David Pierce / The Verge: Meta announces the $299 Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses, featuring a 12MP camera, speakers, five mics, Snapdragon AR1 Gen 1 processor, and more, on sale October 17  —  Meta’s smart glasses are not called “Stories” anymore.  They’re just called smart glasses now. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: Binance exits Russia as operating there “is not compatible with Binance’s compliance strategy”, and sells the business to CommEX, which launched a day earlier  —  – CommEX was launched a day before Binance announced deal  — Perlman says Russia business ‘not compatible’ with compliance Lees verder op Tech Meme

Byron Kaye / Reuters: Researchers say X removed a feature letting users to report election misinformation, launched in the US, Australia, and South Korea in 2021 and expanded in 2022  —  Elon Musk’s X, formerly called Twitter, disabled a feature that let users report misinformation about elections … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Emily Birnbaum / Bloomberg: Filing: the US FTC revives its challenge of Microsoft’s $69B Activision Blizzard acquisition, a move that may unwind the deal even after its close by October 18  —  – FTC administrative hearing won’t derail deal from closing  — Companies are likely to win UK regulatory approval for deal Lees verder op Tech Meme

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: NYC- and Tel Aviv-based Gem Security, which offers a cloud threat detection, investigation, and response service, raised a $23M Series A led by GGV Capital  —  Cloud detection and response company Gem Security today announced that it has raised a $23 million Series A round led by GGV Capital … Lees verder op Tech Meme