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Email: Uber suspends its diversity head, Bo Young Lee, for hosting sessions on race titled “Don't Call Me Karen”, which attendees felt were insensitive to PoC (Kellen Browning/New York Times) 22-05-2023

Kellen Browning / New York Times: Email: Uber suspends its diversity head, Bo Young Lee, for hosting sessions on race titled “Don’t Call Me Karen”, which attendees felt were insensitive to PoC  —  The executive hosted sessions about race and being a white woman that were titled “Don’t Call Me Karen,” prompting an employee uproar. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Nvidia, HPE, and the University of Bristol unveil Isambard 3, a supercomputer with 384 Nvidia Grace CPUs, each with 144 cores, reaching speeds of 2.7 petaflops (Maria Deutscher/SiliconANGLE) 22-05-2023

Maria Deutscher / SiliconANGLE: Nvidia, HPE, and the University of Bristol unveil Isambard 3, a supercomputer with 384 Nvidia Grace CPUs, each with 144 cores, reaching speeds of 2.7 petaflops  —  Nvidia Corp. today detailed three initiatives in which researchers will use its chips to support scientific discovery. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Top500: 121 of the fastest supercomputers globally are powered by AMD's silicon, up 29% YoY; AMD also powers seven of the top ten systems on the Green500 list (Paul Alcorn/Tom's Hardware) 22-05-2023

Paul Alcorn / Tom’s Hardware: Top500: 121 of the fastest supercomputers globally are powered by AMD’s silicon, up 29% YoY; AMD also powers seven of the top ten systems on the Green500 list  —  AMD’s silicon churns out the flops.  —  The Top 500 list of the fastest supercomputers in the world was released today … Lees verder op Tech Meme

The EU fines Meta €1.2B over sending European user data to the US, a record GDPR fine, and orders Meta to stop transfers and delete the data within six months (Sam Schechner/Wall Street Journal) 22-05-2023

Sam Schechner / Wall Street Journal: The EU fines Meta €1.2B over sending European user data to the US, a record GDPR fine, and orders Meta to stop transfers and delete the data within six months  —  Decision places pressure on Washington to implement surveillance changes for Europe to allow Meta to keep the data spigot open Lees verder op Tech Meme

China's Micron ban may boost Samsung's and SK Hynix's sales, an uncomfortable position for South Korea given the companies' exposure to Chinese and US pressure (Wall Street Journal) 22-05-2023

Wall Street Journal: China’s Micron ban may boost Samsung’s and SK Hynix’s sales, an uncomfortable position for South Korea given the companies’ exposure to Chinese and US pressure  —  Samsung, SK Hynix would be best positioned to fill Micron’s void, though geopolitical pressure from both Beijing and Washington make for a tough choice Lees verder op Tech Meme

After Google Photos labeled two Black people as “gorillas” in June 2015, photo apps from Google, Apple, Amazon, and Microsoft still can't identify most primates (New York Times) 22-05-2023

New York Times: After Google Photos labeled two Black people as “gorillas” in June 2015, photo apps from Google, Apple, Amazon, and Microsoft still can’t identify most primates  —  Eight years after a controversy over Black people being mislabeled by image analysis software … Lees verder op Tech Meme