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
A researcher says hackers took over crypto mixer Tornado Cash on May 20 using a malicious governance proposal to give themselves fake votes to gain full control
Tornado Cash, a service that allows users to mask cryptocurrency transactions, suffered a hostile takeover by hackers through a malicious governance proposal.
China says Micron's products caused “significant security risks to our critical information infrastructure supply chain” and warns operators against buying them
less than 2 months after it's announced. The Micron ban applies to major Chinese cos, but impact could be broader. https://www.wsj.com/... via @WSJ Bill Bishop / @niubi : Did they even test the micron...
Top500: 121 of the fastest supercomputers globally are powered by AMD silicon, up 29% YoY; the AMD-based Frontier supercomputer retains its top spot
AMD's silicon churns out the flops. — The Top 500 list of the fastest supercomputers in the world was released today …
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.
Mark Zuckerberg says WhatsApp users can now edit messages up to 15 minutes after sending them; messages get an “edited” tag beside the time stamp for the change
WhatsApp is finally announced one of the most anticipated features today— message editing.
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
An interview with AI researcher Timnit Gebru on her controversial sacking by Google in 2020, biases in AI and Big Tech, racism in Silicon Valley, and more
The Ethiopian-born computer scientist lost her job after pointing out the inequalities built into AI.
Nvidia, HPE, and the University of Bristol unveil Isambard 3, a supercomputer using 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.
Wistron plans to sell its iPhone assembly unit near Bengaluru to Tata Group and exit India due to its inability to get deeper into Apple's supply chain and more
The contract maker's inability to get deeper into Apple's supply chain, sale of China factory and challenges posed by local employment norms spurred its decision to leave.
Researchers: many low-cost Android phones and smart TVs from lesser-known brands come with malware preinstalled, owned by millions globally including in the US
The bane of low-cost Android devices is showing no signs of going away. — Overall, Android devices have earned a decidedly mixed reputation for security.
Australian blockchain-based fitness app Stepn says iOS users can now buy and sell NFTs inside its app, signaling that Apple may have softened its crypto policy
- Stepn users will be able to buy, sell and trade the game's NFT sneakers without having to leave the app.
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 … Tweets: @kashhill and @nw3 Tweets: @kashhill : Eight years ago, Google mislabeled Black people in photos...
Sources and analysis: Alejandro Encinas, Mexico's undersecretary for human rights, was targeted with Pegasus while he investigated the country's military abuses
New York Times : Tweets: @arturoangel20 , @falko_ernst , @diazbriseno , @lkatzenberg , and @adam_wola Tweets: @arturoangel20 : He Was Investigating Mexico's Military. Then the Spying Began. https://w...
NYC-based FlowX.ai, which helps financial companies port and modernize legacy software, raised a $35M Series A led by Dawn Capital, following a $9M seed in 2021
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A rise in memecoins and NFTs on the Bitcoin blockchain, thanks to the Ordinals protocol, has spurred record transactions and an ensuing fee windfall for miners
Mining Purpose and Function: — Miners are an essential component … Wu Blockchain : Global Crypto Mining News (May 15 to May 21) Tolu Ajiboye / Coinspeaker : Bitcoin Mining Revenue Surges after Incre...
Chipmaking machine giant Applied Materials plans to invest up to $4B in a Sunnyvale, California, research center over seven years to improve chip collaboration
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Some educators are cautiously experimenting with generative AI, questioning whether the tech can be used in classrooms without undermining numeracy and literacy
When Lauren started researching the British designer Yinka Ilori for a school project earlier this year, she was able to consult her new study pal: artificial intelligence. Tweets: @proferictalley and...
An overview of the executive team behind Apple's mixed reality headset, including group leader Mike Rockwell, COO Jeff Williams, Rockwell's boss Dan Riccio
Berlin-based Patient21, which combines a digital health care platform with brick-and-mortar clinics, raised a €100M Series C in equity and debt led by Pitango
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Experts say the EU banning “forever chemicals”, considered toxic for humans and the environment, could derail its chip plans as there are no safe alternatives
When Mark Newman walked into the lobby of a Tokyo hotel for a customer conference late last year …
Amazon faces a record 18 shareholder resolutions at its annual meeting, set for May 24, including on working conditions, freedom to organize, pay, and climate
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Service robots like Moxi, which delivers medicines in hospitals, and Jesper, which serves food in restaurants, are in high demand despite job loss concerns
Peter Funt / Wall Street Journal : Tweets: @pkedrosky and @wsj Tweets: Paul Kedrosky / @pkedrosky : Robots got a foothold in services jobs during Covid, and that foothold is expanding rapidly, from h...
Hands-on with Google's Duet AI writing aid: a stiff style, inaccurate information, inconsistent Docs and Gmail behavior, great at drafting complaints, and more
Paresh Dave / Wired : Tweets: @wired Tweets: @wired : Help Me Write is the first of a slew of generative AI features Google has planned for its productivity suite, under the umbrella branding of Duet...
Analysts expect a Q2 sales decline at seven out of the top nine chip equipment makers, including Applied Materials and Lam Research, as memory demand slumps
Kentaro Tsutsumi / Nikkei Asia :
How Mobileye, Cruise, Waymo, and other self-driving system makers are simulating bad drivers, jaywalkers, and edge cases to train and test autonomous vehicles
Shopify: Revolutionizing Commerce with Winter Edition '26
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Protecting your Cloud Applications Data
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