Oh, I like it. A nice ****take of #Meta's #Zuckerberg by #BlueSky's CEO #JayGraber at #SXSW.
Mundus sine caesaribus.
Credit: #TechCrunch

Oh, I like it. A nice ****take of #Meta's #Zuckerberg by #BlueSky's CEO #JayGraber at #SXSW.
Mundus sine caesaribus.
Credit: #TechCrunch
#Signal President #MeredithWhittaker calls out #agentic #AI as having ‘profound’ #security and #privacy issues
#TechCrunch
https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/07/signal-president-meredith-whittaker-calls-out-agentic-ai-as-having-profound-security-and-privacy-issues/
「DiscordがIPOを検討中」: #TechCrunch
「毎月2億人以上のユーザーを持つチャットアプリのDiscordが、IPOに向けて初期段階の話し合いを行っているとニューヨーク・タイムズ紙が報じた。
NYTの情報筋によると、Discordの投資銀行との話し合いはまだ手探り状態であり、計画は変更される可能性があるという。 Discordはその計画について多くの関心が寄せられていることを理解しているが、噂や憶測についてはコメントしないと広報担当者はTechCrunchに語った。
DiscordがIPOを検討したのはこれが初めてではない。
サンフランシスコを拠点とするこの新興企業は、2021年にマイクロソフトによる100億ドルの買収を断念し、独立を保って株式公開することを検討した。 Discordは2021年の5億ドルの資金調達で、最後に147億ドルと評価された。」
https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/07/discord-is-discussing-an-ipo/
Thanks to everyone in the fediverse who has favorited, boosted, and reached out to me supportively over the injunction and takedown order that I wouldn't comply with (overview: https://infosec.exchange/@PogoWasRight/114110520940142405)
Special thanks to @zackwhittaker for reporting about it all on #TechCrunch:
Since 2022 the companies that profit from the #Internet have been shedding technical staff in the belief of the power of #AI to replace their #workforce. What are they replacing or redirecting this capacity with?
“Mozilla is eliminating its advocacy division, which fought for a free and open web: The #MozillaFoundation laid off 30 percent of its workforce and completely eliminated its advocacy and global programs divisions, #TechCrunch reports.
While Mozilla is best known for its Firefox web browser, the Mozilla Foundation — the parent of the #MozillaCorporation — describes itself as standing up “for the health of the internet.” With its advocacy and global programs divisions gone, its impact may be lessened going forward.
“Fighting for a free and open internet will always be core to our mission, and advocacy continues to be a critical tool in that work. We’re revisiting how we pursue that work, not stopping it,” #BrandonBorrman, the Mozilla Foundation’s communications chief, said in an email to The Verge. Borrman declined to confirm exactly how many people were laid off, but said it was about “30% of the current team.”
This is Mozilla’s second round of layoffs this year. In February, the Mozilla Corporation laid off around 60 workers said it would be making a “strategic correction” that would involve involve cutting back its work on a Mastodon instance. Mozilla shut down its virtual 3D platform and refocused its efforts on #Firefox and #AI. The Mozilla Foundation had around 120 employees before this more recent round of layoffs, according to TechCrunch.
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“Navigating this topsy-turvy, distracting time requires laser focus — and sometimes saying goodbye to the excellent work that has gotten us this far because it won’t get us to the next peak,” wrote Syed, who previously worked as the chief executive of The Markup, an investigative news site. “Lofty goals demand hard choices.”
#WhiteCollar / #CorporateGreed <https://www.theverge.com/2024/11/5/24289124/mozilla-foundation-layoffs-advocacy-global-programs>
“The People in Elon Musk’s #DOGE Universe”
From #TechCrunch, February 18, 2025: https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/18/the-people-in-elon-musk-doge-universe
to follow
Tech Crunch releases cybersecurity glossary with definitions of frequently used security terms
https://www.admin-magazine.com/News/Cybersecurity-Glossary-Released-by-TechCrunch
#TechCrunch #cybersecurity #terms #ZeroDay #Botnet #E2EE
https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/16/openai-tries-to-uncensor-chatgpt/
#OpenAI tries to 'uncensor' #ChatGPT
by #MaxwellZeff
Startup Adds Job Listing Specifically for AI Agents, With Horrible Salary https://www.byteseu.com/747505/ #AI #AICompany #ArtificialIntelligence #TechCrunch
By @lorenzofb via #TechCrunch @ 10:10am ET on Feb 13, 2025
#Italian #spyware maker #SIO, known to sell its products to government customers, is behind a series of malicious #Android apps that masquerade as #WhatsApp and other popular apps but steal #PrivateData from a target’s device, TechCrunch has exclusively learned.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman admits that AI’s benefits may not be widely distributed
https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/09/openai-ceo-sam-altman-admits-that-ais-benefits-may-not-be-widely-distributed/
#StateSponsored hacking is much more sinister than #CyberCrime.
Criminals generally have one objective - get paid. Whereas a nation state’s motives may be unclear and often far more invasive.
A criminal won’t take long before making themselves known, whereas a nation state will want to remain undetected for as long as possible.
Cyber criminals are usually opportunistic, it doesn’t really matter who they hack. Nation states are extremely deliberate.
Nation state capabilities are far superior than cyber criminals. As an individual, it’s relatively easy to protect yourself against cyber criminals (especially the kind that go after individuals). But if you’re the target of a nation state, protecting yourself is a significant challenge. This challenge is exponentially harder if you live in the nation that’s targeting you.
Francesco Cancellato who was one of the targets in the recent #Paragon #WhatsApp hacks put it well in his interview with @TechCrunch saying:
“You ask yourself, why me? This is the thing, I mean, what did they want from me? That’s the first question, the second question is what did they take from me? Where did they go? What did they do to me? Once they got into my phone, where there is basically my whole life, my vacations, my friendships, my family, my bank passwords, there is everything — my work stuff…”
#cyber #hacking #espionage #cybersecurity #techcrunch #nationstate #malware #mercenarymalware
#Israeli spyware maker #Paragon Solutions confirmed to #TechCrunch that it sells its products to the U.S. government and other unspecified allied countries. #spyware #CyberAlerts https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/04/spyware-maker-paragon-confirms-u-s-government-is-a-customer/?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly9sLnRocmVhZHMubmV0Lw&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAGdOoKKYfGESNk91EVFE7bHHJi33XQnOFidW9y9OIS1zZIzeEDrqhTjF-HjqJbLEDhZK0dQfr436HJ9ScS03lgyl3sfWnisqR7RE1gRlxAYLgcX78x3PUhI0FKvX8fSvOftuuvCGb324aNPC5DsEMvqKYgif325IvIIrSUQO_Oim
#Guide to Pro #democracy voices for #resistance to #fascism #authoritarian #trump / #musk #coup : #journalists and #commentators. Many are both. 1/?
#FreeSpeech, #Tech, #SocialMedia:
Mike Masnick: @mmasnick / @mmasnick.bsky.social of #techcrunch
@radleybalko / @radleybalko.bsky.social
who has covered abuse of power for *years*
Timothy Snyder of #Yale: https://substack.com/@snyder and historian of #fascism, among other thing
TechCrunch: Open source alternatives to Instagram, TikTok, and WhatsApp raise funds on Kickstarter
TechCrunch: Open source alternatives to Instagram, TikTok,... #techcrunch #pixelfed #loops #kickstarterIt might've taken us ten years, but we finally made it into TechCrunch — thanks @sarahp@mastodon.social for the great writeup!
https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/21/forum-software-nodebb-joins-the-fediverse/
Next step, maybe they'll let someone write an article about us on Wikipedia.
TechCrunch: Forum software NodeBB joins the fediverse
TechCrunch: Forum software NodeBB joins the fediverse #techcrunchhttps://techcrunch.com/2025/01/21/forum-software-nodebb-joins-the-fediverse/