Tech Meme

Forbes: Ryan Breslow sues Mark Phillips, a convicted fraudster he hired to build his social impact DAO, for allegedly stealing ~$10.5M of the project’s seed funding  —  Billionaire tech founder Ryan Breslow is locked in a legal battle over the alleged theft of millions of dollars belonging to a nascent crypto project, Movement DAO. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Aaron Tilley / Wall Street Journal: Apple approves a BlueMail app update that adds a ChatGPT feature, after the email app’s developer Blix assured Apple that the update includes content moderation  —  Tech giant’s review of email app comes as concerns grow over AI’s potential harm  —  Apple Inc. AAPL 3.51%increase … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: Bing Chat appears to have a hidden Celebrity mode, in which the chatbot answers questions while impersonating Biden, Trump, Tom Cruise, and other famous people  —  A secret Bing Chat ‘Celebrity’ mode allows users to instruct the AI to impersonate celebrities, answering questions and talking like the person it imitates. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kate Park / TechCrunch: Singapore-based e-commerce aggregator Una Brands raised a $30M pre-Series C, following a $30M Series B in September 2022, bringing its total funding to $115M  —  Una Brands, a Singapore-based e-commerce aggregator, has raised $30 million in pre-Series C financing just five months after announcing … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Financial Times: Some UK officials and SoftBank staff blame onerous FCA rules, process complexity and cost, and the UK’s political chaos for Arm shunning a London listing  —  Onerous rules said to have influenced rejection of UK float for chip designer in favour of New York Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kate Park / TechCrunch: Singapore-based e-commerce aggregator Una Brands raised a $30M pre-Series C, following a $30M Series B in September 2022, bringing its total funding to $100M+  —  Una Brands, a Singapore-based e-commerce aggregator, has raised $30 million in pre-Series C financing just five months after announcing … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Harry McCracken / Fast Company: A profile of Slack CEO Lidiane Jones, who was a Sonos VP of software management before joining Salesforce, as she leads Slack through its “biggest product year”  —  Over a few days in late November and early December of 2022, it became clear that Slack was about to go through … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Yuan Gao / Bloomberg: US adds China’s Inspur, one of the world’s largest server makers that has joint ventures with IBM and Cisco, to an Entity List, limiting its access to US tech  —  The Biden administration’s blacklisting of China’s Inspur Group Co. targets a company that US tech giants like Cisco Systems Inc. … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Erin Woo / The Information: Sources: after Twitter refused to pay its AWS bills for months, Amazon threatened in February to withhold payments for the ads it runs on Twitter  —  Elon Musk is running into an obstacle in his relentless drive to cut costs at Twitter: some of the same vendors that Twitter is squeezing to save money are also its advertising clients. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: BidenCash, a dark web site dealing in stolen credit and debit cards, leaks a free database of 2M+ cards revealing emails, card expiry dates, CVV codes, and more  —  A carding marketplace known as BidenCash has leaked online a free database of 2,165,700 debit and credit cards in celebration of its first anniversary. Lees verder op Tech Meme