Journals

Financial Times: South Korea’s leading display makers LG and Samsung close ranks as they cede ground to Chinese TV and smartphone screen manufacturers and face OLED competition  —  After taking over mass-market LCDs, Chinese manufacturers are threatening to undercut South… Read More »South Korea’s leading display makers LG and Samsung close ranks as they cede ground to Chinese TV and smartphone screen manufacturers and face OLED competition (Financial Times)

Bloomberg: Cybersecurity experts say global law enforcement agencies dealt Russia-linked LockBit a major blow, but history shows that ransomware gangs regroup quickly  —  – Disruption of LockBit praised as major blow against gang  — History has shown that hackers regroup… Read More »Cybersecurity experts say global law enforcement agencies dealt Russia-linked LockBit a major blow, but history shows that ransomware gangs regroup quickly (Bloomberg)

Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: Apple says the iPhone 15 lineup can retain 80% of its original battery capacity after 1,000 charge cycles, up from its original estimate of 500 charge cycles  —  In addition to changes to the Battery Health… Read More »Apple says the iPhone 15 lineup can retain 80% of its original battery capacity after 1,000 charge cycles, up from its original estimate of 500 charge cycles (Chance Miller/9to5Mac)

Bloomberg: Filing: Samsung sold 1.58M ASML shares, or 0.4% of ASML, worth ~$930M in September 2023, reducing its stake to zero, as Samsung looks to new areas of chipmaking  —  The world’s largest memory maker sold about 1.58 million shares,… Read More »Filing: Samsung sold 1.58M ASML shares, or 0.4% of ASML, worth ~$930M in September 2023, reducing its stake to zero, as Samsung looks to new areas of chipmaking (Bloomberg)

Margi Murphy / Bloomberg: A profile of ElevenLabs, whose AI voice cloning tech is being used to spoof politicians; five of ElevenLabs’ 40 employees are dedicated to trust and safety  —  ElevenLabs’ technology is already being used to spoof political… Read More »A profile of ElevenLabs, whose AI voice cloning tech is being used to spoof politicians; five of ElevenLabs’ 40 employees are dedicated to trust and safety (Margi Murphy/Bloomberg)

Paul Alcorn / Tom’s Hardware: Q&A with Intel Foundry Services SVP and GM Stu Pann on the company’s goal of becoming the world’s second-largest foundry by 2030, making Arm chips, and more  —  Intel poised to compete with TSMC  — … Read More »Q&A with Intel Foundry Services SVP and GM Stu Pann on the company’s goal of becoming the world’s second-largest foundry by 2030, making Arm chips, and more (Paul Alcorn/Tom’s Hardware)

Stephen Totilo / Game File: An interview with Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer on Xbox growth, job cuts, and why getting rid of physical Xbox discs is “not a strategic thing for us”  —  Microsoft’s gaming chief Phil Spencer is… Read More »An interview with Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer on Xbox growth, job cuts, and why getting rid of physical Xbox discs is “not a strategic thing for us” (Stephen Totilo/Game File)

Viola Zhou / Rest of World: How livestreaming talent agencies in China recruit influencers, often signing them to multiyear contracts that cost tens of thousands of dollars to breach  —  Chinese livestream agencies promise influencers fame and money, but end… Read More »How livestreaming talent agencies in China recruit influencers, often signing them to multiyear contracts that cost tens of thousands of dollars to breach (Viola Zhou/Rest of World)

Muyao Shen / Bloomberg: DefiLlama: the total value of tokens sent to the Bitcoin DeFi market surpassed $1B; CryptoSlam: daily NFT sales volume on Bitcoin beat Ethereum in early January  —  Bitcoin goes DeFi  —  In 2013, a 19-year-old Vitalik… Read More »DefiLlama: the total value of tokens sent to the Bitcoin DeFi market surpassed $1B; CryptoSlam: daily NFT sales volume on Bitcoin beat Ethereum in early January (Muyao Shen/Bloomberg)

Juro Osawa / The Information: Sources: some ByteDance executives expressed concerns over running the video editing app CapCut from China given the political scrutiny facing TikTok in the US  —  Last year, the second most downloaded free app in the… Read More »Sources: some ByteDance executives expressed concerns over running the video editing app CapCut from China given the political scrutiny facing TikTok in the US (Juro Osawa/The Information)