Brian Fung / CNN: Filing: DOJ seeks court sanctions against Google in its antitrust suit, citing Google’s policy of deleting certain employee chats automatically after 24 hours — data-check-event-based-preview= data-network-id= data-details=> — Google should face court sanctions over … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: NYC-based Vitally, whose customer success software combines productivity and collaboration tools, raised a $30M Series B, taking its total funding to $40.6M — Customer success platforms (CSPs), or software designed to help business-to-business companies manage and monitor their customer success efforts, are increasingly in demand. Lees verder op Tech Meme
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Vitally, which makes customer success software that combines productivity and collaboration tools, raised a $30M Series B, bringing its total funding to $40.6M — Customer success platforms (CSPs), or software designed to help business-to-business companies manage and monitor their customer success efforts, are increasingly in demand. Lees verder op Tech Meme
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Meta reforms its penalty system using Oversight Board recommendations to focus more on explaining its content removals and less on giving users posting timeouts — “Facebook jail,” the name the social network’s users have bestowed on the company’s system for determining policy violations, is getting an overhaul. Lees verder op Tech Meme
Allison Johnson / The Verge: Samsung Galaxy S23 review: much improved battery life, sensibly sized, and top-notch performance, but the 3x telephoto lens is short and One UI 5.1 is average — The Galaxy S23 and S23 Plus are the very definition of iterative updates. They’re still some of the best high-end mobile devices out there … Lees verder op Tech Meme
New York Times: In its superseding indictment, the US charges that SBF and two unnamed FTX executives made 300+ “unlawful” political donations, including using customers’ funds — Prosecutors accused FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried and two unnamed people of making unlawful campaign donations using customers’ money. Lees verder op Tech Meme
Tom Warren / The Verge: Microsoft says Sydney is an old codename for a chatbot some Bing users in India began testing in late 2020; sources: Sydney had less personality until late 2022 — Microsoft’s Bing AI chatbot history dates back at least six years, with Sydney first appearing in 2021. Lees verder op Tech Meme
Nicole Carpenter / Polygon: Valve recently patched a Dota 2 exploit used by a third-party cheating client, created a honeypot to catch cheaters, and permanently banned over 40,000 accounts — The update added a ‘honeypot’ to catch cheaters — Valve issued an update to Dota 2 recently that patched an exploit used … Lees verder op Tech Meme
CoinDesk: A US court unseals a superseding indictment that charges Sam Bankman-Fried with 12 counts, up from the initial eight, including conspiracy to commit bank fraud — FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried faces additional charges, including bank fraud allegations, under a new indictment unveiled Thursday morning. Lees verder op Tech Meme
Shaurya Malwa / CoinDesk: Coinbase launches Base, a Layer 2 network built on Optimism’s OP Stack, offering access to Ethereum, Solana, and others, and has no plans for new network tokens — Base is built on Optimism and Coinbase has no plans to issue a new network token. — Join the most important conversation … Lees verder op Tech Meme