Journals

Dexter Thomas / Wired: Q&A with TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew on the company’s music festival in Mesa, AZ, his background, TikTok and music, music labels, US scrutiny, moderation, and more  —  A few weeks ago, Shou Zi Chew sat… Read More »Q&A with TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew on the company’s music festival in Mesa, AZ, his background, TikTok and music, music labels, US scrutiny, moderation, and more (Dexter Thomas/Wired)

Bloomberg: The US sentences Joseph Garrison, a 19-year-old involved in the 2022 DraftKings hack, to 18 months in jail; Garrison admitted to stealing $600K from 1,600 users  —  A 19-year-old Wisconsin man involved in the 2022 hack of the DraftKings… Read More »The US sentences Joseph Garrison, a 19-year-old involved in the 2022 DraftKings hack, to 18 months in jail; Garrison admitted to stealing $600K from 1,600 users (Bloomberg)

Reuters: Sources: Nvidia opens pre-orders for its new China-specific H20 AI chips, each costing $12K to $15K; specs show Huawei’s 910B as more powerful in some key areas  —  Nvidia (NVDA.O) has started taking pre-orders for a new China-specific artificial… Read More »Sources: Nvidia opens pre-orders for its new China-specific H20 AI chips, each costing $12K to $15K; specs show Huawei’s 910B as more powerful in some key areas (Reuters)

Justine Calma / The Verge: Google signs power purchase deals with two new Dutch offshore wind farms, its biggest deals yet, and expects its Dutch centers to hit 90% clean energy in 2024  —  Google announced its biggest deal yet… Read More »Google signs power purchase deals with two new Dutch offshore wind farms, its biggest deals yet, and expects its Dutch centers to hit 90% clean energy in 2024 (Justine Calma/The Verge)

Financial Times: Sources: SK Hynix plans to build an advanced chip packaging plant in Indiana, for stacking DRAM chips to make High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) chips for Nvidia GPUs  —  South Korean company’s memory chips will be packaged with Nvidia… Read More »Sources: SK Hynix plans to build an advanced chip packaging plant in Indiana, for stacking DRAM chips to make High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) chips for Nvidia GPUs (Financial Times)

Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: Apple releases visionOS 1.0.2, fixing a WebKit vulnerability that, if exploited, allowed malicious code execution; Apple patched the bug in iOS 17.3 last week  —  A day after reporters published their first hands-on review of Apple’s… Read More »Apple releases visionOS 1.0.2, fixing a WebKit vulnerability that, if exploited, allowed malicious code execution; Apple patched the bug in iOS 17.3 last week (Zack Whittaker/TechCrunch)

Ashley Carman / Bloomberg: UMG begins pulling its artists’ music from TikTok after contract talks failed; videos featuring UMG artists will be muted and users can pick a new soundtrack  —  – Publisher behind Drake and Taylor Swift pushes for… Read More »UMG begins pulling its artists’ music from TikTok after contract talks failed; videos featuring UMG artists will be muted and users can pick a new soundtrack (Ashley Carman/Bloomberg)

Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge: After Amazon ended its acquisition, iRobot, whose market share has been steadily eroding since 2014, could quickly become an also-ran in the robot vacuum market  —  By abandoning its deal to buy iRobot, Amazon… Read More »After Amazon ended its acquisition, iRobot, whose market share has been steadily eroding since 2014, could quickly become an also-ran in the robot vacuum market (Jennifer Pattison Tuohy/The Verge)

Hannah Murphy / Financial Times: Q&A with Pinterest CEO Bill Ready on why social media turned toxic, his vision for a less toxic platform that can use AI for good, activist investors, and more  —  Bill Ready is the chief… Read More »Q&A with Pinterest CEO Bill Ready on why social media turned toxic, his vision for a less toxic platform that can use AI for good, activist investors, and more (Hannah Murphy/Financial Times)

Bloomberg: As the pharmaceutical industry adopts AI to speed up drug development, a look at the challenges facing the industry to prove the effectiveness of AI-aided drugs  —  Machine learning and molecular image recognition are far faster than researchers at… Read More »As the pharmaceutical industry adopts AI to speed up drug development, a look at the challenges facing the industry to prove the effectiveness of AI-aided drugs (Bloomberg)