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NFT platform Recur plans to shut down by November 16, 2023, after raising a $50M Series A in September 2021, and migrate the metadata of minted NFTs to the IPFS (Vishal Chawla/The Block) 21-08-2023

Vishal Chawla / The Block: NFT platform Recur plans to shut down by November 16, 2023, after raising a $50M Series A in September 2021, and migrate the metadata of minted NFTs to the IPFS  —  – NFT platform Recur has decided to close less than two years after raising $50 million in a Series A funding round. Lees verder op Tech Meme

PeckShield: after using BNB as collateral, a wallet tied to Binance Coin's almost $600M October 2022 hack had $63M liquidated on lending platform Venus Protocol (Sidhartha Shukla/Bloomberg) 21-08-2023

Sidhartha Shukla / Bloomberg: PeckShield: after using BNB as collateral, a wallet tied to Binance Coin’s almost $600M October 2022 hack had $63M liquidated on lending platform Venus Protocol  —  Cryptocurrencies’ sudden tumble this week flushed out legions of speculators — and also, judging from blockchain data, the perpetrator of a giant hack. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Pinterest unveils new safety features; users ages 16 and older will now be able to opt into either a private or public profile; private is default for under 16 (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch) 21-08-2023

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Pinterest unveils new safety features; users ages 16 and older will now be able to opt into either a private or public profile; private is default for under 16  —  Pinterest today introduced a series of new safety features aimed at better protecting teens using its service. Lees verder op Tech Meme

BeReal replaces its Discovery feed with a Friends of Friends feed, adds pinning up to three profile posts and mentions, and says the app is holding at ~20M DAUs (Amanda Silberling/TechCrunch) 21-08-2023

Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch: BeReal replaces its Discovery feed with a Friends of Friends feed, adds pinning up to three profile posts and mentions, and says the app is holding at ~20M DAUs  —  BeReal is trying to be real.  And if we’re being real, what’s the point of that Discovery feed, anyway? Lees verder op Tech Meme

Interviews with Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, CTO Kevin Scott, and other Microsoft executives on AI, a decade of AI investments, Office Copilots, Bing, and more (Harry McCracken/Fast Company) 21-08-2023

Harry McCracken / Fast Company: Interviews with Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, CTO Kevin Scott, and other Microsoft executives on AI, a decade of AI investments, Office Copilots, Bing, and more  —  “In general, I get excited by new things,” says the CEO.  The story of a transformative moment that’s been a decade in the making. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sources: Instacart, Databricks, and Socure are among the candidates expected to launch IPOs by 2024, as Arm's upcoming IPO is set to gauge investors' sentiment (Financial Times) 21-08-2023

Financial Times: Sources: Instacart, Databricks, and Socure are among the candidates expected to launch IPOs by 2024, as Arm’s upcoming IPO is set to gauge investors’ sentiment  —  Instacart, Databricks and Socure are among the private tech companies reconsidering a stock market flotation Lees verder op Tech Meme

The US announces a ~$667M fourth round of rural broadband infrastructure grants and loans for 37 new projects after setting aside $771.4M in April and June 2023 (Kavish Harjai/Associated Press) 21-08-2023

Kavish Harjai / Associated Press: The US announces a ~$667M fourth round of rural broadband infrastructure grants and loans for 37 new projects after setting aside $771.4M in April and June 2023  —  The Biden administration on Monday continued its push toward internet-for-all by 2030, announcing about $667 million in new grants … Lees verder op Tech Meme

A recent paper on ChatGPT's political biases seems to have many flaws, including testing an older model and prompt types, but the broader topic merits research (AI Snake Oil) 21-08-2023

AI Snake Oil: A recent paper on ChatGPT’s political biases seems to have many flaws, including testing an older model and prompt types, but the broader topic merits research  —  A new paper making this claim has many flaws.  But the question merits research.  —  Previous research has shown … Lees verder op Tech Meme

BeReal replaces its Discovery feed with a Friends of Friends feed, adds pinned profile posts and mentions, and says the app is holding steady at ~20M DAUs (Amanda Silberling/TechCrunch) 21-08-2023

Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch: BeReal replaces its Discovery feed with a Friends of Friends feed, adds pinned profile posts and mentions, and says the app is holding steady at ~20M DAUs  —  BeReal is trying to be real.  And if we’re being real, what’s the point of that Discovery feed, anyway? Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sources: the UK is in talks with Nvidia, AMD, and Intel to buy up to £100M in GPUs for a national “AI Research Resource”; some officials want to spend far more (James Titcomb/Telegraph) 20-08-2023

James Titcomb / Telegraph: Sources: the UK is in talks with Nvidia, AMD, and Intel to buy up to £100M in GPUs for a national “AI Research Resource”; some officials want to spend far more  —  Effort fuels prime minister’s ambitions to make Britain a global leader in the field Lees verder op Tech Meme