Tech Meme

Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: The US SEC sues Tron founder Justin Sun and his companies for the alleged “unregistered offer and sale of crypto asset securities” TRX and BTT, fraud, and more  —  The SEC alleged TRX, BTT are unregistered securities, and claimed Sun created an “extensive wash trading” program to boost their trading volume. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sean Endicott / Windows Central: Microsoft launches Loop, its Notion and Asana competitor, in preview, letting users collaborate in shared Microsoft 365 workspaces on the web, Android, and iOS  —  You can now try out Microsoft’s new collaboration tool Loop.  —  What you need to know  — Microsoft Loop is now available in preview. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Theo Wayt / The Information: Job listings site Indeed lays off ~2,200 people, or ~15% of its headcount, citing falling HR Tech revenue; Tokyo-based Recruit acquired Indeed in September 2012  —  Job listings site Indeed.com told employees on Wednesday that it’s laying off 2,200 people, representing 15% of its headcount … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sean Endicott / Windows Central: Microsoft launches Loop, its Notion and Asana competitor, in preview, allowing users to collaborate in shared workspaces on the web, Android, and iOS  —  You can now try out Microsoft’s new collaboration tool Loop.  —  What you need to know  — Microsoft Loop is now available in preview. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Chris Stokel-Walker / BuzzFeed News: Bellingcat founder Eliot Higgins says Midjourney banned him after he made images of a Donald Trump arrest; the company banned the word “arrested” in its tool  —  “I suspect it was pushing my luck when I did the [Twitter] thread,” Bellingcat founder Eliot Higgins said. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Washington Post: A look at ByteDance’s and TikTok’s lobbying before Shou Zi Chew’s hearing, including Axios ads and private lawmaker meetings, mirroring Meta’s well-worn tactics  —  The app, owned by Beijing-headquartered ByteDance, is adopting the lobbying tactics of many of its American tech company peers Lees verder op Tech Meme

Dina Bass / Bloomberg: GitHub announces Copilot X, a new Copilot version with chat and voice features using OpenAI’s GPT-4 to help with certain coding tasks, available via a waitlist  —  Microsoft Corp.’s GitHub unit created one of the first widely deployed programs using OpenAI’s language-generation tools … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Theo Wayt / The Information: Job listings site Indeed is laying off about 2,200 people, or 15% of its headcount; Indeed was acquired in 2012 by Japan’s Recruit, which also owns Glassdoor  —  Job listings site Indeed.com told employees on Wednesday that it’s laying off 2,200 people, representing 15% of its headcount … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Chris Welch / The Verge: Amazon introduces new Fire TVs and the cheaper TV lineup 2-Series, says 200M+ Fire TV devices have been sold, and expands Luna to the UK, Germany, and Canada  —  Amazon announced today that it has sold a total of over 200 million Fire TV devices.  That number is a combination of Fire TV streamers … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Mozilla announces Mozilla.ai, an AI-focused startup with a $30M seed from the Mozilla Foundation to create a “trustworthy”, independent open-source AI stack  —  On the eve of its 25th anniversary, Mozilla, the not-for-profit behind the Firefox browser, is launching an AI-focused startup. Lees verder op Tech Meme