Journals

Paul Sawers / TechCrunch: Filing: the company behind MariaDB, which raised ~$230M before its 2022 IPO, may be taken private by K1 in a $37M deal, far below its $672M Series D valuation  —  MariaDB is the subject of another… Read More »Filing: the company behind MariaDB, which raised ~$230M before its 2022 IPO, may be taken private by K1 in a $37M deal, far below its $672M Series D valuation (Paul Sawers/TechCrunch)

Tom Warren / The Verge: Microsoft fixes a bug that caused Edge to automatically import Chrome tabs and browsing data without consent, following months of complaints from some users  —  Microsoft has fixed an issue where its Edge browser was… Read More »Microsoft fixes a bug that caused Edge to automatically import Chrome tabs and browsing data without consent, following months of complaints from some users (Tom Warren/The Verge)

Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: Wyze says ~13,000 customers could briefly see others’ camera feeds, after a similar issue in 2023; Wyze blames glitches in rebooting systems after an AWS outage  —  It’s, unfortunately, increasingly common for security cameras to have… Read More »Wyze says ~13,000 customers could briefly see others’ camera feeds, after a similar issue in 2023; Wyze blames glitches in rebooting systems after an AWS outage (Ben Schoon/9to5Google)

Eleanor Olcott / Financial Times: Sources: Saudi Arabia is mandating that Alibaba, SenseTime, and other Chinese tech companies invest in the kingdom and share expertise to secure huge deals  —  Alibaba and SenseTime secure huge joint ventures in Gulf Kingdom… Read More »Sources: Saudi Arabia is mandating that Alibaba, SenseTime, and other Chinese tech companies invest in the kingdom and share expertise to secure huge deals (Eleanor Olcott/Financial Times)

Wall Street Journal: Tech investors and founders are flocking back to San Francisco, currently undergoing an AI boom, after leaving during the pandemic for Miami and other US cities  —  In 2020, venture capitalist Keith Rabois urged startup founders to… Read More »Tech investors and founders are flocking back to San Francisco, currently undergoing an AI boom, after leaving during the pandemic for Miami and other US cities (Wall Street Journal)

Demetri Sevastopulo / Financial Times: FBI Director Christopher Wray says China is inserting “offensive weapons” into critical US infrastructure, with malware pre-positioning reaching a “fever pitch”  —  Christopher Wray says Beijing’s hacking operations had reached a ‘fever pitch’

Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: Document: the European Commission opens formal DSA proceedings against TikTok to assess its efforts to protect children, the second DSA investigation after X  —  The European Commission has opened formal proceedings against ByteDance’s TikTok under… Read More »Document: the European Commission opens formal DSA proceedings against TikTok to assess its efforts to protect children, the second DSA investigation after X (Foo Yun Chee/Reuters)

Drew Harwell / Washington Post: The US awards $1.5B to GlobalFoundries from the $52B CHIPS Act to build a new fab in Malta, New York, and to expand its Fab 8 plant, plus $1.6B in loans  —  The massive grant,… Read More »The US awards $1.5B to GlobalFoundries from the $52B CHIPS Act to build a new fab in Malta, New York, and to expand its Fab 8 plant, plus $1.6B in loans (Drew Harwell/Washington Post)

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Q&A with Irene Solaiman, the head of global policy at Hugging Face, on her advice for women seeking to enter AI, the best way to responsibly build AI, and more  —  To give AI-focused women academics… Read More »Q&A with Irene Solaiman, the head of global policy at Hugging Face, on her advice for women seeking to enter AI, the best way to responsibly build AI, and more (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

Alec Russell / Financial Times: A look at the impact of Russia’s invasion on Ukraine’s tech center Kharkiv; of the 511 tech companies in the city before February 2022, 500 are still operating  —  Ukraine’s entrepreneurs and engineers show how… Read More »A look at the impact of Russia’s invasion on Ukraine’s tech center Kharkiv; of the 511 tech companies in the city before February 2022, 500 are still operating (Alec Russell/Financial Times)