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Mike Rogoway / Oregonian: Amazon secures an estimated $1B in tax breaks for five data centers in Morrow County, Oregon, which local officials hope will generate $12B in Amazon spending  —  Port of Morrow commissioners signed off Wednesday on a contentious package of tax incentives for five more Amazon data centers in eastern Oregon … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bob Van Voris / Bloomberg: A US judge sentences Nickolas Sharp, who worked for IoT maker Ubiquiti, to six years in prison, rejecting claims that his data theft made the company safer  —  An engineer who worked for billionaire Robert Pera’s Ubiquiti Inc. got six years in prison after a judge rejected his claim that his plan … Lees verder op Tech Meme

New York Times: US livestream shopping sales are expected to hit $32B in 2023; PitchBook: investors poured $380M+ into US live shopping companies in 2022, up from $36M in 2020  —  The market for selling goods in real time online is relatively small, but a number of start-ups and big tech names are betting American consumers will catch on. Lees verder op Tech Meme

David Pan / Bloomberg: Some crypto miners, like Hive Blockchain and Hut 8 Mining, are repurposing their GPUs to power high-performance computing services for AI clients  —  When the Ethereum blockchain moved away from using a technique for verifying transactions known as proof of work last September … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: Industrial cybersecurity firm Dragos says a known cybercrime group gained access to its SharePoint cloud service on May 8 but didn’t breach its internal network  —  Industrial cybersecurity company Dragos today disclosed what it describes as a “cybersecurity event” after a known cybercrime gang attempted … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Google’s PaLM 2 paper is forthcoming on many of the LLM’s major limitations, but doesn’t reveal which data or hardware setup the company used to train the model  —  At its annual I/O conference, Google unveiled PaLM 2, the successor to its PaLM large language model for understanding and generating multilingual text. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jennifer Maas / Variety: Disney Q2: Disney+ subscribers down 2% QoQ to 157.8M, vs. 163.17M est., its second consecutive quarterly drop, ESPN+ up 2% QoQ to 25.3M, and Hulu flat at 48.2M  —  On the bright side, the Mouse House also managed to narrow its streaming business losses by $400 million, down 26% year over year. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Brady Snyder / XDA Developers: Google launches a dedicated Labs page, where users can sign up to test Google’s early ideas for features and products, including Search and Workspace AI tools  —  Google is using artificial intelligence to improve its existing products, and you can sign up to try them in Labs now.  Here’s how to get started. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Karissa Bell / Engadget: Twitter rolls out encrypted DMs, but both sender and recipient must be verified users, no support for group messages, and message metadata is not encrypted  —  There are still some major limitations to the feature.  —  Twitter is beginning to roll out its long-promised encrypted direct messaging feature. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Steve Dent / Engadget: Google’s Search Labs lets you test its AI-powered ‘products and ideas’  —  It has AI powered search, code tips and more.  —  It’s fair to say that Google was caught flat-footed by Microsoft’s launch of Bing search powered by ChatGPT, as it didn’t have anything similar when it unveiled its own conversational AI, Bard. Lees verder op Tech Meme