Yiwen Lu / New York Times:
After a Cruise car hit and dragged a pedestrian, executives say they’re in no rush to get back on the road, as Cruise slows its breakneck development to a crawl — An incident that seriously injured a pedestrian in San Francisco led Cruise to take all of its cars off the road.
An image showing tents in a camp spelling out “All Eyes on Rafah” hits 44M+ shares on Instagram in 48 hours, likely one of the first viral AI activist images (Kat Tenbarge/NBC News)
Kat Tenbarge / NBC News:
An image showing tents in a camp spelling out “All Eyes on Rafah” hits 44M+ shares on Instagram in 48 hours, likely one of the first viral AI activist images — The image, which appears to be AI-generated, was shared more than 29 million times in less than 24 hours.
Modular laptop maker Framework unveils a $269 drop-in 120Hz display, improved $39 webcam, and swappable mainboard to add Intel Core Ultra chips to its laptops (Sean Hollister/The Verge)
Sean Hollister / The Verge:
Modular laptop maker Framework unveils a $269 drop-in 120Hz display, improved $39 webcam, and swappable mainboard to add Intel Core Ultra chips to its laptops — I know, I absolutely stuffed this story’s headline — but I’m just so excited to see the future of modular computing unfolding before my eyes.
SEC filing: Salespeople paid $419M, including $374M in cash, to buy commission management service Spiff in a deal announced in December 2023; Spiff raised $110M (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
SEC filing: Salespeople paid $419M, including $374M in cash, to buy commission management service Spiff in a deal announced in December 2023; Spiff raised $110M — Salespeople live and die by commissions, which typically form a big chunk of how they are paid.
Europol says police in Germany, the UK, the US, and others took down botnets that spread ransomware via infected emails, arrested four, and seized 2K+ domains (Mike Corder/Associated Press)
Mike Corder / Associated Press:
Europol says police in Germany, the UK, the US, and others took down botnets that spread ransomware via infected emails, arrested four, and seized 2K+ domains — Police coordinated by the European Union’s justice and police agencies have taken down computer networks responsible …
Romanian startup FintechOS, a low-code platform to help banks and insurance companies compete with neobanks, raised a $60M Series B+, after raising $60M in 2021 (Mike Butcher/TechCrunch)
Mike Butcher / TechCrunch:
Romanian startup FintechOS, a low-code platform to help banks and insurance companies compete with neobanks, raised a $60M Series B+, after raising $60M in 2021 — Over the years, fintech startups, particularly neobanks, have thrown a cat among the pigeons in banking and finance by building whole new banking software stacks.
How the Integrity Institute, a nonprofit founded by two ex-Facebook staff to help tech companies create more welcoming spaces, lost control of its own culture (Paresh Dave/Wired)
Paresh Dave / Wired:
How the Integrity Institute, a nonprofit founded by two ex-Facebook staff to help tech companies create more welcoming spaces, lost control of its own culture — Two ex-Facebook employees founded the nonprofit Integrity Institute to clean up tech platforms.
How the Integrity Institute, a nonprofit founded by two ex-Facebook staff to help tech companies create more welcoming spaces, lost control of its own culture (Paresh Dave/Wired)
Paresh Dave / Wired:
How the Integrity Institute, a nonprofit founded by two ex-Facebook staff to help tech companies create more welcoming spaces, lost control of its own culture — Two ex-Facebook employees founded the nonprofit Integrity Institute to clean up tech platforms.
Amazon partners with Grubhub to let US customers order food delivery inside Amazon’s app through Grubhub and makes Grubhub+ memberships a permanent Prime perk (Hope King/Axios)
Hope King / Axios:
Amazon partners with Grubhub to let US customers order food delivery inside Amazon’s app through Grubhub and makes Grubhub+ memberships a permanent Prime perk — – Any Amazon customer can search for “Grubhub” in the product search bar of Amazon’s app to order, track and manage their food, like they would through the Grubhub app.
California Governor Gavin Newsom warns against perils of over-regulating AI, sending a signal to the state’s lawmakers who are advancing dozens of AI bills (Jeremy B. White/Politico)
Jeremy B. White / Politico:
California Governor Gavin Newsom warns against perils of over-regulating AI, sending a signal to the state’s lawmakers who are advancing dozens of AI bills — The Democratic governor of California is a longtime ally of the tech industry. — SAN FRANCISCO — Gov. Gavin Newsom warned …
