Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:
Tobiko, which offers a dbt-compatible data transformation service to help teams manage data, raised a $4.5M seed and $17.3M Series A led by Theory Ventures — Data transformation startup Tobiko may not be a household name yet, but you may have seen co-founder and CEO Tyson Mao on …
Sixteen Republican lawmakers accuse Nigeria of taking Binance executive Tigran Gambaryan “hostage” and urge Biden to help secure his release in a June 4 letter (Nduka Orjinmo/Bloomberg)
Nduka Orjinmo / Bloomberg:
Sixteen Republican lawmakers accuse Nigeria of taking Binance executive Tigran Gambaryan “hostage” and urge Biden to help secure his release in a June 4 letter — US lawmakers accused Nigeria of taking a Binance Holdings Ltd. executive “hostage” and urged President Joe Biden to help secure his release.
ASML CFO Roger Dassen says TSMC, Intel, and Samsung will all get its €350M high-NA EUV machines by the end of 2024; the machines can print 8nm lines on chips (Cagan Koc/Bloomberg)
Cagan Koc / Bloomberg:
ASML CFO Roger Dassen says TSMC, Intel, and Samsung will all get its €350M high-NA EUV machines by the end of 2024; the machines can print 8nm lines on chips — Two of ASML’s biggest customers, TSMC and Intel Corp., will get the so-called high-NA extreme ultraviolet machine by the end of this year …
A look at Apple’s OpenAI deal, ahead of WWDC; sources say Apple plans to offer AI features as an opt-in service, and is working on LLM-powered robotic devices (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
A look at Apple’s OpenAI deal, ahead of WWDC; sources say Apple plans to offer AI features as an opt-in service, and is working on LLM-powered robotic devices — An OpenAI agreement is due to be announced at the Apple’s developer conference next week. — When a 23-year-old Sam Altman took …
Apple plans to fix another Screen Time bug that let kids visit X-rated websites; two researchers say they reported the bug to Apple in March and August 2021 (Joanna Stern/Wall Street Journal)
Joanna Stern / Wall Street Journal:
Apple plans to fix another Screen Time bug that let kids visit X-rated websites; two researchers say they reported the bug to Apple in March and August 2021 — Apple’s Screen Time continues to be marred by bugs that let its youngest users circumvent parental controls
NXP partners with TSMC-backed Vanguard to build a $7.8B chip wafer plant in Singapore, aiming to begin construction in H2 2024 and production in 2027 (Bloomberg)
Bloomberg:
NXP partners with TSMC-backed Vanguard to build a $7.8B chip wafer plant in Singapore, aiming to begin construction in H2 2024 and production in 2027 — – New facility begins construction in second half of 2024 — Region poised to benefit from drive to diversify from China
How a series of hacks, starting with BlackCat in June 2023, show the challenges facing the UK’s NHS, which employs 1.7M workers and cares for 68M UK residents (Bloomberg)
Bloomberg:
How a series of hacks, starting with BlackCat in June 2023, show the challenges facing the UK’s NHS, which employs 1.7M workers and cares for 68M UK residents — – Health care is the most-targeted industry for cyber extortion — Latest attack targeted a “life-critical” supplier to UK’s NHS
Japanese crypto exchange DMM Bitcoin plans to raise ~$321M to buy back bitcoin and make users whole after an “unauthorized outflow” of 4,503 bitcoin on May 31 (Bloomberg)
Bloomberg:
Japanese crypto exchange DMM Bitcoin plans to raise ~$321M to buy back bitcoin and make users whole after an “unauthorized outflow” of 4,503 bitcoin on May 31 — – DMM Bitcoin suffered one of largest hacks of a crypto platform — Exchange gathering cash to buy Bitcoin to make customers whole
How Taiwan and South Korea are using chip know-how, willpower, and supply networks to stay ahead of the US, offering lower costs and faster construction times (Wall Street Journal)
Wall Street Journal:
How Taiwan and South Korea are using chip know-how, willpower, and supply networks to stay ahead of the US, offering lower costs and faster construction times — The companies and governments have know-how, willpower and supply networks that likely surpass America’s big push back into chip production
SAP plans to buy Tel Aviv-based WalkMe, which helps users navigate UIs of other software services, for $1.5B in cash; WalkMe raised $300M ahead of a 2021 IPO (Paul Sawers/TechCrunch)
Paul Sawers / TechCrunch:
SAP plans to buy Tel Aviv-based WalkMe, which helps users navigate UIs of other software services, for $1.5B in cash; WalkMe raised $300M ahead of a 2021 IPO — Enterprise software giant SAP is acquiring “digital adoption” platform provider WalkMe in an all-cash transaction worth $1.5 billion.
