​[[{“value”:” Reddit announced on Wednesday that it is reintroducing its awards system after shutting down the program last year. The company said that most of the mechanisms related to awards will remain the same, with some new additions. For instance, there’s a new design for awards, a new award button under eligible posts, and a leaderboard […] © 2024 TechCrunch….

​[[{“value”:” Sigma Computing, a startup building a range of data analytics and business intelligence tools, has raised $200 million in a fresh VC round. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. “}]]  

​[[{“value”:” European Union enforcers of the bloc’s online governance regime, the Digital Services Act (DSA), said Thursday they’re closely monitoring disinformation campaigns on the Elon Musk-owned social network X (formerly Twitter) following the Wednesday shooting of Slovakia’s prime minister, Robert Fico. The bloc has been formally investigating X since last December over disinformation in civic discourse and […] © 2024 TechCrunch….

​[[{“value”:” Wind is the largest source of renewable energy in the U.S., according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, but wind farms come with an environmental cost as wind turbines can wreak havoc on bird populations. Meet Spoor, the startup using AI to help wind farms mitigate that risk. Spoor is a software that uses machine […] © 2024 TechCrunch….

​[[{“value”:” How much should political parties know about you? Published: With so much of our lives shared online these days, it is often easy to get hold of someone’s personal data. Political parties can use this information to target voters with specific messages tailored to each person’s interests. At the University of Victoria in Canada, Professor Colin Bennett, Dr Smith…

​[[{“value”:” The key to taking on legacy players in the financial technology industry may be to go where they have not gone before. That’s what Chicago-based Aeropay is doing. The provider of pay-by-bank solutions for businesses started out helping cannabis retailers and gaming companies with their payments and is now entering into Visa and Mastercard’s territory […] © 2024 TechCrunch….

​[[{“value”:” Facebook and Instagram are under formal investigation in the European Union over child protection concerns, the Commission announced Thursday. The proceedings follow a raft of requests for information to parent entity Meta since the bloc’s online governance regime, the Digital Services Act (DSA), started applying last August. The development could be significant as the formal […] © 2024 TechCrunch….

​[[{“value”:” Bedrock Materials is developing a new type of sodium-ion battery, which promises to be dramatically cheaper than lithium-ion. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. “}]]  

​[[{“value”:” Private equity giant Thoma Bravo has announced that its security information and event management (SIEM) company LogRhythm will be merging with Exabeam, a rival cybersecurity company backed by the likes of Cisco and Lightspeed Venture Partners. SIEM is the business of using real-time data gleaned from servers, network devices, and applications to flag abnormal activity […] © 2024 TechCrunch….

​[[{“value”:” Consumer protection groups around the European Union have filed coordinated complaints against Temu, accusing the Chinese-owned ultra low-cost e-commerce platform of a raft of breaches related to the bloc’s Digital Services Act (DSA). Temu only launched in the region about a year ago but recently reported blasting past 75 million monthly users. Penalties for confirmed […] © 2024 TechCrunch….