Tech Meme

Washington Post: A survey of 70 cybersecurity experts: 64% favor reauthorization of FISA’s Section 702, set to expire at the end of 2023, with some changes to address abuse  —  Welcome to The Cybersecurity 202!  It’s good to be back from Denver.  There, a 6-year-old repeatedly defeated me and/or incapacitated … Lees verder op Tech Meme

The Record: Q&A with the FBI’s Bryan Smith on how the agency generated 300+ decryption keys from Hive’s servers and gave them to victims, avoiding ~$130M in ransom payments  —  While there was excitement when they actually got that access, there was no time to kind of enjoy that moment … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Madhumita Murgia / Financial Times: AI pioneer Yoshua Bengio, who won the 2018 Turing Award alongside Geoffrey Hinton and Yann LeCun, says governments need to act quickly to “protect the public”  —  Computer science professor becomes latest expert to voice concerns over rapid rollout of large language models Lees verder op Tech Meme

Mark Harris / TechCrunch: An investigation finds ~$15M in donations to OpenAI when the company was a nonprofit are definitively traceable to Elon Musk, below his claims of $50M and $100M  —  Years of tax filings give the most complete picture yet of OpenAI’s early finances  —  It’s no secret that Elon Musk … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Financial Times: Chipmakers TSMC, Samsung, Intel, Micron, Applied Materials, IBM, and Rapidus announce plans to increase manufacturing and deepen tech partnerships in Japan  —  Seven of the world’s largest semiconductor makers have set out plans to increase manufacturing and deepen tech partnerships in Japan … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jane Zhang / Bloomberg: Alibaba reports Q4 revenue up 2% YoY to ~$30.3B, a ~$3.2B net income, up from a ~$2.9B net loss in Q4 2022, and plans to spin off its cloud unit and IPO others  —  Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. will begin exploring initial public offerings for its logistics and grocery arms … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Diana Li / Bloomberg: Grammarly announces Grammarly Business, which uses generative AI to summarize key points in email threads, compose replies, and more, rolling out in June 2023  —  Grammarly Inc., a software company known for its writing assistant, is trying to expand its business to the office by harnessing artificial intelligence. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Temitayo Lawal / Rest of World: A look at eNaira, Nigeria’s 18-month-old government-backed digital currency that hasn’t converted crypto users and has been hindered by limited internet access  —  The government-backed eNaira, meant as a hedge against inflation, hasn’t converted crypto users and has been hindered by limited internet access. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Colin Wilhelm / The Block: FTX sues Sam Bankman-Fried, Gary Wang, and Nishad Singh, claiming the trio knew Alameda was insolvent when acquiring clearing platform Embed for nearly $250M  —  – FTX’s current leadership claims that Bankman-Fried and other executives knew that Alameda Research was insolvent when it finalized … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: Google plans to migrate 1% of Chrome users to Privacy Sandbox and disable third-party cookies for them in Q1 2024 and deprecate third-party cookies in H2 2024  —  Google’s Privacy Sandbox aims to replace third-party cookies with a more privacy-conscious approach, allowing users to manage … Lees verder op Tech Meme