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Biden's Chinese tech EO leaves US VCs and private equity firms trying to work out the impact on their holdings and weighing up strategies to comply or exit (Financial Times) 11-08-2023

Financial Times: Biden’s Chinese tech EO leaves US VCs and private equity firms trying to work out the impact on their holdings and weighing up strategies to comply or exit  —  Private equity and venture capital funds targeted in Biden administration’s crackdown  —  After President Joe Biden announced a ban … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sources and docs detail Worldcoin's struggle to define its purpose, the orb not scanning Asian people, a flaw allowing multiple signups per person, and more (Richard Nieva/Forbes) 11-08-2023

Richard Nieva / Forbes: Sources and docs detail Worldcoin’s struggle to define its purpose, the orb not scanning Asian people, a flaw allowing multiple signups per person, and more  —  Is it a crypto company?  A biometric authentication platform?  A “human economic system”?  Inside Worldcoin’s struggle to find itself. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sources: the US Cyber Safety Review Board, created by Biden, plans to investigate cloud computing risks, including Microsoft's recent government email breach (Bloomberg) 11-08-2023

Bloomberg: Sources: the US Cyber Safety Review Board, created by Biden, plans to investigate cloud computing risks, including Microsoft’s recent government email breach  —  – Cyber Safety Review Board to examine risks in cloud computing  — Senator Wyden had called for investigations of Microsoft Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sources: ByteDance's China revenue grew 25% YoY in 2022 to $69B, down from 68% YoY growth in 2021; overseas revenue grew from $6.5B in 2021 to $16B in 2022 (Jing Yang/The Information) 10-08-2023

Jing Yang / The Information: Sources: ByteDance’s China revenue grew 25% YoY in 2022 to $69B, down from 68% YoY growth in 2021; overseas revenue grew from $6.5B in 2021 to $16B in 2022  —  ByteDance might be best known globally as the parent company of TikTok, but the bulk of its money comes from its home base of China, thanks to its Chinese video app Douyin. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Hosting provider Uberspace takes down youtube-dl's website, which linked to YouTube ripping software, while appealing a German court order forcing the takedown (Ernesto Van der Sar/TorrentFreak) 10-08-2023

Ernesto Van der Sar / TorrentFreak: Hosting provider Uberspace takes down youtube-dl’s website, which linked to YouTube ripping software, while appealing a German court order forcing the takedown  —  In 2020, the RIAA infuriated many players in the open source community by targeting YouTube-ripping tool, youtube-dl. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Circle has $1B+ in cash and had $779M in revenue in H1 2023, compared to $772M for all of 2022; USDC in circulation has fallen to ~$26B from ~$45B in January (Yueqi Yang/Bloomberg) 11-08-2023

Yueqi Yang / Bloomberg: Circle has $1B+ in cash and had $779M in revenue in H1 2023, compared to $772M for all of 2022; USDC in circulation has fallen to ~$26B from ~$45B in January  —  – CEO expects payments, financial firms to push for stablecoins  — USD Coin market cap plunges this year while rival Tether gains Lees verder op Tech Meme

After a contentious public hearing, the California Public Utilities Commission will let Waymo and Cruise operate driverless cabs 24/7 throughout San Francisco (Andrew J. Hawkins/The Verge) 11-08-2023

Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: After a contentious public hearing, the California Public Utilities Commission will let Waymo and Cruise operate driverless cabs 24/7 throughout San Francisco  —  Waymo and Cruise were approved to operate their robotaxi services 24/7 in San Francisco after a contentious six-hour public hearing … Lees verder op Tech Meme