Journals

Bloomberg: French IT group Atos has entered talks with its banks to refinance its debt, and says conditions for a planned €720M rights issue are “no longer applicable”  —  – French IT company’s plunged as much as 30% to a… Read More »French IT group Atos has entered talks with its banks to refinance its debt, and says conditions for a planned €720M rights issue are “no longer applicable” (Bloomberg)

Malena Carollo / The Markup: Q&A with Andrew Farnsworth, a Cornell Lab of Ornithology scientist, about BirdCast, a project that uses AI to process weather data and predict how birds migrate  —  Machine learning is powering new insights into how… Read More »Q&A with Andrew Farnsworth, a Cornell Lab of Ornithology scientist, about BirdCast, a project that uses AI to process weather data and predict how birds migrate (Malena Carollo/The Markup)

Sylvia Westall / Bloomberg: Yandex plans to sell its entire Russian business, including its popular search engine, to a group led by Yandex management in a deal valued at about $5.2B  —  – Dutch-registered firm is divesting of its Russian… Read More »Yandex plans to sell its entire Russian business, including its popular search engine, to a group led by Yandex management in a deal valued at about $5.2B (Sylvia Westall/Bloomberg)

Bloomberg: A Seoul court acquits Samsung Executive Chairman Jay Y. Lee of stock manipulation charges, removing the threat of a jail time for the billionaire  —  A Seoul Central District Court judge delivered the verdict after about an hour’s recitation… Read More »A Seoul court acquits Samsung Executive Chairman Jay Y. Lee of stock manipulation charges, removing the threat of a jail time for the billionaire (Bloomberg)

Eduardo Baptista / Reuters: A look at China’s interest in the “geopolitically neutral” RISC-V open-source chip architecture, as US sanctions put the top x86 and ARM chips out of reach  —  When a Beijing-based military institute in September published a… Read More »A look at China’s interest in the “geopolitically neutral” RISC-V open-source chip architecture, as US sanctions put the top x86 and ARM chips out of reach (Eduardo Baptista/Reuters)

Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg: A look at UMG’s TikTok retreat, stemming from issues like low payouts and a lack of assurances on fighting deepfakes, and TikTok’s role in the music industry  —  We’re about to find out how important TikTok… Read More »A look at UMG’s TikTok retreat, stemming from issues like low payouts and a lack of assurances on fighting deepfakes, and TikTok’s role in the music industry (Lucas Shaw/Bloomberg)

Umar Farooq / ProPublica: US police departments are using AI software from Chicago-based Truleo and other companies to analyze millions of hours of unreviewed body-cam footage  —  Black Boxes: How Police Undermined the Promise of Body Cameras  —  Body-worn cameras… Read More »US police departments are using AI software from Chicago-based Truleo and other companies to analyze millions of hours of unreviewed body-cam footage (Umar Farooq/ProPublica)

CNN: A Hong Kong-based firm’s employee was tricked into paying $25M to fraudsters who used deepfake tech to pose as the company’s CFO and staff during a video call  —  A finance worker at a multinational firm was tricked into… Read More »A Hong Kong-based firm’s employee was tricked into paying $25M to fraudsters who used deepfake tech to pose as the company’s CFO and staff during a video call (CNN)

Gabriel J.X. Dance / New York Times: A look at the dispute between Bitcoin miners in Arkansas and residents, who say the noise is ruining lives, lowering property values, and driving away wildlife  —  Pushed by an advocacy group, Arkansas… Read More »A look at the dispute between Bitcoin miners in Arkansas and residents, who say the noise is ruining lives, lowering property values, and driving away wildlife (Gabriel J.X. Dance/New York Times)

Rebecca Jennings / Vox: How social media is forcing writers and artists to build personal brands and become influencers, making many artists uncomfortable and feel like sellouts  —  So you want to be an artist.  Do you have to start… Read More »How social media is forcing writers and artists to build personal brands and become influencers, making many artists uncomfortable and feel like sellouts (Rebecca Jennings/Vox)