Monthly Archives: September 2022

Tesla countersues civil rights agency behind racial bias suit

Tesla couldn’t get a judge to dismiss a case alleging racial bias at the automaker’s Fremont factory last month, so the automaker is now countersuing the agency responsible instead. The luxury electric vehicle maker on Thursday filed a complaint in state court in Alameda County saying the California Civil Rights Department (CRD) adopted “underground regulations”…

A Strava co-founder races into a lucrative market – lending against life insurance

Mark Shaw likes running around. The serial entrepreneur joined activity and fitness tracking platform Strava as a co-founder in 2009 to lead engineering as CTO. He spent eight years there, and as of its most recent raise in 2020, Strava had reached 70 million members globally and amassed an almost cult-like following from its users,…

Arjun Sethi’s crypto derivatives protocol Nibiru raises maiden funding at $100M valuation

Nibiru, a new crypto derivatives protocol co-founded by Tribe Capital GP Arjun Sethi, has raised $7.5 million seed funding at a valuation of $100 million, two sources familiar with the matter told TechCrunch. Tribe Capital, Republic Crypto and Kraken invested in the seed round, a source said, requesting anonymity as the information is not public….

Microsoft’s latest update looks to address some of the most annoying aspects of hybrid working

Microsoft has revealed the findings of a huge new study examining what issues are still going wrong with hybrid working.  The “Hybrid Work Is Just Work. Are We Doing It Wrong?” report is based on 20,000 people from 11 countries, looking at “trillions of Microsoft 365 productivity signals.” The report claims that “people are working…

Russia partners like China and India expressing concerns over Ukraine may have forced Putin’s hand and driven him to try and end the war quickly, Russia scholar says

Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi pose for a photo shaking hands prior to their talks on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, Friday, Sept. 16, 2022. Alexandr Demyanchuk, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo/Associated Press Some of Putin’s global partners expressed concerns about his war…

No mention of opposition leader Alexey Navalny was too small to attract scrutiny from Putin’s vast surveillance state, according to report

Participants of an unauthorized protest rally against of jailing of opposition leader Alexei Navalny shout, on January 23, 2021 in Moscow, Russia. Photo by Mikhail Svetlov/Getty Images The Russian agency tasked with monitoring the internet was obsessed with dissident Alexey Navalny. The New York Times analyzed a trove of leaked Roskomnadzor records in a Thursday…