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

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: Oracle, SUSE, and CIQ launch the Open Enterprise Linux Association to foster RHEL-based distributions 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

Yueqi Yang / Bloomberg: Circle says it has $1B+ in cash and had $779M in revenue in H1 2023, vs. $772M for all of 2022, as USDC in circulation has fallen to ~$26B from ~$45B in January  —  – CEO expects payments, financial firms to push for stablecoins  — USD Coin market cap plunges this year while rival Tether gains Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ernesto Van der Sar / TorrentFreak: Hosting provider Uberspace takes down youtube-dl’s website, which linked to YouTube ripping software, but is appealing a German court order forcing the takedown  —  In 2020, the RIAA infuriated many players in the open source community by targeting YouTube-ripping tool, youtube-dl. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Wayne Ma / The Information: Sources: Meta plans to build only ~1,000 units of its first-gen AR glasses, due in 2024, which use silicon carbide in the lenses, requiring assembly in the US  —  Meta Platforms plans to build only around a thousand units of the first generation of its augmented-reality glasses due out next year … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Reuters: Filing: Bittrex agrees to pay $24M to settle US SEC claims that the crypto exchange failed to register with the agency; Bittrex doesn’t admit to the allegations  —  Bittrex has agreed to pay $24 million to settle claims by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that the cryptocurrency exchange failed … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ernesto Van der Sar / TorrentFreak: Hosting provider Uberspace takes down youtube-dl’s website, which offered YouTube ripping software, but continues to appeal a court order forcing the takedown  —  Hosting provider Uberspace has taken down the website of YouTube-ripping software, youtube-dl. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Brian Heater / TechCrunch: Skydio shuts down its consumer drone business and plans to expand its enterprise offerings, after raising a $230M Series E at a $2.2B valuation in February 2023  —  Skydio today announced that it will be shutting down its consumer drone business.  —  Beginning today, the firm will no longer … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: California-based Virtualitics, which provides data visualizations that can be viewed in AR and VR, raised a $37M Series C, bringing its total funding to $67M  —  Many companies grapple with data challenges.  In a 2019 survey, Deloitte reports that 67% of executives aren’t comfortable accessing or using the data at their organizations. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Hannah Murphy / Financial Times: X CEO Linda Yaccarino plans to reinstate the company’s “client council”, an invite-only yet-to-be-decided group of marketing and ad executives, in the fall  —  New CEO tries to mend fences with brands after Elon Musk took over platform formerly known as Twitter Lees verder op Tech Meme