Financial Times: The EU is funding Huawei to run 11 projects, ranging from AI and 6G to cloud computing, despite several EU nations banning the firm from their telecom networks  —  Number of sensitive Horizon Europe research programmes include communications company facing range of curbs Lees verder op Tech Meme

Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: Researchers devise how to steal the encryption keys in smart cards and smartphones by video recording the devices’ power LEDs, with some real-world limitations  —  Key-leaking side channels are a fact of life.  Now they can be done by video-recording power LEDs. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Marty Stempniak / Radiology Business: NYC-based Medivis, whose SurgicalAR platform lets radiologists and surgeons holographically render MRI and CT images, raised a $20M Series A led by Thrive  —  A photorealistic rendering of a patient created by Medivis’ technology.  —  SourceMedivis  —  A radiologist-founded startup company … Lees verder op Tech Meme

The Verge: As Microsoft aims to be carbon negative by 2030, a review finds 14 out of 27 of the company’s top production suppliers have increased their emissions since 2020  —  The Verge reviewed dozens of emissions reports from Microsoft’s suppliers and found some of them power their entire operations with fossil fuels. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Anissa Gardizy / The Information: Source: Rob Bearden, CEO of Cloudera, told employees he is stepping down, two years after KKR and CD&R acquired the data management software company for ~$5.3B  —  Rob Bearden, the CEO of Cloudera, told employees in a virtual town hall meeting on Tuesday that he is stepping down, according to someone with direct knowledge. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Tel Aviv-based Kodem, which uses runtime intelligence to find and mitigate application security risks, emerges from stealth with an $18M Series A and a $7M seed  —  A new startup is entering the fray in the market of application security: Kodem, a company out of Israel founded by a team … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jay Peters / The Verge: A US court issues a temporary restraining order preventing Microsoft’s Activision Blizzard acquisition and sets an evidentiary hearing for June 22 and 23, 2023  —  A federal court has issued a temporary restraining order that will prevent Microsoft from closing its $68.7 billion deal to acquire Activision Blizzard — at least for now. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: OpenAI releases new GPT-3.5-turbo and GPT-4 versions that include a new “function calling” feature, and reduces the pricing of the original GPT-3.5-turbo by 25%  —  As the competition in the generative AI space grows fiercer, OpenAI is upgrading its text-generating models while reducing pricing. Lees verder op Tech Meme