Journals

Megha Mandavia / Wall Street Journal: How China’s spending may swamp India’s chip ambitions; TrendForce: China’s share of global mature-node production will grow from 31% in 2023 to 39% in 2027  —  India is making a play for the semiconductor… Read More »How China’s spending may swamp India’s chip ambitions; TrendForce: China’s share of global mature-node production will grow from 31% in 2023 to 39% in 2027 (Megha Mandavia/Wall Street Journal)

Madhumita Murgia / Financial Times: How an Uber Eats worker created UberCheats, a web app that computed the actual distance a courier traveled, after suspecting algorithmic error and underpayment  —  A tech-savvy Uber Eats worker was sick of the algorithms… Read More »How an Uber Eats worker created UberCheats, a web app that computed the actual distance a courier traveled, after suspecting algorithmic error and underpayment (Madhumita Murgia/Financial Times)

Magdalene J. Taylor / New York Times: A look at the collapse of dating apps’ usability, which can be blamed on the paid subscription model and the near monopoly the apps have over the dating world  —  “The golden age… Read More »A look at the collapse of dating apps’ usability, which can be blamed on the paid subscription model and the near monopoly the apps have over the dating world (Magdalene J. Taylor/New York Times)

Scharon Harding / Ars Technica: In a company blog post, Broadcom CEO Hock Tan acknowledged “unease” among VMware customers and partners after making sweeping post-acquisition changes  —  “There’s more to come.”  —  Broadcom CEO and President Hock Tan has acknowledged… Read More »In a company blog post, Broadcom CEO Hock Tan acknowledged “unease” among VMware customers and partners after making sweeping post-acquisition changes (Scharon Harding/Ars Technica)

Joshua Oliver / Financial Times: FTX’s collapse exposed problems with crypto that are just as relevant today, including a lack of decentralization and companies’ persistent regulatory battles  —  Jay Gatsby, Albert Einstein, Frodo Baggins, John Pierpont Morgan, Michael Jordan, Bill… Read More »FTX’s collapse exposed problems with crypto that are just as relevant today, including a lack of decentralization and companies’ persistent regulatory battles (Joshua Oliver/Financial Times)

Michael J. de la Merced / New York Times: A profile of former Autonomy CEO Mike Lynch, whose trial begins on March 18 in SF, where federal prosecutors have accused him of defrauding HP of billions  —  A criminal trial… Read More »A profile of former Autonomy CEO Mike Lynch, whose trial begins on March 18 in SF, where federal prosecutors have accused him of defrauding HP of billions (Michael J. de la Merced/New York Times)

Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat: Apple researchers detail MM1, a series of multimodal LLMs with up to 30B parameters they say achieve state-of-the-art performance across multiple AI benchmarks  —  Apple researchers have developed new methods for training large language models on… Read More »Apple researchers detail MM1, a series of multimodal LLMs with up to 30B parameters they say achieve state-of-the-art performance across multiple AI benchmarks (Michael Nuñez/VentureBeat)

Josh Taylor / The Guardian: Epic’s antitrust cases against Apple and Google in Australia, which were paused in April 2021, are set to be heard at the same time over the next five months  —  Maker of Fortnite says in… Read More »Epic’s antitrust cases against Apple and Google in Australia, which were paused in April 2021, are set to be heard at the same time over the next five months (Josh Taylor/The Guardian)

Benjamin Shestakofsky / IEEE Spectrum: An excerpt from the book Behind the Startup details how an unnamed Silicon Valley-based unicorn’s push for rapid growth left little time for actual engineering  —  For 19 months, the sociologist Benjamin Shestakofsky embedded himself… Read More »An excerpt from the book Behind the Startup details how an unnamed Silicon Valley-based unicorn’s push for rapid growth left little time for actual engineering (Benjamin Shestakofsky/IEEE Spectrum)

Miranda Bryant / The Guardian: Lotte Rubæk, a psychologist who advises Meta on suicide prevention and self-harm, quits, accusing Meta of “turning a blind eye” to harmful content on Instagram  —  Exclusive: Psychologist accuses Meta of ‘turning a blind eye’… Read More »Lotte Rubæk, a psychologist who advises Meta on suicide prevention and self-harm, quits, accusing Meta of “turning a blind eye” to harmful content on Instagram (Miranda Bryant/The Guardian)