Several women who attended Miami's Bitcoin 2022 conference were harassed and say the conference didn't enforce its anti-harassment policies
For some women, inappropriate conduct from other conference-goers continued to haunt them online. — Miami's annual gathering of Bitcoin zealots began with a bull. Tweets: @wired , @do82nic , @mslopa...
How investigators like “Gabagool” are using open source tech to identify, track down, and expose foul play and questionable practices in DeFi
Open source investigators are struggling to maintain law and order in the wildest recesses of cryptocurrency's Wild West. Tweets: @pardesoteric and @scottthurm Tweets: Arielle Pardes / @pardesoteric :...
Crunchbase: startups with only female founders raised 2.3% of VC funding in 2021, the lowest in five years; 86% went to startups with only male founders
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Laptops that US schools issued to students for remote learning are likely to have monitoring software, disproportionately affecting low-income students and PoC
Sidney Fussell / Wired : Tweets: @aclu and @pardesoteric Tweets: @aclu : Surveillance on school-issued devices forces children and families who can't afford their own devices to choose between their ...
SensorTower: Clubhouse had 484K global installs from July 21 to 25, up 17% from the previous five days, after moving from invite-only to general availability
Just a few days after ditching its invite-only status, the audio chat app had fewer than 500,000 new downloads. Tweets: @pardesoteric , @wired , and @caitlin__kelly Tweets: Arielle Pardes / @pardesote...
YC's decision to remove two of its CEOs who critiqued the accelerator publicly from its program raises questions about how YC moderates its community
TechCrunch : Tweets: @pardesoteric , @lzsthw , and @martinsfp Tweets: Arielle Pardes / @pardesoteric : “I think YC has become an institution, and institutions are viewed with high scrutiny,” says @ga...
Despite protests against racial inequality, VC promises to do better, and special funds for minorities, Black founders are still sidelined in Silicon Valley
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Researchers find candidates and PACs are increasingly turning to influencers for the election as platforms like Facebook and Twitter clamp down on bots and ads
Arielle Pardes / Wired : Tweets: @wired and @pardesoteric Tweets: @wired : Nanoinfluencers tend to have closer relationships to their audience and higher engagement too. That kind of authentic connec...
Amid the pandemic, tech companies are moving workplace incentives out of the office, focusing more on time-off allowances for parents and mental health support
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Amid the pandemic, tech companies are moving workplace incentives out of the office, focusing more on time-off allowances for parents and mental health support
Arielle Pardes / Wired : Tweets: @nmainland and @dancharvey Tweets: Nathalie Mainland / @nmainland : “In the long term this is not a pandemic response app, it's a system for engagement and health and...