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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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VICE, CoinDesk, The Block, The Verge, Protocol, and Insider
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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.
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| 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| Aislinn Keely / The Block: |
A US judge sentences BitMEX co-founder Benjamin Delo to 30 months probation without home confinement after he pled 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.| Nikkei Asia: |
Japanese businesses and government agencies are panicking as Microsoft retires Internet Explorer; March 2022 survey shows 49% of organizations use IE for work — Government, corporate users scramble to find alternative to Microsoft program — TOKYO — Microsoft bids farewell to Internet Explorer … | Josh Taylor / The Guardian: |
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| CNN: |
Japan passes an amendment making “online insults” punishable by up to a year in prison, after the suicide of a reality TV star who had faced social media abuse — Tokyo (CNN)Japan's parliament on Monday passed legislation making “online insults” punishable by imprisonment amid …
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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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| New York Times: |
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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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Austin-based DealHub, whose configure, price, and quote software helps businesses quote complex and configurable products, 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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| Ryan Gallagher / Bloomberg: |
A look at hacking group Cyber Partisans, which seeks to overthrow Belarus' government and has disrupted Russia's supply lines in Belarus for the war in Ukraine — Russia's military began sending large numbers of weapons and troops into Belarus in late January.
Tweets: @business, @chafkin, and @rj_gallagher
| Reuters: |
Sources: the US increased its funding into VPN companies nthLink, Psiphon, and Lantern by about 50% since February to support the surge in their Russian users — The U.S. government has pushed new, increased funding into three technology companies since the start of the Ukraine conflict …
Tweets: @gladstein, @ivanastradner, @novelsci, @onevenusthrow, @pearswick, @cazacioc, @metacurity, and @augustaphifer
| Kristin Snyder / dot.LA: |
California-based Performio, whose cloud-based sales performance management service lets companies automate incentive compensation, raised $75M led by JMI Equity — Performio, an Irvine-based provider of sales commission software, has raised $75 million in new funding.
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performio.co and Orange County Business Journal
| Javeria Khalid / Rest of World: |
After Pakistan banned dating apps Tinder, Grindr, and Skout in September 2020, Facebook matchmaking groups for Pakistanis gained tens of thousands of members — A ban on dating apps like Tinder has left young Pakistanis with limited avenues to meet new people. Facebook matchmaking groups are gaining popularity among them.
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Insider. Tweets: @mvzelenks, @ambreenali, @restofworld, @restofworld, @javkhal, and @restofworld
| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
A summary of the apps that Apple “Sherlocked” at WWDC 2022, like Camo with Continuity Camera, Klarna with Apple Pay Later, and Pillbox with medication tracking — Apple introduced some amazing updates across iOS, iPadOS, watchOS, and macOS at the worldwide developer conference (WWDC) last week.
Tweets: @wavesblog and @drbarnard
| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Orca Security: Microsoft took several 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 … | 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 … | 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 …
Tweets: @anna_c_kramer, @protocol, @anna_c_kramer, @eqrevolutions, @bambipotf, and @mapboxunion
| 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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Android Authority, YouTube, Gizmodo, iPhone in Canada Blog, Input, and Digital Trends
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