16:25 Minister van Defensie Theo Francken (N-VA) roept op niet per definitie nee te zeggen tegen een verhoging van de NAVO-norm, zelfs niet als de lat op 5 procent van het bruto binnenlands product wordt ge…Lees verder op De Tijd
MIT Technology Review: Analysis: AI’s energy consumption is exploding, with data centers’ electricity use doubling from 2017 to 2023, accounting for 4.4% of all US energy consumption — The emissions from individual AI text, image, and video queries seem small—until you add up what the industry isn’t tracking and consider where it’s heading next. Lees verder op Tech Meme
Spencer Soper / Bloomberg: Amazon issues refunds for returns as far back as 2018; CFO Brian Olsavsky said on May 1 that Amazon took a ~$1.1B charge over “some historical customer returns” — Amazon.com Inc. customers are suddenly getting refunds for products they purchased and returned as far back as 2018 … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Reuters: Distributed Denial of Secrets: the TeleMessage hacker stole messages from 60+ US government users covering about one day ending on May 4, including travel plans — A hacker who breached the communications service used by former Trump national security adviser Mike Waltz earlier … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Bloomberg: China threatens legal action against anyone enforcing US restrictions on Huawei’s chips, escalating the US-China tech dispute as the two countries hold meetings — US-China tech tensions are flaring again, with Beijing threatening legal action against anyone enforcing Washington’s restrictions … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Tom Warren / The Verge: After a protest at Build 2025, Microsoft’s head of security for AI, Neta Haiby, accidentally revealed confidential messages about Walmart’s planned AI tools use — Internal messages were displayed after two former Microsoft employees disrupted a Build session. Lees verder op Tech Meme
Matthew Gault / 404 Media: Brazilian researchers scraped 2B+ Discord messages from 3,167 public servers using Discord’s public API, covering 2015 to 2024, and publish the messages online — A Brazilian team used Discord’s API to scrape 10% of its open servers. — Researchers published a massive database … Lees verder op Tech Meme
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Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: Filed, which uses AI to automate tax professionals’ low-value tasks, raised $17.2M across seed and preseed led by Northzone, Day One Ventures, and others — Tax software startup Filed Inc. said today it has raised $17.2 million in funding to try and fix what it says is the accounting … Lees verder op Tech Meme