Recently, news of crucial updates to the once-popular anonymous posting app YikYak came to light. These updates include the option for users to engage in private chats as well as a new safety center to address the issues that have come up from app users. But these updates are coming after the app has been at the end of some harsh criticism. YikYak – although is not at all the first app to move to the public’s dislike – reinforces a growing problem in tech....

The organizers are flying in some amazing female entrepreneurs in from all over the country such as Donna Harris and Shauna Causey to give the local community a broader experience. The day will kick off Startup Weekend Women’s Edition May 29th-31st hosted by a few notable Dallas community leaders. Tech Wildcatters VP Clarisa Lindenmeyer encourages all to attend the event as “it seeks to encourage and inspire more female leaders in startup teams and to connect more women to the vast number of resources and mentors available in our startup community....

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8chan has long held a reputation as a hotbed of abusive and xenophobic messaging, and it’s believed to have played a role in spurring on the perpetrator of the latest shooting. This controversy has seen one of its service providers, CloudFlare, withdraw it service entirely, forcing the site offline at the time of writing. Why has CloudFlare made this decision now, after staunchly refusing to take action on similar occasions?...

First up was Neal Sales-Griffin, CEO of The Starter League. He quit his job at a VC firm when he realized that having ideas wasn’t enough. With a friend, he committed one year to learning how to code. “We did nothing but practice all the time – all day, all night,” he recalls. After trying to build three different apps to solve problems in his life – and not having enough skills to do so – he finally realized that he needed to build a school for learning to code....

And this tax season, a huge number of new crypto traders will have to combine the two as they attempt to figure out their cryptocurrency taxes, as if they weren’t having a tough enough 2022 already, with the market experiencing huge dips. Thankfully, Coinbase is here to help. The large cryptocurrency exchange has just debuted a new tax center on its app and its website. The new module will gather all of a users’ tax information into one location....

How did it come to this, and what does the ruling mean for Musk and for Tesla? Here’s what’s going on. Why Was Elon Musk in Court? The SEC’s interest in Musk’s Twitter account dates back to last September, when he tweeted that he was “considering taking Tesla private at $420,” claiming that “Funding” was “secured.” Tesla’s stock jump up in response. But, the SEC found that Musk had “never discussed a going-private transaction at $420 per share with any potential funding source,” or confirmed it with Tesla investors....

According to their website, the idea for Decisionaire came about as follows: So what kinds of decisions can be commodified through Decisionaire? The possibilities are basically limitless. We can’t be experts on everything (despite what we may want to believe), so no matter how big or small a decision may seem, it can’t hurt to get some assistance from an expert. Sellers can name their own prices depending on the complexity of the decision-making skills they provide....

If entrepreneurs all agree that challenging the status quo is necessary to building a world-changing company, how can we learn and incentivize the behavior that leads to success rather than chaos? What is the difference between someone who challenges the status quo in order to survive, from a very young age – and one who learned to challenge it for other reasons? Steve Blank recently posted something about his time growing up and what being from a dysfunctional family did for his entrepreneurial drive and mindset....

His comments are the latest contribution to the ongoing debate about the future of work and how productive employees can be outside of the office. Thousands of companies are currently weighing up whether to move back into physical workspaces; Microsoft recently announced that it had postponed plans to return indefinitely due to COVID-19 concerns. Dropbox has taken the plunge and is now a permanently remote company. But other firms are far from convinced of the benefits of home, remote and flexible working....

Under the terms of the acquisition, Automated Insights will continue to operate in Durham, and will be a subsidiary of STATS. While under STATS, the company will continue to work with its current clients, as well as push into more opportunities in data-driven industries both inside and outside the realm of sports. According to a blog post written by Allen, the company will continue to run independently; the acquisition will just enable them to further invest in Wordsmith (their NLG technology) and implement it into other industries at a much faster rate....

The e-cigarette is smaller than the vaporizer and looks more like a real cigarette, but it’s limited when it comes to battery life, nicotine consistency, and flavor experimentation. Vaporizers, on the other hand, are bigger, can deliver more nicotine, have improved battery, and a larger variety of flavors and features. The business began as an alternative to offering low-nicotine options to smokers that were trying to quit. Since vaping has grown, experts have debated whether it’s beneficial or harmful to consumers and also whether or not e-cigs should be regulated the same way other tobacco products are....

So what’s the solution? Getting leaner, meaner, and faster to pivot. Turning into a startup, in other words. Those words are the exact ones uttered by the editor of the Boston Globe, Brian McGrory, in a memo just published yesterday. The memo is a response to a recent company buyout and outlines a “very broad vision statement” for the paper’s future. More Startup Culture, Less Legacy Culture The memo’s plan includes four work groups, set to ponder set topics over a period of two months: Newsroom culture, workflows, editorial mission, and the business of journalism....

Layoffs have become all too common in the tech industry over the last few months. With the looming recession, tech giants like Meta, Google, and Microsoft, among many others, have begun trimming down their workforces in anticipation of the leaner days ahead. Elon Musk’s plans for Twitter, on the other hand, seem to be a bit more pointed, although the exact reason for the potential cuts have not been made public just yet....

As leaders, entrepreneurs, and startup owners, learning to lead with character is imperative. Establishing your essence in developing characteristics grounded in emotional intelligence is drastically shaping the way people look at the new era of success. It begins with self-awareness. The ability to grow and understand how you operate in the given context of the workplace, or more simply your strengths and shortcomings. When you are more aware, your navigation through problem solving and decision making comes with ease....

The phenomenon of workers who hold two jobs at the same time, the “overemployed,” has recently shot into the public eye — one worker claimed on Reddit that he held five jobs simultaneously and was set to make $1.2 million for the year. To stop workers from bucking the system, Equifax relied on employment records collected from around 2.5 million companies in a move that opens up a conversation about workplace surveillance in addition to the question of secret second jobs....

The tech companies in question may be forced to pay up to 20% of their global revenues for repeat breaches of the Act and could even risk be being broken up. Apple and Google have both released statements taking a critical stance against the law, which may be the biggest change in how governments handle big tech in decades. What the Act Does The DMA covers a lot of ground but will enact three major changes worth parsing....

On top of that, 40% of those professionals that use the workplace software say they have no recovery plan if any data is compromised in a ransomware attack. Ransomware attacks are a growing threat, and that’s been common knowledge in the tech community for several years now, with 70% of the biggest reported cyber attacks in the last year being ransomware, and 82% of ransomware attacks aimed at small businesses specifically....

Temporary outages are part of the online experience, so much so that websites that test whether or not a site is down, like IsItDownRightNow.com, have become decidedly popular during times of digital crisis. Not being able to access your email, your documents, and various social media accounts can be stressful, but when they all go down at the same time, it can be cause for alarm. This was doubly true for these particularly outages, as both services were down for a notably extended period of time, causing serious backlash from social media fiends and productivity buffs alike....

Up to 50 million accounts were potentially affected. For context, that’s more people than live in the whole of California. While it may be a drop in the ocean in terms of Facebook’s 1.47 billion customer base, it’s still a huge number, and a huge embarrassment. The breach also raises questions about the wisdom of using Facebook’s Single Sign On function to log into multiple sites and service. If Facebook itself is compromised, are all of your accounts at risk?...