Che Pan / South China Morning Post: Chinese chipmaker SMIC reports Q1 revenue down 21% YoY to $1.46B, vs. $1.44B est., and profit down 53% YoY to $267.1M, vs. $186.6M est.  —  Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp (SMIC) , China’s top contract chip maker, posted its biggest drop in quarterly revenue in over a decade … Lees verder op Tech Meme

CNBC: Sensor Tower: Bluesky had 628K mobile downloads in April, up 606% from March, when it became available on Android in addition to iOS; Mastodon had 90K downloads  —  – Bluesky has exploded in popularity over the past few months as measured by the number of mobile app downloads on both iOS and Android platforms. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Matthew Gault / VICE: Twitter appears to have disabled autocomplete in its search bar after users pointed out that it was recommending gory videos of animal abuse and war footage  —  Searching for dog and cat videos returned horrifying results.  —  Matthew Gault  —  Twitter has disabled autocomplete … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Akash Sriram / Reuters: Canadian cybersecurity company Absolute Software to be acquired by Crosspoint Capital for $657M, representing a 34% premium to the US-listed stock’s last close  —  Canada’s Absolute Software (ABST.TO) said on Thursday it had agreed to be taken private by Crosspoint Capital Partners for $657 million … Lees verder op Tech Meme