Esther Crawford joins Meta’s Messenger team as director of product; Crawford was Twitter’s director of product management before being laid off in February 2023 (Kwan Wei Kevin Tan/Business Insider)

Kwan Wei Kevin Tan / Business Insider:
Esther Crawford joins Meta’s Messenger team as director of product; Crawford was Twitter’s director of product management before being laid off in February 2023  —  – The former Twitter director Esther Crawford says she has joined Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta.  — Crawford was one of Elon …

The House Financial Services Committee Chairman Patrick McHenry accuses Gary Gensler of misleading Congress on the SEC’s position on whether ETH is a security (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)

Jesse Hamilton / CoinDesk:
The House Financial Services Committee Chairman Patrick McHenry accuses Gary Gensler of misleading Congress on the SEC’s position on whether ETH is a security  —  The chairman of the House Financial Services Committee says Gensler refused to discuss his view on ETH in testimony even after the SEC was investigating it as a security.

Over 50 ex-Google employees, fired in connection with a sit-in protest against Google’s business ties to Israel, file an NLRB complaint for unlawful retaliation (Gaby Del Valle/The Verge)

Gaby Del Valle / The Verge:
Over 50 ex-Google employees, fired in connection with a sit-in protest against Google’s business ties to Israel, file an NLRB complaint for unlawful retaliation  —  A software engineer who was fired from Google in connection to internal protests at the company’s offices says the company retaliated …

Sam’s Club has deployed its exit tech, which uses computer vision to check members’ purchases against their receipts, at 120+ locations, or 20% of its stores (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Sam’s Club has deployed its exit tech, which uses computer vision to check members’ purchases against their receipts, at 120+ locations, or 20% of its stores  —  Amazon may be scaling back its AI-powered Just Walk Out checkout-free tech in its stores in favor of smart shopping carts …

IBM wins a court decision overturning $1.6B in damages it was ordered to pay BMC in 2022 for swapping in its own software while servicing a mutual client, AT&T (Madlin Mekelburg/Bloomberg)

Madlin Mekelburg / Bloomberg:
IBM wins a court decision overturning $1.6B in damages it was ordered to pay BMC in 2022 for swapping in its own software while servicing a mutual client, AT&T  —  – Appeals court says IBM won BMC’s client ‘fair and square’  — Judgment in 2022 was one of the largest-ever of its kind

Coinbase adds support for the Bitcoin Lightning Network via payments startup Lightspark, letting customers transfer bitcoin faster and at a lower cost (Derek Andersen/Cointelegraph)

Derek Andersen / Cointelegraph:
Coinbase adds support for the Bitcoin Lightning Network via payments startup Lightspark, letting customers transfer bitcoin faster and at a lower cost  —  The integration brings instantaneous transfers on the layer-2 Lightning Network to the world’s biggest Bitcoin exchange.  —  Total views