Tech Meme

Nilay Patel / The Verge: Q&A with Mastodon CEO Eugen Rochko on open-source governance, business models, rejecting VC firms, running instances, ActivityPub, content moderation, and more  —  CEO Eugen Rochko on running — and growing — a decentralized social network. … Eugen Rochko is the CEO of Mastodon … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Forbes: Sources: Sam Bankman-Fried is paying his mounting legal fees from a $10M+ tax-free gift he gave his father with money borrowed from Alameda in 2021  —  While still CEO of now-collapsed FTX, Bankman-Fried transferred millions of dollars to his father.  Some of those funds have since been used … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Berlin-based Hygraph, which offers a federated content management service, raised a $30M Series B led by One Peak Partners, bringing its total funding to $43.7M  —  Digital content and how we consume it continue to endlessly evolve, and with that, so too does the tech that helps manage all of it behind the scenes. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Indu Bhan / The Economic Times: India’s National Company Law Appellate Tribunal upholds the ~$160M fine imposed on Google by the Competition Commission of India in the Android antitrust case  —  The NCLAT, an appellate authority for orders passed by the CCI, had started its hearing in the Android matter on February 15 following a directive by the Supreme Court. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sam Reynolds / CoinDesk: A US court rules the bZx protocol meets the definition of a general partnership and finds the DAO’s token holders are liable for losses from a $55M hack in 2021  —  Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs) are beginning to look like general partnerships in the eyes of U.S. courts. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Reuters: The UK CMA launches an in-depth investigation, which can take up to six months, of Broadcom’s $61B VMware acquisition, after Broadcom failed to address concerns  —  Britain said it would investigate Broadcom’s (AVGO.O) acquisition of VMware (VMW.N) in depth after the U.S. chipmaker offered … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Juli Clover / MacRumors: Apple announces WWDC 2023 will be held from June 5 to June 9 as a virtual event, with a keynote event on June 5  —  Apple today announced that its 34th annual Worldwide Developers Conference will take place from Monday, June 5 to Friday, June 9.  Like WWDC 2020, 2021, and 2022 … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: UK-based Fetch.ai, which uses blockchain technology and is building tools for communication and actions between AI applications, raised $40M from DWF Labs  —  AI is riding high on a curve of hype, which means some of the practical questions that might grow louder over time — the many costs … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Christopher M. Matthews / Wall Street Journal: Court records and messages from purported hackers reveal a massive hacking campaign targeting thousands of environmental activists, dating back at least to 2017  —  Charity of Rockefeller heirs among groups targeted by hackers; oil giant not accused of wrongdoing Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: Researchers find a flaw in WiFi protocol IEEE 802.11 that could be exploited to inject malicious content into TCP packets and more; many routers are affected  —  Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a fundamental security flaw in the design of the IEEE 802.11 WiFi protocol standard … Lees verder op Tech Meme