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China launches a cybersecurity review of products sold in the country by US memory chip manufacturer Micron, citing national security risks (Reuters) 31-03-2023

Reuters: China launches a cybersecurity review of products sold in the country by US memory chip manufacturer Micron, citing national security risks  —  China’s cyberspace regulator will conduct a cybersecurity review on products sold in China by U.S. memory chip manufacturer Micron Technology (MU.O), the regulator said on Friday. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Q&A with Sundar Pichai about Bard, AI “whiplash”, competing with ChatGPT, upgrading Bard with more capable PaLM models starting this week, regulation, and more (New York Times) 31-03-2023

New York Times: Q&A with Sundar Pichai about Bard, AI “whiplash”, competing with ChatGPT, upgrading Bard with more capable PaLM models starting this week, regulation, and more  —  “Am I concerned?  Yes.  Am I optimistic and excited about all the potential of this technology?  Incredibly. Lees verder op Tech Meme

The NYT, LAT, and WaPo won't buy Twitter Blue; NYT, LAT, BuzzFeed, and Politico won't reimburse reporters for it, but Semafor and some other small outlets will (BuzzFeed News) 31-03-2023

BuzzFeed News: The NYT, LAT, and WaPo won’t buy Twitter Blue; NYT, LAT, BuzzFeed, and Politico won’t reimburse reporters for it, but Semafor and some other small outlets will  —  BuzzFeed isn’t ponying up, but for other outlets, paying might make sense.  —  Pranav Dixit Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sources: YMTC expects to begin production at a new chip plant in H2 2024 by relying more on domestic suppliers, boosting China's self-sufficiency efforts (Qianer Liu/Financial Times) 31-03-2023

Qianer Liu / Financial Times: Sources: YMTC expects to begin production at a new chip plant in H2 2024 by relying more on domestic suppliers, boosting China’s self-sufficiency efforts  —  Memory-chip maker to rely on local equipment suppliers for 2024 manufacturing plans  —  Yangtze Memory Technologies Corp … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sources: Jack Ma remains active in deciding Alibaba's strategy and engineered the company's split from overseas, telling executives it would make Alibaba nimble (Wall Street Journal) 31-03-2023

Wall Street Journal: Sources: Jack Ma remains active in deciding Alibaba’s strategy and engineered the company’s split from overseas, telling executives it would make Alibaba nimble  —  Globe-trotting billionaire, in calls to executives, used his influence to push company’s plans to split into six groups Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sources: Jack Ma remains active in deciding Alibaba's strategy and engineered the split from overseas by telling executives it would make the company nimble (Wall Street Journal) 31-03-2023

Wall Street Journal: Sources: Jack Ma remains active in deciding Alibaba’s strategy and engineered the split from overseas by telling executives it would make the company nimble  —  Globe-trotting billionaire, in calls to executives, used his influence to push company’s plans to split into six groups Lees verder op Tech Meme

Huawei reports 2022 revenue up 0.9% YoY to ~$93.4B and net profit down 69% YoY to ~$5.18B, its biggest drop since 2011, amid pandemic controls and US sanctions (Arjun Kharpal/CNBC) 31-03-2023

Arjun Kharpal / CNBC: Huawei reports 2022 revenue up 0.9% YoY to ~$93.4B and net profit down 69% YoY to ~$5.18B, its biggest drop since 2011, amid pandemic controls and US sanctions  —  – Huawei reported net profit for 2022 totaled 35.6 billion yuan ($5.18 billion), a 69% year-on-year decline. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Italy's privacy regulator temporarily bans ChatGPT and will probe OpenAI, claiming the company lacks a basis for “mass collection and storage of personal data” (Clothilde Goujard/Politico) 31-03-2023

Clothilde Goujard / Politico: Italy’s privacy regulator temporarily bans ChatGPT and will probe OpenAI, claiming the company lacks a basis for “mass collection and storage of personal data”  —  The Italian privacy regulator Friday ordered a ban on ChatGPT over alleged privacy violations. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sources: India is looking for alternatives to Pegasus to avoid the “PR problem” associated with the NSO Group, and is seeking to spend between $16M and $120M (Financial Times) 31-03-2023

Financial Times: Sources: India is looking for alternatives to Pegasus to avoid the “PR problem” associated with the NSO Group, and is seeking to spend between $16M and $120M  —  Modi government seeks alternatives to software made by NSO Group following snooping scandals around the world Lees verder op Tech Meme

How Apple's standalone classical music app fixes the genre's biggest problem of search and discovery with better metadata created by Dutch company Primephonic (Ben Cohen/Wall Street Journal) 31-03-2023

Ben Cohen / Wall Street Journal: How Apple’s standalone classical music app fixes the genre’s biggest problem of search and discovery with better metadata created by Dutch company Primephonic  —  Forget the metaverse.  The future is metadata.  It’s how the world’s most valuable company built a better way of listening to Mozart and Beethoven. Lees verder op Tech Meme