Tech Meme

Meir Orbach / CTech: Maryland-based Tenable, which specializes in security exposure management, agrees to acquire Israel-based Vulcan Cyber in a $150M deal set to close in Q1 2025  —  Cybersecurity giant to integrate Vulcan’s technology into its security exposure platform.  —  Tenable  —  Cybersecurity  —  Vulcan Cyber Lees verder op Tech Meme

Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: Waymo plans to test in 10 new US cities in 2025, starting with Las Vegas and San Diego, as it aims for robotaxi operations in Austin, Atlanta, and Miami soon  —  The theme of this year’s road trip is ‘generalizability.’  —  The theme of this year’s road trip is ‘generalizability.’ Lees verder op Tech Meme

Stefano Bernabei / Reuters: DeepSeek is no longer on Apple’s App Store and Google’s Play Store in Italy, after its data protection regulator said it asked DeepSeek about personal data use  —  The Chinese artifical intelligence application DeepSeek appeared to be unavailable on Wednesday in Apple and Google app stores in Italy on Wednesday. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Dario Amodei: DeepSeek makes US export controls to China even more important, and DeepSeek-V3 is not a unique breakthrough but an expected point on a cost reduction curve  —  A few weeks ago I made the case for stronger US export controls on chips to China.  Since then DeepSeek, a Chinese AI company … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: Sources: the Trump administration is exploring additional curbs on the sale of chips to China to cover Nvidia’s scaled-down H20, designed for the Chinese market  —  – Officials had very early talks about restricting the H20 chip  — Nvidia designed the scaled-down H20 product for Chinese market Lees verder op Tech Meme

New York Times: How employees at Meta, Google, and more have quietly protested tech’s rightward shift, as Mark Zuckerberg and others embrace Trump and muffle internal dissent  —  As Mark Zuckerberg and other tech titans have embraced President Trump and muffled internal dissent at their companies … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Gene Maddaus / Variety: The US Copyright Office says using AI tools to assist in creative processes doesn’t compromise copyright protections as long as the content has human authorship  —  The U.S. Copyright Office declared Wednesday that the use of artificial intelligence tools to assist in the creative process does not undermine the copyright of a work. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Financial Times: Vandatrack: retail traders bought a net $562M of Nvidia’s stock on January 27, a record, and $360M on January 28, after DeepSeek’s AI model sent NVDA crashing  —  Traders bought chipmaker shares at ‘astounding’ pace as stocks wobbled this week  —  Retail investors have ploughed more than $900mn … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Matthew Connatser / Tom’s Hardware: Huawei adds DeepSeek’s R1 to its ModelArts Studio platform, saying the free model is “Ascend-adapted”, referencing its data center GPUs, but offers few details  —  Nvidia has competition in China. … The tech company explicitly said this version is “Ascend-adapted,” as in Huawei’s Ascend data center GPUs. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter: Netflix now lets iPhone and iPad app users download an entire TV show season with one tap, a much-requested feature that launched on Android in 2021  —  The new feature lets users download an entire season of a show with one tap. Lees verder op Tech Meme