Days after 159 people accepted Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg’s offer of a six-month severance package to employees who wanted to leave, the company floated a new offer late on October 16 of a nine-month severance package to anybody who quit immediately. Employees had four hours to decide whether they wanted to take the deal. In […]
Bayern Munich Hit Nine, Real Madrid And Liverpool Win As New Champions League Kicks Off
Bayern Munich became the first team to score nine goals in a game in the modern Champions League as the new format of Europe’s elite club competition kicked off on Tuesday, with title holders Real Madrid and Liverpool also among the winners. Harry Kane scored four goals, including three penalties, as Vincent Kompany’s Bayern hammered […]
Nine Thunder players named as probable members to Hall of Fame
When it comes to the Oklahoma City Thunder, they are one of the newest franchises in the National Basketball Association. Originally the Seattle Supersonics, the Thunder became a team back in 2008, and despite being such a young franchise, they have had numerous stars and legends come their way. In a recent poll conducted by […]
Elon Musk’s X targeted with nine privacy complaints after grabbing EU users’ data for training Grok
X, the social media platform owned by Elon Musk, has been targeted with a series of privacy complaints after it helped itself to the data of users in the European Union for training AI models without asking people’s consent. Late last month an eagle-eyed social media user spotted a setting indicating that X had quietly […]
Israel’s startup scene shows reslience despite nine months of war
When the war between Israel and Hamas broke out last October, we examined its potential impact on the tech ecosystems in Israel and Palestine. Nine months later, the prevailing sentiment in Israel, based on my conversation with founders and investors, is that the conflict has made the startup and VC ecosystem more resilient, especially its […]