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| Kashmir Hill / New York Times: |
GM, Honda, Kia, Hyundai, others have added features in their mobile apps to rate driving skills, then sent the data to brokers; some saw insurance payments jump — LexisNexis, which generates consumer risk profiles for the insurers, knew about every trip G.M. drivers had taken in their cars …
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X: @davecullen, @lmower3, @evan_greer, @nick_kapur, @halsinger, @kashhill, @ccanonne_, @hoofnagle, @ericdharvey, @kashhill, @senmarkey, @tomgara, @swiftonsecurity, @jose_pagliery, @lawrencehurley, and @kashhill. LinkedIn: Eric Starkman
Forums: Hacker News, r/technology, r/cars, r/accord, r/Honda, r/business, and Slashdot
| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Airbnb will no longer let hosts use indoor security cameras, staring April 30, citing renters' privacy; previously, cameras in common areas had been allowed — Airbnb will no longer allow hosts to use indoor security cameras, regardless of where they're placed or what they're used for.
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| Fortune: |
Sources: a16z Crypto made a secret $100M investment in Kickstarter in 2021 that let staff and investors cash out and led to its later-abandoned blockchain pivot — In early December 2021, employees at the crowdfunding startup Kickstarter got news of a windfall: An investor group wanted to buy some of their shares.
More: crypto.news. Mastodon: @BabblingGeek@infosec.exchange and @molly0xfff@hachyderm.io
Bluesky: @marypcbuk.bsky.social and @cachiporra.bsky.social
X: @jeffjohnroberts and @leomschwartz
| Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: |
EU privacy watchdog EDPS says the European Commission using Microsoft 365 breached privacy rules and the EU didn't implement adequate data transfer safeguards — The European Commission's use of Microsoft (MSFT.O) software breached EU privacy rules and the bloc's executive also failed … | Jonathan Vanian / CNBC: |
Filing: Reddit aims to raise up to $748M in its IPO, selling ~22M shares at $31 to $34 each, for a ~$6.5B valuation; Reddit set aside 1.76M shares for its users — - Reddit aims to raise up to $748 million as part of its upcoming IPO, according to a corporate filing on Monday.
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X: @mattrosoff, @lesliepicker, @danprimack, @trace_cohen, and @edludlow
| Jonathan Stempel / Reuters: |
Authors Brian Keene, Abdi Nazemian, and Stewart O'Nan sue Nvidia over allegedly using their work to train NeMo, saying the company “admitted” to using the books — Nvidia (NVDA.O), whose chips power artificial intelligence, has been sued by three authors who said it used …
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Forums: Hacker News, r/artificial, r/StockMarket, r/wallstreetbets, and r/technology
| Alexandra Sternlicht / Fortune: |
TikTok uses a non-disparagement clause in RSU contracts, perhaps to silence staff, an unusual practice; one ex-staffer claims a share buyback offer was withheld — Current and former TikTok employees who criticize the company risk losing any stock they own—in some cases worth millions of dollars …
More: Business Insider. Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to. Bluesky: @glynmoody.bsky.social. X: @lexnfx. Forums: Hacker News and r/technology
| Hannah Murphy / Financial Times: |
Pavel Durov says Telegram has 900M users, aims “to become profitable next year, if not this year”, was “offered $30B+ valuations” by VCs, and is weighing an IPO — In rare interview, Pavel Durov says secretive messaging app is making ‘hundreds of millions of dollars’ from ads business
More: Cointelegraph, Proactive, iPhone in Canada Blog, Nairametrics, Coinspeaker, TechCrunch, crypto.news, and CoinGape
| Forbes: |
A profile of Ryan Breslow, the founder of Bolt, whose $355M Series E in 2022 set off 18 months of acrimonious lawsuits and a showdown with early backer Activant — The Silicon Valley wunderkind rode his fintech unicorn Bolt to the bank. Then came the lawsuits and money squabbles …
X: @alexrkonrad and @dannygroner
| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Elon Musk says xAI plans to open source Grok this week; xAI released Grok in November 2023, offering access to “real-time” data via X's $16/month subscription — Elon Musk's AI startup xAI will open source Grok, its chatbot rivaling ChatGPT, this week, the entrepreneur said …
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Forums: r/technology and Slashdot
| Lauren Goode / Wired: |
Q&A with Yoel Roth, just named Match Group's head of trust and safety, 16 months after his public exit from Twitter following Elon Musk's acquisition — Yoel Roth suffered targeted harassment after quitting as top content cop at Elon Musk's Twitter. Now he's head of trust and safety …
More: 9to5Mac, TechCrunch, and The Verge
X: @laurengoode and @laurengoode
LinkedIn: Kayla Whaling and Yoel Roth
| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
Oracle reports Q3 revenue up 7% YoY to $13.3B, meeting expectations, and cloud services and license support revenues up 12% YoY to $9.96B; ORCL jumps 9%+ — - Oracle reported an earnings beat in its quarterly results. — However, revenue came in a bit light of expectations.
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