Tech Meme

Miles Kruppa / Wall Street Journal: Internal email: Google plans to include office attendance records in performance reviews and consider new requests to work remotely full-time as an exception  —  Search giant, which asks most workers to be in an office 3 days a week, will consider attendance as part of performance Lees verder op Tech Meme

Rohan Goswami / CNBC: Court filings: Binance’s lawyers allege SEC Chair Gary Gensler offered to be an advisor to the company in March 2019 when he was teaching at MIT Sloan  —  – According to a new filing from Binance’s lawyers, SEC Chair Gary Gensler offered to be an advisor to the crypto exchange in 2019. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sapna Maheshwari / New York Times: In a letter, two US senators accuse TikTok of misleading the Congress on handling of US user data, demanding answers to 12+ questions by the end of next week  —  Two senators sent a letter to TikTok’s C.E.O. on Tuesday with questions about how user data may be stored and accessed in China following new reports in May. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Will Douglas Heaven / MIT Technology Review: DeepMind’s AlphaDev, an AI for discovering enhanced algorithms, devised new C++ sorting algorithms that are up to 70% faster and have been added to the language  —  The AI-generated algorithms are already being used by millions of developers.  —  DeepMind’s run of discoveries in fundamental computer science continues. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Wall Street Journal: A survey of 472 corporate board directors ahead of the SEC’s cyber-risk regulations: 76% have at least one expert, 62% say risk awareness is improving, and more  —  Board expertise depends very much on the industry and the company size  —  Are boards of directors capable of cybersecurity oversight? Lees verder op Tech Meme

Colin Wilhelm / The Block: Court documents: the SEC accuses Binance and Binance.US of redirecting $12B+ in customer assets to entities controlled by Changpeng Zhao between 2019 and 2021  —  The Securities and Exchange Commission has accused Binance and Binance.US of redirecting over $12 billion in customer assets … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: Sources: TikTok is aiming for a global e-commerce GMV of $20B in 2023, up from $4.4B in 2022, after rapid growth of its e-commerce business in Southeast Asia  —  ByteDance Ltd.’s TikTok aims to more than quadruple the size of its global e-commerce business to as much as $20 billion … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Anton Shilov / Tom’s Hardware: SK Hynix says it has started mass producing its 238-layer 3D NAND flash memory chips, promising speeds of 2400MT/s, up from last gen’s 176 layers and 1600MT/s  —  The new memory promises speeds of up to 2,400 MT/s.  —  SK hynix said late on Wednesday that it had begun mass production of its 238-layer … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Berlin-based Payrails, which offers a framework for enterprise payments, raised a $14.4M seed extension led by EQT Ventures, bringing its seed total to $20.8M  —  Enterprises and marketplaces that need to take and make payments across multiple geographies and products have typically relied … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: Digibee, a low-code service that helps enterprises build integration workflows, raised a $60M Series B led by Goldman Sachs, taking its total funding to $90M+  —  Low-code enterprise integration platform provider Digibee Inc. said today it has closed on a $60 million round of funding. Lees verder op Tech Meme