Bloomberg: The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission sues Binance and its CEO CZ for allegedly breaking trading and derivatives rules — Binance Holdings Ltd., the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, and Chief Executive Officer Changpeng Zhao, were sued by the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Larry DiTore / The Block: Filing: MicroStrategy bought 6,455 BTC for ~$150M from February 16 to March 23 at an average price of $23,238; the company now holds ~$4.14B worth of BTC — – MicroStrategy now has a little more than $4 billion worth of bitcoin in its corporate coffers. — MicroStrategy scooped … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: Microsoft says Teams has 280M MAUs, up from 270M in Jan. 2022, and says it has rebuilt Teams to be twice as fast, rolling out to Windows’ Public Preview program — Teams, Microsoft’s Slack rival, has always had a bit of a reputation for being slow and resource-hungry. Lees verder op Tech Meme
Chris Welch / The Verge: Sonos Era 300 review: best spacial audio from any speaker, flexible connectivity options, but poor Sonos app UX and quality of spatial audio varies by track — When you find a good spatial audio song, Sonos’ new speaker can blow your mind and sounds like nothing else. Lees verder op Tech Meme
Matt Burgess / Wired: Porn creators in Germany face fines and imprisonment as regulators use AI to spot porn not protected by age verification tech on social media and messaging apps — Regulators are using an AI system to scan websites and messaging apps to find pornography. Creators face fines and potential prison sentences. Lees verder op Tech Meme
Bloomberg: Huawei says it has built tools to design chips as advanced as 14nm, about four generations behind the latest available, to help Chinese firms replace US tech — Huawei Technologies Co. has developed software tools capable of designing chips as advanced as 14 nanometers … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Reuters: Sources: Jack Ma returned to China after more than a year; sources: China Premier Li Qiang urged Ma to return since late 2022 to allay private sector fears — Alibaba (9988.HK) founder Jack Ma has returned to China, ending a stay overseas of more than a year that industry viewed as reflecting … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Richard Milne / Financial Times: Ammo maker Nammo says its growth is hit by a TikTok data center using all spare electricity, as energy demand from data centers and others grows in the Nordics — Norwegian group Nammo blames ‘storage of cat videos’ for threatening its growth as data centre corners spare electricity Lees verder op Tech Meme
Paul Sawers / TechCrunch: Activist investor Elliott Management decides not to nominate its own directors to Salesforce’s board, citing the company’s FY23 results, growth plans, and more — Activist investor Elliott Investment Management won’t be proceeding with plans to nominate its own directors to Salesforce’s board … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Sarah Zheng / Bloomberg: Kaspersky: some versions of Pinduoduo, suspended by Google from its app store, exploited Android vulnerabilities to install backdoors and gain user data access — Security researchers at Moscow-based Kaspersky Lab have identified and outlined potential malware in versions … Lees verder op Tech Meme