Bloomberg: One year after Rishi Sunak pledged to turn the UK into a crypto hub, UK crypto executives say banks are less willing to support companies trading digital assets  —  Edouard Daunizeau’s crypto company SavingBlocks has an office in East London’s technology hub and more than 200 customers testing its services. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Amsterdam-based Fourthline, which offers finance firms AI-based ID verification and compliance tools, raised €50M led by Finch, taking its total funding to €70M  —  As digital financial services become more advanced, so too do the efforts of malicious hackers and fraudsters to crack … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Financial Times: Comparing ChatGPT, trained for in-depth replies, and Bard, trained for natural dialog, on how the chatbots summarize articles, pick stocks, tell jokes, and more  —  We ask the generative AI systems from OpenAI and Google to pick stocks, tell jokes and imagine the Xi-Putin summit Lees verder op Tech Meme

Mitchell Clark / The Verge: The Tor Project partners with VPN maker Mullvad to launch the Mullvad browser, for Windows, macOS, and Linux, to reduce a user’s “fingerprint” used for tracking  —  The Tor Project, the organization behind the anonymous network and browser, is helping launch a privacy-focused browser that’s … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: Western Digital reports a network breach, saying the hacker obtained some company data but the full scope is unknown; some systems, like My Cloud, are offline  —  Western Digital announced today that its network has been breached and an unauthorized party gained access to multiple company systems. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: Google Search adds travel features: a “price guarantee” tool for flights, a swipeable hotel browsing story format, and a new way to find attractions and tours  —  Google announced today that it’s introducing three new Search features to make it easier for users to research hotels … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jennifer Elias / CNBC: Documents: Google is reducing fitness classes, tape, staplers, and the frequency of laptop replacements, with non-engineers getting Chromebooks by default  —  – In a rare companywide memo from CFO Ruth Porat, Google kicked off “multi-year” employee service cuts. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch: Dogecoin’s price spikes ~20% after Twitter replaces its logo on Twitter.com with the doge logo; Musk is fighting to get a dogecoin-related lawsuit dismissed  —  Today Twitter users are noticing that an image of a dog has been added to a place of prominence. Lees verder op Tech Meme