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The EU fines Meta €1.2B for sending European user data to the US, a record GDPR fine, and orders Meta to end the transfers and delete the data within six months — Decision places pressure on Washington to implement surveillance changes for Europe to allow Meta to keep the data spigot open
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An interview with AI researcher Timnit Gebru on her controversial sacking by Google in 2020, biases in AI and Big Tech, racism in Silicon Valley, and more — The Ethiopian-born computer scientist lost her job after pointing out the inequalities built into AI.
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| Paul Alcorn / Tom's Hardware: |
Top500: 121 of the fastest supercomputers globally are powered by AMD's silicon, up 29% YoY; AMD also powers seven of the top ten systems on the Green500 list — AMD's silicon churns out the flops. — The Top 500 list of the fastest supercomputers in the world was released today …
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Nvidia, HPE, and the University of Bristol unveil Isambard 3, a supercomputer with 384 Nvidia Grace CPUs, each with 144 cores, reaching speeds of 2.7 petaflops — Nvidia Corp. today detailed three initiatives in which researchers will use its chips to support scientific discovery.
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After Google Photos labeled two Black people as “gorillas” in June 2015, photo apps from Google, Apple, Amazon, and Microsoft still can't identify most primates — Eight years after a controversy over Black people being mislabeled by image analysis software … | Sidhartha Shukla / Bloomberg: |
A researcher says hackers took over crypto mixer Tornado Cash on May 20 using a malicious governance proposal to give themselves fake votes to gain full control — Tornado Cash, a service that allows users to mask cryptocurrency transactions, suffered a hostile takeover by hackers through a malicious governance proposal.| Kellen Browning / New York Times: |
Email: Uber suspends its diversity head, Bo Young Lee, for hosting sessions on race titled “Don't Call Me Karen”, which attendees felt were insensitive to PoC — The executive hosted sessions about race and being a white woman that were titled “Don't Call Me Karen,” prompting an employee uproar.
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| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Mark Zuckerberg says WhatsApp users can now edit messages up to 15 minutes after sending them; messages get an “edited” tag beside the time stamp for the change — WhatsApp is finally announced one of the most anticipated features today— message editing.
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| Subhrojit Mallick / The Economic Times: |
Wistron plans to sell its iPhone assembly unit near Bengaluru to Tata Group and exit India due to its inability to get deeper into Apple's supply chain and more — The contract maker's inability to get deeper into Apple's supply chain, sale of China factory and challenges posed by local employment norms spurred its decision to leave.
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China's Micron ban may boost Samsung's and SK Hynix's sales, an uncomfortable position for South Korea given the companies' exposure to Chinese and US pressure — Samsung, SK Hynix would be best positioned to fill Micron's void, though geopolitical pressure from both Beijing and Washington make for a tough choice| Bloomberg: |
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| RT Watson / The Block: |
Australian blockchain-based fitness app Stepn says iOS users can now buy and sell NFTs inside its app, signaling that Apple may have softened its crypto policy — - Stepn users will be able to buy, sell and trade the game's NFT sneakers without having to leave the app.
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Experts say the EU banning “forever chemicals”, considered toxic for humans and the environment, could derail its chip plans as there are no safe alternatives — When Mark Newman walked into the lobby of a Tokyo hotel for a customer conference late last year … | Don Clark / New York Times: |
Chipmaking machine giant Applied Materials plans to invest up to $4B in a Sunnyvale, California, research center over seven years to improve chip collaboration — Anticipating federal subsidies, Applied Materials said it planned to invest up to $4 billion in the semiconductor project in Sunnyvale, Calif.Sponsor Posts
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