Bloomberg: Sources: Australia searched many Binance Australia locations as part of its derivatives investigation; CZ acknowledged that “external pressure” has hurt Binance  —  Binance’s offices in Australia were searched by the country’s financial markets regulator as governments around … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Munich-based EGYM, which sells smart fitness apps, diagnostics, and hardware to measure how people work out, raised a $225M Series F led by Affinity Partners  —  The technology industry at large might not be in the best of health at the moment, but health and fitness startups appear to be alive and well. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jonathan Greig / The Record: After Fortinet patched a major FortiOS bug on June 12, researchers find that ~336K out of ~490K affected SSL VPN interfaces are still unpatched and open to RCE  —  Cybersecurity experts are raising the alarm about a new vulnerability that leaves hundreds of thousands of Fortinet customers vulnerable to attack. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kate Park / TechCrunch: Tokyo-based CADDi, which offers a B2B marketplace for the manufacturing sector and an AI-based cloud service for managing drawing data, raised an $89M Series C  —  The pandemic has damaged the entire manufacturing supply chain, which is not likely to return to normal until at least 2024 due … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kif Leswing / CNBC: Sensor Tower: ChatGPT iOS app downloads and Bing app downloads in the US were down 38% MoM in June 2023; BofA estimates traffic to ChatGPT was down ~11% MoM  —  – AI may be the hottest thing in the technology industry, but OpenAI’s ChatGPT is not on pace to challenge Google’s grip … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kevin Purdy / Ars Technica: Gfycat, a Snap-owned GIF-hosting platform, will shut down on September 1, 2023; the site had been down for days in May due to an expired SSL certificate  —  Snap-owned service has little to say, other than save or delete your stuff.  —  The internet continues to get a bit more fragmented and less accessible every week. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: Lyon-based Dougs, an online accounting startup for SMBs that is profitable with ~€15M in ARR, raised €25M in its first VC round since being founded in 2014  —  Dougs, a French accounting startup, has been around since 2015.  It already generates $16.4 million (€15 million) in annual recurring revenue. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kris Holt / Engadget: Twitter quietly backtracks on requiring users to log in to see individual tweets, ending Elon Musk’s “temporary emergency measure”; profiles remain blocked  —  The platform is becoming slightly more usable just as Meta opens up its Twitter competitor. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jonathan Greig / The Record: After Fortinet patched a major bug in FortiOS on June 12, researchers find ~338K out of ~490K affected SSL VPN interfaces are still unpatched and open to RCE  —  Cybersecurity experts are raising the alarm about a new vulnerability that leaves hundreds of thousands of Fortinet customers vulnerable to attack. Lees verder op Tech Meme