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Weekly#530

  • ASML, Europe’s Most Valuable Tech Firm, Is at the Heart of the US-China Chip War
  • Germany in Talks to Limit Export of Chip Chemicals to China
  • The company said the iOS App Store has 101 million users in Europe, whereas iPadOS has 23 million. The Mac App Store has 6 million, the tvOS App Store has 1 million, and the watchOS App Store has under 1 million
  • Smartphone Market woes continue with 14.6% Drop in first quarter this year, According to IDC Tracker
  • Android 14 Beta 1 Hits the Block
  • As smartphone upgrades plummeted, used iPhones sold like hotcakes…High prices, device lifetime concerns are increasingly pushing people to refurbs.
  • Measuring Performance for iOS Apps at Uber Scale
  • The Pulse of Delivery: Seasonality around the World
  • Shifting the Balance of Cybersecurity Risk…Principles and Approaches for Security-byDesign and –Default
  • Lyft employees told to return to office as new CEO lays out vision
  • Hugging Face releases its own version of ChatGPT
  • Nuke-launching AI would be illegal under proposed US law
  • Tencent Cloud announces Deepfakes-as-a-Service for $145
  • Sony reports strong PS5 hardware sales as it closes in on 40 million units sold
  • Microsoft is busy rewriting core Windows code in memory-safe Rust…video
  • A recent adjustment, in which the probe redirects a tiny amount of power meant for an onboard safety system, means all five scientific instruments aboard Voyager 2 can stay active until 2026, according to a NASA Jet Propulsion Lab
  • Intel reports largest quarterly loss in company history
  • Tokyo has five million Wi-Fi access points – and that’s 20 times what the city needs
  • Google plans to add end-to-end encryption to Authenticator
  • Sweden is building the world’s first permanent electrified road for EVs to charge while driving
  • PricewaterhouseCoopers to Pour $1 Billion Into Generative AI
  • Amazon is developing an improved LLM to power Alexa
  • “…Google also faces an existential dilemma. Its search business, which accounted for the majority of Alphabet’s annual revenues of $283bn in 2022, appears to be under direct threat…”

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