Tech Meme

The Verge: As Microsoft aims to be carbon negative by 2030, a review finds 14 out of 27 of the company’s top production suppliers have increased their emissions since 2020  —  The Verge reviewed dozens of emissions reports from Microsoft’s suppliers and found some of them power their entire operations with fossil fuels. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Marty Stempniak / Radiology Business: NYC-based Medivis, whose SurgicalAR platform lets radiologists and surgeons holographically render MRI and CT images, raised a $20M Series A led by Thrive  —  A photorealistic rendering of a patient created by Medivis’ technology.  —  SourceMedivis  —  A radiologist-founded startup company … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Tel Aviv-based Kodem, which uses runtime intelligence to find and mitigate application security risks, emerges from stealth with an $18M Series A and a $7M seed  —  A new startup is entering the fray in the market of application security: Kodem, a company out of Israel founded by a team … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Anissa Gardizy / The Information: Source: Rob Bearden, CEO of Cloudera, told employees he is stepping down, two years after KKR and CD&R acquired the data management software company for ~$5.3B  —  Rob Bearden, the CEO of Cloudera, told employees in a virtual town hall meeting on Tuesday that he is stepping down, according to someone with direct knowledge. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: OpenAI releases new GPT-3.5-turbo and GPT-4 versions that include a new “function calling” feature, and reduces the pricing of the original GPT-3.5-turbo by 25%  —  As the competition in the generative AI space grows fiercer, OpenAI is upgrading its text-generating models while reducing pricing. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jay Peters / The Verge: A US court issues a temporary restraining order preventing Microsoft’s Activision Blizzard acquisition and sets an evidentiary hearing for June 22 and 23, 2023  —  A federal court has issued a temporary restraining order that will prevent Microsoft from closing its $68.7 billion deal to acquire Activision Blizzard — at least for now. Lees verder op Tech Meme

The Block: Filing: the SEC says it anticipates it will take 120 days to potentially respond to Coinbase’s request for clearer rulemaking on digital asset trading  —  – The SEC has put forth its position on Coinbase’s rulemaking petition.  — The agency said it anticipates needing four months to potentially respond. Lees verder op Tech Meme

James Vincent / The Verge: Stack Overflow survey of ~90K developers in 185 countries: 70% use or plan to use AI coding tools in 2023; only 3% “highly trust” and 39% “somewhat trust” them  —  A survey of developers by coding Q&A site Stack Overflow has found that AI tools are becoming commonplace … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Clothilde Goujard / Politico: The Irish DPC says Google must delay Bard’s launch in the EU because it has insufficient information about how it will respect the EU’s data privacy rules  —  The Irish privacy watchdog said the tech giant has given insufficient information about how it will respect the EU’s data privacy rules. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Richard Lawler / The Verge: Amazon says it has resolved an AWS outage that impacted the US-EAST-1 region for nearly four hours and affected multiple services, including fast-food apps  —  An outage within the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud server setup is affecting a number of internet services, including our website. Lees verder op Tech Meme