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Critics say the California Age-Appropriate Design Code Act, a digital privacy law for minors, could lead to invasive age verification methods like face-scanning — While the California Age-Appropriate Design Code Act was hailed as a victory for digital privacy, critics warn of a litany of unintended consequences.| Kaitlyn Tiffany / The Atlantic: |
GIF, once called “the file format of the internet generation”, is declining in use as young users say GIFs are “cringe” and MP4 videos make the format outdated — The internet's file format has been diagnosed as “cringe,” but there are other threats to its existence.
Tweets: @mcmurrym, @mangmangmang, @david_o_bedlam, @mattnavarra, @marinakoren, @adriennelaf, @dlberes, and @kait_tiffany
| Rebecca Heilweil / Vox: |
A profile of Akili, which makes a US FDA-cleared game designed to treat ADHD in children; Akili raised $160M+ after going public via a SPAC deal in August 2022 — The future of video games is about more than just fun. — On the frosty planet of Frigidus, a virtual world full of icy caverns …
Tweets: @hallowelltodaro, @gamingthemind, and @jcalpickard
| Adele Peters / Fast Company: |
GiveDirectly and Google.org are using AI mapping and satellite imagery to find low-income hurricane survivors in Puerto Rico and Florida and send cash payments — Storms worsen inequality. These $700 cash payments can help lessen the blow. — After a disaster like Hurricane Ian …
Tweets: @themayadecline
| Antonia Timmerman / Rest of World: |
Indonesia's patchwork data security approach has resulted in several large-scale data leaks; experts say the personal data protection bill is a temporary fix — Breaches are so common that citizens joke about being an “open-source country.” — • JAKARTA, INDONESIA| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
New York City-based Alkymi, which offers no-code workflow automation tools for business users, raised a $21M Series A led by Intel Capital — Alkymi launched in 2017 with a goal of helping financial services companies automate mundane tasks, a kind of lightweight RPA to grab information … | Andy Chalk / PC Gamer: |
Blizzard plans to require Overwatch 2 and Modern Warfare 2 players to use 2FA system SMS Protect to combat toxicity, but won't accept prepaid and VoIP numbers — Just like Overwatch 2, you'll need to attach a phone number to your Battle.net account to play Modern Warfare 2—and prepaid phones aren't allowed.
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| Natalie Wong / Bloomberg: |
A look at business email compromise scams involving US real estate, and the small Secret Service team that helped recover $244M+ in stolen BEC funds since 2019 — For weeks, the Secret Service agent had been trying to identify the scammers moving millions of stolen dollars through banks around the New York tri-state area.
Tweets: @amyokruk, @daniellesacks, @natalexisw, @jeneps, @secretservice, and @joelwebershow
| Kyle Alspach / Protocol: |
An interview with CEO George Kurtz as CrowdStrike surpasses $2B in annual revenue and looks to become a bigger player in data observability and IT operations — CrowdStrike is finding massive traction in areas outside its core endpoint security products, setting up the company to become …
Tweets: @kylealspach and @crowdstrike
| Elizabeth Howcroft / Reuters: |
Binance says 2M BNB, worth ~$570M, were stolen from its BNB Chain in an exploit; “majority” of BNB are in the hacker's wallet, ~$100M worth were “unrecovered” — Hackers have stolen around $100 million worth of cryptocurrency from a Binance-linked blockchain …
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Wired, Liron's Weekly Crypto …, Web3 Digest, Coinmonks, HackRead, Cryptopolitan, CoinJournal, Pandaily, Security Affairs, The MexicaNFTimes, Subtle_Crypto, The Record, Politico, New York Times, Inside Bitcoins, CNN, Blockworks, PC Gamer, CryptoPotato, The Register, Tom's Hardware, TheStreet, NBC News, The Daily Hodl, iPhone in Canada Blog, WRAL TechWire, and SiliconANGLE
Tweets: @bnbchain, @samczsun, @cz_binance, @0xfoobar, @selectedwisdom, @therealhoarse, @tariqpanja, @albertwenger, @shanselman, @seldo, @bnbchain, @cz_binance, @ercwl, @gwendolynregina, @ryan_browne_, @justinsuntron, @dcuthbert, @henryfarrell, @tante, @cryptoworldjosh, @bowtiedbull, @cryptokaleo, @stacyherbert, @granitacademy, and @kurtwuckertjr
| Nitasha Tiku / Washington Post: |
An interview with Character.ai's founders, who say they left Google's LaMDA project to let users experiment with the latest in language AI through chatbots — The creators of Google's LaMDA have launched the chatbot startup Character.ai, which is open for anyone to try
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The Week. Tweets: @tsimonite, @memotv, @catherineflick, @tobywalsh, @timnitgebru, @damianpaletta, @drewharwell, @deliprao, @hypervisible, @nitashatiku, @nitashatiku, and @mlittmancs
| Victoria Song / The Verge: |
Fitbit Sense 2 review: superior stress tracking and a great UI, but no Google Assistant or third-party apps, pricey at $300, and it can't be called a smartwatch — The fitness tracker has industry-leading stress tracking, but pour one out for the future of Fitbit smartwatches| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
A look at Ukraine's efforts to block crypto donations to Russia's military and paramilitary groups, which, researchers say, received $4M+ since the invasion — Blockchain investigators have uncovered at least $4 million—and counting—in cryptocurrency donations to Russia's violent militia groups.| Danny Nelson / CoinDesk: |
Hong Kong-based About Capital acquires Huobi, a top 10 crypto exchange by trading volume; Huobi says the ownership transfer won't impact trading operations — The terms of the deal were not disclosed. — Crypto exchange Huobi Global, one of the biggest token trading outposts in the Asia markets … Sponsor Posts
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