Celsius Network and its former CEO are probably not having a good day
To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important crypto stories delivered to your inbox every Thursday at 12 p.m. PT, subscribe here. Welcome back to Chain Reaction. Earlier today, the now-bankrupt crypto lending firm Celsius Network and its former CEO and co-founder Alex Mashinsky faced several lawsuits from
Read MoreWant your sales team to be more productive? Take a closer look at your ‘watermelons’
Robert Wahbe Contributor Share on Twitter Robert Wahbe is the co-founder and CEO of Highspot, a sales enablement platform. More posts by this contributor Reimagine inside sales to ramp up B2B customer acquisition In today’s era of data abundance, leaders have plenty of metrics to choose from to benchmark progress
Read MoreTwitter admits to having a Verified spammer problem with announcement of new DM settings
As Twitter fends off new competition from Instagram Threads, the company today announced a change designed to cut down on spam in users’ inboxes. Starting “as soon as” July 14, Twitter will introduce a new messages setting aimed at reducing spam in DMs by moving messages from Verified users you
Read MoreFTC reportedly looking into OpenAI over ‘reputational harm’ caused by ChatGPT
The FTC is reportedly in at least the exploratory phase of investigating OpenAI over whether the company’s flagship ChatGPT conversational AI made “false, misleading, disparaging or harmful” statements about people. It seems unlikely this will lead to a sudden crackdown, but it shows that the FTC is doing more than
Read MoreRipple’s XRP token was a security sometimes, a judge rules
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Ripple’s XRP token was an investment contract when the company sold it to institutional investors, a judge ruled today. The case, brought by the Securities and Exchange Commission, is one of the biggest in determining whether tokens are securities. Though this is an
Read MoreWelcome to the new venture normal
The U.S. venture capital market has seemingly found a new normal: Trends around the number of deals and amount of dollars invested in startups so far this year appear to be stabilizing. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. Read it every morning on TechCrunch+ or get The Exchange newsletter
Read MoreThe value of code
Midjourney: noir cartoon humanoid robot typing on a keyboard at a computer workstationSooner or later, every software engineering organization is faced with the task of trying to evaluate the productivity of their team and the performance of its members. And invariably, the conversation turns into a discussion about whether, or
Read MoreSentry report shows developer happiness drives productivity
Toronto-based tech company Sentry recently released a report on developer productivity and happiness, shedding light on the challenges faced by developers and offering insights into how companies can optimize developer workflows. Sentry’s CEO, Milin Desai, discussed the key findings of the report in an interview, and emphasized the importance of
Read MoreLate Stage Microservices
I read about the Amazon Prime Video team’s effort to scale and cut costs by 90% by combining their microservices into a monolith. While I’m sure there’s more to the story here, there are similar stories published around the Internet; a kind of rebuttal to the microservices craze of the
Read MoreChinese hacker forged authentication tokens to access government email: Microsoft
A China-based threat actor was able to access cloud-based Microsoft email accounts of approximately 25 organizations — including government agencies, as well as related consumer accounts of individuals likely associated with these organizations — by forging authentication tokens to access user email, the company has warned. It doesn’t say how,
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