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WhatsApp rolls out a handful of new verification and protection features, including defenses against SIM jacking and social engineering attacks (Igor Bonifacic/Engadget) 14-04-2023

Igor Bonifacic / Engadget: WhatsApp rolls out a handful of new verification and protection features, including defenses against SIM jacking and social engineering attacks  —  WhatsApp has begun rolling out a handful of new security features.  The most notable sees the company doing more to protect users against SIM jacking … Lees verder op Tech Meme

SFPD arrested IT firm owner Nima Momeni for allegedly killing Bob Lee, and say they knew each other and were driving together before the killing (Joe Eskenazi/Mission Local) 13-04-2023

Joe Eskenazi / Mission Local: SFPD arrested IT firm owner Nima Momeni for allegedly killing Bob Lee, and say they knew each other and were driving together before the killing  —  Mission Local is informed that the San Francisco Police Department early this morning made an arrest in the April 4 killing of tech executive Bob Lee … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Toronto-based Kepler, which plans to launch a network of optical satellites to deliver data at 2.5Gbps to satellites in low Earth orbit, raised a $92M Series C (Aria Alamalhodaei/TechCrunch) 13-04-2023

Aria Alamalhodaei / TechCrunch: Toronto-based Kepler, which plans to launch a network of optical satellites to deliver data at 2.5Gbps to satellites in low Earth orbit, raised a $92M Series C  —  Toronto-based startup Kepler Communications closed another tranche of capital to continue building out its on-orbit data network. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Meta open sources Animated Drawings, an AI project that turns doodles into animations, with a dataset of nearly 180K drawings (Kris Holt/Engadget) 13-04-2023

Kris Holt / Engadget: Meta open sources Animated Drawings, an AI project that turns doodles into animations, with a dataset of nearly 180K drawings  —  Meta has open-sourced an artificial intelligence project that lets anyone bring their doodles to life.  The company hopes that by offering Animated Drawings … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Q&A with Substack CEO Chris Best about Notes, asking for investment without sharing financial details, and more, as he evades some content moderation questions (Nilay Patel/The Verge) 13-04-2023

Nilay Patel / The Verge: Q&A with Substack CEO Chris Best about Notes, asking for investment without sharing financial details, and more, as he evades some content moderation questions  —  Can Substack handle the wrath of Elon Musk and the pain of content moderation?  —  It is fair to say that Substack … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Virginia-based digital ID service ID.me, used by US agencies like the IRS, raised a $132M Series D led by Viking Global, bringing its total funding to $240M+ (Julie Muhn/Finovate) 13-04-2023

Julie Muhn / Finovate: Virginia-based digital ID service ID.me, used by US agencies like the IRS, raised a $132M Series D led by Viking Global, bringing its total funding to $240M+  —  – ID.me announced a $132 million funding round, bringing its total raised to $240 million.  — The company has brought on Samantha Greenberg as CFO. Lees verder op Tech Meme

One of the Western Digital hackers claims they stole ~10TB of data, including customer information, and says they are asking for a ransom of “minimum 8 figures” (Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai/TechCrunch) 13-04-2023

Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch: One of the Western Digital hackers claims they stole ~10TB of data, including customer information, and says they are asking for a ransom of “minimum 8 figures”  —  One of the hackers claimed to have stolen customer data and said they are asking for a “minim 8 figures” as a ramsom. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Filing: Amazon paid Andy Jassy $1.3M in 2022 after he got a $200M+ stock grant in 2021; in his first annual letter, Jassy talks efficiency, ads, LLMs, and more (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter) 13-04-2023

Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter: Filing: Amazon paid Andy Jassy $1.3M in 2022 after he got a $200M+ stock grant in 2021; in his first annual letter, Jassy talks efficiency, ads, LLMs, and more  —  Jassy had earned $212 million in 2021.  —  Amazon CEO Andy Jassy saw his 2022 compensation crater in 2022 … Lees verder op Tech Meme

ID.me, the digital ID service used by the IRS and other US agencies, raised a $132M Series D led by Viking Global, bringing its total funding to $240M+ (Julie Muhn/Finovate) 13-04-2023

Julie Muhn / Finovate: ID.me, the digital ID service used by the IRS and other US agencies, raised a $132M Series D led by Viking Global, bringing its total funding to $240M+  —  – ID.me announced a $132 million funding round, bringing its total raised to $240 million.  — The company has brought on Samantha Greenberg as CFO. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Nansen: after Shapella, ether worth ~$1.4B is stuck in a withdrawal queue; due to transaction limits, Ethereum can process ~$115M in ether withdrawals per day (Elizabeth Howcroft/Reuters) 13-04-2023

Elizabeth Howcroft / Reuters: Nansen: after Shapella, ether worth ~$1.4B is stuck in a withdrawal queue; due to transaction limits, Ethereum can process ~$115M in ether withdrawals per day  —  Cryptocurrency investors are facing delays to withdraw funds deposited on the Ethereum blockchain after its major software upgrade … Lees verder op Tech Meme