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Internal Kraken comms and interviews with five workers: some staff accuse CEO Jesse Powell of fostering a hateful workplace and dozens are considering quitting — Jesse Powell, who leads the crypto exchange Kraken, has challenged the use of preferred pronouns, debated who can use racial slurs and called American women “brainwashed.”
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| Molly White / @molly0xfff: |
[Thread] A look at Kraken's announcement of a culture overhaul, eschewing “stereotypical team diversity measurements”, as the crypto exchange touts hiring plans — Kraken, a U.S.-based crypto exchange, has announced they'll be continuing to hire, and have announced a culture overhaul that promotes “diversity of thought” over “stereotypical team diversity measurements” and prohibits describing another's words as “racist” or “x-phobic”. 🧵
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| Alex Heath / The Verge: |
Internal memo: Meta plans to make Facebook more like TikTok, including bringing Messenger back into the app and recommending posts from “unconnected” sources — Facebook employees were recently given a new directive with sweeping implications: make the app's feed more like TikTok.| The Markup: |
Investigation: ~300 US crisis pregnancy centers, which try to dissuade people from abortions, share website visitor info with Facebook via Meta's tracking pixel — The social media giant gathers data from crisis pregnancy centers through a tracking tool that works whether or not a person is logged in to their Facebook account| Josh Taylor / The Guardian: |
Microsoft retires Internet Explorer after nearly 27 years, disabling the desktop app and directing users to Edge, which arrived with Windows 10 in 2015 — Company says decision to disable desktop app comes as web developers less likely to make sites compatible with browser, which first graced computers in 1995
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| Nikkei Asia: |
Japan's business and government agencies are panicking as Internet Explorer shuts down; a March survey showed 49% of organizations use the browser for work — Government, corporate users scramble to find alternative to Microsoft program — TOKYO — Microsoft bids farewell to Internet Explorer …
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SiliconANGLE, Game Rant, GameSpot, and Windows Central
| Aislinn Keely / The Block: |
BitMEX co-founder Benjamin Delo is sentenced to 30 months probation without home confinement after pleading guilty to violating the US Bank Secrecy Act — BitMEX co-founder Benjamin Delo received 30 months probation without home confinement for Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) violations.
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| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
DataStax, which develops a cloud-native noSQL database built on Apache Cassandra, raised $115M at a $1.6B valuation; DataStax had an $830M valuation in 2014 — When DataStax hired Chet Kapoor as CEO in October 2019, one of the first moves he made was to bring in his old pal Sam Ramji …
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NHTSA data from July 1, 2021, to May 15, 2022: six people died in 392 incidents involving driver-assistance tech; Teslas were in 273 crashes and five were fatal — The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration released data on 10 months of crashes involving systems like Tesla's Autopilot.
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| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
Carl Pei reveals Nothing phone (1) ahead of its July 12 launch event, saying “leaks are harder to contain nowadays”; details likely to come over the next month — Nothing, the consumer tech startup led by OnePlus co-founder Carl Pei, has shown off the rear design of its debut Phone 1 smartphone.
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| Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times: |
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
DealHub, whose configure, price, and quote software tools help businesses quote complex and configurable products, has raised $60M led by Alpha Wave Global — Configure, price and quote software, also known as CPQ software, is designed to help sellers quote complex and configurable products …
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CTech, NoCamels, DealHub, and Globes Online
| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Orca Security: Microsoft took five months and three patches to fix a critical RCE vulnerability in Azure; critics say the slow response put customers at risk — Case in point: It took five months and three patches to fix a critical Azure threat. — Blame is mounting on Microsoft …
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| Kristin Snyder / dot.LA: |
Performio, which provides cloud-based sales commission software to enterprises, has raised $75M led by JMI Equity — Performio, an Irvine-based provider of sales commission software, has raised $75 million in new funding. — The company announced Tuesday that growth equity firm JMI Equity led …
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performio.co and Orange County Business Journal
| Vildana Hajric / Bloomberg: |
Cardano, Solana, and Dogecoin gained 4.5% to 11% after the Federal Reserve's interest rate hike; bitcoin rose as much as 6.1% and ether gained as much as 6.6% — Wednesday brought at least one positive development in the beaten-down crypto space: Alternative digital currencies posted big rallies … | Frank Chaparro / The Block: |
Sources: crypto hedge fund Three Arrows Capital faces an uncertain future after a $400M+ liquidation; CEO Su Zhu: we are “fully committed to working this out” — The future of crypto hedge fund Three Arrows Capital hangs in the balance as the firm faces potential insolvency after being liquidated by its lenders.
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tether.to, CoinDesk, CoinDesk, The Guardian, Bloomberg, Inside Bitcoins, Blockworks, Cointelegraph, Fortune, Bloomberg, CoinDesk, Alpha Leaks Anon Newsletter, Bitcoin News, Market Meditations, SiliconANGLE, ORE System, MacroTactical Crypto, CoinQuora, Decrypt, FULLSTACK, Wisdom of DeFi, VICE, Cointelegraph, CryptoSlate, Crowdfund Insider, Moonbirds Ecosystem Update, Tech in Asia, Crypto Briefing, Finbold, Coinspeaker, and Wall Street Journal
Tweets: @zhusu, @danny8bc, @paoloardoino, @onchainwizard, @hodlkryptonite, @hodlkryptonite, @sobylife, @nexo, @lawmaster, @danny8bc, @danny8bc, @defiyst, @nexo, @twobitidiot, @midasthefool, @coryklippsten, @hodlkryptonite, @lawmaster, @buccocapital, @cobie, @defiyst, @autismcapital, @lawmaster, @swissborg, @ryansadams, @jasonyanowitz, @tradermayne, @nope_its_lily, @cz_binance, @altcryptogems, @0xtuba, @coinbureau, @thinkingusd, @alexhern, @econoar, @autismcapital, @rleshner, @fintechfrank, @krugermacro, @ledgerstatus, @trackinflation, @midasthefool, @robinwigg, @ryan_browne_, @lthomasnews, @cryptoharry_, and @mansourtarek_
| James Vincent / The Verge: |
YouTube launches a corrections feature, letting creators add infocards in the top right-hand corner of a video at a relevant timestamp — Instead of having to re-upload a whole video — Everyone makes mistakes, but if you mess up a fact or flub a line in a YouTube video it can be hard to correct the error.
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YouTube, TechRadar, Neowin, MobileSyrup, XDA Developers, and 9to5Google
Tweets: @liron_segev, @caseynewton, @jeffnolan, and @reneritchie
| Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: |
The EU's General Court sides with Qualcomm over the European Commission's €997M fine from 2018 for allegedly paying Apple billions to use only Qualcomm chips — U.S. chipmaker Qualcomm (QCOM.O) on Wednesday won its fight against a 997-million-euro ($1.05 billion) fine imposed …
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Court of Justice of the European Union. More:
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