Tech Meme

Wall Street Journal: Documents: the US House Judiciary Committee subpoenaed the FTC over its Twitter privacy investigation, saying the agency didn’t comply with a March 10 request  —  Rep. Jim Jordan , the chair of the Judiciary Committee, said the FTC has made burdensome demands of Twitter and its owner, Elon Musk. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Financial Times: Sources: Thoma Bravo lost the race to acquire Qualtrics, which sold to Silver Lake and CPP for $12.5B in March 2023, due to US antitrust investigation fears  —  Qualtrics eventually sold for $12.5bn to Silver Lake and CPP in largest leveraged buyout of year Lees verder op Tech Meme

Yueqi Yang / Bloomberg: February 2023 filings: FTX lawyers are exploring tax issues around rebooting FTX, billing $13.5M for recovering assets, weighing “long-term options”, and more  —  Whether FTX’s new chief executive officer actually pushes forward with an effort to restart the bankrupt crypto exchange, its lawyers are billing it for the job. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Megan Graham / Wall Street Journal: IAC and PwC: US digital ad revenue rose 10.8% YoY to $209.7B in 2022, down from 35% YoY in 2021; social media ad revenue rose 3.6% YoY in 2022, down from 39.3%  —  Headwinds from the economy and privacy protections were offset by growth in areas such as retail ad networks and streaming TV, executives and analysts say Lees verder op Tech Meme

Wall Street Journal: Documents: the House Judiciary Committee subpoenaed the FTC over its Twitter privacy investigation, saying the agency failed to comply with an earlier request  —  Rep. Jim Jordan , the chair of the Judiciary Committee, said the FTC has made burdensome demands of Twitter and its owner, Elon Musk. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: Google launches Assured Open Source Software to help developers defend against supply chain attacks for free, with support for 1,000+ Java and Python packages  —  About a year ago, Google announced its Assured Open Source Software (Assured OSS) service, a service that helps developers defend … Lees verder op Tech Meme

New York Times: NPR “will no longer be active on Twitter” after the social network took “actions that undermine our credibility” by implying NPR is not editorially independent  —  The broadcaster said that the label undermined its credibility “by falsely implying that we are not editorially independent.” Lees verder op Tech Meme

Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: LinkedIn partners with CLEAR to help US users verify their identity via a government ID and phone number or via company email  —  LinkedIn is introducing new ways to verify your identity and where you work, the company announced on Wednesday.  Unlike with Twitter and Meta … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sharon Goldman / VentureBeat: Databricks releases Dolly 2.0, the next version of its LLM released two weeks ago, and a dataset trained on 15K records generated by its employees  —  Today Databricks released Dolly 2.0, the next version of the large language model (LLM) with ChatGPT-like human interactivity … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Tom Warren / The Verge: Nvidia RTX 4070 review: the most affordable RTX 40-series GPU yet at $599 with solid 1440p performance, but only 12GB of VRAM and struggles with 4K gaming  —  The RTX 4070 is the most affordable RTX 40-series GPU yet, with solid 1440p performance. … I could end this Nvidia RTX 4070 review early … Lees verder op Tech Meme