Tech Meme

Karen Freifeld / Reuters: Sources: TSMC could face a $1B+ penalty to settle a US export control investigation over a chip it made that ended up inside Huawei’s Ascend 910B chip  —  Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (2330.TW) could face a penalty of $1 billion or more to settle a U.S. export control investigation … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bradly Shankar / MobileSyrup: Nintendo says Switch 2 pre-orders in Canada “will not start on April 9, 2025 in order to align with the timing of pre-orders to be determined in the US”  —  The pre-orders were originally set to go live on April 9  —  Nintendo has confirmed that pre-orders for the Nintendo Switch 2 … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: Sources: hackers intercepted ~100 bank regulators’ emails, 150K+ in total, for over a year at the US Treasury’s OCC, which disclosed a breach on February 26  —  – Attackers lurked within OCC email accounts since 2023  — Chinese state hackers previously targeted Treasury files Lees verder op Tech Meme

Katie Roof / Bloomberg: Toronto-based Tailscale, which offers an enterprise mesh VPN service, raised $160M led by Accel, a source says at a $1.5B valuation, up from $1B in May 2022  —  Tailscale Inc., a security startup based in Toronto, has raised $160 million from investors — a significant haul for the Canadian company. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: Meta rolls out Teen Accounts to Facebook and Messenger, automatically enrolling users and adding built-in protections, in the US, the UK, Australia, and Canada  —  Meta is introducing Teen Accounts to Facebook and Messenger.  The feature, which automatically enrolls young users … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Blackbird Labs, which makes a blockchain-based payment loyalty app for ~1,000 restaurants, raised $50M led by Spark Capital, taking its total funding to $85M  —  A founder who has carved out a name for himself building products to help restaurants connect better with would-be diners … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch: Amazon launches Nova Sonic, which can generate natural-sounding speech and that it claims is “the most cost-efficient” AI voice model on the market, via Bedrock  —  On Tuesday, Amazon debuted a new generative AI model, Nova Sonic, capable of natively processing voice and generating natural-sounding speech. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Reuters: Sources: Micron has told US customers that it plans to impose a surcharge on some products like SSDs from April 9 to account for President Trump’s new tariffs  —  U.S. memory chipmaker Micron Technology (MU.O) has told U.S. customers it plans to impose a surcharge on some products from Wednesday … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Reuters: Sources: a16z seeks to raise a $20B megafund for growth-stage investments in AI companies; global LPs see it as a way to invest in US firms without restrictions  —  Venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz is seeking to raise about $20 billion in what will be the largest fund in its history … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ashley Capoot / CNBC: Transcarent, which offers a medical concierge app service for businesses, completes its ~$621M acquisition of digital health company Accolade, taking it private  —  Digital health startup Transcarent on Tuesday announced it completed its acquisition of Accolade in a deal valued at roughly $621 million. Lees verder op Tech Meme