January 13, 2025news Sonos CEO Patrick Spence is leaving following a botched app revamp that upset customers and stymied growth; board member Tom Conrad is named interim CEO (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg) Sonos CEO Patrick Spence is leaving following a botched app revamp that upset customers and stymied growth; board member Tom Conrad is […]
January 11, 2025January 11, 2025wordpress Automattic cuts WordPress contribution hours Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, announced a significant reduction in its contributions to the WordPress open-source project, c…
January 10, 2025news Sources detail Zuckerberg’s sprint to remake Meta after meeting with Trump at Thanksgiving; he no longer wants to keep his views of how Meta should be run quiet (New York Times) Sources detail Zuckerberg’s sprint to remake Meta after meeting with Trump at Thanksgiving; he no longer wants to keep his views of […]
January 10, 2025news Overhaul, which uses AI to anticipate freight shipping delays to fight cargo theft for customers like Microsoft, raised $55M, bringing total funding to ~$150M (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch) Overhaul, a startup developing supply chain risk monitoring software, has raised $55 million in a venture round. Read More »
January 10, 2025news Memo: Meta terminates major DEI programs, including for hiring, training, and procurement, citing a changed “legal and policy landscape” around DEI in the US (Axios) Read More »
January 10, 2025news El Capitan, the world’s most powerful supercomputer, built by HPE and AMD as part of a $600M US DOE contract, is officially dedicated to handle classified tasks (Axios) Read More »
January 10, 2025news The CFPB proposes a new rule to give consumers the same protection rights when they use virtual currencies in some video games like Roblox as when they use USD (Makena Kelly/Wired) In a new proposal issued Friday, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is seeking to regulate virtual currencies used in Roblox and other […]
January 10, 2025news Sources: Venu’s cancellation came after the companies decided it was better to avoid the risk of an extended lawsuit that could jeopardize bundling in general (CNBC) From CNBC. View the full context on Techmeme. Read More »
January 10, 2025news In a weird X Spaces chat, Elon Musk and Alice Weidel, a co-chair of the German far-right party AfD, pushed disinformation about Hitler, migrants, war, and more (Politico) God! Martians! A “communist” Hitler! It was heavy on oddness and light on policy as the X owner and the AfD co-leader […]
January 10, 2025news A look at LexisNexis Risk Solutions, RELX’s largest division, which accounts for ~35% of RELX’s revenue and holds 9B device records and 3B digital identities (John Gapper/Financial Times) Company once known as Reed Elsevier has moved from legal and scientific publishing into AI fraud detection Read More »
