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| Charlie Warzel / The Atlantic: |
a16z's Marc Andreessen and Packy McCormick failing to coherently explain Web3 use cases demonstrates the hollowness of the space, often obscured by boosterism — I cannot stop watching crypto profiteers get owned. … I cannot stop watching videos of Web3 boosters failing to explain the usefulness of the technology.
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| Bloomberg: |
After freezing withdrawals, crypto exchange CoinFlex plans to issue up to 47M Recovery Value USD tokens, offering a 20% annual return, to repay a $47M debt — Cryptocurrency exchange CoinFlex plans to raise funds by issuing a new token that will offer a 20% annual return …
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| James Vincent / The Verge: |
Airbnb makes its temporary ban on parties at rented properties, introduced in 2020, permanent, saying the ban “became much more than a public health measure” — But a 16-person cap on rentals has been removed — In 2020, Airbnb introduced a temporary ban on house parties …
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| Hadlee Simons / Android Authority: |
Arm announces new mobile Armv9 CPUs with improved performance and new GPUs including the flagship Immortalis-G715, its first with hardware-enabled ray-tracing — It's that time of the year when industry colossus Arm reveals its new line of CPUs and GPUs that will power the following year's smartphones.
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| Anna Gross / Financial Times: |
An interview with Arm CEO Rene Haas on the company's plans to use its IPO proceeds to pursue M&A deals and expand hiring, after Arm China changed its leadership — Chief executive Rene Haas lays out ambitious course of expansion for the UK chip designer despite tech downturn| Sarah E. Needleman / Wall Street Journal: |
After Twitter gives Elon Musk access to its firehose and historical tweet data, experts doubt the data will provide conclusive answers on spam accounts and bots — Billionaire has access to the company's fire hose of tweets, but data specialists say analyzing it isn't easy| Will Knight / Wired: |
A look at DALL-E Mini, a viral image-generation service by Hugging Face based on OpenAI's DALL-E offering good, absurd fun while showing how AI can warp reality — The viral image-generation app is good, absurd fun. It's also giving the world an education in how artificial intelligence may warp reality.
Tweets: @weirddalle, @lux_capital, @weirddalle, @weirddalle, @wired, @gadgetlab, @weirddalle, @willknight, and @weirddalle
| Stephanie Condon / ZDNet: |
Google makes Earth Engine, which offers sophisticated information about the Earth's surface, available to any commercial or government entity using Google Cloud — For the past decade, researchers in academia and the nonprofit world have had access to increasingly sophisticated information about the Earth's surface.
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The Keyword, TechCrunch, Thurrott, Cloud Blog, Bloomberg, and IT Management. Tweets: @aravind_raves
| TechCrunch: |
Analysis of Stardust period tracking app, the top free app on the US App Store on June 25, shows it shares users' phone numbers with analytics company Mixpanel — The app was found sharing users' phone numbers with an analytics firm — Period tracking app Stardust surged to the top …
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| Olivia Snow / Wired: |
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| Reuters: |
A Moscow court fines Twitch, Pinterest, and Airbnb ~$38K and UPS ~$19K for allegedly refusing to store Russian citizens' personal data in Russia — A Moscow court said it had fined video streaming service Twitch, social network Pinterestand United Parcel Service in three of several cases expected …
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Opaque Systems, which is building AI to handle data in hardware-based trusted execution environments, raised a $22M Series A led by Walden Catalyst Partners — Opaque Systems, a startup developing what it describes as “AI for confidential computing,” today announced that it closed …
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FinSMEs, VentureBeat, SiliconANGLE, and Opaque Systems
| Emily Nicolle / Bloomberg: |
Paris-based Kaiko, which offers crypto and DeFi market data to institutional investors and businesses, raised a $53M Series B led by Eight Roads — Blockchain analytics firm Kaiko raised $53 million from new and existing investors in its latest financing round, even as crypto-exposed companies …
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SiliconANGLE, The Block, Tech.eu, Kaiko, CoinDesk, Coinspeaker, Finextra, Crypto Adventure, FinSMEs, Decrypt, and Alven
| Mike Butcher / TechCrunch: |
A look at Plural, a €250M early-stage fund led by Wise co-founder Taavet Hinrikus, Teleport co-founder Sten Tamkivi, Songkick co-founder Ian Hogarth, and others — Until recently Taavet Hinrikus, cofounder of Wise, and Sten Tamkivi, cofounder of Teleport, had banded together as a sort of ‘mini Angel brand’ known as “Taavet+Sten”.
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Sifted, Silicon Canals, Business Wire, FinSMEs, Insider, AltFi, Bloomberg, PitchBook, Financial Times, Tech.eu, Crunchbase News, and Reuters
Tweets: @alexferrara, @khelioui, @soundboy, @soundboy, @pluralplatform, @khelioui, @seikatsu, @robinwauters, @drnovac, @taavet, @pluralplatform, @soundboy, and @soundboy
| Reuters: |
A deep dive on Truth Social's struggles, as the social network flails in its efforts to build a competitive platform while alienating tech talent and partners — The firebrand former President Trump's social media firm has struggled to build a competitive platform.
Tweets: @mjberens1 and @jayrosen_nyu
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
New York-based Gloat, an AI-powered internal jobs board, raised a $90M Series D led by Generation Investment Management, bringing its total funding to $192M — Gloat, an internal marketplace for corporate talent, today announced that it raised $90 million in a Series D round led … Sponsor Posts
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