Shopify President Harley Finkelstein says the company’s Audiences marketing tool, which uploads customer data to Meta and Google’s ad platforms, is a key focus (Tim Bradshaw/Financial Times)

Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times:Shopify President Harley Finkelstein says the company’s Audiences marketing tool, which uploads customer data to Meta and Google’s ad platforms, is a key focus  —  Canadian ecommerce group touts new tool that allows retailers to pool customer data and better target ads

A profile of Matrix, an open-source, decentralized protocol for messaging interoperability that saw its network’s users double in 2022 to at least 80.3M (Paul Sawers/TechCrunch)

Paul Sawers / TechCrunch:A profile of Matrix, an open-source, decentralized protocol for messaging interoperability that saw its network’s users double in 2022 to at least 80.3M  —  After years of walled gardens, cross-pollination could be in sight  —  Interoperability and decentralization have been major themes in tech this year …

Employment in tech occupations grew 12% YoY to a record 6.39M in November 2022, as workers eye banking, retail, health care, and manufacturing amid tech layoffs (New York Times)

New York Times:Employment in tech occupations grew 12% YoY to a record 6.39M in November 2022, as workers eye banking, retail, health care, and manufacturing amid tech layoffs  —  Most tech jobs are now in mainstream industries like health care, banking and retail, which are increasingly in need of workers […]

What would true diversity sound like?

What do the people of the United States sound like? Census language data would give you one kind of answer. But numbers don’t capture all the factors in play—assimilation, the past and present of language, whose voices are prioritized. It’s this gap that multidisciplinary artist Ekene Ijeoma and his group […]

A look at the disastrous 2022 for NFT-based games, after interest from EA, Ubisoft, Zynga, Niantic, and others, as the community grew more niche and scam-filled (Ryan Broderick/Polygon)

Ryan Broderick / Polygon:A look at the disastrous 2022 for NFT-based games, after interest from EA, Ubisoft, Zynga, Niantic, and others, as the community grew more niche and scam-filled  —  The NFT gaming community only grew more niche and scam-filled in 2022  —  Less than 12 months ago, it felt […]

Sources: the FBI is investigating the leak of ~100K API keys linked to users of crypto trading service 3Commas, as a victims group claims to have lost over $20M (Sam Kessler/CoinDesk)

Sam Kessler / CoinDesk:Sources: the FBI is investigating the leak of ~100K API keys linked to users of crypto trading service 3Commas, as a victims group claims to have lost over $20M  —  This week, an anonymous person leaked 100,000 API keys connected to the crypto trading service.