Tech Meme

Kris Holt / Engadget: Meta rolls out Verified in the US for $12/month on web or $15 on iOS/Android, with a blue badge, proactive impersonation protection, and direct customer support  —  Meta’s paid verification program is available in the US starting today, CEO Mark Zuckerberg wrote on his Instagram channel. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jessica Hagen / MobiHealthNews: Los Angeles-based SpectrumAi, which offers applied behavior analysis therapy tools for autism patients, raised up to a $20M Series A led by CVS Health Ventures  —  The funds will be used to accelerate the adoption of the platform’s applied behavior analysis-focused tools. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sara Fischer / Axios: YouTube lifts restrictions, imposed after the January 6 insurrection, on Trump’s channel after evaluating the “continued risk of real-world violence”  —  YouTube will lift its restrictions on former President Trump’s channel Friday, a spokesperson confirmed to Axios. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Emily Baker-White / Forbes: Sources: the FBI and DOJ are investigating what led TikTok’s parent company ByteDance to use the app to surveil US journalists; source: ByteDance was subpoenaed  —  Months before the U.S. government demanded ByteDance divest from TikTok, the Department Of Justice’s Criminal Division subpoenaed … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: SVB Financial files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the SDNY Bankruptcy Court and “believes it has approximately $2.2B of liquidity”  —  One week after trading was halted for SVB Financial and regulators took control of the holding company for Silicon Valley Bank and other subsidiaries … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Wall Street Journal: A shortage of skilled workers is impeding Micron’s goal of a chip manufacturing campus in Syracuse, NY, where it plans to invest $100B and hire 9K employees  —  Micron plans to hire 9,000 employees at a new suburban Syracuse campus amid shortage of skilled workers Lees verder op Tech Meme

Alexander Martin / The Record: Q&A with two of Meta’s leading security experts about its Online Operations Kill Chain, a framework for responding to threat activity like influence operations  —  Next year will feature some of the most geopolitically significant elections of our times. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Wired: How the vague and varied US legal definitions of “cybercrime” causes issues, as the UN negotiates an international cybersecurity treaty with similar broad terms  —  From US state laws to the international stage, definitions of “cybercrime” remain vague, broad, and increasingly entrenched in our legal systems. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Karat, which helps companies conduct technical interviews, plans to acquire its competitor Triplebyte for an undisclosed amount; Triplebyte raised ~$50M  —  The technology industry continues to rack up an ever-longer list of layoffs — which now stand at nearly 139,000 according to Layoffs.fyi … Lees verder op Tech Meme

@zoeschiffer: Sources: Twitter downranked rivals’ corporate accounts including Instagram, Snap, and TikTok since December, as well as non-rivals like the US @HHSGov account  —  Little scoop from me today: Twitter has been down-ranking the corporate accounts of its competitors, including 19 official TikTok accounts, 3 Snap accounts, and 2 Instagram accounts. This means their tweets won’t show on the For You tab for the most part: https://www.platformer.news/ … Lees verder op Tech Meme