Tech Meme

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: Microsoft says Teams has 280M MAUs, up from 270M in Jan. 2022, and says it has rebuilt Teams to be twice as fast, rolling out to Windows’ Public Preview program  —  Teams, Microsoft’s Slack rival, has always had a bit of a reputation for being slow and resource-hungry. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission sues Binance and its CEO CZ for allegedly breaking trading and derivatives rules  —  Binance Holdings Ltd., the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, and Chief Executive Officer Changpeng Zhao, were sued by the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Larry DiTore / The Block: Filing: MicroStrategy bought 6,455 BTC for ~$150M from February 16 to March 23 at an average price of $23,238; the company now holds ~$4.14B worth of BTC  —  – MicroStrategy now has a little more than $4 billion worth of bitcoin in its corporate coffers.  —  MicroStrategy scooped … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Chris Welch / The Verge: Sonos Era 300 review: best spacial audio from any speaker, flexible connectivity options, but poor Sonos app UX and quality of spatial audio varies by track  —  When you find a good spatial audio song, Sonos’ new speaker can blow your mind and sounds like nothing else. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Matt Burgess / Wired: Porn creators in Germany face fines and imprisonment as regulators use AI to spot porn not protected by age verification tech on social media and messaging apps  —  Regulators are using an AI system to scan websites and messaging apps to find pornography.  Creators face fines and potential prison sentences. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: Huawei says it has built tools to design chips as advanced as 14nm, about four generations behind the latest available, to help Chinese firms replace US tech  —  Huawei Technologies Co. has developed software tools capable of designing chips as advanced as 14 nanometers … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Reuters: Sources: Jack Ma returned to China after more than a year; sources: China Premier Li Qiang urged Ma to return since late 2022 to allay private sector fears  —  Alibaba (9988.HK) founder Jack Ma has returned to China, ending a stay overseas of more than a year that industry viewed as reflecting … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Richard Milne / Financial Times: Ammo maker Nammo says its growth is hit by a TikTok data center using all spare electricity, as energy demand from data centers and others grows in the Nordics  —  Norwegian group Nammo blames ‘storage of cat videos’ for threatening its growth as data centre corners spare electricity Lees verder op Tech Meme

Paul Sawers / TechCrunch: Activist investor Elliott Management decides not to nominate its own directors to Salesforce’s board, citing the company’s FY23 results, growth plans, and more  —  Activist investor Elliott Investment Management won’t be proceeding with plans to nominate its own directors to Salesforce’s board … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sarah Zheng / Bloomberg: Kaspersky: some versions of Pinduoduo, suspended by Google from its app store, exploited Android vulnerabilities to install backdoors and gain user data access  —  Security researchers at Moscow-based Kaspersky Lab have identified and outlined potential malware in versions … Lees verder op Tech Meme