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Jamie Crawley / CoinDesk: Germany and US authorities seize up to €44M from ChipMixer and shut down its crypto mixer, alleging the service enabled the laundering of 152K BTC since 2017  —  National authorities took down the platform’s infrastructure, seizing four servers and 7 terabytes of data. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jamie Crawley / CoinDesk: Germany and US authorities seize up to €44M from ChipMixer and shut down its crypto mixer, alleging the service enabled the laundering of 152K BTC since 2017  —  National authorities took down the platform’s infrastructure, seizing four servers and 7 terabytes of data. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kyle Bradshaw / 9to5Google: Google discontinues its Glass Enterprise Edition 2 and plans to support the headset until September 15, 2023; existing devices and apps will continue to work  —  Google has announced today that it will no longer be selling its Glass Enterprise Edition 2 headsets, with support set to be discontinued later this year. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: LinkedIn adds AI-powered writing suggestions, initially for writing profiles, using OpenAI’s GPT-4, and for recruiters writing job descriptions, using GPT-3.5  —  Earlier this month, when LinkedIn started seeding “AI-powered conversation starters” in people’s news feeds to boost engagement on its platform … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Aisha S Gani / Bloomberg: OpenAI partners with Stripe to take payments and subscriptions for ChatGPT and DALL-E; Stripe plans to integrate OpenAI’s tools into its products and services  —  OpenAI will use Stripe Inc. to take payments and subscriptions for its artificial intelligence tools ChatGPT and Dall-E … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: T-Mobile plans to acquire Ryan Reynolds-backed budget wireless provider Mint Mobile for as much as $1.35B, seeking to expand its pay-as-you-go market share  —  T-Mobile US Inc. is buying Mint Mobile, the budget wireless provider part owned by actor Ryan Reynolds, for as much as $1.35 billion … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Maureen Farrell / New York Times: SVB’s collapse is a tale of ambition and management mistakes from focusing on innovation over the mundane work of managing risk and ensuring financial prudence  —  While its leader extolled innovation and the future of tech, the bank paid less attention to risk management and was caught flat-footed by economic change. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kyle Bradshaw / 9to5Google: Google discontinues its Glass Enterprise Edition 2 headset and plans to support it until September 15, 2023; existing devices and software will continue to work  —  Google has announced today that it will no longer be selling its Glass Enterprise Edition 2 headsets, with support set to be discontinued later this year. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: Microsoft patches an Outlook zero-day, exploitable without user interaction, that the company says Russian hackers used to target European organizations in 2022  —  Microsoft has patched an Outlook zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2023-23397) exploited by a hacking group linked … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jonathan Stempel / Reuters: The US charges exiled Chinese businessman Guo Wengui with leading a conspiracy to defraud his online followers out of $1B+ and arrests him; the DOJ seizes $634M  —  The U.S. government on Wednesday charged exiled Chinese businessman Guo Wengui with fraud, accusing him of orchestrating … Lees verder op Tech Meme