Tech Meme

Luc Cohen / Reuters: A US judge revokes SBF’s bail after the DOJ accused him of tampering with witnesses, such as by sharing former Alameda CEO Caroline Ellison’s diary with the NYT  —  Sam Bankman-Fried’s bail was revoked ahead of his October fraud trial, a U.S. judge said on Friday, after prosecutors accused … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Reuters: ION Group, which sells trading, analytics, and other financial market tools, plans to acquire Italian credit management company Prelios, sources say for €1.35B  —  U.S. hedge fund Davidson Kempner Capital Management (DK) said on Friday it had agreed to sell Prelios to fintech firm ION Group … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Financial Times: US VC and PE firms are assessing how Biden’s executive order on Chinese tech impacts their holdings and are weighing strategies to comply or exit China  —  Private equity and venture capital funds targeted in Biden administration’s crackdown  —  After President Joe Biden announced a ban … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jay Peters / The Verge: Zoom updates its terms of service and a recent blog post to explicitly say that the company won’t use “communications-like customer content” to train AI models  —  Zoom has updated its terms of service and reworded a blog post explaining recent terms of service changes referencing its generative AI tools. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Reuters: ION Group, which sells trading, analytics, and other financial market tools, plans to acquire Italian credit management company Prelios, sources say for €1.35B  —  U.S. hedge fund Davidson Kempner Capital Management (DK) said on Friday it had agreed to sell Prelios to fintech firm ION Group … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: Sources: the US Cyber Safety Review Board, created by Biden, plans to investigate cloud computing attacks, such as the recent government email Microsoft breach  —  – Cyber Safety Review Board to examine targeting of cloud  — Senator Wyden had called for investigations of Microsoft Lees verder op Tech Meme

Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: After a contentious public hearing, the California Public Utilities Commission allows Waymo and Cruise to operate driverless cabs 24/7 throughout San Francisco  —  Waymo and Cruise were approved to operate their robotaxi services 24/7 in San Francisco after a contentious six-hour public hearing … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Financial Times: US VCs and private equity firms are considering the impact of Biden’s Chinese tech executive order on their holdings and weighing strategies to comply or exit  —  Private equity and venture capital funds targeted in Biden administration’s crackdown  —  After President Joe Biden announced … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Andy Greenberg / Wired: Teens replicated a 2008 hack of Boston’s subway fare system; the transit authority invited them to present their work, a contrast to its response 15 years ago  —  In 2008, Boston’s transit authority sued to stop MIT hackers from presenting at the Defcon hacker conference on how to get free subway rides. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: Oracle, SUSE, and CIQ launch the Open Enterprise Linux Association to foster RHEL-based distribution development, after Red Hat limited RHEL source code access  —  The fallout from Red Hat’s recent decision to make it harder to access to the source code of its flagship Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) distribution continues. Lees verder op Tech Meme