eBay to lay off 800 staff

A group of well-known open source programmers and a VC have launched the Open Source Endowment. They hope this new method will provide funding for good.

A Greek court on Thursday sentenced the founder of Intellexa, a collective of spyware makers, to eight years in prison for illegal wiretapping and privacy violations, according to several reports.  Tal Dilian and three other Intellexa executives were tried for their role in a scandal dubbed “Greek Watergate,” which dates back to 2022. The Greek […]

X has launched an expanded set of aspect ratio support for both image and video ads, so advertisers can now reuse assets they've created for other platforms.

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Jest, a marketplace for messaging games, emerged from stealth with $7 million in seed funding.

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