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Zheping Huang / Bloomberg: Chinese gamers lose access to Blizzard’s games after its 14-year partnership with NetEase ended; servers hosting the games shut down in China on January 23  —  Millions of Chinese gamers have lost access to World of Warcraft after a furious dispute between US title owner Activision Blizzard Inc … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jesse Hamilton / CoinDesk: The FBI says North Korea-backed hacking groups Lazarus and APT38 are behind the June 2022 theft of ~$100M in ETH, USDT, and wBTC from Harmony’s Horizon bridge  —  Lazarus Group and APT38, both associated with North Korea, are responsible for the attack in June, the agency concluded. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Reuters: Crypto prices are recovering in January so far: bitcoin is up 26%, including 22% in the past week, to over $20,000, ether is up 29%, and meme coins are rising  —  Bitcoin is on the charge in 2023, dragging the crypto market off the floor and electrifying bonk, a new meme coin. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Patrick McGee / Financial Times: How Apple built a supply chain in China over two decades, spending billions and embedding staff in factories, creating a dependence before US tensions escalated  —  The company spent two decades and billions of dollars building a supply chain of unprecedented sophistication.  Now, a reckoning is coming Lees verder op Tech Meme

Zheping Huang / Bloomberg: CryptoSlam and Forkast.News plan to merge and become Forkast Labs, offering news and data for crypto investors; both are portfolio companies of Animoca Brands  —  Animoca Brands Corp. founder Yat Siu helped engineer the merger of two startups his firm backed, aiming to create a data … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Charles Hymas / Telegraph: The UK amends the Online Safety Bill to make senior managers at tech companies criminally liable for failures to protect minors, following demands by Tory MPs  —  Social media bosses who fail to protect children from harmful content will face jail now the Government has conceded to rebel MPs Lees verder op Tech Meme

Nikkei Asia: Study: China led the US in AI research output and quality in 2021, producing ~43,000 papers, roughly twice as many as the US, and 7,401 of the most-cited papers  —  Tencent, Alibaba and Huawei among the top 10 companies by output  —  TOKYO/BEIJING — China is the undisputed champion … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sapna Maheshwari / New York Times: Some US universities, including Alabama’s Auburn University and the University of Oklahoma, are banning TikTok on their Wi-Fi networks, annoying some students  —  The school’s prohibition brings a geopolitical fight front and center for TikTok’s biggest fans: young Americans. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Forbes: A look at Deltec, an obscure Bahamian bank that got a $50M loan from an FTX-tied entity in October 2021, and chairman Jean Chalopin, who has ties to FTX leaders  —  The loan was among several deals struck with Jean Chalopin, the head of Deltec and Moonstone banks — and co-creator of Inspector Gadget … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: Experts raise concerns about Germany’s plan to heat homes with heat expelled by data centers as the warm air isn’t hot enough for most district heating networks  —  Germany wants to force its power-hungry data centers to harness excess heat for warming residential homes — an effort which the industry warns is likely to fall flat. Lees verder op Tech Meme