Taiwan vows to protect its firms' interests at US-led 'Chip 4' group

Taiwan will use the new US-led "Chip 4" group to safeguard the interests of Taiwanese companies and to ensure supply chain resilience, a deputy minister said, though he added that the group had no agenda yet. https://ift.tt/CMvkVDx

Taiwan pledges to work closely with the US and other allies to implement "very firm" export controls and prevent China's military from acquiring advanced chips (Debby Wu/Bloomberg)

Debby Wu / Bloomberg:
Taiwan pledges to work closely with the US and other allies to implement “very firm” export controls and prevent China's military from acquiring advanced chips  —  Taiwan pledged to work closely with the US and other allies to prevent China's military from acquiring state-of-the-art technology …

Tesla will remove more vehicle sensors amid Autopilot scrutiny

Tesla Inc said it will remove ultrasonic sensors from its vehicles starting this month, as it moves ahead with using only cameras in its safety and driver-assistant features. https://ift.tt/paY3UPB

These young users are more likely to develop depression

Young adults, who use more social media, are significantly more likely to develop depression within six months, regardless of personality type, finds a new study. https://ift.tt/Lkja08b

Securiti, which helps companies manage data privacy, security, governance, and compliance, raised a $75M Series C, bringing its total funding to $155M (Ron Miller/TechCrunch)

Ron Miller / TechCrunch:
Securiti, which helps companies manage data privacy, security, governance, and compliance, raised a $75M Series C, bringing its total funding to $155M  —  The combination of rapid data growth and expanding data regulations like GDPR and CCPA is putting a lot of pressure on companies to figure …

Meta announces AITemplate, an open-source, PyTorch-based unified "inference" system for both AMD and Nvidia GPU hardware, helping code run 4x-12x faster (Reuters)

Reuters:
Meta announces AITemplate, an open-source, PyTorch-based unified “inference” system for both AMD and Nvidia GPU hardware, helping code run 4x-12x faster  —  Facebook parent Meta Platforms Inc (META.O)said on Monday it has launched a new set of free software tools …

The White House's new AI Bill of Rights, including helping opt out of algorithmic decision-making, is nonbinding and so will have little impact on companies (Khari Johnson/Wired)

Khari Johnson / Wired:
The White House's new AI Bill of Rights, including helping opt out of algorithmic decision-making, is nonbinding and so will have little impact on companies  —  The draft's tenets include allowing citizens to opt out of algorithmic decision-making, which could reshape federal government—but not the private sector.

The European Parliament votes 602 to 13 to enforce USB-C as the common charging port for devices by the end of 2024; some small devices are exempt (Hartley Charlton/MacRumors)

Hartley Charlton / MacRumors:
The European Parliament votes 602 to 13 to enforce USB-C as the common charging port for devices by the end of 2024; some small devices are exempt  —  The European Parliament today voted overwhelmingly in favor of enforcing USB-C as a common charging port across a wide range of consumer electronic devices …

Sources: talks between the US and TikTok over a national security agreement have accelerated ahead of the midterms as Republicans vow to hold hearings (Wall Street Journal)

Wall Street Journal:
Sources: talks between the US and TikTok over a national security agreement have accelerated ahead of the midterms as Republicans vow to hold hearings  —  Plan to secure user data is nearing conclusion, sources say, but hurdles remain and Republicans warn against concessions to video app's Chinese owner

Memo: Tiger Global's John Curtius, who backed 250+ startups in five years, is leaving in June 2023; a source says Curtius plans to launch his own firm (Alex Konrad/Forbes)

Alex Konrad / Forbes:
Memo: Tiger Global's John Curtius, who backed 250+ startups in five years, is leaving in June 2023; a source says Curtius plans to launch his own firm  —  John Curtius is departing Tiger Global as the prolific investment firm continues to mark down its holdings in private tech companies.

University of Illinois, Amazon, Apple, Google, Meta, and others launch the Speech Accessibility Project, aiming to improve voice recognition for disabled users (Steve Dent/Engadget)

Steve Dent / Engadget:
University of Illinois, Amazon, Apple, Google, Meta, and others launch the Speech Accessibility Project, aiming to improve voice recognition for disabled users  —  The University of Illinois (UIUC) has partnered with Amazon, Apple, Google, Meta, Microsoft and nonprofits on the Speech Accessibility Project.

The Vice Society ransomware gang publishes data allegedly from the Los Angeles Unified School District, after the school system did not pay the ransom (Lawrence Abrams/BleepingComputer)

Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer:
The Vice Society ransomware gang publishes data allegedly from the Los Angeles Unified School District, after the school system did not pay the ransom  —  The Vice Society Ransomware gang published data and documents Sunday morning that were stolen from the Los Angeles Unified School District during a cyberattack earlier this month.

A profile of Checkout.com founder and CEO Guillaume Pousaz, who owns 60% of the $40B London-based payments company and has begun investing in fintech startups (Ivan Levingston/Bloomberg)

Ivan Levingston / Bloomberg:
A profile of Checkout.com founder and CEO Guillaume Pousaz, who owns 60% of the $40B London-based payments company and has begun investing in fintech startups  —  A college dropout from Switzerland has amassed a $14 billion fortune to become one of the country's richest people by creating a rising star in electronic payments.

Immerok, which is building an Apache Flink-based cloud service for data streaming, raised a $17M seed led by CUSP Capital, 468 Capital, and others (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Immerok, which is building an Apache Flink-based cloud service for data streaming, raised a $17M seed led by CUSP Capital, 468 Capital, and others  —  In 2011, the Apache Software Foundation released Flink, a high-throughput, low-latency engine for streaming various data types.

Kim Kardashian settles with the SEC for $1.26M after not reporting a $250K payment to promote EthereumMax on Instagram and won't promote crypto for three years (Mike Calia/CNBC)

Mike Calia / CNBC:
Kim Kardashian settles with the SEC for $1.26M after not reporting a $250K payment to promote EthereumMax on Instagram and won't promote crypto for three years  —  - Kim Kardashian agreed to pay more than $1 million to settle SEC charges for failing to disclose a payment she received for touting a crypto asset on Instagram.