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Hacker behind the Mango Markets exploit keeps $47M and returns $67M to the DeFi platform after a Mango community vote; he claims his actions were legal — - Eisenberg called the exploit a “profitable trading strategy” and said his actions were legal. — The Mango exploiter said the deal …
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New US export controls may affect 43+ senior execs at 16 public semiconductor companies in China, forcing them to choose between US citizenship and their jobs — At least 43 senior executives working with 16 listed Chinese semiconductor companies hold roles from CEO to vice president| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple plans to launch 11" and 12.9" iPad Pros with M2 in October and is working on a Mac mini with M2, Apple TV with A14, and a low-end iPad with USB-C — Apple's next product launch is just days away. Also: The company withholds new employee benefits from its unionized retail store …
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Internal Meta docs detail its metaverse struggles; Horizon Worlds has ~200K MAUs vs. a 500K goal by the end of 2022; 9% of worlds are ever visited by 50+ people — Most visitors to Horizon Worlds generally don't return after first month; ‘an empty world is a sad world’
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| Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch: |
Starlink in Ukraine: Musk, SpaceX, and its government partners should stop finger-pointing, commit to transparency, and figure out a long-term funding solution — What appeared earlier this year to be a selfless act of technotopianism, the widespread deployment of Starlink terminals in Ukraine …
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International Federation of Robotics: 500K+ industrial robots were installed in 2021, an all-time high, bringing the number of global installations to 3.5M — Robots are spreading at a record pace, from their traditional strongholds like making automobiles into nearly every other human endeavor| Eleanor Cummins / Wired: |
Holding platforms accountable for algorithms promoting self-harm is hard because research linking mental health and social media doesn't establish causation — A British court ruled that teenager Molly Russell died in part because of online content—but holding platforms accountable is complicated.| Hamish McKenzie / On Substack: |
Instead of other newsletter platforms, Substack should be compared to services giving creators direct relationships with fans, like Shopify, Twitch, and Patreon — Or the creator economy, for that matter — When we started Substack in 2017, we told people that we made it simple to start a paid subscription publication.
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UK-based Zen Educate, a marketplace that algorithmically matches schools with the best available teachers, raised a $21M Series A extension to fuel US expansion — Zen Educate, an online marketplace that algorithmically matches schools with the best available teachers, has raised £19.3 million … | Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Microsoft admits Windows was not properly downloading and applying updates to the driver blocklist designed to thwart “bring your own vulnerable driver” attacks — Microsoft said Windows automatically blocked dangerous drivers. It didn't. — For almost two years …
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| Meir Orbach / CTech: |
Alphawave IP acquires Banias Labs, an Israel-based optical digital signal processing chip developer for data centers, for $240M — The Israeli startup, co-founded by veteran entrepreneur Avigdor Willenz, develops coherent optical DSP semiconductor technology for data centers| Chris Vallance / BBC: |
Study: AI hiring tools don't reduce bias or improve diversity; they can't be trained to only identify job-related characteristics and strip out gender and race — Artificially intelligent hiring tools do not reduce bias or improve diversity, researchers say in a study.Sponsor Posts
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