Month: January 2023
More money, more problems for crypto
To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important crypto stories delivered to your inbox every Thursday at 12 p.m. PT, subscribe here. Welcome back to Chain Reaction. Do you believe in second chances? Well, FTX’s new CEO John J. Ray III hopes so. The disgraced crypto exchange’s new chief is open to the … Read more
City of Busan to establish digital assets exchange: Report
The Busan Digital Asset Exchange Establishment Promotion Committee said it plans to create a functional exchange by the end of the year.
The State Department wants memos written in Calibri now, not Times New Roman
The State Department is changing with the times. According to a report from The Washington Post, employees have been directed to use 14-point Calibri when writing certain documents instead of the traditional Times New Roman. The mandate is set to go into effect in February. In a memo cheekily titled “The Times (New Roman) are … Read more
Drake is a certified gamer boy with Pharrell Williams’ gold PSP
Drake shows off all the cool stuff, including a solid gold PSP-1000 that used to be owned by Pharrell Williams. | Image: UMG Drake dropped a new music video this week for his song “Jumbotron Shit Poppin,” and he’s playing with a classic PSP in it. But it’s not just any PSP; this is a … Read more
Building up and tearing down
I managed to squeeze the remaining vestiges out of CES 2023 in last week’s Actuator. The good news is that things are starting to pick up again like clockwork. If you’ve emailed me about work stuff in the past week, I apologize for the delay — I’ve been out of one frying pan and into … Read more
Circle CEO: US Stablecoin Legislation Is ‘Lowest-Hanging Fruit’
Jeremy Allaire says stablecoin regulation will be what lawmakers are focusing on this year because of its straightforward nature and significant growing potential.
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Bitcoin miner CleanSpark expands operations in Georgia
Some BTC miners have declared bankruptcy or sought financial aid to stay afloat. Others are finding unique ways to grow amid the bear market.
Show HN: DALL-E for Playlists
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The red-state backlash against electric vehicles is incoherent — and gaining steam
A Tesla Supercharger in Virginia, where the state’s governor blocked an EV battery project because of its ties to China. | Photo by Anna Moneymaker / Getty Images Remember when “getting ICE’d” was a thing? A few years ago, it was not uncommon to spot internal-combustion engine (ICE) vehicles deliberately parked in electric vehicle-only spots, … Read more
Climate change denial is making a ‘stark comeback’ on social media, study finds
Twitter headquarters in San Francisco, California, US, on Tuesday, November 29th, 2022. Meta made millions last year on advertising that greenwashes fossil fuel companies and spreads disinformation about climate change, according to a new report. And outright climate denialism exploded on Twitter in 2022, according to the analysis published today by a coalition of environmental … Read more
Bitzlato, Binance and What Regulators Are Really Doing
It was a failure of messaging.
Meta centralizes more user and privacy settings across its apps, announces changes to ads controls
Facebook parent Meta announced today it’s further centralizing various user settings across its suite of apps — Facebook, Instagram, and Messenger. As a result, several existing settings will be relocated to Meta’s “Accounts Center” feature, first launched in 2020. Specifically, the changes will see Meta moving settings related to personal details, passwords, security options and … Read more
Sports NFT Firm Candy Digital Raised Over $38M Amid Founder Strife
An SEC filing reveals the offering weeks after reports that Fanatics would unload its 60% stake.
Pitch Deck Teardown: Scrintal’s $1M seed deck
There’s no shortage of tools for brainstorming, collaboration and keeping all your knowledge in one place. Still, judging from the number of new tools that come to market on a regular basis, it seems that people are frustrated with the available tools. Scrintal recently raised $1 million to build its visual collaborative knowledge base tool … Read more
Microsoft starts testing tabs in Notepad for Windows 11
Notepad is the first built-in app to get tabs in Windows 11. | Image: Microsoft Microsoft has officially started testing tabs in Notepad for Windows 11. A Microsoft employee accidentally revealed the feature was on the way over the holidays, and now tabs are showing up in an update to Notepad for Windows Insiders in … Read more
MatchBoxDAO launches esports experience for Web3 developers
The tournament, “0xMonaco: Battle of Titans,” is scheduled to kick off on Jan. 29 and will bring together developers from around the blockchain space.
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Data suggests Avalanche’s (AVAX) rally was a buy the rumor, sell the news event
AVAX price rallied after announcing news of an Amazon cloud integration, but does the news do anything to improve Avalanche’s fundamentals?
WhatsApp slapped for processing data without a lawful basis under EU’s GDPR
Another bill has come in for Meta for failing to comply with the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) — but this one’s a tiddler! Meta-owned messaging platform, WhatsApp, has been fined €5.5 million (just under $6M) by the tech giant’s lead data protection regulator in the region for failing to have a lawful … Read more