Finder cuts staff for the second time in three months

Finder cuts staff for the second time in three months

Financial comparison website Finder, co-founded by cryptocurrency enthusiast Fred Schebesta, is making about 40 staff redundant in the second wave of lay-offs to hit the company in the last three months. In early February Finder, which was founded in 2006, announced it…

DOJ seizes Genesis Market, a dark web marketplace known for selling stolen passwords

DOJ seizes Genesis Market, a dark web marketplace known for selling stolen passwords

U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland, joined by Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation Christopher Wray, announcing an international ransomware enforcement action in January 2023. Photo: Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images The Justice Department announced today that the FBI and its international partners have…

Deepfake-foiling startup gets $26M led by Microsoft

Deepfake-foiling startup gets $26M led by Microsoft

A faked photo showing North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and Elvis meeting. (They didn't.) Illustration: Lazaro Gamio/Axios Microsoft's M12 fund is leading a $26 million investment round for Truepic, a San Diego-based startup trying to fight the emerging wave of digitally altered…

Layoffs are the tech industry's new normal

Layoffs are the tech industry's new normal

Illustration: Shoshana Gordon/Axios The wave of layoffs in tech that continued to mount this week has felt like a shocking and sharp turnabout for an industry that stood on top of the world just a year ago. Be smart: Tech was never…

Twitter Users Are Still Waiting for a Check-Mark Reckoning

Twitter Users Are Still Waiting for a Check-Mark Reckoning

SAN FRANCISCO — Twitter users anticipated a reckoning over the weekend as the verification check marks that denoted the accounts of celebrities, politicians and other notable figures and organizations were set to be removed en masse. That reckoning didn’t come. While Twitter…