Thursday, December 15, 2022

The US Commerce Department puts 36 Chinese companies on its Entity List, including chipmaker Yangtze Memory Technologies and AI chip maker Cambricon (Financial Times)

Financial Times:
The US Commerce Department puts 36 Chinese companies on its Entity List, including chipmaker Yangtze Memory Technologies and AI chip maker Cambricon  —  ‘Entity list’ changes are focused on limiting development of advanced chips in China  —  The US has placed three dozen Chinese companies …



Meta reports taking down 200 coordinated inauthentic behavior operations since 2016, spread across over 100 countries, most focused on domestic audiences (Alexander Martin/The Record)

Alexander Martin / The Record:
Meta reports taking down 200 coordinated inauthentic behavior operations since 2016, spread across over 100 countries, most focused on domestic audiences  —  Six years on from the shock discovery of Russian interference during the 2016 presidential election — and in the face …



A look at The Managerial Revolution, a 1941 book that predicted the rise of the "managerial class" over capitalists and may help explain Elon Musk's Twitter (Zack Beauchamp/Vox)

Zack Beauchamp / Vox:
A look at The Managerial Revolution, a 1941 book that predicted the rise of the “managerial class” over capitalists and may help explain Elon Musk's Twitter  —  The long shadow of James Burnham's The Managerial Revolution.  —  Since the launch of the so-called “Twitter Files” …



Analysis of weekly realized gains and losses of all personal crypto wallets in 2022: UST's collapse caused $20.5B in losses, Celsius and 3AC $33B, and FTX $9B (Chainalysis)

Chainalysis:
Analysis of weekly realized gains and losses of all personal crypto wallets in 2022: UST's collapse caused $20.5B in losses, Celsius and 3AC $33B, and FTX $9B  —  Allow us to state the obvious: There's been a lot of doom and gloom in conversations around cryptocurrency over the last month.



Filing: Elon Musk sells 22M Tesla shares, worth ~$3.6B, the fourth sale since announcing his Twitter takeover and third since declaring "no further TSLA sales" (Dave Lee/Financial Times)

Dave Lee / Financial Times:
Filing: Elon Musk sells 22M Tesla shares, worth ~$3.6B, the fourth sale since announcing his Twitter takeover and third since declaring “no further TSLA sales”  —  Billionaire has sold $23bn of stock in EV group since announcing Twitter takeover



Wednesday, December 14, 2022

Samsung Galaxy S23 spotted on NBTC certification: Expected specs

The Samsung Galaxy S23 is rumoured to feature a 6.1 inch AMOLED display that may support a refresh rate of 120Hz. In addition to this, the device is said to offer a Full HD+ resolution display. https://ift.tt/ZpVN4OW

Verizon partners with Netflix to give some customers who subscribe to another service using its +play marketplace a one year Netflix subscription for free (Sarah Krouse/Wall Street Journal)

Sarah Krouse / Wall Street Journal:
Verizon partners with Netflix to give some customers who subscribe to another service using its +play marketplace a one year Netflix subscription for free  —  Amazon, Apple and YouTube woo customers with streaming marketplaces  —  Verizon Communications Inc. said it would give …



YouTube expands its tools to curtail toxic comments, sending users a notification when their comment is removed and temporarily banning them from commenting (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
YouTube expands its tools to curtail toxic comments, sending users a notification when their comment is removed and temporarily banning them from commenting  —  Toxic and hateful comments on YouTube have been a constant headache for the company, creators and users.



Sources: some US banks that lent Elon Musk $13B to buy Twitter are preparing to book losses on the loans this quarter, as investors shy away from risky debt (Reuters)

Reuters:
Sources: some US banks that lent Elon Musk $13B to buy Twitter are preparing to book losses on the loans this quarter, as investors shy away from risky debt  —  Some of the banks that lent Elon Musk $13 billion to buy Twitter are preparing to book losses on the loans this quarter …



Moto X40 receives HDR+ certification ahead of official launch

Previous rumours suggest that the upcoming Moto X40 smartphone will sport a 6.67-inch OLED display that might offer Full HD+ resolution. Under the hood, the device will be powered by the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 SoC paired with LPDDR5X RAM and UFS 3.1 storage. https://ift.tt/SnsAJMH

Memo: Changpeng Zhao tells Binance staff to expect a "bumpy" several months but the exchange "will survive any crypto winter", following massive withdrawals (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg:
Memo: Changpeng Zhao tells Binance staff to expect a “bumpy” several months but the exchange “will survive any crypto winter”, following massive withdrawals  —  Binance Holdings Ltd. Chief Executive Officer Changpeng Zhao warned his colleagues to expect tough months ahead …



Patients, families, doctors, and nurses are increasingly turning to AI tools, such as Face2Gene, to help identify rare and hard-to-diagnose diseases (Alex Janin/Wall Street Journal)

Alex Janin / Wall Street Journal : Patients, families, doctors, and nurses are increasingly turning to AI tools, such as Face2Gene, to he...