Tech Meme

Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter: Biden nominates veteran government lawyer Anna Gomez as FCC Commissioner, and nominates Democrat Geoffrey Starks and Republican Brendan Carr for new FCC terms  —  The White House also nominated Democrat Geoffrey Starks and Republican Brendan Carr for new terms on the Commission. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sam Schechner / Wall Street Journal: The EU fines Meta €1.2B for sending European user data to the US, a record GDPR fine, and orders Meta to end the transfers and delete the data within six months  —  Decision places pressure on Washington to implement surveillance changes for Europe to allow Meta to keep the data spigot open Lees verder op Tech Meme

Chloe Xiang / VICE: Some blue-check Twitter accounts, one pretending to be Bloomberg, spread an AI-generated image of an explosion at the Pentagon; the stock market briefly dipped  —  An AI-generated image of a fake explosion near the Pentagon went viral thanks to blue-check Twitter accounts.  —  Chloe Xiang Lees verder op Tech Meme

New York Times: After Google Photos labeled two Black people as “gorillas” in June 2015, photo apps from Google, Apple, Amazon, and Microsoft still can’t identify most primates  —  Eight years after a controversy over Black people being mislabeled by image analysis software … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Wall Street Journal: China’s Micron ban may boost Samsung’s and SK Hynix’s sales, an uncomfortable position for South Korea given the companies’ exposure to Chinese and US pressure  —  Samsung, SK Hynix would be best positioned to fill Micron’s void, though geopolitical pressure from both Beijing and Washington make for a tough choice Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sam Schechner / Wall Street Journal: The EU fines Meta €1.2B over sending European user data to the US, a record GDPR fine, and orders Meta to stop transfers and delete the data within six months  —  Decision places pressure on Washington to implement surveillance changes for Europe to allow Meta to keep the data spigot open Lees verder op Tech Meme

Paul Alcorn / Tom’s Hardware: Top500: 121 of the fastest supercomputers globally are powered by AMD’s silicon, up 29% YoY; AMD also powers seven of the top ten systems on the Green500 list  —  AMD’s silicon churns out the flops.  —  The Top 500 list of the fastest supercomputers in the world was released today … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Maria Deutscher / SiliconANGLE: Nvidia, HPE, and the University of Bristol unveil Isambard 3, a supercomputer with 384 Nvidia Grace CPUs, each with 144 cores, reaching speeds of 2.7 petaflops  —  Nvidia Corp. today detailed three initiatives in which researchers will use its chips to support scientific discovery. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kellen Browning / New York Times: Email: Uber suspends its diversity head, Bo Young Lee, for hosting sessions on race titled “Don’t Call Me Karen”, which attendees felt were insensitive to PoC  —  The executive hosted sessions about race and being a white woman that were titled “Don’t Call Me Karen,” prompting an employee uproar. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: Amazon faces a record 18 shareholder resolutions at its annual meeting, set for May 24, including on working conditions, freedom to organize, pay, and climate  —  Amazon.com Inc. will face a record 18 shareholder resolutions at its annual meeting this week, with outside groups urging the company … Lees verder op Tech Meme