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Yuan Gao / Bloomberg: US adds China’s Inspur, one of the world’s largest server makers that has joint ventures with IBM and Cisco, to an Entity List, limiting its access to US tech  —  The Biden administration’s blacklisting of China’s Inspur Group Co. targets a company that US tech giants like Cisco Systems Inc. … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Erin Woo / The Information: Sources: after Twitter refused to pay its AWS bills for months, Amazon threatened in February to withhold payments for the ads it runs on Twitter  —  Elon Musk is running into an obstacle in his relentless drive to cut costs at Twitter: some of the same vendors that Twitter is squeezing to save money are also its advertising clients. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: BidenCash, a dark web site dealing in stolen credit and debit cards, leaks a free database of 2M+ cards revealing emails, card expiry dates, CVV codes, and more  —  A carding marketplace known as BidenCash has leaked online a free database of 2,165,700 debit and credit cards in celebration of its first anniversary. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Demetri Sevastopulo / Financial Times: The US imposes new rules requiring that CHIPS Act beneficiaries agree not to expand manufacturing capacity in “countries of concern”, like China, for 10 years  —  Commerce department imposes new rules on beneficiaries of $39bn programme  —  Chipmakers must agree not to expand capacity … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Will Douglas Heaven / MIT Technology Review: Q&A with OpenAI’s Sandhini Agarwal, Liam Fedus, Jan Leike, and co-founder John Schulman on training ChatGPT, dealing with virality, fixing problems, and more  —  Exclusive conversations that take us behind the scenes of a cultural phenomenon.  —  When OpenAI launched ChatGPT … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Financial Times: Some UK officials and SoftBank staff blame onerous FCA rules, complexity and cost, inflexibility, and political chaos for Arm’s decision to shun London listing  —  Onerous rules said to have influenced rejection of UK float for chip designer in favour of New York Lees verder op Tech Meme

Noah Bierman / Los Angeles Times: San Jose-based Vintra, whose software is used by the IRS, police, and more, claims its “co-appearance” AI can mark interactions between people caught on camera  —  A gray-haired man walks through an office lobby holding a coffee cup, staring ahead as he passes the entryway. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kif Leswing / CNBC: Reid Hoffman leaves the nonprofit board of OpenAI, citing a desire to invest in companies using OpenAI’s tech, which he says could cause a conflict of interest  —  – LinkedIn founder and Greylock partner Reid Hoffman is leaving the nonprofit board of OpenAI, he announced in a post on Friday. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge: Ring says new users of Ring Alarm will have to pay for a Ring Protect plan costing $3.99+ per month to access existing free features, starting March 29  —  Yet another company will charge its customers more money for using existing features as the subscription-based smart home becomes the norm. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Josh Eidelson / Bloomberg: An NLRB director rules that Google is a “joint employer” with YouTube subcontractor Cognizant and must bargain with Cognizant workers if they vote to unionize  —  Alphabet Inc.’s Google is legally the boss of YouTube contract staff and must collectively bargain with the workers … Lees verder op Tech Meme