Joseph Cox / 404 Media: A look at Spy Pet, which scrapes Discord servers to archive users’ data and sells access to that data for as little as $5; Discord is investigating  —  An online service is scraping Discord servers en masse, archiving and tracking users’ messages and activity across servers including … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Matt Day / Bloomberg: How Amazon built Just Walk Out starting in the early 2010s, driven by Jeff Bezos, as Amazon removes the tech from its stores but expands it to other retailers  —  The company is cutting back on the “Just Walk Out” tech in its own grocery locations. … The company outfitted it with technology that … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: Sources: German grocery delivery startup Flink raised another €100M from existing investors and has been in merger talks with rivals Getir and Just Eat Takeaway  —  – Flink has been in merger talks with Getir, Just Eat Takeaway  — Grocery apps boomed in the pandemic but struggled with costs Lees verder op Tech Meme

The Verge: Third-party iOS app store AltStore PAL launches in the EU for €1.50 a year with two apps including game emulator Delta, which is also live on Apple’s App Store  —  After we recently tested it in beta, the third-party iOS app store AltStore PAL is now live in the European Union thanks … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Clint Watts / Microsoft On the Issues: MTAC report: foreign malign influence from Russia, China, and Iran in the US presidential election got off to a slower start this year compared to 2016 and 2020  —  Clint Watts – General Manager, Microsoft Threat Analysis Center  —  Foreign malign influence in the U.S. presidential election got off … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sam Kessler / CoinDesk: Worldcoin announces World Chain, a Layer 2 Ethereum blockchain designed to prioritize verified humans over bots, slated for release this summer  —  The human-focused blockchain network will be based on the OP Stack, a framework for building Ethereum-based layer-2 chains. Lees verder op Tech Meme