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

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

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

Dan Seifert / The Verge: Unlike modern capable-but-boring laptops, Framework’s repairable, sustainable, and upgradeable models are exciting, reminiscent of the early 2000s computing era  —  It’s not often that I get too excited about new laptops these days.  Modern laptops are extremely capable devices, with few glaring flaws. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Marissa Newman / Bloomberg: Research: Israeli tech startups raised $1.7B in Q1 2023, the lowest since Q3 2018, weighed down by a global slowdown and protests over a judicial overhaul plan  —  Investment in Israeli tech companies has dropped to the lowest quarterly rate in nearly five years, a result of the global downturn … 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

Matthew Goldstein / New York Times: A look at the problems at Digital World Acquisition Corp, which plans to take Truth Social public by September 8, after CEO Patrick Orlando was ousted in March  —  The merger of Digital World and Trump Media has been held up by investigations, but executives are rushing to complete the deal by a Sept. 8 deadline. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: NYC-based wholesale grocery e-commerce company Boxed files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection; Boxed had held most of its cash and other liquid assets at SVB  —  Boxed Inc., an online bulk retailer that thrived during the pandemic, filed for bankruptcy on Sunday. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: Google Search adds new travel features, including a “price guarantee” tool for flights and a way to browse hotels in a swipeable story format  —  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

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Amsterdam-based Fourthline, which offers AI tools for ID checks and compliance to finance companies, 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