Rolling Stone: SAG-AFTRA’s deal would require studios to obtain consent before creating digital replicas of living and deceased actors, disclose their use, and pay to use them — The union’s national board voted Friday to accept the new deal with Hollywood studios Lees verder op Tech Meme
Diana Britton / Wealth Management: Arch, which provides operations and reporting services for private investments, raised a $20M Series A led by Menlo Ventures, taking its total funding to $25M+ — New York-based Arch, which aims to solve for the workflow and data problems behind alternative investments … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Krystal Hu / Reuters: Sources: Character.AI is in talks to raise hundreds of millions from Google and to raise equity funding from VC investors, which could value the company at $5B+ — Alphabet’s (GOOGL.O) Google is in talks to invest hundreds of millions of dollars in Character.AI, as the fast growing artificial … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: In an AMA on Tumblr, Matt Mullenweg spoke about Tumblr’s future after shifting the majority of its staff to other areas at Automattic, monetization, and more — This week, WordPress.com owner Matt Mullenweg confirmed his company would be shifting the majority of Tumblr’s workforce to other areas … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Helen Partz / Cointelegraph: Binance plans to stop accepting deposits in Russian rubles on November 15, 2023, and withdrawals on January 31, 2024 — Binance Russia users will have slightly more than two months to withdraw their rubles from the exchange or until Jan. 31, 2024. — Total views — Join us on social networks Lees verder op Tech Meme
Amanda Hoover / Wired: Omegle shut down as part of a settlement with a user who sued the chat website company claiming its design enabled her to be sexually abused since age 11 — Omegle connected strangers to one another and had a long-standing problem of pairing minors with sexual predators. A legal settlement took it down. Lees verder op Tech Meme
Jessica Lyons Hardcastle / The Register: LockBit leaks ~50GB of data that the ransomware gang claims to have stolen from Boeing in October, after the company apparently refused to pay the ransom demand — Aerospace titan pores over data to see if dump is legit — The LockBit crew is claiming to have leaked all of the data … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: In an AMA, Matt Mullenweg spoke about Tumblr’s future after shifting the majority of its workforce to other areas at Automattic, monetization, and more — This week, WordPress.com owner Matt Mullenweg confirmed his company would be shifting the majority of Tumblr’s workforce to other areas … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: Report: Apple product and search result pages on Amazon have few, if any, rival ads, after Apple asked for preferential treatment, leading to their 2018 deal — Apple and Amazon are once again facing scrutiny for their 2018 agreement that saw Apple finally establish an official Amazon storefront. Lees verder op Tech Meme
Aditya Kalra / Reuters: India proposes broadcast and streaming rules that would set up content evaluation committees and let the government regulate any online creator or news platform — India on Friday introduced a new draft broadcasting law to regulate the sector that will also apply to streaming giants such as Netflix … Lees verder op Tech Meme