Category Archives: Tech News

Sources: Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp. is in talks with Fujitsu to help the bank's biggest customers make key decisions using AI-inferred demand predictions (Hideki Suzuki/Bloomberg)

Hideki Suzuki / Bloomberg: Sources: Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp. is in talks with Fujitsu to [...]

03
Apr
Researchers detail a new AI-powered Probability of Fire model, which they say could outperform the conventional danger forecasts used by wildfire trackers (Clive Cookson/Financial Times)

Clive Cookson / Financial Times: Researchers detail a new AI-powered Probability of Fire model, which [...]

02
Apr
With Switch 2, Nintendo must do what it has rarely done before: follow one hit console with another; Nintendo has sold 150M+ Switch units since launch in 2017 (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg: With Switch 2, Nintendo must do what it has rarely done before: follow one [...]

01
Apr
An analysis finds 170+ violent vigilante attacks since 2023 by US "pedophile hunters", whose online content has been amplified by websites like Kick and Locals (New York Times)

New York Times: An analysis finds 170+ violent vigilante attacks since 2023 by US “pedophile [...]

31
Mar
How Klarna's Walmart deal ahead of its IPO put long-simmering tensions between Klarna CEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski and Affirm CEO Max Levchin on public display (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg: How Klarna’s Walmart deal ahead of its IPO put long-simmering tensions between Klarna CEO [...]

30
Mar
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