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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg considered spinning off Instagram from Facebook in 2018: FTC trial

Posted on April 15, 2025 by Techme101

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg considered spinning out Instagram in 2018, according to an email presented Tuesday in the FTC’s antitrust trial against the company.

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OpenAI hires team behind GV-backed AI eval platform Context.ai

Posted on April 15, 2025 by Techme101

Context.ai, a startup building evaluations and analytics for AI models, announced Tuesday that its co-founders will join OpenAI.  Context.ai plans to wind down its products following the acqui-hire, per a message on the company’s website. When reached for comment, OpenAI … Continue reading →

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Google bets on geothermal to power data centers in Taiwan

Posted on April 15, 2025 by Techme101

Swedish company Baseload Capital is developing the project.

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Amazon emails sellers to gauge how Trump’s tariffs are impacting their businesses

Posted on April 15, 2025 by Techme101

Amazon asked third-party sellers how the “current U.S. tariff situation” has affected sourcing and pricing, logistics and plans to ship goods into warehouses.

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Anthropic forms a new team to grow its AWS business

Posted on April 15, 2025 by Techme101

In a sign of Anthropic’s increasingly cozy relationship with Amazon, Anthropic has formed a new team to recruit AWS customers to use its AI products. The team, which Anthropic appears to have begun hiring several months ago, aims to “accelerate” … Continue reading →

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Publishing platform Medium says it’s sticking with DEI

Posted on April 15, 2025 by Techme101

Publishing platform Medium says it’s still committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), even as many other U.S. tech companies have scaled back their efforts in this space to appease the Trump administration. In a blog post published on Monday, … Continue reading →

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UK’s Cyber Crime Down in 2024: Better ‘Cyber Hygiene Among Small Businesses

Posted on April 15, 2025 by Techme101

A UK government survey of 2024 data shows phishing remains the top cyber threat, ransomware cases doubled, and fewer boards include cyber experts despite steady attack rates.

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Notorious image board 4chan hacked and internal data leaked

Posted on April 15, 2025 by Techme101

The infamous website was taken down and working intermittently, while hackers leaked alleged data like moderators email addresses, and source code.

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Deel’s CEO is now in Dubai, complicating Rippling’s lawsuit

Posted on April 15, 2025 by Techme101

Rippling’s efforts to serve Deel CEO Alex Bouaziz have been significantly complicated by the fact that Bouaziz and his lawyer are now in Dubai, according to internal correspondence seen by TechCrunch. The UAE is a country with a reputation of … Continue reading →

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Founder’s Fund’s new $4.6B fund indicates an era of big VC spending

Posted on April 15, 2025 by Techme101

Peter Thiel’s Founder’s Fund has completed the raise of its third growth fund, according to an SEC filing. Beyond the sum — which is a big step up from its last previous $3.4 billion growth fund closed in early 2022 — there’s … Continue reading →

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