Tech Meme

Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch: Dogecoin’s price spikes 20%+ after Twitter replaces its website logo with the dogecoin logo; Elon Musk is fighting to get a dogecoin-related lawsuit dismissed  —  Today Twitter users are noticing that an image of a dog has been added to a place of prominence. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jennifer Elias / CNBC: Documents: Google cuts back on fitness classes, tape, staplers, and the frequency of staff laptop replacements; non-engineers will get a Chromebook by default  —  – In a rare companywide memo from CFO Ruth Porat, Google kicked off “multi-year” employee service cuts. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Zach Baron / GQ: An interview and profile of Tim Cook on running Apple, succeeding Steve Jobs, being an outsider, creativity, reducing smartphone time, Meta, Google, and more  —  As Apple CEO, he has defied his skeptics and refashioned the world’s most creative company on his own exacting terms. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Amsterdam-based Fourthline, which offers finance firms AI-based ID verification and compliance tools, raised €50M led by Finch, taking its total funding to €70M  —  As digital financial services become more advanced, so too do the efforts of malicious hackers and fraudsters to crack … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Diane Bartz / Reuters: Filing: the US DOJ files an antitrust complaint against Activision Blizzard over salary limits in professional esports leagues  —  The U.S. Justice Department filed an antitrust complaint against Activision Blizzard (ATVI.O) on Monday, according to a court filing.  —  The complaint was not immediately available on the docket. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch: Dogecoin’s price spikes ~20% after Twitter replaces its logo on Twitter.com with the doge logo; Musk is fighting to get a dogecoin-related lawsuit dismissed  —  Today Twitter users are noticing that an image of a dog has been added to a place of prominence. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jennifer Elias / CNBC: Documents: Google is reducing fitness classes, tape, staplers, and the frequency of laptop replacements, with non-engineers getting Chromebooks by default  —  – In a rare companywide memo from CFO Ruth Porat, Google kicked off “multi-year” employee service cuts. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: Google Search adds travel features: a “price guarantee” tool for flights, a swipeable hotel browsing story format, and a new way to find attractions and tours  —  Google announced today that it’s introducing three new Search features to make it easier for users to research hotels … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: Western Digital reports a network breach, saying the hacker obtained some company data but the full scope is unknown; some systems, like My Cloud, are offline  —  Western Digital announced today that its network has been breached and an unauthorized party gained access to multiple company systems. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Mitchell Clark / The Verge: The Tor Project partners with VPN maker Mullvad to launch the Mullvad browser, for Windows, macOS, and Linux, to reduce a user’s “fingerprint” used for tracking  —  The Tor Project, the organization behind the anonymous network and browser, is helping launch a privacy-focused browser that’s … Lees verder op Tech Meme