Takashi Mochizuki / Bloomberg: Japan plans to allocate extra ~$13B in subsidies to drive investment in its chip industry, on top of previously allocated subsidies which are yet to be spent  —  – Economy Ministry seeks $12 billion in extra budget for chips  — Country chasing tech leadership as geopolitical tensions rise Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: Microsoft: MOVEit hackers are exploiting a zero-day flaw in IT support tool SysAid in “limited” attacks to access corporate servers and deploy Clop ransomware  —  Threat actors are exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in the service management software SysAid to gain access … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: Kai-Fu Lee, CEO of Chinese startup 01.AI, says the company stockpiled enough Nvidia chips to last for next 18 months before the US’s China chip ban kicked in  —  – Founded this year, Kai-Fu Lee’s 01.AI is already a unicorn  — Best AI training accelerators come from US firm Nvidia Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sean Hollister / The Verge: Epic v. Google: internal documents show Google offered Netflix to pay only 10% of its in-app payments on Android in 2017; Netflix didn’t take the deal  —  Netflix did, too.  —  In 2017, Google offered Netflix a special discounted rate of 10 percent of its in-app payments on Android … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: Experts say LockBit is behind the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China hack, a “ransomware as a service” group behind UK’s Royal Mail hack among others  —  – LockBit is what’s known as a ‘ransomware as a service’ group  — It is one of the most prolific ransomware attackers in world Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jordan Novet / CNBC: Microsoft restricts employee access to OpenAI’s ChatGPT, citing security concerns  — Microsoft employees aren’t allowed to use OpenAI’s ChatGPT, CNBC has learned.  — “Due to security and data concerns a number of AI tools are no longer available for employees to use,” Microsoft said in an update on an internal website. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Michael Kan / PCMag: Qualcomm ends its partnership with Iridium to bring satellite connectivity to Android phones, after launching the Snapdragon Satellite platform in January 2023  —  However, Iridium says it’s now free to talk with other smartphone and chip vendors on enabling another satellite connectivity deal. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Wall Street Journal: Sources: Meta strikes a preliminary deal with Tencent to sell a new, lower-priced VR headset in China, beginning in late 2024  —  Chinese videogame maker Tencent agrees to start selling a new lower-cost headset from Meta late next year  —  SINGAPORE—Meta Platforms has struck a preliminary deal … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Mai Ngoc Chau / Bloomberg: Apple supplier Luxshare plans to increase its investment in Vietnam by $330M to $504M total, as the AirPods manufacturer further diversifies away from China  —  The company is increasing its Bac Giang investment by $330 million to a total of $504 million through its Vietnam unit Luxshare-ICT … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Om Malik / On my Om: Q&A with Humane President Imran Chaudhri on lessons from Apple, having a positive tech outlook, privacy concerns with the Ai Pin, platform transitions, and more  —  Imran Chaudhri spent two decades at Apple, working alongside Steve Jobs.  It was at Apple where he met Bethany Bongiorno … Lees verder op Tech Meme