Tech Meme

Duncan Riley / SiliconANGLE: PE firm TPG agrees to buy the government cybersecurity business of Francisco Partners-owned Forcepoint for $2.45B in a deal expected to close in Q4 2023  —  Buyout firm TPG Capital today said it will acquire the government business of cybersecurity company Forcepoint LLC for $2.45 billion … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Insider: A look at “lazy management”, an alternative explanation to the claim that some tech employees drag down companies by raking in big paychecks and working little  —  Inside the perverse system of ‘lazy management’ that’s wrecking the tech industry … When Graham was hired by Amazon, it sounded like his dream job. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: Snap rolls out integration with Linktree, allowing users to show links on Snapchat; Snap previously only allowed brands and Star creators to include links  —  Snap announced today that it is rolling out an integration with the link-in-bio tool Linktree to let people show off their work and other profiles on Snapchat. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Nicole Carpenter / Polygon: Sega of America workers win their union vote 91 to 26, becoming the first video game industry union at a major company that spans multiple departments  —  Allied Employees Guild Improving Sega win by overwhelming majority  —  Sega of America workers voted “yes” to officially form a union. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Alex Konrad / Forbes: Flexport’s former CEO Ryan Petersen is joining Founders Fund as a partner; Petersen will continue to serve as Flexport’s executive chairman  —  The 42-year-old former CEO of $8 billion-valued logistics startup Flexport will invest in early- and growth-stage startups for the firm founded by Peter Thiel. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: Snap rolls our integration with Linktree, allowing users to show links on Snapchat; Snap previously only allowed brands and Star creators to include links  —  Snap announced today that it is rolling out an integration with the link-in-bio tool Linktree to let people show off their work and other profiles on Snapchat. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Nicole Carpenter / Polygon: Sega of America workers win union vote 91 to 26, becoming the first union that spans multiple departments at a major video game company  —  Allied Employees Guild Improving Sega win by overwhelming majority  —  Sega of America workers voted “yes” to officially form a union. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ian Sample / The Guardian: Researchers test seven popular AI text detectors and find the tools can discriminate against non-native English speakers, who tend to adopt simpler word choices  —  Over half of essays written by people were wrongly flagged as AI-made, with implications for students and job applicants Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: Instagram’s Threads passes 100M signups in just five days, up from 30M in the first 24 hours and 10M in the first seven hours  —  Instagram’s text-based app Threads has achieved the mark of 100 million sign-ups in just five days.  The Twitter rival was launched on June 6 (or June 5 in the Americas), according to a tracker. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Byron Tau / Wall Street Journal: Massachusetts lawmakers are weighing a near total ban on buying and selling consumers’ mobile device location data, which would be the first such ban in the US  —  Massachusetts considers law at the vanguard of a broader movement to protect consumer privacy Lees verder op Tech Meme