March 2, 20230CommentsA profile of former FTX engineering chief Nishad Singh; filings show Singh owned 7.8% of FTX US, 10% of FTX Ventures, and 44M shares in the main exchange (Alexander Osipovich/Wall Street Journal)
March 2, 20230CommentsA history of Xerox Alto, a computer that debuted in the early spring of 1973 at PARC and presaged personal, interactive, networked, and graphical computing (David C. Brock/IEEE Spectrum)
March 2, 20230CommentsSources: Chinese officials have declined to process Arm China’s transfer to a new Vision Fund entity, holding up Arm’s plan to exit the joint venture (Financial Times)
March 2, 20230CommentsA profile of OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, who previously led Model X development at Tesla and has been at the helm of OpenAI’s strategy to test its tools in public (Ainsley Harris/Fast Company)
March 2, 20230CommentsA look at India’s homegrown digital payments system UPI, which is run by a nonprofit organization NPCI and is now used by ~300M individuals and 50M merchants (New York Times)
March 2, 20230CommentsAnalysis: at least eight companies that went public via SPACs filed for bankruptcy since June 2022, almost 100 are spending unsustainably, and 73 trade below $1 (Bloomberg)
March 2, 20230CommentsApptopia: so far in 2023, TikTok has generated $205M more in IAP revenue than Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, and Twitter combined (John Koetsier/Forbes)
March 2, 20230CommentsMicrosoft researchers unveil Kosmos-1, a multimodal LLM they claim can understand image content, pass IQ tests, and more and accepts a variety of input formats (Benj Edwards/Ars Technica)
March 2, 20230CommentsResearchers detail UEFI bootkit BlackLotus, capable of bypassing UEFI Secure Boot even on up-to-date Windows 11 systems and selling for $5K since October 2022 (Martin Smolár/WeLiveSecurity)