Leah Nylen / Bloomberg: Sources: Thoma Bravo plans to close its $2.3B acquisition of ID verification software maker ForgeRock this week after the US DOJ declined to challenge the deal  —  – Justice Department probed identify management software overlap  —  Thoma Bravo LLC will close its $2.3 billion acquisition … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Nilay Patel / The Verge: Q&A with Fandom CEO Perkins Miller on the wiki hosting service’s origin as Wikipedia’s sister company, Pottermore, acquiring TV Guide, ads, FanDNA, AI, and more  —  Today, I’m talking with Perkins Miller.  He’s the CEO of Fandom, which runs thousands of wikis for everything from Disney … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jay Peters / The Verge: Meta is rolling out a much more capable Threads web app over the next few days, offering the ability to post, interact with other posts, and look at the feed  —  Meta is finally launching a much more capable web app for Threads, the company announced on Tuesday. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Brody Ford / Bloomberg: IBM plans to sell its weather business, including Weather.com and business-oriented offerings, to private equity firm Francisco Partners for an undisclosed sum  —  IBM’s consumer-facing weather services such as Weather.com and business-oriented offerings will be acquired … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Emanuel Maiberg / 404 Media: A look at CivitAI, a site for sharing AI models that generate images mostly trained on material scraped without consent, as non-consensual AI porn proliferates  —  Generative AI tools have empowered amateurs and entrepreneurs to build mind-boggling amounts of non-consensual porn. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Leah Nylen / Bloomberg: Sources: Thoma Bravo will close its $2.3B acquisition of identity software provider ForgeRock this week after the US DOJ declined to challenge the deal  —  – Justice Department probed identify management software overlap  —  Thoma Bravo LLC will close its $2.3 billion acquisition … Lees verder op Tech Meme