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Bloomberg: A look at Osaka-based Fuso Chemical, which supplies 90%+ of the silica to polish wafers, sinking deeper into debt by refusing to raise its prices to cover capex  —  – Fuso Chemical says lifting prices would be betraying customers  — Osaka firm dominates in chip silica but struggles with capex Lees verder op Tech Meme

Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch: 23andMe says hackers stole the ancestry data of 6.9M of its 14M customers, via a breach first disclosed in October 2023, by leveraging access to ~14K accounts  —  On Friday, genetic testing company 23andMe announced that hackers accessed the personal data of 0.1% of customers, or about 14,000 individuals. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jason Koebler / 404 Media: Asking ChatGPT to repeat words “forever” now violates OpenAI’s terms of service, after Google researchers showed that doing so led it to reveal training data  —  Join the newsletter to get the latest updates.  —  Success  —  Great!  Check your inbox and click the link.  —  Error Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: AssemblyAI, used by companies to build AI speech models, raised $50M led by Accel, taking its total funding to $115M, and says paying users grew 200% YoY to 4K  —  Companies are betting big on generative AI to gain a competitive edge.  But adoption challenges remain. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Louis Columbus / VentureBeat: Researchers scanned public repos and found 1,681 exposed Hugging Face API tokens belonging to Meta, Microsoft, Google, and others, many with write permissions  —  Further validating how brittle the security of generative AI models and their platforms are, Lasso Security helped Hugging Face dodge … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch: 23andMe says hackers stole ancestry data on 6.9M users, about half of its customers, via a breach first disclosed in Oct., by leveraging access to ~14K accounts  —  On Friday, genetic testing company 23andMe announced that hackers accessed the personal data of 0.1% of customers, or about 14,000 individuals. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: AssemblyAI, which lets companies build AI speech models, raised $50M led by Accel, bringing its total funding to $115M, and says it now has 4K paying customers  —  Companies are betting big on generative AI to gain a competitive edge.  But adoption challenges remain. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jason Koebler / 404 Media: Asking ChatGPT to repeat words “forever” is now against OpenAI’s terms of service, after Google researchers showed that doing so led it to reveal training data  —  Join the newsletter to get the latest updates.  —  Success  —  Great!  Check your inbox and click the link.  —  Error Lees verder op Tech Meme

The Guardian: Investigation: Russia- and China-linked hackers targeted UK nuclear site Sellafield with sleeper malware as far back as 2015; data loss extent is still unknown  —  Exclusive: Malware may still be present and potential effects have been covered up by staff, investigation reveals Lees verder op Tech Meme

Financial Times: IBM announces 10 quantum computing projects, focusing mainly on areas like simulating quantum physics and solving problems in chemistry and materials science  —  Use of technology to solve scientific problems still falls short of commercialisation  —  Quantum computing is starting to fulfil … Lees verder op Tech Meme