Open letter signed by 800+ founders, VCs, and others: Sequoia must act after Shaun Maguire said Zohran Mamdani “comes from a culture that lies about everything”
where the hell is Sequoia going to find a replacement for investing acumen like that? [embedded post] So Mayer / @suchmayer : #AltText the image is a tweet by Shaun Maguire, in whi...
Alphabet acquires NYC-based cybersecurity startup Wiz for $32B cash, its largest acquisition yet, pending approval; antitrust fears stalled a $23B deal in 2024
The acquisition is Alphabet's biggest yet, after a $23 billion takeover attempt stalled last year.
Israeli cybersecurity startup Wiz walks away from Google's $23B acquisition offer; Wiz CEO Assaf Rappaport tells staff that Wiz will pursue an IPO as planned
Wiz has walked away from a $23 billion deal to be acquired by Google, in what would have been the search giant's largest ever deal …
Some AI image detecting tools are labeling real photographs from the Israel-Hamas war as fake, creating what an expert calls a “second level of disinformation”
How social media is inducing an Israel-Hamas fog of war surpassing previous Gaza clashes, shaping how panicked citizens and a global public view the conflict
The barrage of false images, memes, videos and posts — mostly generated from within the region itself — is making it difficult to assess what is real.
OpenAI launches a program to award 10 grants of $100K to develop proof-of-concepts for a “democratic process” to set rules for AI “within the bounds” of the law
OpenAI says it's launching a program to award ten $100,000 grants to fund experiments in setting …
Sources: Apple restricts internal use of ChatGPT, GitHub Copilot, and other external AI tools due to concerns over potential leaks of confidential data
The iPhone maker is concerned workers could release confidential data as it develops its own similar technology
Binance suspends spot trading on its exchange due to an “issue” and says it is working “to resolve this as soon as possible”
Bitcoin dipped, losing $700 before paring the decline. — Crypto exchange Binance suspended spot trading amid an issue on the world's …
The number of active users on Mastodon dropped from a peak of over 2.5M in early December 2022 to about 1.8M in the first week of January 2023
More than 130,000 people were joining the new independent social media network a day in November. So why hasn't it taken off?
The 2022 crypto winter showed that the digital asset ecosystem is more interconnected than many participants realized, despite its core decentralization tenet
As 2021 came to a close, crypto enthusiasts were brimming with optimism. After all, it had been a banner year: Nonfungible tokens, or NFTs, had crossed into the mainstream.
The 2022 crypto winter showed the digital asset ecosystem is more interconnected than many participants realize, despite decentralization being a core tenet
As 2021 came to a close, crypto enthusiasts were brimming with optimism. After all, it had been a banner year: Nonfungible tokens, or NFTs, had crossed into the mainstream.
Reports: an Android malware called Godfather is using overlaid login screens to get users' credentials on 400+ banking apps and crypto exchanges in 16 countries
An Android banking malware named ‘Godfather’ has been targeting users in 16 countries, attempting to steal account credentials … Source: Cyble .
FTX plans to offer $6M to account holders impacted by a phishing incident via a third-party site, but says this kind of relief will not become the norm
Digital-asset exchange FTX will provide about $6 million compensation to its account holders impacted by a phishing incident via a third-party website.
Sources: Paris-based BeReal closed a $60M Series B earlier in 2022 at a ~$600M valuation; source: the photo-sharing app has ~20M DAUs, up from 7.9M in July 2022
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Apple partners with satellite company Globalstar on Emergency SOS, agreeing to pay 95% of the approved capital expenditure to deploy new Globalstar satellites
Apple Inc (AAPL.O) on Wednesday selected Globalstar Inc (GSAT.A) as its partner for a feature that would allow iPhone 14 users …
Apple makes eSIM the only option on iPhone 14 models in the US, working with T-Mobile, Verizon, and AT&T; outside the US, the phones will have a SIM card tray
The US Treasury sanctions crypto mixing service Tornado Cash and 44 related ETH and USDC wallets, citing their use in high-profile hacks, such as by North Korea
- The Treasury is sanctioning DeFi mixing service, Tornado Cash. — The move is the agency's second sanction of a mixing service. Source: U.S. Department … .
PayPal begins letting users in the US move cryptocurrency from and to external wallets and exchanges, after they complete a new identity verification process
The pivot to Web3, driven by ideology rather than utility, is akin to a “collective Theranos” that is warping the economy to benefit professional investors
Block reports Q4 revenue of $4.08B, up 29% YoY, and $1.96B in Cash App bitcoin revenue, up 12% YoY; bitcoin revenue hit $10B in 2021, up 119%; stock is up 15%+
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