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Source: Joe Biden intends to pick veteran government lawyer Anna Gomez for the FCC, breaking a two-year deadlock after Republicans opposed an earlier nominee (Todd Shields/Bloomberg) 18-05-2023

Todd Shields / Bloomberg: Source: Joe Biden intends to pick veteran government lawyer Anna Gomez for the FCC, breaking a two-year deadlock after Republicans opposed an earlier nominee  —  President Joe Biden intends to select veteran government lawyer Anna Gomez to serve on the Federal Communications Commission … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Meta outlines its RSC supercomputer and work on two chips: MTIA to train and run AI models, set for release in 2025, and MSVP, to accelerate video workloads (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch) 18-05-2023

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Meta outlines its RSC supercomputer and work on two chips: MTIA to train and run AI models, set for release in 2025, and MSVP, to accelerate video workloads  —  At a virtual event this morning, Meta lifted the curtains on its efforts to develop in-house infrastructure for AI workloads … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Coinbase launches its Coinbase One subscription in the US, the UK, Germany, and Ireland, offering zero trading fees, 24/7 customer support, and more (Jacquelyn Melinek/TechCrunch) 18-05-2023

Jacquelyn Melinek / TechCrunch: Coinbase launches its Coinbase One subscription in the US, the UK, Germany, and Ireland, offering zero trading fees, 24/7 customer support, and more  —  Coinbase One will launch in 35 countries, starting with US, UK, Germany and Ireland  —  Coinbase, the world’s second-largest crypto exchange … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sources detail Apple's headset ahead of WWDC: shifting the vision from eyeglasses to ski goggles, Tim Cook's product noninvolvement, selling at cost, and more (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg) 18-05-2023

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Sources detail Apple’s headset ahead of WWDC: shifting the vision from eyeglasses to ski goggles, Tim Cook’s product noninvolvement, selling at cost, and more  —  Many times throughout its history, Apple Inc. has redefined consumer technology by breathing new life into an existing category … Lees verder op Tech Meme

SCOTUS declines to address Section 230 protections in Gonzalez v. Google and shields Twitter from liability for terror-related content in Twitter v. Taamneh (Brian Fung/CNN) 18-05-2023

Brian Fung / CNN: SCOTUS declines to address Section 230 protections in Gonzalez v. Google and shields Twitter from liability for terror-related content in Twitter v. Taamneh  —  Twitter will not have to face accusations it aided and abetted terrorism when it hosted tweets created by the terror group ISIS, the Supreme Court ruled Thursday. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Amazon has made just 100 Prime Air drone deliveries so far, after projecting 10K US deliveries in 2023; Wing has made 330K deliveries, Zipline has made 600K (Katie Tarasov/CNBC) 18-05-2023

Katie Tarasov / CNBC: Amazon has made just 100 Prime Air drone deliveries so far, after projecting 10K US deliveries in 2023; Wing has made 330K deliveries, Zipline has made 600K  —  WATCH NOW  —  Amazon drones make 100th delivery, lagging far behind Alphabet’s Wing and Walmart partner Zipline Lees verder op Tech Meme

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 (Washington Post) 18-05-2023

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

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 (The Record) 18-05-2023

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

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” (Madhumita Murgia/Financial Times) 18-05-2023

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

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 (Mark Harris/TechCrunch) 18-05-2023

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