Tech Meme

Matt Levine / Bloomberg: Big firms want to trade crypto with the structure of traditional finance, including orders intermediated by brokers and asset custody separate from the exchange  —  Institutional crypto  —  I think even a year ago it was possible to imagine the traditional financial system learning something from crypto. Lees verder op Tech Meme

David McCabe / New York Times: Sources: the Biden administration has ramped up exploration of security concerns with Chinese cloud computing firms, potentially fueling tensions with Beijing  —  The Biden administration is exploring whether it can mount a campaign against Chinese tech giants like Alibaba and Huawei, potentially fueling tensions with Beijing. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ina Fried / Axios: Australia’s online safety regulator gives Twitter 28 days to explain the steps it is taking to combat hate speech or face $475K in fines  —  Australia’s online safety regulator sent a legal notice to Twitter demanding the social network explain the steps it is taking to combat online hate or risk being slapped with fines. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ryan Browne / CNBC: Ripple says it got in-principle regulatory approval from Singapore to offer digital payment token products and expand XRP cross-border transfers in the country  —  – Ripple said it received in-principle approval of a Major Payment Institution Licence from the Monetary Authority of Singapore, the country’s central bank. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: Microsoft aims to build a quantum supercomputer within 10 years, after Microsoft researchers claim to create Majorana particles for scalable and stable qubits  —  Microsoft today announced its roadmap for building its own quantum supercomputer, using the topological qubits the company’s researchers … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Edward Felsenthal / TIME: Q&A with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman on why UX matters for AI, AGI going “wrong” vs. “AGI is going to go fantastically well”, capping profit, regulation, and more  —  For this week’s TIME100 Most Influential Companies cover story about OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Alex Heath / The Verge: After Elon Musk tweeted he is “up for a cage fight” with Mark Zuckerberg, both parties agree to a fight in principle without agreeing to specifics  —  Here we go.  —  After Elon Musk recently tweeted that he would be “up for a cage fight” with Zuckerberg, the Meta CEO shot … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Harry McCracken / Fast Company: NYC-based Warp, a Rust-based terminal app for macOS with features like AI-powered auto-complete suggestions of commands, raised a $50M Series B led by Sequoia  —  Command-line interfaces have barely changed in decades, but remain beloved by techies.  Warp aims to modernize the whole experience—and add a dash of AI. Lees verder op Tech Meme

David Heaney / UploadVR: Meta rolls out the Quest v55 update, boosting the Quest 2 and Pro maximum clock speeds by up to 19% for the GPU and 26% for the CPU, as Quest 3 preps for launch  —  The Quest v55 update brings the promised CPU & GPU clock speed increases for Quest 2 and Quest Pro. Lees verder op Tech Meme

9to5Google: Code repository suggests Google is working on a separate “Chromebook X” brand for premium devices, a source says with first models expected by the end of 2023  —  When does a Chromebook become more than “just a Chromebook?”  That’s the question that Google has set out to answer with its upcoming … Lees verder op Tech Meme