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Varsha Bansal / Wired: Some workers say on-demand home services startup Urban Company, which helped Indian women enter the gig economy, pushed them out for not meeting steep targets  —  Home services platform Urban Company helped Indian women get into the gig economy.  Now they say it’s setting impossible targets and then abandoning them. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Meduza.io: Russian independent news outlet Meduza says Apple removed its flagship podcast from Apple Podcasts; source: Roskomnadzor asked Apple to remove the show  —  Meduza has received a notice from Apple, informing our media that our flagship podcast “What Happened” has been removed from the Apple Podcasts streaming platform. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Wall Street Journal: How Waymo and Cruise are struggling to win over San Francisco residents, showing the challenges they may face in expanding driverless cars across the US  —  Alphabet’s Waymo and General Motors’ Cruise are struggling to win over San Francisco residents and officials, a major hurdle in their nationwide expansion. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sidhartha Shukla / Bloomberg: Nansen: payouts to NFT creators fell 98% from a peak of $269M in January 2022 to $4.3M in July 2023, as OpenSea and Blur cut royalty rates amid a bear market  —  – Payouts to NFT content creators sank 98% from a peak in 2022  — Exchanges for NFTs chopped royalty rates amid a bear market Lees verder op Tech Meme

Richard Lawler / The Verge: X delays its Ads Revenue Sharing program’s payouts that were set for the week of July 31, saying the volume of people signing up “has exceeded our expectations”  —  In news that isn’t very surprising given the recent history of Twitter, which Elon Musk is currently rebranding to X … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jonathan Greig / The Record: Microsoft fixes an Azure flaw that could have let hackers access sensitive data, after criticism from the CEO of cybersecurity risk management company Tenable  —  Microsoft has resolved a vulnerability that allows threat actors to gain access to information managed by Azure AD … Lees verder op Tech Meme

The Economic Times: Zomato reports Q1 revenue up 71% YoY to ~$292.2M and its first consolidated quarterly net profit at ~$241.9K, vs. a ~$23.4M loss in Q1 2023; ZOMATO jumps 10%+  —  On August 3, Zomato reported its first-ever consolidated quarterly net profit at Rs 2 crore, on the back of higher order frequency from subscribers of its loyalty programme. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jonathan Stempel / Reuters: A US judge rules former Celsius CEO Alex Mashinsky must face New York AG Letitia James’ lawsuit accusing him of defrauding investors by hiding Celsius’ risks  —  Alex Mashinsky, the founder and former chief of the now-bankrupt cryptocurrency lender Celsius Network, must face a lawsuit … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: Krakow-based Android phone monitoring app LetMeSpy plans to shut down by the end of August 2023 after a hacker breached and deleted its server data in June  —  Poland-based spyware LetMeSpy is no longer operational and said it will shut down after a June data breach wiped out its servers … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Nilesh Christopher / Rest of World: Some designers say AI tools have made them anxious about the YouTube thumbnail microeconomy’s future; creators like MrBeast pay up to $10K for a video thumbnail  —  Creators like MrBeast pay up to $10,000 for a single YouTube video thumbnail, but the rise of AI tools have some designers anxious about the microeconomy’s future. Lees verder op Tech Meme