Mackenzie Hawkins / Bloomberg: The Trump administration cut $20M in funding for the Bureau of Industry and Security, which oversees chip export controls, representing ~10% of BIS’s budget  —  A White House move to cut 10% of the funding for the agency responsible for semiconductor export controls risks undermining US efforts … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Colleen McClain / Pew Research Center: A survey of US adults: 34% support a TikTok ban, down from 50% in March 2023, and 49% say TikTok is a national security threat, down from 59% in May 2023  —  Public support for a TikTok ban now stands at 34% among U.S. adults, according to a new Pew Research Center survey.  That’s down from 50% in March 2023. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Joanna Stern / Wall Street Journal: Takeaways after using AI search exclusively for one month: AI search is more of a UX revamp than a replacement for Google’s blue links-based web search paradigm  —  Ads and search-optimized junk made a mess of the go-to engine.  Now ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude—and even Google’s own AI—do it better. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Claire L. Evans / Wired: A look at OpenWorm, a 13-year-old project that has so far failed to simulate C. elegans, one of the simplest and most extensively studied organisms in the world  —  One of the simplest, most over-studied organisms in the world is the C. elegans nematode.  For 13 years, a project called OpenWorm … Lees verder op Tech Meme