Month: December 2022
Roman Egypt was a strange province
Comments
Brands Will Save Crypto? Be Careful What You Wish For
It’s not enough to depend on the goodwill of legacy platforms and of the mega-companies that use core blockchain frameworks to reach audiences and customers. We must deliberately build systems over which those corporate machines can’t exert control.
Stripe announces fiat-to-crypto onramp widget
Payment giant Stripe is going to offer a new product that makes it easier to hold cryptocurrencies without signing up to a cryptocurrency exchange. The company’s new fiat-to-crypto widget can be embedded in any crypto product so that users can enter their card information and acquire crypto that can be used in another web3 product. … Read more
Bitcoin Miners’ FTX Contagion Exposure May Amplify Industry Pain
Core Scientific, Bitfarms and Genesis Digital Assets are among miners that have direct and indirect exposure to the contagion.
Is Bitcoin the only crypto that will survive FTX? | Interview with Bitcoin maximalist
Bitcoin proponent and author Jeff Booth is convinced that the crypto ecosystem will eventually collapse as a consequence of its centralization — except Bitcoin, that is.
Now one swipe is enough to see all your notifications in the latest iOS 16.2 beta
The Lock Screen will still require you to swipe up once more to see older notifications, but now the Notification Center won’t. | Image: Apple Apple released its latest iOS public beta this week, and it has one convenient new feature that could help reduce your scrolling — at least by one swipe. As pointed … Read more
Box reaches $1B run rate in spite of a quarter dogged by currency challenges
Prior to launching as a startup in 2005, Box began as an idea that co-founder and CEO Aaron Levie had for a marketing class — to bring the power of the internet to file-sharing. The concept may not feel revolutionary today, but back then, you could email a file if it was small enough, or … Read more
GoStudent uses its warchest to acquire large network of traditional tutoring centres in Europe
GoStudent — the Austria-based late-stage Tutor marketplace which has raised $686.3 million (and attained a €3BN valuation) to date — has acquired Germany-based Studienkreis, a traditional tutoring company, founded in 1974, which is focused on the German-speaking ‘DACH’ region. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Studienkreis had previously been owned, since 2017, by the … Read more
PyTorch 2.0
Comments
Interface Ideas for Chat Apps
Comments
Alex Jones has filed for bankruptcy
Photo by Joe Buglewicz / Getty Images Infowars founder Alex Jones has filed for personal bankruptcy in the wake of a billion-dollar defamation penalty. As reported by Reuters this morning, Jones filed a petition for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in a Houston court this morning. Jones’ company, Free Speech Systems, filed its own bankruptcy petition in … Read more
Alameda Research Shouldered FTX Loss of Up to $1B Following Client’s Leveraged Trade in 2021: FT
Alameda Research bore the brunt of a $1 billion loss incurred by its sister firm FTX after a leveraged trade on the now bankrupt crypto exchange backfired early last year, the Financial Times reported Friday.
Fire Them All; God Will Know His Own
Comments
How NFT court summons could change the legal landscape
Blockchain technology is making its way into the court system, with digital summons being served with NFTs.
FBI, CISA say Cuba ransomware gang extorted $60M from victims this year
The Cuba ransomware gang extorted more than $60 million in ransom payments from victims between December 2021 and August 2022, a joint advisory from CISA and the FBI has warned. The latest advisory is a follow-up to a flash alert released by the FBI in December 2021, which revealed that the gang had earned close … Read more
ChatGPT isn’t putting me out of a job yet, but it’s very good fun
If you have been on Twitter in the last few days, you likely noticed a deluge of screenshots from a service called ChatGPT. From the OpenAI group, ChatGPT is a conversational tool that allows you to provide the system with prompts that it responds to in written format. (You can make a free OpenAI account … Read more
Coros Apex 2 and Apex 2 Pro review: slightly short of great
These are good multisport watches that zero in on the basics but miss some popular features that would make them great. Continue reading…
Singapore-based e-commerce platform Carousell lays off 10% of staff
Carousell, a Singaporean consumer-to-consumer (C2C) service platform operating across Southeast Asia, is letting go of about 110 employees, or 10% of its total headcount, in an effort to reduce costs amid a challenging market condition for the tech industry. The announcement came from the company’s blog on Thursday, posted by co-founder and CEO of Carousell … Read more
Blockchains, What are they good for?
Comments
Not Frequentist Enough
Comments
Bitcoin bulls lie in wait as US dollar strength hits 5-month lows
BTC price performance gains some positive tailwinds, but Bitcoin faces a potential top for U.S. stocks.