Byju’s has filed a complaint in the New York Supreme Court to challenge the acceleration … Lees verder op Tech Meme