Techstrong News Recap – July 26, 2022

First in news T-Mobile announced it will pay $350 million dollars to customers affected by a data breach last August. The data breach which included Social Security numbers names and information from driver's licenses impacted approximately 80 million us residents. And a security in Exchange Commission filing on Friday T-Mobile said the 350 million dollars would be allocated to pay for cost of claims legal counsel and administrating the settlement additionally T-Mobile stated they plan on spending $150 million over the next two years to improve its security.

Next Google has fired Blake Lemoyne one of its Engineers who said the company's artificial intelligence system has feelings. Last month Lemoyne made bold claims that Google's language technology. Lambda is sentinent.

After sharing a conversation he had at the chatbot titled is Lambda sent in it an interview people around the world question if there were actually any foundation to these claims. Google quickly gotten out in front of this putting Lemoyne on leave and calling his claims. Holy unfounded.

Google also mentioned that it had worked with Lemoyne for many months to clarify that Lambda isn't sent in it after a month of being on leave Google site decided to sever ties with Lemoyne. And in the statement. Google said we wish Blake well, despite Google stance on the matter as well as expert opinions from across the industry.

The chatbots potential sentence is still up in the air for many people. In other news a bill is making its way through the Senate that will boost semiconductor production in the United States supporters of the bill say that countries around the world are spending billions of dollars to draw chipmakers addressing a shortage that is plagued the entire industry. Semiconductor chips are one of the most important pieces of technology in today's world as they are functional Necessities for most of our Technologies.

With no clear end in sight. The bill would add 79 billion dollars to Grants and tax breaks for chipmakers motivating the building or expansion of Chip plants across the country. Next instacart an online grocery delivery service now allows Grocers from across 49 states and Washington DC to accept electronic benefits transfer and supplemental nutrition assistance program payments online.

This change can impact up to 30 million people across the United States who suffer from food and security. Grocers can use EBT SNAP payments through carat payments one of instacart's platforms Solutions with this change Grocers can now use EBT SNAP at over 60 grocery chains and approximately 8,000 stores nationwide. With many EBT receipts facing recipients facing Mobility challenges the option of an online grocery delivery service helps create a pleasant shopping experience for all.

And another consumption related headline Tech is helping companies. Bring bring people their morning coffee. Around the world an estimated 1 billion people drink coffee every day and over 1/3 of these cups come from Brazilian coffee plants.

Despite having such a vast Supply. It's annual crop dropped by almost a quarter due to a drought across its main coffee growing regions posing a crisis to the country's coffee industry. To mitigate the crisis producers returning to numerous Technologies for one a coffee plant is using a computer app called crop wise protector which is linked to ground sensors and satellite imagery giving Farmers a visual analysis of the farm and granting them the ability to apply drip irrigation or Pest Control.

They have also invented Technologies for the coffee drying process which allows Farmers to actively monitor applied temperatures. Another huge Farm has invested in semi-automated irrigation, which is improving productivity and output sect such Technologies may prove to be revolutionary in the coffee farming field altering a massive industry in a permanent way. com.

We have an article discussing how Dyna Trace has recently improved its analytical capabilities to allow for a digital experience monitor. This recent change is in line with observability a core tentative devops and with many companies building applications on interconnected microservices observability is more important than ever. Dynatrice says that the changes will make it easier to track user Journeys across these components and microservices.

On digital cxo Insight Partners a venture capitalist firm with investments in both Ai and machine learning gives insight to some of the problems that both these Technologies face moving forward. Some of these problems include explainability casualty privacy talent and long-term Vision since AI machine learning are likely to influence many sectors. It's important to figure out how to overcome these problems.

Finally on container Journal we have an article discussing Trend Micro as expanded container security integration with its Trend microcloud1 platform. This changes in part of their progression towards streamlining their development of cloud Security Services. As more companies delve deeper into the cybersecurity.

They need solutions that minimize the disruption of the application development process while not compromising security. Trend micros new integration hopes to achieve just that. And that's we have for you on our text wrong news recap.