Tech Meme

Zoë Schiffer / The Verge: A look at Twitter’s culture prior to Elon Musk’s acquisition, when it focused on improving the health of online conversations, rather than growth at all costs  —  the early ’10s, Twitter was at the height of its power.  The company had yet to turn a profit, but it had played a crucial role … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: True Anomaly, a startup designing hardware and software for military and intelligence space reconnaissance systems, raised a $100M Series B led by Riot Ventures  —  – Contractor’s spacecraft to track national threats in orbit  — Threats can range from enemy satellites to space debris Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: Microsoft warns that threat actors are misusing OAuth apps to automate phishing attacks, push spam, and deploy VMs for crypto mining  —  Microsoft warns that financially-motivated threat actors are using OAuth applications to automate BEC and phishing attacks, push spam, and deploy VMs for cryptomining. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Daryna Antoniuk / The Record: Ukraine’s defense intelligence directorate claims to have hacked Russia’s state tax service and that Russia has been trying to restore the service for four days  —  Ukraine’s defense intelligence directorate (GUR) said it infected thousands of servers belonging to Russia’s state tax service with malware … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Cagan Koc / Bloomberg: ASML and Samsung plan to jointly spend ~$760M to build a research plant in South Korea using ASML’s next-generation extreme ultraviolet equipment technology  —  The plant will use next-generation extreme ultraviolet equipment technology, available exclusively via ASML, that’s used to produce high-end chips … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Zoë Schiffer / The Verge: A look at Twitter’s culture prior to Elon Musk’s acquisition, when it focused on improving the health of online conversations, rather than growth at all costs  —  the early ’10s, Twitter was at the height of its power.  The company had yet to turn a profit, but it had played a crucial role … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Simon Sharwood / The Register: Broadcom’s VMware Cloud Foundation Division announces the end of perpetual licenses and a move to subscriptions, plus a simplification of its product portfolio  —  Also kills perpetual licenses, adds a vSphere bundle for smaller users  —  +COMMENT Broadcom’s VMware Cloud Foundation Division … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Joseph Bernstein / New York Times: A look at Praxis, which raised $19.2M from Paradigm, Alameda Research, and others to build a city on the Mediterranean for tech bros and downtown NY tastemakers  —  Dryden Brown wants Praxis to be a crypto-city for tech bros and tastemakers.  Just don’t ask for details. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Scott Stein / CNET: Meta adds multimodal AI to its Meta Ray-Ban smart glasses as an early access beta in the US, letting Meta AI answer voice queries by taking and analyzing photos  —  I tried these Ray-Ban AI glasses, and they’re pretty wild.  Here’s how the experimental feature works.  —  “Hey, Meta. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch: Hackers breached Coin Cloud, which went bankrupt in February 2023, and stole the data of 300K users; source: the Bitcoin ATM company didn’t have a security team  —  In November, the cybersecurity collective vx-underground wrote on X, formerly Twitter, that unknown hackers were claiming … Lees verder op Tech Meme