Tech Meme

New York Times: Sources and docs: TikTok employees have regularly posted user data on ByteDance’s internal messaging tool Lark, leading some staff to raise privacy concerns  —  Employees of the Chinese-owned video app have regularly posted user information on a messaging and collaboration tool called Lark, according to internal documents. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Eric Newcomer / Newcomer: Poolside, co-founded by former GitHub CTO Jason Warner to build a “subsystem” for AI services like GitHub Copilot and Replit’s Ghostwriter, raised a $26M seed  —  Warner steps back from Redpoint to lead Poolside.  Redpoint leads seed round.  —  ∙ Paid Lees verder op Tech Meme

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Sources: Apple plans a smart home display-like iOS 17 mode showing notifications, appointments, the weather, and more when an iPhone is locked in landscape mode  —  Apple Inc. is planning a new interface for iPhones that shows information such as calendar appointments, the weather and notifications … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Tom Warren / The Verge: Surface Pro X owners say the laptop’s cameras stopped working this week; a workaround suggests the problem could be related to an expired security certificate  —  Surface Pro X owners are reporting that the cameras on their devices have stopped working this week. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sarah Frier / Bloomberg: Linda Yaccarino’s main challenge will be improving Twitter’s advertiser relationships while keeping Elon Musk happy; sources say she wants to raise her profile  —  Elon Musk joked in December that he’d step down as Twitter’s chief executive officer once he found someone “foolish enough” to take his place. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: The US Treasury sanctions four entities and one individual over North Korea’s “army” of illicit IT workers, often located in Russia and China, and cyberattacks  —  The Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) announced sanctions today against four entities … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Rohan Goswami / CNBC: Microsoft says Chinese state-sponsored hackers compromised “critical infrastructure” across various industries in the US, with a focus on gathering intelligence  —  Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT  —  Microsoft warned on Wednesday that Chinese state-sponsored hackers … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Katharine Gemmell / Bloomberg: Microsoft formally files its appeal against the UK CMA’s decision to block its $69B Activision deal; the judicial process could take as long as nine months  —  Microsoft Corp. formally filed its appeal against the UK antitrust watchdog’s decision to block its $69 billion Activision Blizzard Inc. deal. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Misha Savic / Bloomberg: A Montenegro court overturns a lower court’s decision that would have let Terraform Labs co-founder Do Kwon be released on €400K bail; Do Kwon remains in jail  —  A Montenegrin court has annulled a lower court’s decision under which former crypto mogul and Terraform Labs co-founder Do Kwon would be released on bail. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: Sources: some Meta employees say important work has been at a standstill and the company’s 2023 product roadmap is undecided, as its final round of layoffs ends  —  Meta Platforms Inc. employees received news Wednesday of the final round of previously announced job cuts … Lees verder op Tech Meme