Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Austin-based Episode Six, which sells payment processing services and digital ledger infrastructure to banks and companies, raised a $48M Series C led by Avenir  —  Episode Six, a global payments and banking infrastructure provider, today announced that it raised $48 million … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jay Peters / The Verge: Netflix cracks down on password sharing in the US and offers paid sharing, which lets some accounts add an extra member outside their household for $7.99/month  —  Netflix is about to kick your best friend off your account — unless you pay for them to share your account, that is. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Microsoft debuts Azure AI Content Safety, which moderates images and text in eight languages with explanations and assigns severity scores to flagged content  —  Microsoft is launching a new AI-powered moderation service that it says is designed to foster safer online environments and communities. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: Microsoft launches Fabric, an end-to-end data and analytics platform that centers on the company’s OneLake data lake, but also works with Amazon S3 and soon GCP  —  Microsoft today launched Microsoft Fabric, a new end-to-end data and analytics platform (not to be confused with Azure Service Fabric). Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Google plans to experiment with running Search and Shopping ads, which are fully customized based on users’ queries, inside its conversational AI Search tool  —  AI chatbots have only just been put into consumers’ hands, but tech giants are rushing to monetize them. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: Google plans to use generative AI to boost the relevance of Search ads based on query context and debuts a conversational experience for creating ad campaigns  —  Google is going to start using generative AI to boost Search ads relevance based on the context of a query, the company announced at its Google Marketing Live event today. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Vjeran Pavic / The Verge: Review of Final Cut Pro for iPad: touch-friendly design and accessible pricing but limited Mac interoperability and lacks the blade tool, stabilization, more  —  The long-awaited iPad version of Final Cut Pro is here and, with it, a touch-friendly design and accessible pricing. Lees verder op Tech Meme