Journals

Robert McMillan / Wall Street Journal: US DHS: Chinese criminal organizations made $1B+ in the past three years via scam texts; Proofpoint: last month, a record 330K US toll-scam texts were reported  —  Messages seeking payment for unpaid tolls or… Read More »US DHS: Chinese criminal organizations made $1B+ in the past three years via scam texts; Proofpoint: last month, a record 330K US toll-scam texts were reported (Robert McMillan/Wall Street Journal)

Washington Post: An internal Google email said it received many complaints over Israeli government YouTube ads about food access in Gaza, but ruled the ads could remain online  —  An internal Google email said it received many complaints about Israeli… Read More »An internal Google email said it received many complaints over Israeli government YouTube ads about food access in Gaza, but ruled the ads could remain online (Washington Post)

Bloomberg: ASML CFO Roger Dassen says the company is “well prepared” for China’s curbs on exports of rare earths; a source says ASML could face weeks-long shipment delays  —  ASML Holding NV is “well prepared” for China’s curbs on exports… Read More »ASML CFO Roger Dassen says the company is “well prepared” for China’s curbs on exports of rare earths; a source says ASML could face weeks-long shipment delays (Bloomberg)

Financial Times: The Dutch seizing Nexperia from Wingtech is a landmark moment, showing it made a mistake allowing its sale and how ensnared the EU is in the US-China tech war  —  The Dutch seizure of Nexperia shows how ensnared… Read More »The Dutch seizing Nexperia from Wingtech is a landmark moment, showing it made a mistake allowing its sale and how ensnared the EU is in the US-China tech war (Financial Times)

Reuters: Sources: Apple is lobbying India to modify its income tax law to ensure Apple is not taxed for owning high-end iPhone machinery it provides to its manufacturers  —  – Apple is increasingly focusing on India expansion  — Apple often… Read More »Sources: Apple is lobbying India to modify its income tax law to ensure Apple is not taxed for owning high-end iPhone machinery it provides to its manufacturers (Reuters)

Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: Waymo plans to launch a fully driverless robotaxi service in London, starting in 2026, its first European launch; human-supervised cars will first collect data  —  It’s good timing too.  The UK is ready to… Read More »Waymo plans to launch a fully driverless robotaxi service in London, starting in 2026, its first European launch; human-supervised cars will first collect data (Andrew J. Hawkins/The Verge)

Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times: UK startup Nscale signs an up to $14B deal with Microsoft to deploy ~104K Nvidia GB300 chips for Microsoft in Texas within 18 months and 12,600 GPUs in Portugal  —  Nvidia-backed AI cloud group secures… Read More »UK startup Nscale signs an up to $14B deal with Microsoft to deploy ~104K Nvidia GB300 chips for Microsoft in Texas within 18 months and 12,600 GPUs in Portugal (Tim Bradshaw/Financial Times)

Chris Bryant / Bloomberg: SoftBank’s $5.4B purchase of ABB’s robotics unit is another setback for Europe, which risks losing its edge to Asian and US companies in the “physical AI” era  —  Announcing the $5.4 billion acquisition of Swiss conglomerate… Read More »SoftBank’s $5.4B purchase of ABB’s robotics unit is another setback for Europe, which risks losing its edge to Asian and US companies in the “physical AI” era (Chris Bryant/Bloomberg)

Mother Jones: Inside First Wap, a European-led phone tracking company in Indonesia that has exploited the SS7 telecom protocol to target politicians, journalists, and others  —  Inside the hidden world of First Wap, whose untraceable tech has targeted politicians, journalists,… Read More »Inside First Wap, a European-led phone tracking company in Indonesia that has exploited the SS7 telecom protocol to target politicians, journalists, and others (Mother Jones)

Reuters: How AI is upending India’s business process management sector, which employs 1.65M people; conversational AI startup LimeChat claims to have automated 5K jobs  —  – India bets AI will create enough new opportunities to offset job losses  — AI… Read More »How AI is upending India’s business process management sector, which employs 1.65M people; conversational AI startup LimeChat claims to have automated 5K jobs (Reuters)