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Sam Shead

@sam_l_shead
116 posts
2022-08-27
Courtesy reminder that if data centres go offline the world grinds to a complete halt https://twitter.com/...
2022-08-27 View on X
Financial Times

Equinix and Digital Realty, the world's two biggest data center operators, are stockpiling diesel for back-up power in case of winter blackouts across Europe

Financial Times : Tweets: @sam_l_shead Tweets: Sam Shead / @sam_l_shead : Courtesy reminder that if data centres go offline the world grinds to a complete halt https://twitter.com...

2022-07-07
Rajeev Misra is stepping back from his main roles at SoftBank, sources say, marking the exit of one of the key architects of the conglomerate's evolution into the world's largest tech investor https://www.bloomberg.com/... via @technology
2022-07-07 View on X
Bloomberg

Sources: SoftBank's Rajeev Misra is stepping back from the organization but will remain CEO of the first Vision Fund; Misra has secured $6B+ for his own fund

Rajeev Misra is stepping back from his main roles at SoftBank Group Corp., marking the exit of one of the key architects …

2022-07-06
Ah, not heard this before. The US wants ASML to stop selling its *older* equipment to China https://twitter.com/...
2022-07-06 View on X
Bloomberg

Sources: the US is lobbying the Netherlands to ban ASML from selling its older deep ultraviolet lithography systems for making less-advanced chips to China

The US is pushing the Netherlands to ban ASML Holding NV from selling to China mainstream technology essential in making a large chunk …

I'd assumed this was common knowledge as analysts are always talking about it. Either way, it's a super interesting issue; China can't build the most advanced chips without ASML's tools https://www.bloomberg.com/...
2022-07-06 View on X
Bloomberg

Sources: the US is lobbying the Netherlands to ban ASML from selling its older deep ultraviolet lithography systems for making less-advanced chips to China

The US is pushing the Netherlands to ban ASML Holding NV from selling to China mainstream technology essential in making a large chunk …

2022-07-05
Hacker(s) wants 10 bitcoins for over 23 terabytes of data that has been stolen on around 1 billion Chinese citizens https://www.bloomberg.com/...
2022-07-05 View on X
Bloomberg

An unidentified hacker on a forum is selling 23TB+ of allegedly stolen data on up to 1B Chinese residents for 10 BTC, after breaching a Shanghai police database

Good morning, and welcome to Tuesday's Asia Links Sead Fadilpašić / TechRadar : Mystery hacker claims to have conducted one of the largest data heists in history Adam Robertson / c...

Ha! Nothing to see here... https://www.ft.com/...
2022-07-05 View on X
Bloomberg

An unidentified hacker on a forum is selling 23TB+ of allegedly stolen data on up to 1B Chinese residents for 10 BTC, after breaching a Shanghai police database

Good morning, and welcome to Tuesday's Asia Links Sead Fadilpašić / TechRadar : Mystery hacker claims to have conducted one of the largest data heists in history Adam Robertson / c...

Ha! Nothing to see here... https://www.ft.com/...
2022-07-05 View on X
Financial Times

China is rapidly censoring news of the alleged Shanghai police database breach exposing 1B+ people's data; WeChat and Weibo appear to be blocking the topic

Purported leak of personal information of more than 1bn people offered for sale for $200,000  —  China is rapidly censoring news …

2022-07-04
Hacker(s) wants 10 bitcoins for over 23 terabytes of data that has been stolen on around 1 billion Chinese citizens https://www.bloomberg.com/...
2022-07-04 View on X
Bloomberg

In a forum post, an unidentified hacker claims to have stolen 23TB of data on up to 1B Chinese residents after breaching a Shanghai police database

Unknown hackers claimed to have stolen data on as many as a billion Chinese residents after breaching a Shanghai police database …

2022-05-05
think he's trying to break the record for being CEO of more companies than anyone else https://www.cnbc.com/...
2022-05-05 View on X
Financial Times

Filing: Elon Musk secures $7.14B for his Twitter bid from Larry Ellison, Binance, Sequoia, a16z, Saudi Prince Alwaleed, Fidelity, and others; Ellison gives $1B

Tesla chief raises $7bn from new investors for takeover of social media platform  —  Elon Musk has revealed that he has raised $7.14bn … Source: SEC.gov .

think he's trying to break the record for being CEO of more companies than anyone else https://www.cnbc.com/...
2022-05-05 View on X
CNBC

Sources: Elon Musk is expected to serve as the temporary CEO of Twitter after acquiring the company

- Elon Musk is expected to serve as a temporary CEO of Twitter for a few months after he completes his $44 billion takeover of the social media company, according to CNBC's David F...

2022-04-06
Can see this being quite annoying for journalists who often embed tweets into online stories. Will have to do a lot more screenshotting of tweets in case they end up getting deleted https://twitter.com/...
2022-04-06 View on X
Kevin Marks

Twitter changed how embeds work for deleted tweets, causing blank spaces on websites; Twitter says it is “to better respect” when users deleted their tweets

Twitter Edits You 2022-04-06 With all the fuss about Twitter's promised edit button, and how they might design it …

2022-04-05
Guess that edit button could be coming sooner than we thought
2022-04-05 View on X
CNBC

Twitter appoints Elon Musk to its board after Musk purchased a 9.2% stake in the company; Musk cannot own more than 14.9% of Twitter while on the board

- Elon Musk will join Twitter's board of directors after taking a 9.2% stake in the social media company, according to a release filed with the SEC.

2022-03-30
Kudos to @madhumita29 and the FT for getting this important DeepMind piece out. These stories take a lot of work. I'd heard rumblings about this kind of thing at DeepMind over the last few years but never quite had enough to publish https://www.ft.com/...
2022-03-30 View on X
Financial Times

DeepMind says it made changes to its policies after a female former staff member accused the Google-owned company of mishandling sexual misconduct allegations

Former employee at artificial intelligence group raises concerns about grievance procedure following assault and harassment by senior researcher

2022-03-09
LimeWire is back!! ...as an NFT marketplace 🙃 https://www.cnbc.com/...
2022-03-09 View on X
Bloomberg

Two Austrian entrepreneurs acquire the assets of LimeWire, the music sharing service shuttered in 2010, and plan to relaunch it as a music-focused NFT service

A pair of serial entrepreneurs in Austria has bought the rights to defunct music platform LimeWire with plans to revamp its image …

2022-02-27
The London-Oxford-Cambridge triangle is already the heart of the UK tech scene but the government has scrapped plans to try and turn it into something more https://www.ft.com/...
2022-02-27 View on X
Financial Times

Sources: the UK government has shelved plans for a Silicon Valley rival around Oxford and Cambridge in order to prioritize spending in Northern England

UK prime minister's levelling up agenda means plans for the Oxford-Cambridge Arc have been put on the backburner

2022-02-25
Here's a bit of news. Worth noting Google and Microsoft already have similar translators https://www.protocol.com/...
2022-02-25 View on X
The Verge

Mark Zuckerberg showcases a concept for voice-controlled VR space generated by AI, plans for a universal language translator, and more in a Meta livestream

internal models of how the world works — may be the key. Learn more: https://ow.ly/... https://twitter.com/... @metaai : We're excited to share details on Project CAIRaoke, a break...

2022-02-24
Here's a bit of news. Worth noting Google and Microsoft already have similar translators https://www.protocol.com/...
2022-02-24 View on X
The Verge

Mark Zuckerberg showcases a concept for voice-controlled VR space generated by AI, plans for a universal language translator, and more in a Meta livestream

'Let's go to the beach'  —  Meta is testing an artificial intelligence system that lets people build parts of virtual worlds by describing them …

2022-02-08
Former Spotify CFO Barry McCarthy to take over as CEO of Peloton, which is reportedly up for sale. Amazon, Nike and Apple are all said to be interested https://www.wsj.com/...
2022-02-08 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Peloton CEO and co-founder John Foley will step down, replaced by ex-Spotify and Netflix CFO Barry McCarthy; Peloton will cut 2,800 jobs and cancel Ohio factory

Exercise-equipment maker to name former Spotify CFO Barry McCarthy as successor, overhaul board and cut costs

SoftBank gets $1.25 billion for not selling Arm to Nvidia https://twitter.com/...
2022-02-08 View on X
TechCrunch

Nvidia and SoftBank call off Nvidia's Arm acquisition, following regulatory scrutiny; Arm CEO Simon Segars resigns, replaced by Arm IP group president Rene Haas

Nvidia's deal to acquire Arm is off, the two companies and Arm's owner SoftBank announced (PDF) tonight.

2022-02-03
Edinburgh-headquartered Baillie Gifford has around $466 billion in assets under management. As far as I'm aware, it hasn't backed any Scottish tech companies... https://www.ft.com/...
2022-02-03 View on X
Financial Times

A look at efforts to reinvigorate Scotland's “Silicon Glen”, led by Edinburgh, which has the largest concentration of academic AI researchers in Europe

Brooke Masters / Financial Times : Tweets: @sam_l_shead , @djohnsonmsp , @leokelion , @edininnovations , and @brookeamasters Tweets: Sam Shead / @sam_l_shead : Edinburgh-headquart...