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PYMNTS.com: Sydney-based DataMesh, which offers a payments processing system that it claims adapts to existing systems used by banks and merchants, raised a $30M Series A  —  DataMesh Group has raised $30 million in a Series A funding round to expand globally.  —  The Australian firm also plans … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Brandy Betz / CoinDesk: Chaos Labs, which offers an automated, on-chain risk management platform for DeFi protocols, raised a $20M seed led by Galaxy Digital and PayPal Ventures  —  Chaos Labs, a startup offering an automated economic security system for crypto protocols, has raised $20 million in a seed funding round co-led … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Omar Faridi / Crowdfund Insider: Berlin-based Pliant, which offers a B2B corporate credit card service that integrates with accounting software, raised a $28M Series A led by SBI Investment  —  Berlin-based Pliant claims it is looking back at a very successful year 2022.  —  While entering seven additional European markets … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Alex Heath / The Verge: Sources: Twitter laid off dozens of sales and engineering staff last week, as Elon Musk demands the site’s ad targeting work like Google search ads in one week  —  He keeps laying people off anyway.  —  Dozens of Twitter employees across sales and engineering departments were laid off last week … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Andrew Chung / Reuters: SCOTUS declines to hear Wikimedia’s challenge of the NSA’s warrantless Upstream surveillance of foreign targets, leaving in place a lower court’s 2015 dismissal  —  The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to hear a bid by the operator of the popular Wikipedia internet encyclopedia … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Louis Rosenberg / VentureBeat: Berkeley study: researchers identified VR users with 94%+ accuracy using 100 seconds of motion data, after analyzing anonymized data of 50K+ Beat Saber players  —  Louis Rosenberg, Unanimous A.I.  —  A new paper from the University of California Berkeley reveals that privacy may be impossible … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jay Peters / The Verge: Meta’s Quest v50 update adds Direct Touch, an experimental setting that lets users “touch” virtual buttons and keyboards directly instead of via a pinch gesture  —  Hand tracking on Meta’s Quest VR headsets is about to get better.  With the new v50 update, you’ll be able to … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Igor Bonifacic / Engadget: Google rolls out a redesigned YouTube Music radio station feature, letting users pick up to 30 artists, apply mood filters, and tune parameters after creation  —  Almost every music streaming service on the market offers a radio feature, allowing you to create an automatically generated playlist around a song or artist you love. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Theodore Schleifer / Puck: Sources: the US DOJ’s Public Integrity Section is probing possible campaign-finance violations by Sam Bankman-Fried or his associates, implying more indictments  —  An elite unit of the Department of Justice has taken an interest in the political side of the FTX case, raising the possibility of more indictments to come. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Omar Faridi / Crowdfund Insider: Berlin-based Pliant, which offers digital corporate credit card management and accounting software, raised a $28M Series A led by SBI Investment  —  Berlin-based Pliant claims it is looking back at a very successful year 2022.  —  While entering seven additional European markets, it also … Lees verder op Tech Meme