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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: 294+ US crisis pregnancy centers, which try to dissuade people from abortions, share website visitor info with Meta via Facebook'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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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 … | 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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| 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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| Anna Kramer / Protocol: |
The NLRB files a complaint against Mapbox, whose leadership allegedly threatened jobs for union organizing and fired organizers after a failed August 2021 vote — Mapbox has just been slapped with a complaint from the National Labor Relations Board that alleges the company's leadership threatened job loss …
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