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China's metaverse proposals at the UN's ITU include a digital identity system, akin to the country's social credit system, that experts say invades user privacy (Gian Volpicelli/Politico) 22-08-2023

Gian Volpicelli / Politico: China’s metaverse proposals at the UN’s ITU include a digital identity system, akin to the country’s social credit system, that experts say invades user privacy  —  China wants to define how a new, promising technology called the metaverse works — and it is pushing proposals that bear … Lees verder op Tech Meme

SoftBank's Arm files to list on the Nasdaq and reports $524M net income on $2.68B in FY 2023 revenue, down 1% YoY from $2.7B; the company wants the ticker ARM (CNBC) 21-08-2023

CNBC: SoftBank’s Arm files to list on the Nasdaq and reports $524M net income on $2.68B in FY 2023 revenue, down 1% YoY from $2.7B; the company wants the ticker ARM  —  – Arm, which is owned by SoftBank, filed on Monday to list on the Nasdaq.  — The U.K.-based chipmaker is looking to go public during … Lees verder op Tech Meme

X says the company fixed a bug that prevented the service from displaying many images from before 2014 over the weekend, and that “no images or data were lost” (Richard Lawler/The Verge) 22-08-2023

Richard Lawler / The Verge: X says the company fixed a bug that prevented the service from displaying many images from before 2014 over the weekend, and that “no images or data were lost”  —  Over the weekend, word spread about a problem affecting old tweets, and eventually, we narrowed it down to anything posted … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Nvidia's A800 and H800 chips, hobbled for the Chinese market to meet US export rules, have seen huge demand as they more powerful than anything else before 2023 (Financial Times) 22-08-2023

Financial Times: Nvidia’s A800 and H800 chips, hobbled for the Chinese market to meet US export rules, have seen huge demand as they more powerful than anything else before 2023  —  Nvidia’s processors are weakened for the Chinese market, but are still more powerful than the alternatives Lees verder op Tech Meme

Source: X is internally testing removing headlines and other text from shared news articles, so that posts with article links display only the image and the URL (Kylie Robison/Fortune) 22-08-2023

Kylie Robison / Fortune: Source: X is internally testing removing headlines and other text from shared news articles, so that posts with article links display only the image and the URL  —  X, the social media platform previously known as Twitter, is planning a major change in how news articles appear on the service … Lees verder op Tech Meme

A look at Google executives like CFO Ruth Porat who have either shifted roles or left the company in recent months, as the company searches for its own identity (Jennifer Elias/CNBC) 22-08-2023

Jennifer Elias / CNBC: A look at Google executives like CFO Ruth Porat who have either shifted roles or left the company in recent months, as the company searches for its own identity  —  – A string of decade-long Google executives have changed jobs in the last several months.  — Some have wanted to seek … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sources: cybersecurity company SentinelOne, whose stock is down ~80% over the past two years, has been exploring options, including a sale; the stock jumps 15%+ (Reuters) 21-08-2023

Reuters: Sources: cybersecurity company SentinelOne, whose stock is down ~80% over the past two years, has been exploring options, including a sale; the stock jumps 15%+  —  SentinelOne Inc (S.N), a cybersecurity company with a market value of $4.2 billion, has been exploring options that could include a sale … Lees verder op Tech Meme

A draft US and ByteDance summer 2022 agreement to avoid a TikTok ban would give US agencies power to block app policy changes, veto executive hirings, and more (Emily Baker-White/Forbes) 21-08-2023

Emily Baker-White / Forbes: A draft US and ByteDance summer 2022 agreement to avoid a TikTok ban would give US agencies power to block app policy changes, veto executive hirings, and more  —  For the past several years the Biden Administration and TikTok have been negotiating a deal to resolve national security concerns posed by the Chinese-owned app. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Triller's S-1 filing claims the short-form video app has had 550M lifetime signups, but Apptopia estimates the app has had 73.2M downloads since its 2015 launch (Amanda Silberling/TechCrunch) 21-08-2023

Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch: Triller’s S-1 filing claims the short-form video app has had 550M lifetime signups, but Apptopia estimates the app has had 73.2M downloads since its 2015 launch  —  TikTok competitor Triller is preparing to go public, but estimates from Apptopia call its self-reported user numbers into question. Lees verder op Tech Meme