New US export controls may affect 43+ senior execs at 16 public semiconductor companies in China, forcing them to choose between US citizenship and their jobs (Wall Street Journal)

Jane Lanhee Lee / Reuters:
Nvidia is offering Chinese customers the A800 GPU, which it says meets US export control rules, as an alternative to its A100 chip that the US banned for export  —  U.S. chip maker Nvidia Corp (NVDA.O) said on Monday it is offering a new advanced chip in China that meets recent export control rules aimed …

Claire Woodcock / VICE:
Some public libraries in the US and Canada are using open-source software MUSICat to offer their own music streaming services and boost their local music scenes  —  It’s not Spotify, but some cities now host music platforms with their own local flavor.  —  Claire Woodcock

Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet:
Joe Belfiore, who has been Microsoft’s VP of Office Group for the past two years and with the company for 32 years, has announced his retirement  —  Joe Belfiore, who has been the Corporate Vice President of Microsoft’s Office Group for the past two years and with the company in various roles for 32 years, has announced his retirement.

Chloe Xiang / VICE:
Text-to-image generation systems like DALL-E and Midjourney use datasets built by scrapping images without explicit permission and it’s not easy to opt out  —  In one stark example of how sensitive images can end up powering these AI tools, a user found a medical image in the LAION dataset …

Maxwell Strachan / VICE:
Some guests and hosts say Airbnb permanently banned them after background checks by third-party company Inflection revealed minor offenses or old misdemeanors  —  Airbnb customers say they are being permanently banned after background checks reveal minor offenses like broken tail lights and old misdemeanors.

Edward Ongweso Jr / VICE:
Report: customers are using doorbell cameras like Amazon’s Ring to monitor, control, and punish delivery drivers, such as sharing footage online to shame them  —  A Data & Society report interviewed doorbell camera users and delivery drivers to understand how surveillance is affecting both, for the worse.