Dealroom analysis of European startups: as of May 2024, the UK had 785 startups with at least $25M of annual revenue, France had 309, and Germany had 255
Parmy Olson / Bloomberg : X: @pauljdavies X: Paul Davies / @pauljdavies : Forget the Unicorns and Decacorns (FFS!) - investors should be all about the colts and thoroughbreds in the race for the next...
Sam Bankman-Fried publishes a Substack post offering his account of how FTX collapsed, sticking to his claims of innocence even after ex-executives pled guilty
think there shouldn't be a paying option anymore... Dave Weisberger / @daveweisberger1 : https://www.wsj.com/... It is tiresome to read SBF's half truths. 1/ His claims about Binance are ludicrous. Th...
Digital fitness startup Future, which connects users with coaches, raises $75M led by SC Holdings and Trustbridge Partners, bringing its total funding to $110M+
Kim Bhasin / Bloomberg : Tweets: @jsmaria , @micah , and @pkedrosky Tweets: Justin Santamaria / @jsmaria : Very proud of our team and excited to welcome our new partners! We are still just getting st...
Elon Musk says Tesla is working on a humanoid robot that will handle “tasks that are unsafe, repetitive or boring”, with a prototype “sometime next year”
Join us to build the future of AI → https://www.tesla.com/ai0:00 … Stephen Shankland / CNET : No one knows when Tesla Bot will arrive. Here are robots you can experience now Jackson Ryan / CNET : Elon...
Twitter and Facebook labeled a message from Trump alleging election theft; Twitter restricted sharing of the tweet, but Facebook didn't reduce the post's spread
Good morning! This Thursday, why it's hard … Sam Dean / Los Angeles Times : Twitter flags Trump election tweets as misleading Brandy Zadrozny / NBC News : Vote Watch: Twitter takes action on multiple...
Biden campaign steps up its criticism of Facebook, with an open letter to Zuckerberg and petition asking it to strengthen rules on misinformation
#MOVEFASTFIXIT After foreign operatives … Scott Nover / Adweek : Inside the Longshot Campaign to Get Advertisers to Ditch Facebook Ali Breland / Mother Jones : Facebook Employees Consider Work Stoppag...
Utah AG suspends Banjo's state contract after report about its founder's KKK past, suspends use of the surveillance tech while auditing it on data privacy, bias
you should also read his book on police/tech surveillance. https://twitter.com/... Schmaltzing Matilda / @shammaboyarin : Some of those who burn crosses, create massive surveillance tech for the force...
As the Authors Guild voices its opposition to Internet Archive's National Emergency Library, a look at the legal issues related to digital book lending
publishers, authors, translators, booksellers—at a time when this could be mistaken for charity. https://twitter.com/... Maria DahvanaHeadley / @mariadahvana : Two of my books are in here, permission ...
The Equifax breach, affecting ~44% of US population, is possibly the worst leak of personal information ever and was handled poorly by the company
Social security numbers … Phil Windley / Phil Windley's Technometria : Equifax and Correlatable Identifiers Guise Bule / Hacker Noon : Lies & Extortion: How Equifax, Fire Eye & The Darknet Threw Oil O...
How a design trend to reduce the contrast between text and its background, driven by Apple's and Google's guidelines, is making text harder to read online
I thought my eyesight was beginning to go. It turns out, I'm suffering from design. — It's been getting harder for me to read things on my phone and my laptop. Tweets: @fheinz , @katebevan and @edd...