January 2023

FTX founder and former CEO Sam Bankman-Fried plead not guilty to all eight counts of U.S. criminal charges on Tuesday. Bankman-Fried appeared before a judge in the U.S. District Court in New York City on Tuesday with his lawyers, Mark Cohen and Christian Everdell. Criminal charges against the 30-year-old former billionaire include wire fraud, conspiracy […]

Former FTX CEO SBF pleads not guilty to U.S. criminal charges by Jacquelyn Melinek originally published on TechCrunch

At ZeniMax, a Microsoft-owned gaming studio, 300 quality assurance (QA) testers have voted to unionize. This marks Microsoft’s first official union in the U.S., as well as the biggest gaming union in the country. Union organizing has been on the rise in the video game industry, particularly among QA workers. In 2022, QA testers at […]

Microsoft now has its first official union in the U.S. by Amanda Silberling originally published on TechCrunch

Welcome back to Found, where we get the stories behind the startups. This week Darrell and Becca are joined by Brex co-founder and co-CEO Henrique Dubugras to chat about his corporate credit card and expense management startup. Henrique talked about what made him and his co-founder (Pedro Franceschi) decide to launch the company and why […]

Two CEOs is better than one with Henrique Dubugras from Brex by Rebecca Szkutak originally published on TechCrunch

The Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles, or HACLA, has confirmed it is investigating a cybersecurity incident shortly after the LockBit ransomware gang claimed responsibility for a cyberattack on the agency. HACLA, which provides affordable housing to more than 19,000 low-income families across Los Angeles, was added to LockBit’s dark web leak site on […]

Hackers claim ransomware attack on Los Angeles housing authority by Carly Page originally published on TechCrunch

With so much dry powder, what are Union Square Ventures’ plans for deployment?

Here’s what USV plans to do in 2023 with its $200M climate fund by Tim De Chant originally published on TechCrunch

As readers know, we have fun with headlines on this site. But clearly, so do all of you. As part of our end of the year coverage, the Equity podcast team asked listeners to write a headline that represents 2022 in tech. Listeners showed up, with the brutal, the real and the holy-moly-yes-that-happened-this-year-how-could-you-forget. Our recap […]

Here’s how you described the tech industry’s 2022 in a headline by Natasha Mascarenhas originally published on TechCrunch

Nvidia announced some new features for its cloud gaming service during its virtual CES press conference. The company is upgrading its premium plan by adding new servers with better hardware components. Users on the $19.99 plan should expect better performance for more demanding games. The company is now using GeForce RTX 4080-class graphics processing units […]

Nvidia upgrades GeForce Now with RTX 4080 performance for premium users by Romain Dillet originally published on TechCrunch