Tech Meme

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: BlackBerry sells its beleaguered cybersecurity business, Cylance, to Arctic Wolf for $160M, after paying $1.4B to acquire Cylance in 2018  —  Arctic Wolf has acquired Cylance, BlackBerry’s beleaguered cybersecurity business, for $160 million — a significant write-down from the $1.4 billion BlackBerry paid … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Peggy Hollinger / Financial Times: The EU signs a deal to build the €10.6B Iris² satellite internet network to rival Starlink, with 61% of the project funded publicly, starting operations in 2030  —  Communications network is EU’s most ambitious space project in a decade  —  Europe has launched its most ambitious space programme … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Peggy Hollinger / Financial Times: The EU signs a deal to build the €10.6B Iris² satellite internet network to rival Starlink, with 61% of the project funded publicly, starting operations in 2030  —  Communications network is EU’s most ambitious space project in a decade  —  Europe has launched its most ambitious space programme … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Mia Sato / The Verge: Snapchat plans to roll out a unified monetization program to pay influencers for ads placed in eligible Stories and Spotlight posts starting February 1, 2025  —  Snapchat is tweaking how people earn money on the platform by introducing a new, unified monetization program. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Joseph Cox / 404 Media: Amnesty International: Serbian authorities used phone hacking startup Cellebrite’s tools to unlock a journalist’s phone before infecting the device with malware  —  A new report from Amnesty International reveals multiple cases where Serbian authorities used Cellebrite devices … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Peggy Hollinger / Financial Times: The EU signs a deal to build the €10.6B Iris² satellite internet network to rival Starlink, with 61% of the project funded publicly, starting operations in 2030  —  Communications network is EU’s most ambitious space project in a decade  —  Europe has launched its most ambitious space programme … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Eli Tan / New York Times: A profile of US ride-hailing startup Empower, which does 100K rides per week in DC despite refusing to register with the city’s Department of For-Hire Vehicles  —  Drivers for the ride-hailing company Empower protest outside a City Council meeting in Washington, D.C.Tierney L. Cross for The New York Times Lees verder op Tech Meme

Noam Scheiber / New York Times: US Senate investigation: senior Amazon execs disregarded internal warnings over the high rates of worker injuries due to concerns about Amazon’s performance  —  A staff report by the Senate labor committee, led by Bernie Sanders, uncovered evidence of internal concern about high injury rates at the e-commerce giant. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Peggy Hollinger / Financial Times: The EU signs a deal to build the €10.6B Iris² satellite internet network to rival Starlink, with 61% of the project funded publicly, starting operations in 2030  —  Communications network is EU’s most ambitious space project in a decade  —  Europe has launched its most ambitious space programme … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Andy Greenberg / Wired: A researcher details a “jailbreak” of Reviver’s digital license plates, which are legal in some US states, and rewrite its firmware to enable Bluetooth commands  —  Digital license plates sold by Reviver, already legal to buy in some states and drive with nationwide … Lees verder op Tech Meme