I want my Spotify Car Thing: Gen Zers are taking to TikTok to protest Spotify’s decision to discontinue support for Car Thing, its in-car streaming device. Making matters worse for the streaming company is a new lawsuit claiming Spotify misled consumers by selling them a soon-to-be obsolete product and then not offering refunds. Read more
It’s all about the money: Former teen model Katrin Kaurov is putting her financial prowess to work. She teamed up with Aleksandra Medina to start Frich, an app where Gen Z talks and learns about money. Read more
Hacked: Cybersecurity company Check Point says attackers are exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in its enterprise VPN products to break into the corporate networks of its customers. Read more
Forward charges into payments infrastructure: After Brandon Lloyd sold his second company, Bypass, a payments and point-of-sale software company for sports and entertainment, to Fiserv in 2020, he dove more into the payments industry and realized something: Software companies were getting a raw deal from the payments provider industry. Read more
When sharing is not caring: Two new studies show that when it comes to the spreading of misinformation, a small group of committed “supersharers,” were responsible for the vast majority of the “fake news.” Wait until you see who these people are. Read more
Hacking a satellite: Space startup Basalt Technologies may have started in a shed behind a Los Angeles dentist’s office, but soon it will try to “hack” a derelict satellite to test out a theory. Read more
South Korea getting electric air taxis: The country could see the taxis by 2026 if a partnership between Archer Aviation and Kakao Mobility can take flight. Read more
