Month: January 2025
Amazon New Advertising Model
Amazon in 2022 began breaking out ad revenue in its quarterly earnings reports, showing that the business had become a significant contributor to the company’s top and bottom lines. Ad revenue in the latest quarter came in at $14.3 billion, third to Alphabet and Meta in digital advertising.Amazon has turned into an online ad juggernaut
Banning Tiktok in US
Outgoing President Joe Biden signed a foreign aid bill back in April, giving a nine-month deadline for China-based ByteDance, TikTok’s parent company, to divest or be banned in the United States. Although it can be extended, the deadline is expected to expire on January 20.On Friday, January 10, 2025, the US Supreme Court is set
AI Chip Curbs
In October 2022, the Biden administration placed restrictions on the export to China of high-end American chips and some tools used to make them. It also prohibited other countries from selling those goods if they used any U.S. technology to produce them. It followed by expanding the curbs several times, most recently in December when
China’s bond yields plunge
China’s central bank has imposed heavy fines on three financial institutions for bond-trading irregularities – the first of such punitive actions after it warned about plunging government bond yields from May.Three institutions were fined 36.07 million yuan (US$4.94 million), 13.1 million yuan and 11.03 million yuan, respectively. Meanwhile, 13 employees involved in these cases were
Russia glide bombs in Ukraine
Guided, or glide, bombs are highly destructive and very hard to intercept. The air-launched weapons are conventional, often Soviet-era ordnance that have been fitted with wings and satellite-aided navigation to extend their range and precision. Russia has launched more than 51,000 guided aerial bombs against Ukraine since the start of its full-blown invasion nearly three
TSMC’s Arizona plant
As TSMC Arizona is manufacturing under an N4 four-nanometer process to make the A16 chip already, and the S9 is derived from the A16, it makes sense for this SiP to be made at the same facility. TSMC finally started to produce chips at its Arizona foundry, which had been under construction since 2020. Four
T-Mobile data breach
T-Mobile is once again being sued by Washington state over the 2021 data breach which exposed sensitive information for over 79 million people. Beyond alleging that T-Mobile knew about these flaws and took inadequate action to fix them.The breach’s victims included two million Washington residents. Information from T-Mobile’s databases was later on the dark web
Backlash over US AI Export Control Framework
The framework developed by the Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS), an agency of the US Department of Commerce, imposes strict licensing requirements on AI technology exports to address national security concerns, including the potential misuse of AI for developing weapons of mass destruction or enabling malicious activities. The Bureau of Industry and Security’s new
X’s content moderation efforts
Since purchasing X (previously known as Twitter) in 2022, Elon Musk has transformed its verification system into a subscription service and cut back its trust and safety team to focus on community-driven moderation. The EU criticized X over rising levels of disinformation on the platform, something that Musk himself actively engaged in promoting, following these
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