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Fanny Potkin / Reuters: Silicon Box, created by Marvell’s co-founders and CEO BJ Han, plans to spend $2B to build a Singapore-based chip foundry for chiplets, creating 1,000+ jobs  —  Singapore-based Silicon Box opened a $2 billion advanced semiconductor manufacturing foundry in the city-state on Thursday … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Manish Singh / TechCrunch: Netflix brings its password-sharing crackdown to India and other markets and says an “extra member” option won’t be offered in places with its new restrictions  —  Netflix is bringing password-sharing crackdown to consumers in India and every other market starting today … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Benj Edwards / Ars Technica: A study claims GPT-4’s outputs became worse between March and June 2023, but some experts are not convinced and urge OpenAI to be less opaque with its AI models  —  Either way, experts think OpenAI should be less opaque about its AI model architecture.  —  On Tuesday, researchers … Lees verder op Tech Meme

New York Times: Sources: Google tests an AI tool to produce news stories, pitching the service to the NYT, WaPo, News Corp, and other outlets as a helpmate for journalists  —  The product, pitched as a helpmate for journalists, has been demonstrated for executives at The New York Times, The Washington Post and News Corp … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Anthony Capaccio / Bloomberg: The US Army says Microsoft plans to deliver improved goggles by July 31 for intensive testing ahead of a decision on their deployment or cancelation by 2025  —  – Delivery by July 31 would start three rounds of soldier tests  — Device based on HoloLens may yield a $21.9 billion program Lees verder op Tech Meme

Nikkei Asia: TSMC reports Q2 revenue down 10% YoY to ~$15.68B and net profit down 23.3% YoY to ~$5.9B, the first quarterly decline since 2019, as all non-AI chip sales lag  —  Taiwan chipmaker logs quarterly net profit drop on consumer electronics slump  —  Sluggish demand for smartphones … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Hibaq Farah / The Guardian: Ofcom survey: TikTok is the top news source for 12- to 15-year-olds in the UK, followed by YouTube and Instagram; 16- to 24-year-olds prefer Instagram for news  —  Algorithm-driven viral video app overtakes YouTube and Instagram as most used single source of news for young teenagers Lees verder op Tech Meme

Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: Adobe releases an emergency ColdFusion security update that fixes a zero-day RCE flaw used in the wild, after its July 11 fix was marked incomplete by Rapid7  —  Adobe released an emergency ColdFusion security update that fixes critical vulnerabilities, including a fix for a new zero-day exploited in attacks. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Nilay Patel / The Verge: Q&A with Squarespace CEO Anthony Casalena on LLMs and building a website in 2023, how the company is structured, competition, acquiring Google Domains, and more  —  Squarespace has lived through the eras of domain squatting, SEO keywords, and social algorithms and is now launching AI tools. Lees verder op Tech Meme

New York Times: Kevin Mitnick, a hacker best known for his crime spree in the 1990s, who later became a consultant, writer, and public speaker after leaving prison, dies at 59  —  Mr. Mitnick, best known for a crime spree during the 1990s that involved the theft of thousands of data files and credit card numbers, died from pancreatic cancer. Lees verder op Tech Meme