Tech Meme

Nikkei Asia: Sources: In a first, Apple is working with China’s BYD to move new product development for an iPad to Vietnam, with test production to begin around early 2024  —  China’s BYD helps American giant with shift to alternative tech hubs  —  Vietnam is emerging as an increasingly important production hub … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sankalp Phartiyal / Bloomberg: Sources: Tata plans to build one of India’s largest iPhone plants employing 50,000 workers within two years, and expects operations to begin in 12-18 months  —  – New plant would speed up Apple’s diversification beyond China  — Tata wants more Apple business after buying one iPhone factory Lees verder op Tech Meme

Lily Hay Newman / Wired: A look at the technical issues Meta faced as it developed E2EE for Messenger, including creating an encrypted storage protocol and re-architecting chat features  —  Mark Zuckerberg personally promised that the privacy feature would launch by default on Messenger and Instagram chat. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Peter Grant / Wall Street Journal: Blackstone and Digital Realty launch a joint venture to spend $7B developing 10 data centers across four campuses in Frankfurt, Paris, and Northern Virginia  —  Venture will target providers of online content, cloud services and AI  —  Investment giant Blackstone and Digital Realty … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jessica Lyons Hardcastle / The Register: A researcher says a years-old Bluetooth authentication flaw lets attackers inject keystrokes to run arbitrary commands on Apple, Android, and some Linux devices  —  Issue has been around since at least 2012  —  A years-old Bluetooth authentication bypass vulnerability allows miscreants to connect to Apple … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Parmy Olson / Bloomberg: Google’s Gemini video demo of its multimodal capabilities wasn’t carried out in real time or in voice; the model was shown still images and given text prompts  —  The tech giant’s latest AI model is only marginally better than the one from OpenAI that’s been out for eight months. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Todd Spangler / Variety: Spotify says CFO Paul Vogel plans to leave on March 31, 2024, and launches a search for a successor; Daniel Ek wants a CFO “with a different mix of experiences”  —  Spotify said chief financial officer Paul Vogel will leave the company next year and that it has launched a search to find a replacement. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kaya Yurieff / The Information: TikTok forms a task force to tackle hate speech and plans to open its research API to civil society groups, after complaints about viral Israel-Hamas war videos  —  TikTok is preparing a slew of initiatives to defuse growing complaints that antisemitism and other hate speech has proliferated in videos about the Hamas-Israel war. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Wall Street Journal: The US and UK governments jointly accuse Russia’s FSB of orchestrating a wide-ranging, global hacking campaign since 2015 to interfere in British elections  —  The cyberattacks also allegedly took aim at U.S. energy networks and American spies  —  LONDON—The U.S. and U.K. governments … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kaya Yurieff / The Information: TikTok unveils a task force to tackle hate speech and plans to open up its research API to civil society groups, after complaints over Israel-Hamas videos  —  TikTok is preparing a slew of initiatives to defuse growing complaints that antisemitism and other hate speech has proliferated in videos about the Hamas-Israel war. Lees verder op Tech Meme