Tech Meme

Katharine Gemmell / Bloomberg: The UK CMA clears Amazon’s proposed $1.7B iRobot deal, saying acquiring the robot vacuum maker would have “no impact on competition in the UK”  —  Amazon.com Inc.’s proposed $1.7 billion deal to buy robot vacuum firm iRobot Corp. was given the all-clear by the UK’s antitrust agency. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Lora Kolodny / CNBC: Twitter suspends the accounts of public records database PlainSite and its founder Aaron Greenspan, who has tracked litigation against Tesla and Twitter  —  – Elon Musk-led Twitter on Tuesday suspended the Twitter accounts of PlainSite and its founder Aaron Greenspan, a prominent critic of Tesla and Musk. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Wojciech Moskwa / Bloomberg: Intel plans to invest as much as $4.6B to build a semiconductor assembly and test facility in Wroclaw, Poland, as the EU seeks to boost chip production  —  Intel Corp. plans to invest as much as $4.6 billion to build a semiconductor assembly and test facility in western Poland … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jay Peters / The Verge: Q&A: Reddit CEO Steve Huffman says the API was “never designed to support third-party apps” and he didn’t know how much they were profiting from Reddit’s API  —  Reddit is fighting for its soul. … Huffman has argued the changes are a business decision to force AI companies training … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Teo Armus / Washington Post: Amazon officially opens Metropolitan Park in Arlington, Virginia, the first phase of HQ2, where the company has projected bringing 25,000 workers by 2030  —  After a national bidding war that prompted cities to offer billions in tax dollars and years of planning and construction that promised … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Mia Sato / The Verge: How the “arms race” of SEO experts has left Google Search and the web drowning in garbage text, resulting in customers and businesses failing to find each other  —  The SEO arms race has left Google and the web drowning in garbage text, with customers and businesses flailing to find each other. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Reuters: Micron plans to invest $603M in a chip packaging facility in Xian, China; the country banned Micron’s products from its critical infrastructure in May 2023  —  U.S. memory chipmaker Micron (MU.O) said on Friday it was committed to China and would invest 4.3 billion yuan ($603 million) … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jay Peters / The Verge: CEO Steve Huffman says Reddit’s API was “never designed to support third-party apps” and he didn’t know the extent that they were profiting from Reddit’s API  —  Reddit is fighting for its soul. … Huffman has argued the changes are a business decision to force AI companies training … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jay Peters / The Verge: Reddit CEO Steve Huffman: Reddit ‘was never designed to support third-party apps’ … Thousands of Reddit communities are still dark in protest of the API changes that are forcing some third-party developers to shut down their apps.  It’s a startling change for many members of the Reddit community … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Stephen Shankland / CNET: Intel announces its first quantum processor, Tunnel Falls, a 12-qubit chip using electrons for storing data, available to select academic and research partners  —  But before quantum physics revolutionizes computing, Intel and rivals will have to learn how to make vastly more powerful machines. Lees verder op Tech Meme