IT Leaders Say Strategic Communication Can Support Technology Investments

Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg:
Source: Zuckerberg told staff in a weekly Q&A that Meta will freeze hiring, restructure some teams, and reduce budgets across teams, citing economic conditions  —  Meta Platforms Inc., the owner of Facebook and Instagram, said it will freeze hiring and restructure some teams in an effort to cut costs and shift priorities.

Berber Jin / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Sequoia apologized to its fund investors for the $150M it lost on FTX and told them it would improve its due diligence process on future investments  —  Venture-capital firm tells fund investors that it will improve due diligence on future investments after $150 million loss on crypto exchange

Morgan Meaker / Wired:
Sources: Twitter only has one staff left on a team dedicated to removing CSAM after layoffs, despite Musk saying removing child exploitation is top priority  —  Just one person remains to enforce the company’s ban on child sexual abuse content across Japan and the Asia Pacific region.

Maria Deutscher / SiliconANGLE:
Meta rolls out its Precision Time Protocol to its data centers, upgrading on the Network Time Protocol, aiming to sync its networks down to nanoseconds  —  Meta Platforms Inc. today detailed an internal initiative years in the making that focused on upgrading its data centers’ timing protocol …

Could upgrading the technology teachers use every day in their classrooms help make their work easier — and stem the tide of educators leaving school…

Victoria Song / The Verge:
Apple Watch Series 8 review: watchOS 9, crash detection, and low-power mode are excellent, but needs daily charging and the update is fairly incremental  —  … don’t upgrade … The concept, made famous by Toyota, means continuous improvement. … These updates weren’t much on their own …