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Reuters: ION Group, which sells trading, analytics, and other financial market tools, plans to acquire Italian credit management company Prelios, sources say for €1.35B  —  U.S. hedge fund Davidson Kempner Capital Management (DK) said on Friday it had agreed to sell Prelios to fintech firm ION Group … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Luc Cohen / Reuters: A US judge revokes SBF’s bail after the DOJ accused him of tampering with witnesses, such as by sharing former Alameda CEO Caroline Ellison’s diary with the NYT  —  Sam Bankman-Fried’s bail was revoked ahead of his October fraud trial, a U.S. judge said on Friday, after prosecutors accused … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Reuters: ION Group, which sells trading, analytics, and other financial market tools, plans to acquire Italian credit management company Prelios, sources say for €1.35B  —  U.S. hedge fund Davidson Kempner Capital Management (DK) said on Friday it had agreed to sell Prelios to fintech firm ION Group … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Financial Times: US VC and PE firms are assessing how Biden’s executive order on Chinese tech impacts their holdings and are weighing strategies to comply or exit China  —  Private equity and venture capital funds targeted in Biden administration’s crackdown  —  After President Joe Biden announced a ban … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Reuters: ION Group, which sells trading, analytics, and other financial market tools, plans to acquire Italian credit management company Prelios, sources say for €1.35B  —  U.S. hedge fund Davidson Kempner Capital Management (DK) said on Friday it had agreed to sell Prelios to fintech firm ION Group … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: Sources: the US Cyber Safety Review Board, created by Biden, plans to investigate cloud computing attacks, such as the recent government email Microsoft breach  —  – Cyber Safety Review Board to examine targeting of cloud  — Senator Wyden had called for investigations of Microsoft Lees verder op Tech Meme

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

Jay Peters / The Verge: Zoom updates its terms of service and a recent blog post to explicitly say that the company won’t use “communications-like customer content” to train AI models  —  Zoom has updated its terms of service and reworded a blog post explaining recent terms of service changes referencing its generative AI tools. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Financial Times: US VCs and private equity firms are considering the impact of Biden’s Chinese tech executive order on their holdings and weighing strategies to comply or exit  —  Private equity and venture capital funds targeted in Biden administration’s crackdown  —  After President Joe Biden announced … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Andy Greenberg / Wired: Teens replicated a 2008 hack of Boston’s subway fare system; the transit authority invited them to present their work, a contrast to its response 15 years ago  —  In 2008, Boston’s transit authority sued to stop MIT hackers from presenting at the Defcon hacker conference on how to get free subway rides. Lees verder op Tech Meme