Month: December 2022
Valve will give away a free Steam Deck every minute during The Game Awards
Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge One more reason to watch The Game Awards this year: Valve has announced it’ll give away a Steam Deck handheld gaming PC every single minute on December 8th. With a likely runtime of 2.5 hours — last year’s ran three — the company’s probably going to be giving … Read more
Nifty News: Porsche 911 NFTs, BMW files Web3 trademarks, Baby Shark’s NFT game and more…
BMW and Porsche have both recently ramped up their own Web3 plays, while Baby Shark is dipping into the blockchain gaming sector, but just for kids.
Commodore 128D Computer (2001)
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First Mover Asia: Bitcoin Rises Again on US Fed Chair’s Moderate Remarks
ALSO: Sam Reynolds writes that shipping giant Maersk and IBM’s decision to wind down TradeLens highlights the failure of blockchain-based transparent ledgers, which once held great promise in a range of industries.
Advent of Code 2022 is nigh
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A Vim Guide for Advanced Users
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EmpiresX ‘head trader’ to face 4 years of prison over $100M crypto ‘Ponzi’
Two other associates that helped run the U.S.-based fraudulent crypto platform EmpiresX left the country early this year and are believed to be in Brazil.
Twitter is going to show you more tweets from people you don’t follow
As new Twitter owner Elon Musk tinkers around with the social network’s feature set, more algorithmic recommendations are apparently on the way. Twitter’s support account tweeted about the change on Wednesday, noting that the platform was “expanding recommendations to all users.” This is of course under the guide of giving users the “best” content (Instagram … Read more
Indian agritech DeHaat tops $700 million valuation in $60 million funding
DeHaat, a startup that offers a wide-range of agricultural services to farmers in India, has raised $60 million in a new funding round as it looks to deepen its penetration in the country and reach break-even profitability within two years. Sofina Ventures and Temasek co-led the Patna and Gurgaon-headquartered startup’s Series E funding, it said, … Read more
Making unphishable 2FA phishable
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LastPass says it was breached — again
Password manager LassPass said it’s investigating a security incident after its systems were compromised for the second time this year. LastPass chief executive Karim Toubba said in a blog post that an “unauthorized party” recently gained access to some customers’ information stored in a third-party cloud service shared by LastPass and its parent company, GoTo. … Read more
LBRY says it ‘will likely be dead’ following SEC loss
LBRY Inc noted that while the company is on its last legs, the underlying protocol and blockchain behind the content platform will carry on.
Full Transcript: NY Times’ Interview With Sam Bankman-Fried
The New York Times’ Andrew Ross Sorkin interviewed former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried on Wednesday, Nov. 30, as part of the Times’ DealBook Summit. Here is a rough transcript of that conversation.
Axie Infinity is toxic for crypto gaming
Axie Infinity, like most cryptocurrency games, has provided players with an awful experience.
The metaverse is happening without Meta’s permission
Despite Facebook’s new name, focus and billions in investment, the metaverse will emerge drastically different from its vision.
Former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried: ‘I Didn’t Knowingly Commingle Funds’
In a highly anticipated interview at Wednesday’s Dealbook Summit, Sam Bankman-Fried expressed regret over his exchange’s collapse, but clung to the narrative that it was all just a bet gone wrong.
SBF says journalists are good, actually
“I’ve had a bad month,” Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF) said onstage. The crowd instantly broke out in laughter. The former CEO and founder of disgraced crypto exchange FTX, SBF’s month probably got worse today. In his first public interview since his company imploded, New York Times reporter Andrew Ross Sorkin didn’t go easy on him at … Read more