Dutch authorities arrest a Tornado Cash developer suspected of involvement in concealing money laundering, two days after the US sanctioned the crypto mixer
- The Tornado Cash developer arrested by Dutch authorities on Wednesday is Alexey Pertsev, his wife has confirmed to The Block.
Uber will end its free loyalty program Uber Rewards on November 1, 2022, to focus on its new Uber One membership program
You have until October 31st to spend your leftover Uber Rewards points — Uber is ending its free loyalty program, Uber Rewards, so it can turn its attention to its subscription-based Uber One member...
Sources: YouTube plans to launch a “channel store” for streaming services as early as Fall 2022 and is talking with partners about subscription revenue sharing
Ultracompetitive U.S. market is prompting streaming services to seek new ways to find subscribers
Sources: before ATT, Apple suggested possible revenue-sharing deals to Meta, like taking a cut from “boosted posts” via IAP and an ad-free Facebook subscription
The two tech giants discussed revenue-sharing arrangements, including a potential ad-free, subscription version of Facebook
Stable Diffusion, a DALL-E 2-like system now available to 1K+ researchers, is raising tricky ethical questions by allowing depictions of public figures and more
DALL-E 2, OpenAI's powerful text-to-image AI system, can create photos in the style of cartoonists, 19th century daguerreotypists, stop-motion animators and more.
Overtime, which distributes original sports content on social media channels, raised a $100M Series D at a $500M valuation, bringing its total funding to $250M
Sports league startup Overtime closed a $100 million Series D valuing the company at $500 million.
D-Wave completed its planned SPAC merger last week, the third quantum computing startup, after Rigetti and IonQ, to go public via SPAC within the last year
Yet another quantum computing company has gone public via SPAC. — D-Wave completed a planned merger on Monday with DPCM Capital …
Sources detail Meta's challenges in building encrypted messaging products, including users' apathy toward encryption, which could change with Roe overturned
and whether the overturning of Roe will finally overcome the apathy many people have toward secure communications https://www.platformer.news/ ... https://twitter.com/... Renee DiResta / @noupside : A...
Meta is testing having DoorDash deliver Facebook Marketplace purchases; sources: the service delivers items that fit in a car trunk and are up to 15 miles away
Wall Street Journal :
A profile of COO Javier Olivan, who has become Meta's “unofficial fixer” and has had a hand in all of the company's major competitive battles and acquisitions
In 2008, Facebook was offered only in English—and struggling to expand internationally. Tweets: @kurtwagner8 , @russellsieg , @jason_kint , @bqprime , @pbandjaimie , @bangtheclose , and @alexbarinka T...
Some computational neuroscientists say self-supervised AI learning models have shown a closer correspondence to brain function than supervised-learning models
Self-supervised learning allows a neural network to figure out for itself what matters. The process might be what makes our own brains so successful. Tweets: @freakonometrics and @sustainhistory Twee...
A look at Sam Bankman-Fried's US lobbying, seeking to make CFTC, not SEC, oversee crypto markets and change how commodity futures markets operate in the US
In May, an eccentric 30-year-old cryptocurrency billionaire named Sam Bankman-Fried made a startling proclamation. Tweets: @bgurley , @ahcastor , @nickbaumann , @nickbaumann , @nickbaumann , @davidnir...
Central Payments, a payments tech and card-issuing platform for banks, has raised $30M in a deal that spins out the company from the Central Bank of Kansas City
Central Payment, a payments-tech and card-issuing platform, today announced it has raised $30 million in growth equity financing …
Google agrees to pay $42.7M to settle a court case with Australia's ACCC over misleading some Android users about the collection of personal location data
The Guardian : Source: Australian Competition … .
Source: China has blocked Tencent-backed health platform DXY from posting on Weibo, WeChat, and Douyin amid its criticism of China's efforts to fight COVID-19
Cissy Zhou / Nikkei Asia :
Sources: Apple tells its assemblers to make 90M of its newest iPhones, on par with 2021; IDC expects the smartphone market to shrink 3.5% in 2022
Apple reportedly orders 90 million units Alan Friedman / PhoneArena : Apple reportedly asked suppliers to build 90 million new iPhone units for 2022, same as last year Tweets: @markets : Apple asked s...
Experts say Coinbase's decision to stop emailed price alerts during 2022's crypto crash likely contributed to retail investor losses and was potentially illegal
Ali Breland / Mother Jones :
Analysis: Tencent and Alibaba, whose stocks have dropped 60% and 65% respectively since February 2021, have lost more market value than any other stock globally
Just 18 months ago, Tencent Holdings Ltd. was on the cusp of becoming Asia's second trillion-dollar company … Tweets: @technology Tweets: @technology : Next week, Tencent will seek to assure investors...
US federal prosecutors charge a former Qualcomm VP and three others over allegedly duping the company into paying $150M to acquire tech that it already owned
Mike Freeman / Los Angeles Times :
Hands-on with iOS 16's Lockdown Mode, which aims to protect against highly targeted attacks by disabling link previews in messages, limiting FaceTime, and more
journalists, activists, and human rights defenders — against zero-click government spyware. https://techcrunch.com/... Kevin Collier / @kevincollier : This is to protect against NSO et. al, but I wond...
Memo: meditation app Calm laid off 20% of its staff; sources say Calm employed ~400 people and approximately 90 were laid off; Calm had a $2B valuation in 2020
Patrick Coffee / Wall Street Journal :
India freezes assets worth $46.4M owned by crypto exchange Vauld's local entity for allegedly facilitating “crime-derived” proceeds from predatory lending firms
Manish Singh / TechCrunch :
China's internet watchdog publishes a list of 30 algorithms used in popular apps, including Wechat, Taobao, and Douyin, with brief descriptions of their use
Shopify's new AI commerce stack
Their VP of Product digs into just-launched products to help entrepreneurs and developers build with the latest AI.
Email fatigue is real: Here's how smart email tools help you regain control
Picture this: It's Monday morning. You walk into the office feeling energized and ready to take on the week.
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data
Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Box data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.