Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal: The threat to Intel now comes from a whole ecosystem of companies, including nearly every tech giant, although the company is still a strong competitor  —  Newcomers pose numerous challenges to decades of ‘Wintel’ chip dominance.  —  It might not look like it yet, but Intel is in a fight for its life. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Tara García Mathewson / The Markup: How a California college uses data collection tools to track students’ daily movements, like homework trackers, e-proctoring software, and license plate readers  —  A Markup examination of a typical college shows how students are subject to a vast and growing array of watchful tech … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Michael Peel / Financial Times: AstraZeneca signs a deal worth up to $247M with US-based Absci Corp. to harness Absci’s AI tech for large-scale protein analysis to find a viable cancer therapy  —  Deal with Absci is the latest between big pharma and tech companies to build new disease treatments Lees verder op Tech Meme

Tara García Mathewson / The Markup: How a California college uses data collection tools to track students’ daily movements, like homework trackers, e-proctoring software, and license plate readers  —  A Markup examination of a typical college shows how students are subject to a vast and growing array of watchful tech … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Maria Sherman / Associated Press: The current members of rock band Kiss reveal digital avatars of themselves, created by George Lucas’ ILM, which will tour as the band retires from live touring  —  On Saturday night, Kiss closed out the final performance of their “The End of the Road” farewell tour at New York City’s famed Madison Square Garden. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Anthony Capaccio / Bloomberg: The US, the UK, and Australia plan to test a new way to track Chinese submarines using AI to rapidly process sonar data, as part of the AUKUS security alliance  —  – US, Australian and UK set to test sonar data processed by AI  — Plan is part of Aukus security alliance formed to deter China Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sean Hollister / The Verge: The judge overseeing Epic v. Google vows to investigate Google for systematically suppressing evidence by deleting internal chats, including from Sundar Pichai  —  On Friday, Judge Donato vowed to investigate Google for intentionally and systematically suppressing evidence, calling the company’s conduct … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Lewis Gordon / The Verge: How Saudi Arabia’s investments in gaming is remaking the industry, as the kingdom aims for social transformation by being a hub of game development and esports  —  With avowed ‘massive gamer’ Mohammed bin Salman at the helm, the kingdom’s insatiable appetite and bottomless riches are already remaking the global video game industry. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Max Read / Read Max: AI doomerism will recede from public consciousness because frequent release of AI models shows that they are harmful in prosaic, rather than existential, ways  —  If I’m being honest, my immediate reaction to the news that Sam Altman had been fired as C.E.O. of OpenAI was something like … relief? Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jaron Schneider / PetaPixel: Sources: Bending Spoons, which acquired Filmic in September 2022, laid off the photo and video app maker’s entire team, including founder and CEO Neill Barham  —  Filmic, or FiLMiC as written by the brand, no longer has any dedicated staff as parent company Bending Spoons has laid off … Lees verder op Tech Meme