Monday, August 5, 2024

After failing to win concessions, ~6,500 unionized Samsung Electronics workers in South Korea, who declared an indefinite strike in July, returned to work (Jin Yu Young/New York Times)

Jin Yu Young / New York Times:
After failing to win concessions, ~6,500 unionized Samsung Electronics workers in South Korea, who declared an indefinite strike in July, returned to work  —  The indefinite strike, the first in the electronics company's history, comprised only a sliver of its labor force and lasted less than a month.



Elon Musk says Neuralink has implanted its device in a second trial patient, who had a spinal cord injury, and 400 of the implant's 1,024 electrodes are working (Rachael Levy/Reuters)

Rachael Levy / Reuters:
Elon Musk says Neuralink has implanted its device in a second trial patient, who had a spinal cord injury, and 400 of the implant's 1,024 electrodes are working  —  Neuralink has successfully implanted in a second patient its device designed to give paralyzed patients the ability …



Analysis: the vast majority of damages from July's CrowdStrike global IT outage will go uninsured; CrowdStrike reported nearly 24K enterprise customers in Q1 (Evan Gorelick/Bloomberg)

Evan Gorelick / Bloomberg:
Analysis: the vast majority of damages from July's CrowdStrike global IT outage will go uninsured; CrowdStrike reported nearly 24K enterprise customers in Q1  —  - Insured losses estimated between $300 million and $1.5 billion  — The days-long outage took a $5.4 billion toll on Fortune 500



Sunday, August 4, 2024

An investigation finds an active trade in Nvidia chips in China despite US restrictions; some Chinese orgs with state military ties have bought restricted chips (New York Times)

New York Times:
An investigation finds an active trade in Nvidia chips in China despite US restrictions; some Chinese orgs with state military ties have bought restricted chips  —  The U.S. is trying to stop China from getting Nvidia microchips to advance its military.  The private sector is fighting back.



Sources: OpenAI has a watermarking tech to detect text written by ChatGPT with 99.9% reliability, but the project launch has been mired in internal debates (Wall Street Journal)

Wall Street Journal:
Sources: OpenAI has a watermarking tech to detect text written by ChatGPT with 99.9% reliability, but the project launch has been mired in internal debates  —  Technology that can detect text written by artificial intelligence with 99.9% certainty has been debated internally for two years



Thoughts on first Apple Intelligence beta, which may arrive after the new iPhones launch, Apple's industrial design team leadership reshuffle, and Q3 earnings (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Thoughts on first Apple Intelligence beta, which may arrive after the new iPhones launch, Apple's industrial design team leadership reshuffle, and Q3 earnings  —  The first preview of Apple Intelligence for developers shows just how far the company has to go to live up to the hype.



Russian cryptocurrency payment network A7 expands to Africa, as Moscow builds an alternative payments system amid western sanctions after its Ukraine invasion (Financial Times)

Financial Times : Russian cryptocurrency payment network A7 expands to Africa, as Moscow builds an alternative payments system amid weste...