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Susan Rinkunas / Jezebel: A Nebraska woman pleads guilty to giving an abortion pill to her teen daughter after Meta complied with a warrant for messages between mother and daughter  —  Jessica Burgess faced eight years in prison for helping her then 17-year-old get abortion pills.  A plea deal brought it down to two. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Michael Shirer / IDC: Global PC shipments declined 13.4% YoY to 61.6M in Q2 2023, the sixth consecutive quarter of decline; only Apple had positive growth, up 10.3% YoY to 5.3M units  —  Global PC shipments declined 13.4% year over year during the second quarter of 2023 (2Q23), according to preliminary results … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Rachel Metz / Bloomberg: Anthropic releases AI chatbot Claude 2, available in the US and the UK via claude.ai and an API for businesses; Anthropic raised $1B+, including $450M in May  —  Anthropic, an artificial intelligence startup positioning itself as the builder of a safer kind of chatbot, has released a new version of its AI bot, named Claude. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Anton Shilov / AnandTech: LLNL begins installing its El Capitan supercomputer for national security research, promising over 2 FP64 exaFLOPS, and plans the smaller Tuolumne supercomputer  —  Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) started to install its El Capitan supercomputer that promises … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Wall Street Journal: A look at Nvidia’s AI chip rivals, including AMD, Intel, startups, and Amazon’s and Google’s cloud units; estimates suggest Nvidia controls 80%+ of the market  —  AMD, startups and cloud companies are looking to tap in to the rise of tools such as ChatGPT  —  Nvidia has emerged as the leader … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Nitish Pahwa / Slate: A volunteer contributor for Twitter’s Community Notes details checking spam and disinformation across the platform and says the tools are far from sufficient  —  Twitter’s “Community Notes” volunteers are supposed to make the platform “the most accurate source of information about the world.” Lees verder op Tech Meme

Phil Salvador / Video Game History Foundation: Study: about 13% of video games released in the US before 2010 and less than 3% of titles released before 1985 are still in print in 2023  —  Today, the Video Game History Foundation and the Software Preservation Network published a major new study which shows that 87 percent of classic games released … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Christine Hall / TechCrunch: Austin-based Verifiable, which automates health care credentialing and compliance, raised a $27M Series B led by Craft Ventures, after a $17M A in August 2021  —  Knowing that a doctor on your hospital staff is who they say they are would seem like a no-brainer, but poor access to real … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Javier Espinoza / Financial Times: Amazon files a petition in the EU’s General Court challenging the DSA and its “large platform” designation, the first US company to do so, following Zalando  —  Seattle-based group files legal action against proposed legislation designed to rein in Big Tech Lees verder op Tech Meme

Dan Taylor / Tech.eu: London-based Raft, which automates freight logistics, raised a $30M Series B led by Eight Roads, taking its total funding to $48M, to expand R&D investment  —  Raft, formerly known as Vector.ai, has raised $30 million in a Series B funding round aimed at increasing the development … Lees verder op Tech Meme