Tech Meme

Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: iOS 17 and macOS Sonoma will include Link Tracking Protection in Mail, Messages, and Safari’s private mode to automatically remove tracking parameters in URLs  —  iOS 17 and macOS Sonoma include even more privacy-preserving features while browsing the web.  —  Link Tracking Protection … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: Toronto-based NLP and chatbot startup Cohere raised $270M led by Inovia Capital, a source says at a $2.1B to $2.2B valuation, taking its total funding to ~$445M  —  Artificial intelligence startup Cohere has raised $270 million from a mix of venture capital and strategic investors including Oracle Corp … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jillian Deutsch / Bloomberg: The European Commission approves €8B in state subsidies for chip research, adding to €13.7B in private funding for ~€22B in total, as part of the EU’s Chips Act  —  Semiconductor research projects with €8 billion ($8.6 billion) in public funds were approved … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Matt Burgess / Wired: Interviews and surveys: South Korean NGO Pscore details North Koreans’ limited online use, including a days-long approval process for monitored internet access  —  New testimony from defectors reveals pervasive surveillance and monitoring of limited internet connections. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Erin Griffith / New York Times: Tech entrepreneurs who left the Bay Area during the pandemic are returning, saying they can’t miss out on the funding, hackathons, and networking of the AI boom  —  Tech entrepreneurs who left the Bay Area during the pandemic say they can’t afford to miss out on the funding … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jillian Deutsch / Bloomberg: The European Commission approves €8B in state subsidies for chip research, added to €13.7B in private funding for €22B in total, as part of the EU’s Chips Act  —  Semiconductor research projects with €8 billion ($8.6 billion) in public funds were approved … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: Toronto-based Cohere, which builds LLMs for users, raised $270M led by Inovia Capital, a source says at a $2.1B to $2.2B valuation, taking its funding to ~$445M  —  Artificial intelligence startup Cohere has raised $270 million from a mix of venture capital and strategic investors including Oracle Corp … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Vulture: Hollywood insiders reflect on the end of “Peak TV”, an era kickstarted by Netflix releasing House of Cards in one go in 2013, as streaming services cut back  —  If you call a slew of Hollywood’s most powerful showrunners, studio chiefs, agents, and operators and ask them to describe … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jillian Deutsch / Bloomberg: The European Commission approves €8B in state subsidies for chip research, added to €13.7B in private funding for €22B in total, as part of the EU’s Chips Act  —  Semiconductor research projects with €8 billion ($8.6 billion) in public funds were approved … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Matt Burgess / Wired: South Korean NGO Pscore details the limited online life of North Koreans, based on interviews and surveys, including a days-long approval process to get online  —  New testimony from defectors reveals pervasive surveillance and monitoring of limited internet connections. Lees verder op Tech Meme