Facebook warns it could block news in Canada over proposed legislation
Nick Barclay / The Verge Facebook might ban news sharing in Canada if the country passes legislation forcing the company to pay news outlets for their content (via The Wall Street Journal). In a post shared on Friday, Facebook parent company Meta says Canada’s proposed Online News Act falsely presumes that it “unfairly benefits from … Read more
A Last Gasp of 2D: The Cave CV1000
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Crypto Means Absolutely Nothing Without Censorship Resistance
The battle for how to regulate cryptocurrency might handicap the entire value proposition if we simply apply the same old rules to a new way of moving money around. Crypto Long & Short is CoinDesk’s weekly newsletter featuring insights, news and analysis for the professional investor.
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The new Mac Pro chip could double or quadruple the power of the M2 Max
Apple’s 2019 Mac Pro. | Photo by Avery White for The Verge The next Mac Pro is rumored to come with chip options “that are at least twice or four times as powerful” as the not-yet-released M2 Max. That’s according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, who says Apple has ramped up testing of the high-end Mac … Read more
PopGrip JumpStart review: what if a battery bank were also a PopSocket?
PopSocket’s battery bank isn’t a small accessory. | Image: Mitchell Clark / The Verge We’re smack in the middle of new phone season and getting close to the time when some of us are going to have to start worrying about wish lists and stocking stuffers, so I want to look at an accessory that … Read more
Interactive Vim Tutorial
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A history of the horny side of the internet
Vincent Kilbride / The Verge From the very beginning, people on the internet have been obsessed with sex. That’s the argument laid out in a new book by journalist Samantha Cole, How Sex Changed the Internet and the Internet Changed Sex. Cole digs through early internet history to show how sexual content and communities were … Read more
The Wire retracts its Meta stories
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3Commas issues security alert as FTX deletes API keys following hack
3Commas and FTX conducted a joint investigation in relation to reports from users of unauthorized trades on the DMG trading pairs on FTX.
Kazakhstan among top 3 Bitcoin mining destinations after US and China
The top three countries contributing to the Bitcoin hash rate continue to eat away the share of other players, such as Malaysia, Germany and Iran.
Epoll is fundamentally broken (2017)
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Web3 to inject $1.1T in India’s GDP by 2032, following 37x growth since 2020
The explosive Web3 growth in the country is supported by several factors, including a large talent pool, a high adoption rate and product development for global markets.