Tech Meme

Ana Swanson / New York Times: The Biden administration awards $238M via the Defense Department to set up eight chip research hubs, one of the earliest releases of the nearly $53B CHIPS Act  —  The $238 million in grants will set up eight research hubs, as a small slice of the federal money that will go to chip companies and research facilities in the coming months. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Reuters: Japanese chipmaking equipment maker Kokusai Electric plans to raise ~$750M in an IPO on October 25 in Tokyo at a ~$2.95B valuation, pricing shares at ~$12.78  —  Chipmaking equipment maker Kokusai Electric said on Thursday it plans to list on the Tokyo Stock Exchange on Oct. 25 … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jason Schreier / Bloomberg: Korean game publisher Krafton says Dead Space developer Striking Distance’s CEO Glen Schofield, COO, and CFO are leaving, months after its new game flopped  —  Video-game developer Striking Distance Studios, a subsidiary of Korean publisher Krafton Inc., is appointing new management several months … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Wes Davis / The Verge: Amazon’s Eero announces the Eero Max 7, its first router to support Wi-Fi 7, offering 2.4GHz, 5GHz, and 6GHz and “up to 4.3 Gbps” wireless throughput, for $600+  —  Eero has announced a powerful new top-of-the-line router called the Eero Max 7.  It’s Eero’s first router to support … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Allison Johnson / The Verge: Apple’s FineWoven accessories and iPhone cases are really bad: they are expensive, quickly show wear, and scratch very easily, leaving seemingly permanent marks  —  Apple’s new FineWoven iPhone cases and accessories are bad.  Like, really bad.  I’ve been puzzling over them for the past week, looking at them from different angles. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Andrew Deck / Rest of World: Data-labeling firms like Scale AI and Appen are hiring writers and poets with humanities backgrounds to improve the literary quality and creativity of AI tools  —  Training data companies are grabbing writers of fiction, drama, poetry, and also general humanities experts to improve AI creative writing. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Steve Nadis / Quanta Magazine: A look at Poisson flow generative models, a physics-inspired alternative to diffusion-based AI models that can create same quality images 10 to 20 times faster  —  Some modern image generators rely on the principles of diffusion to create images.  Alternatives based on the process behind … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Wired: Documents show that up to a dozen of Neuralink’s primate subjects were euthanized after suffering complications; Elon Musk says no primates died due to implants  —  Elon Musk says no primates died as a result of Neuralink’s implants.  A WIRED investigation now reveals the grisly specifics … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Nick Huber / Financial Times: Research: the global cyber workforce reached 4.7M in 2022 while still short by 3.4M; Statista: average salary for cyber professionals was between $120K-$150K  —  Ever greater demand for security staff is increasing wage inflation and skills gaps  —  Governments and companies are still struggling … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Andrew Throuvalas / Decrypt: The developer behind AstroPepeX details using ChatGPT to name and launch the ERC-20 memecoin, which has raked in $12.9M in trading volume over the past 24 hours  —  An anonymous Ethereum developer has released code that he says instructs artificial intelligence tools to deploy new ERC-20 tokens. Lees verder op Tech Meme