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Alanna Durkin Richer / Associated Press: eBay will pay $3M to resolve charges over a harassment campaign by staffers who sent spiders and other disturbing items to those behind the EcommerceBytes blog  —  Online retailer eBay Inc. will pay a… Read More »eBay will pay $3M to resolve charges over a harassment campaign by staffers who sent spiders and other disturbing items to those behind the EcommerceBytes blog (Alanna Durkin Richer/Associated Press)

Shubham Sharma / VentureBeat: 1X, an OpenAI-backed developer of humanoid robots with plans to bring its bipedal robot NEO to the market, raised a $100M Series B from EQT Ventures and others  —  1X Technologies, a Norwegian startup robotics startup… Read More »1X, an OpenAI-backed developer of humanoid robots with plans to bring its bipedal robot NEO to the market, raised a $100M Series B from EQT Ventures and others (Shubham Sharma/VentureBeat)

Alex Heath / The Verge: Internal memo: Discord CEO Jason Citron says the company is laying off 17% of its staff, or 170 people, after growing its workforce “by 5x since 2020”  —  Discord is laying off 17 percent of… Read More »Internal memo: Discord CEO Jason Citron says the company is laying off 17% of its staff, or 170 people, after growing its workforce “by 5x since 2020” (Alex Heath/The Verge)

Jason Koebler / 404 Media: Google formally endorses right to repair and will testify in favor of a law in Oregon, says regulators should ban “parts pairing”, a tactic used by Apple  —  Google says repair should be easy and… Read More »Google formally endorses right to repair and will testify in favor of a law in Oregon, says regulators should ban “parts pairing”, a tactic used by Apple (Jason Koebler/404 Media)

Sandali Handagama / CoinDesk: Some crypto advocates welcome bitcoin ETFs as an inevitable part of going mainstream, while others worry they threaten the original promise of decentralization  —  They make the asset class “less of a scary concept” to mainstream… Read More »Some crypto advocates welcome bitcoin ETFs as an inevitable part of going mainstream, while others worry they threaten the original promise of decentralization (Sandali Handagama/CoinDesk)

Andrew Martin / Bloomberg: Canada partners with SecurityScorecard to assess the cyber resilience of companies critical to the country’s infrastructure and assign them letter grades  —  – Country partnering with SecurityScorecard to assess resilience  — Biden official raised possibility of… Read More »Canada partners with SecurityScorecard to assess the cyber resilience of companies critical to the country’s infrastructure and assign them letter grades (Andrew Martin/Bloomberg)

Naman Ramachandran / Variety: Netflix removes an Indian film depicting a Hindu character eating meat after backlash from Hindu groups; producer Zee apologizes and plans to edit the film  —  Tamil-language film “Annapoorani: The Goddess of Food,” headlined by “Jawan”… Read More »Netflix removes an Indian film depicting a Hindu character eating meat after backlash from Hindu groups; producer Zee apologizes and plans to edit the film (Naman Ramachandran/Variety)

Carly Page / TechCrunch: Ivanti confirms hackers are exploiting two critical vulnerabilities in its corporate VPN software, but says patches won’t be available until the end of January  —  U.S. software giant Ivanti has confirmed that hackers are exploiting two… Read More »Ivanti confirms hackers are exploiting two critical vulnerabilities in its corporate VPN software, but says patches won’t be available until the end of January (Carly Page/TechCrunch)

Chris Kerr / gamedeveloper: Filing: ironSource founders, including CEO and Unity Grow president Tomer Bar-Zeev, are exiting Unity amid mass layoffs; Unity merged with ironSource in 2022  —  IronSource CEO Tomer Bar-Zeev and his fellow co-founders are stepping down effective… Read More »Filing: ironSource founders, including CEO and Unity Grow president Tomer Bar-Zeev, are exiting Unity amid mass layoffs; Unity merged with ironSource in 2022 (Chris Kerr/gamedeveloper)

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Amazon launches “badge pay,” which uses its Just Walk Out retail tech to let employees use their badges for payments, starting with a hospital in Savannah, GA  —  Amazon’s computer vision and sensor-powered Just Walk Out… Read More »Amazon launches “badge pay,” which uses its Just Walk Out retail tech to let employees use their badges for payments, starting with a hospital in Savannah, GA (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)