Tech Meme

Margaux Nijkerk / CoinDesk: Electric Capital annual survey: total developers working in crypto fell 7% YoY globally, and Solana was the most popular blockchain among new developers  —  Ethereum remained the blockchain with the most devs, and the overall population of software builders in crypto was flat, the VC firm said in its annual survey. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Pieter Haeck / Politico: The EC pledges €750M of the €1.5B planned investment to fund AI-optimized supercomputers across seven sites to help EU startups compete with global rivals  —  BRUSSELS — The European Union has committed hundreds of millions of euros to help startups catch up in the global artificial intelligence race. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Suzanne Vranica / Wall Street Journal: The merger of advertising giants Omnicom and Interpublic shows how the industry is preparing for an AI-driven upheaval, which is squeezing out creative talent  —  Two advertisers are combining into a $30 billion behemoth to harness the data, tech and AI expertise now dominating Madison Avenue—and all the marketing you see Lees verder op Tech Meme

Pieter Haeck / Politico: The EC pledges €750M of the €1.5B planned investment to fund AI-optimized supercomputers across seven sites to help EU startups compete with global rivals  —  BRUSSELS — The European Union has committed hundreds of millions of euros to help startups catch up in the global artificial intelligence race. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Pieter Haeck / Politico: The EC pledges €750M of the €1.5B planned investment to fund AI-optimized supercomputers across seven sites to help EU startups compete with global rivals  —  BRUSSELS — The European Union has committed hundreds of millions of euros to help startups catch up in the global artificial intelligence race. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Aimee Ortiz / New York Times: Officials say hackers likely accessed the personal data of hundreds of thousands of Rhode Islanders, and there’s a “high probability” sensitive info was stolen  —  An “international cybercriminal group” harvested the personal data of potentially hundreds of thousands of people … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Eliza Strickland / IEEE Spectrum: Q&A with Fei-Fei Li on her NeurIPS talk “Ascending the Ladder of Visual Intelligence”, her startup World Labs, giving machines 3D spatial intelligence, and more  —  Stanford University professor Fei-Fei Li has already earned her place in the history of AI. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Harrison Smith / Washington Post: Donald Bitzer, the plasma screen’s co-inventor and the father of PLATO, a computer-based network that sparked messaging apps and more, died on December 10 at 90  —  He helped shape cyberculture as the father of PLATO, a computer-based educational network that sparked the development of plasma screens and digital messaging. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ari Levy / CNBC: A look at Broadcom’s path to a $1T+ market cap: stock up 760%+ and three deals worth $10B+ after abandoning its $120B bid to acquire Qualcomm in 2018, and more  —  When Broadcom tried to buy rival Qualcomm for $120 billion in 2018, its efforts were thwarted. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Charles Rollet / TechCrunch: Telegram says it removed 15.4M groups and channels with harmful content in 2024, and its new moderation page shows more enforcement since Pavel Durov’s arrest  —  Telegram has been under unprecedented pressure to clean up its platform this year, after its founder Pavel Durov was arrested … Lees verder op Tech Meme