Category Archives: Tech News

India’s e-commerce market grew 10%-12% YoY to ~$60B in GMV in 2024, versus historical rates of over 20%, with 270M+ people shopping online, second only to China (Bain)

Featured Podcasts Techmeme Ride Home: CoreWeave’s Weak IPO The day’s tech news, every day at [...]

29
Mar
the EU will impose minimal fines on Apple and Meta next week, far below the DMA’s 10% of global turnover cap, to avoid tensions with President Trump (Financial Times)

Featured Podcasts Techmeme Ride Home: AI Studio Ghibli The day’s tech news, every day at [...]

28
Mar
Sources: many new Chinese AI data centers sit unused due to weak demand and DeepSeek-driven shifts; local reports say ~80% of new computing resources are idle (Caiwei Chen/MIT Technology Review)

Caiwei Chen / MIT Technology Review: Sources: many new Chinese AI data centers sit unused [...]

27
Mar
TRAI Chairman Anil Kumar Lahoti says India, with only 1% of global subsea cable landing stations, must expand its subsea cable infrastructure 10x to meet demand (Karan Mahadik/The Indian Express)

What made Zoho “Sign” up for a paper-free future  —  Just a decade ago, when [...]

26
Mar
A look at the 25-year-old CVE program, which assigns unique IDs to flaws; 413 orgs now report CVEs, with 40K+ reported in 2024, pushing the total past 270K (Cynthia Brumfield/CyberScoop)

Cynthia Brumfield / CyberScoop: A look at the 25-year-old CVE program, which assigns unique IDs [...]

25
Mar
Malaysia plans to tighten chip rules, says Washington demanded it track high-end Nvidia chips entering the country, suspecting many are ending up in China (Financial Times)

Financial Times: Malaysia plans to tighten chip rules, says Washington demanded it track high-end Nvidia [...]

24
Mar
Scientists are using AI to speed up drug repurposing, expanding the treatment possibilities for people with rare diseases and few options (Kate Morgan/New York Times)

Kate Morgan / New York Times: Scientists are using AI to speed up drug repurposing, [...]

23
Mar
Israel-based Kela, which develops tech for integrating AI, sensors, and edge devices into existing military systems, raised a $28M Series A and a $11M seed (Meytal Vaizberg/Globes Online)

Featured Podcasts Techmeme Ride Home: A Look At LibGen The day’s tech news, every day [...]

22
Mar
A look at LibGen, one of the largest online pirate libraries, with 7.5M+ books and 81M+ research papers, allegedly used by Meta and OpenAI to train AI models (Alex Reisner/The Atlantic)

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21
Mar
Sources detail how Jeff Bezos made peace with Trump, with many citing Amazon's loss of the $10B JEDI contract during Trump's first term as a watershed moment (Financial Times)

Financial Times: Sources detail how Jeff Bezos made peace with Trump, with many citing Amazon’s [...]

20
Mar