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Financial Times: Sources: the US is urging Japan, South Korea, and the Netherlands to tighten export controls to China, including stopping engineers from servicing Chinese fabs  —  Washington urges Japan, South Korea and the Netherlands to tighten supply of tools and technology Source link

For TikTok, the clock has started running in its existential fight to avoid a US ban. Legislation requiring the social media app’s Chinese owners to divest sailed through Congress, capped by Senate passage late Tuesday as part of a larger foreign-aid package. President Joe Biden signed into law Wednesday, beginning a 270-day countdown for a

The Information: Sources: a Huawei-led consortium, backed by Chinese government funding, aims to compete with Nvidia by making high-bandwidth memory chips, used in GPUs, by 2026  —  Huawei Technologies is leading a group of Chinese semiconductor companies seeking memory chip breakthroughs … Source link

Google Pixel 8 series arrived last year with an improved face unlock feature allowing users to access compatible banking and payment apps. Now, WhatsApp has rolled out support for the face unlock feature on the Pixel 8 phones. This update provides a convenient way to unlock WhatsApp and keep chats secure from prying eyes. Once

Tom Warren / The Verge: Sources: Microsoft has scrambled to respond to new attacks from the Russia-linked SolarWinds hackers, as its engineers prioritize security over new features  —  The world’s largest tech company has a security problem.  A series of high-profile security incidents have rocked Microsoft … Source link

Apple iPhone 15 price in India has been temporarily cut and the latest iPhone model can now be purchased at a discounted price via Flipkart. Customers who are looking to purchase the base iPhone 15 model with 128GB of storage can take advantage of an ongoing cashback offer that lowers the price of the handset

New York Times: A look at Saudi Arabia’s spending blitz to become an AI superpower, which has put the kingdom in the middle of an escalating global competition over AI  —  More than 200,000 people converged on the Leap tech conference in the desert outside Riyadh in March.Iman Al-Dabbagh for The New York Times Source

JioCinema Premium can now be purchased as a monthly subscription in India, the streaming service announced on Thursday. The Viacom18-owned platform will let users stream movies and TV series — including content from HBO, Paramount, Peacock, and Warner Bros. — without advertisements, at up to 4K resolution, along with the ability to download content for offline viewing.

Financial Times: K Krithivasan, the CEO of Indian IT giant TCS, says there’ll be “minimal” need for call centers in as soon as a year, as AI chatbots take over much of the work  —  Chatbots will soon take over much of the work of human agents, forecasts chief of Indian IT group Source link

Dune: Part Two has been delayed to next year, due to the ongoing actors’ strike in Hollywood. After much consideration, the highly-anticipated sci-fi sequel starring Timothée Chalamet and Zendaya has been moved from its initial November 3 slot to March 15, 2024. The realignment from Warner Bros. and Legendary has also caused them to push