Tech Meme

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

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

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

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

New York Times: Meta’s unusual move to open source LLaMA stands out from its rivals’ approach, driven by the belief that sharing its work will help spread its influence in AI  —  The tech giant has publicly released its latest A.I. technology so people can build their own chatbots.  Rivals like Google say that approach can be dangerous. 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