Sunday, March 5, 2023

Sources: Binance and Binance.US have been much more intertwined than disclosed, sharing staff, finances, and an affiliated entity that bought and sold crypto (Wall Street Journal)

Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Binance and Binance.US have been much more intertwined than disclosed, sharing staff, finances, and an affiliated entity that bought and sold crypto  —  The exchange was intertwined with an American firm portrayed as independent.  Now, regulators are circling.



Sources: Apple's new 24" iMacs are in engineering validation testing, will likely launch in H2 2023 with the M3 chip and same exterior design as the old iMacs (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple's new 24" iMacs are in engineering validation testing, will likely launch in H2 2023 with the M3 chip and same exterior design as the old iMacs  —  Apple is gearing up to launch its next slate of laptops and desktops, including a new iMac.  Also: Its cloud chief is set to leave …



An analysis of the EU Cyber Resilience Act, which covers every connected device and almost all software, causing open-source developers to worry about its scope (Bert Hubert/Bert Hubert's writings)

Bert Hubert / Bert Hubert's writings:
An analysis of the EU Cyber Resilience Act, which covers every connected device and almost all software, causing open-source developers to worry about its scope  —  The EU's new Cyber Resilience Act is admirable in its goal.  And the EU is not alone in thinking something needs to be done …



Saturday, March 4, 2023

Singapore-based e-commerce aggregator Una Brands raised a $30M pre-Series C, following a $30M Series B in September 2022, bringing its total funding to $100M+ (Kate Park/TechCrunch)

Kate Park / TechCrunch:
Singapore-based e-commerce aggregator Una Brands raised a $30M pre-Series C, following a $30M Series B in September 2022, bringing its total funding to $100M+  —  Una Brands, a Singapore-based e-commerce aggregator, has raised $30 million in pre-Series C financing just five months after announcing …



A profile of Slack CEO Lidiane Jones, who was a Sonos VP of software management before joining Salesforce, as she leads Slack through its "biggest product year" (Harry McCracken/Fast Company)

Harry McCracken / Fast Company:
A profile of Slack CEO Lidiane Jones, who was a Sonos VP of software management before joining Salesforce, as she leads Slack through its “biggest product year”  —  Over a few days in late November and early December of 2022, it became clear that Slack was about to go through …



US adds China's Inspur, one of the world's largest server makers that has joint ventures with IBM and Cisco, to an Entity List, limiting its access to US tech (Yuan Gao/Bloomberg)

Yuan Gao / Bloomberg:
US adds China's Inspur, one of the world's largest server makers that has joint ventures with IBM and Cisco, to an Entity List, limiting its access to US tech  —  The Biden administration's blacklisting of China's Inspur Group Co. targets a company that US tech giants like Cisco Systems Inc. …



Sources: the US State Department ordered embassies to push back against foreign influence campaigns, as officials worry anti-US views are taking root worldwide (New York Times)

New York Times : Sources: the US State Department ordered embassies to push back against foreign influence campaigns, as officials worry ...