Tech Meme

Madhumita Murgia / Financial Times: The UK’s NHS is using the National Liver Offering Scheme, a predictive scoring algorithm found to have a fatal error, to help decide who gets a liver transplant  —  Sarah Meredith was in urgent need of a liver when she found out an algorithm would be making the life-or-death decision Lees verder op Tech Meme

Paul Sawers / TechCrunch: The EU launches the European Crowdfunding Service Provider Regulation, uniform rules that all business-focused crowdfunding platforms in the bloc must adhere to  —  All business crowdfunding platforms wishing to operate within the European Union (EU) must now comply with a new EU-wide regulatory framework … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Takashi Mochizuki / Bloomberg: Japan plans to allocate an extra ~$13B in subsidies to drive investment in its chip industry, on top of previously allocated subsidies that have yet to be spent  —  – Economy Ministry seeks $12 billion in extra budget for chips  — Country chasing tech leadership as geopolitical tensions rise Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: Kai-Fu Lee, the CEO of 01.AI, says the Chinese startup stockpiled enough Nvidia chips to last for the next 18 months, before the US banned chip sales to China  —  – Founded this year, Kai-Fu Lee’s 01.AI is already a unicorn  — Best AI training accelerators come from US firm Nvidia Lees verder op Tech Meme

Decrypt: Justin Sun’s crypto exchange Poloniex says hackers stole more than $126M worth of crypto assets and it’s working with other exchanges to recover funds  —  Poloniex, a crypto exchange owned by Tron founder Justin Sun, has seen more than $126 million worth of crypto assets exit one of its wallets as the result of a “hack incident.” Lees verder op Tech Meme

David Attlee / Cointelegraph: All 38 OECD members and nine other countries issue a joint pledge to “swiftly transpose” the OECD’s Crypto-Asset Reporting Framework into their domestic laws  —  The Crypto-Asset Reporting Framework is the new international standard for the automatic exchange of information between tax authorities. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Madhumita Murgia / Financial Times: The UK’s NHS is using a predictive scoring algorithm called the National Liver Offering Scheme, found to have errors, to help decide who gets a liver transplant  —  Sarah Meredith was in urgent need of a liver when she found out an algorithm would be making the life-or-death decision Lees verder op Tech Meme

Paul Sawers / TechCrunch: EU launches European Crowdfunding Service Provider Regulation, a uniform set of rules all crowdfunding platforms wishing to operate in the bloc must adhere to  —  All business crowdfunding platforms wishing to operate within the European Union (EU) must now comply with a new EU-wide regulatory framework … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Helen Partz / Cointelegraph: Binance plans to stop accepting deposits in Russian rubles starting November 15, 2023 and withdrawals on January 31, 2024, advises users to withdraw rubles  —  Binance Russia users will have slightly more than two months to withdraw their rubles from the exchange or until Jan. 31, 2024.  —  Total views Lees verder op Tech Meme

Cheng Leng / Financial Times: Chinese foreign ministry says ICBC is trying to minimize losses after the ransomware attack; a source says the attack is “limited in impact and almost resolved”  —  Hack at Chinese bank’s arm disrupted market for US Treasuries on Thursday  —  The Industrial and Commercial Bank … Lees verder op Tech Meme