Month: June 2024
Celebrity memecoin promoter Sahil Arora banned by X
Despite mounting scam allegations and social media bans, Arora continues to promote celebrity memecoins and partnerships.
Epoch Times CFO Charged in $67 Million Crypto Money Laundering Scheme
The executive is accused of using the news outlet’s “Make Money Online” team to launder the proceeds of fraud using cryptocurrency.
Storyblok raises $80M to bring more AI into its ‘headless’ CMS aimed at non-technical people
If content is king, then the focus today is on how the king is expanding the empire: print and traditional media first got augmented by websites, and now websites are being augmented by an exponential landscape of apps, social media platforms, new kinds of screens, and content created not by humans, but by, artificial intelligence. … Read more
Coding and Keyboards (2023)
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English Soccer Club Watford FC to Offer 10% Digital Equity Through Investment Platform Seedrs
Currently an EFL Championship club, Watford has periodically competed in the Premier League over the last decade.
Watford FC to make 10% digital equity shares offering via Republic platform
The English Football League participant aims to sell 10% of the club’s equity to investors and fans and plans to add token trading in the future.
Succinctness Is Power (2002)
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CARV Secures Strategic Investment from NEOWIZ’s Web3 Gaming Platform Intella X Ahead of Public Node Sale
SANTA CLARA, California, 4th June 2024, GamingWire
Bitcoin NFTs hit $4B in all-time sales volume
Bitcoin holds the top four spot in all-time NFT sales volume, following Ethereum, Solana and Ronin.
Roaring Kitty’s $300M GME position sparks market manipulation claims
The allegations come weeks after Citron Research revealed its short position in GameStop.
I Think, Therefore I Relate
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Travel app Sékr wants to help you plan your next road trip with its new AI tool
Sékr, a startup that offers a mobile app for outdoor enthusiasts and campers, is launching a new AI tool for planning road trips. The new tool, called Copilot, is available on the startup’s updated website and app, which is used by more than 100,000 users. Sékr was founded in 2016 with the goal of helping … Read more
‘Star Wars’ lasers and waterfalls of molten salt: How Xcimer plans to make fusion power happen
The startup has been pursuing a ground-up redesign of a well-understood technology. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Sound rules life underwater
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Pepe, BONK, Floki and Shiba Inu Post Losses—But Based Brett Is Rising
Over the weekend, Based Brett became the first meme coin on Base to reach a $1 billion market capitalization.
ChatGPT is down for some, OpenAI is working on a fix
OpenAI’s chatbot ChatGPT has been down for several users across the globe for the last few hours. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Aptoide is coming to iOS as an EU-only game store
Image: Aptoide / The Verge Aptoide, the popular Google Play alternative for Android devices, is launching a third-party iOS app store in the European Union — the first focused entirely on gaming since the EU’s Digital Markets Act (DMA) rules came into effect. Aptoide’s iOS game store is being released via a closed launch on … Read more
Australian Regulator Scolded Over ‘Misleading’ Release, Must Pay Costs as Block Earner Avoids Penalty
Block Earner doesn’t need to pay a penalty because it acted honestly in seeking to engage with government over regulation of crypto-related products and services.
Microsoft hit with EU privacy complaints over schools’ use of 365 Education suite
Microsoft’s education-focused flavor of its cloud productivity suite, Microsoft 365 Education, is facing investigation in the European Union where privacy rights non-profit noyb has just lodged two complaints with Austria’s data protection authority. The complaints target use of Microsoft’s cloud software by schools. The first one focuses on transparency and legal basis issues. noyb says … Read more
xLSTM code release by NX-AI
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How to build with PayPal USD (PYUSD) on Solana
The speed and scalability of Solana makes PYUSD accessible, cost-effective and instantaneous, facilitating an array of use cases.