Mat Di Salvo / Decrypt: Seattle-based crypto exchange Bittrex shuts down its US operations, telling users to withdraw funds by April 30, but plans to continue to operate Bittrex Global  —  The American cryptocurrency exchange said it was not “economically viable” to continue doing business in the United States. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch: LeBron James, William Shatner, Seinfeld actor Jason Alexander, and other athletes and celebrities with millions of followers say they won’t pay for Twitter Blue  —  April 1 is the dumbest day on the internet, and this year, it’s not just because brands will try to prank you by selling “hot iced coffee.” Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica: Google confirms putting a 5M-file limit per Drive account, even for paid Google One plans, in February 2023 without telling users, who thought the cap was a bug  —  The new file limit means you can’t actually use the storage you buy from Google.  —  “Please delete 2 million files to continue using your Google Drive account.” Lees verder op Tech Meme

Matt Binder / Mashable: Twitter’s For You code tracks metrics for users categorized as “republican”, “democrat”, “power user”, or “elon” to keep tweaks from harming any of these groups  —  Musk said he had no idea it was doing that!  —  Twitter has just released … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Chloe Xiang / VICE: A Belgian widow claims her husband died by suicide after talking for six weeks with an AI chatbot that presented itself as an emotional being in the app Chai  —  The incident raises concerns about guardrails around quickly-proliferating conversational AI models.  —  Chloe Xiang Lees verder op Tech Meme

Wall Street Journal: How GameStop chairman Ryan Cohen abandoned his e-commerce push for the company to refocus on its ~4,400 stores, leading to GameStop’s first profit in two years  —  Videogame retailer, the original meme stock, hits brakes on e-commerce push to refocus on its 4,400 bricks-and-mortar locations Lees verder op Tech Meme

Daniel Wiessner / Reuters: The NLRB says Activision Blizzard broke US labor law by illegally surveilling staff during a walkout and threatening to close Slack channels amid a union drive  —  Activision Blizzard Inc (ATVI.O) violated U.S. labor law by illegally surveilling employees during a walkout and threatening … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Paul Sandle / Reuters: The UK’s Competition Appeal Tribunal says Apple won its appeal against the CMA’s move to investigate the company’s dominance in mobile browsers and cloud gaming  —  Apple Inc (AAPL.O) won its appeal against the decision by Britain’s antitrust regulator to launch an investigation … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Josh Sisco / Politico: Sources: the FTC plans to file a complaint against Amazon alleging Alexa speakers violate COPPA by collecting data about kids under 13 without parental consent  —  The case, if filed, would be the first in a potentially long list of enforcement actions against the tech giant. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Oliver Knight / CoinDesk: Filing: the US government sold ~$216M of seized Silk Road BTC on March 14, part of James Zhong’s 50K stolen BTC, and plans to sell 41,490 BTC in four tranches  —  The government will sell the remaining 41,490 BTC in four tranches this year.  —  The U.S. government sold 9,861.17 bitcoin … Lees verder op Tech Meme