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Sources: Peter Thiel's Founders Fund sold almost all its crypto portfolio by the end of March 2022, before the crypto market crash, generating ~$1.8B in returns — Billionaire was early mainstream investor in the digital currency but VC fund no longer has significant exposure
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In his first interview, FTX CEO John Ray III says he set up a task force to explore restarting the exchange, saying customers praised its technology, and more — In his first public interview since taking over the failed cryptocurrency exchange, John J. Ray III said that he's open to the idea of rebooting operations
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CoinDesk retains Lazard investment bankers to help the outlet explore its options, including a partial or full sale, after “numerous” indications of interest — Company has ‘received numerous inbound indications of interest,’ CEO Kevin Worth says
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Wikimedia updates Wikipedia's design for the first time in over a decade, improving search, accessibility, the table of contents section, and language switching — Wikipedia, one of the world's top 10 most visited websites, and a resource used by billions every month, is getting its first makeover on the desktop in over a decade.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Instagram rolls out Quiet Mode, which silences notifications, auto-replies to DMs, and informs friends, and plans to prompt teens to enable the feature at night — Instagram announced today it's expanding its selection of time management tools with the launch of a new feature called “Quiet Mode.”
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| Addy Bink / The Hill: |
Amazon plans to close AmazonSmile, launched in 2013 to let customers donate 0.5% of eligible items' purchase prices to a charity, on February 20, 2023 — Amazon will be closing its charity program, AmazonSmile, in the coming weeks in order to “focus its philanthropic giving to programs with greater impact.”
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| James Eyers / Australian Financial Review: |
National Australia Bank creates the AUDN stablecoin, minted on Ethereum, becoming the second major Australian bank to create a stablecoin, after ANZ — National Australia Bank has become the second of the major banks to create a stablecoin, called the AUDN, to allow its business customers … | Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Google made many mistakes with Stadia but did right by users when shutting down the service, including via full refunds, and other companies should take note — Google made a few mistakes with its Stadia cloud gaming service. … Pay attention, rival companies: this is how you shut down a service right.
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| Andy Robinson / Video Games Chronicle: |
Sony announces the PlayStation VR2's full launch game lineup, including Tetris Effect and 12 other new titles; PSVR games will not be compatible with PSVR 2 — 13 NEW TITLES HAVE BEEN REVEALED FOR THE HEADSET — Sony Interactive Entertainment has confirmed the final PlayStation VR 2 launch line-up …
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| Financial Times: |
Patreon, Substack, and other “passion economy” startups are cutting staff and abandoning fundraising plans; Dealroom: investments fell 75% YoY to $801M in 2022 — Once high-flying start-ups that serve online creators and influencers have been forced into a painful retrenchment … | Chris Stokel-Walker / Nature: |
Journal editors, researchers, and publishers are debating the place of AI tools like ChatGPT in published literature and whether they should be cited as authors — Chris Stokel-Walker is a freelance journalist in Newcastle, UK. — You can also search for this author in — PubMed Google Scholar
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| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Steam Deck review, after nearly a year, 435 hours of gaming, and 100+ updates: Valve has fixed many issues, making the gameplay smooth and the device compelling — I'm making a note here: huge success. … The Steam Deck is my favorite gadget of 2022. I have no hesitation in recommending it anymore.| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Twitter launches Blue on Android for $11 per month, the same as iOS and $3 more than on the web, a day after launching an $84 annual subscription on the web — A day after launching an annual Twitter Blue subscription, the social media company made the paid plan available for purchase for Android users today.
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| Chainalysis: |
Analysis: ransomware attackers received at least $456.8M in 2022, falling ~40% from $765.6M in 2021 and $765M in 2020, as victims increasingly refuse to pay — 2022 was an impactful year in the fight against ransomware. Ransomware attackers extorted at least $456.8 million from victims in 2022 …
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| The Verge: |
Nvidia GeForce Now Ultimate with RTX 4080 hands-on: impressive input latency, some visuals are hazy, and only six games support 240Hz mode, which works at 1080p — For $20 a month, Nvidia will rent you an RTX 4080 gaming PC in the cloud. It feels phenomenal in some games, but there's still work to be done.
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| David McCabe / New York Times: |
On Friday, SCOTUS may discuss whether to hear two cases challenging social media laws in Texas and Florida and plans to hear two Section 230 cases in February — The cases could significantly affect the power and responsibilities of social media platforms.
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| Katie Notopoulos / BuzzFeed News: |
Andrew Bosworth talks about Meta discontinuing Portal in November 2022 and how the company nearly licensed Portal's tech and platform to Amazon in 2020 — Meta's CTO Andrew Bosworth told BuzzFeed News how a deal to keep the Portal software going almost happened.Sponsor Posts
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