Tech Meme

Olga Kharif / Bloomberg: CCData: the stablecoin market contracted 0.4% to ~$125B in August, the 17th straight month of decline, reflecting low trading volumes and reduced DeFi activity  —  – Total stablecoin market cap declined in August again: CCData  — Tether showed its first market-cap loss in nine months Lees verder op Tech Meme

Financial Times: The London Stock Exchange plans to add a blockchain-based digital assets business after a year of testing, but is “not building anything around cryptoassets”  —  Exchange operator in talks with UK government and regulators over new trading venue Lees verder op Tech Meme

Zack Abrams / The Block: Gala Games CEO Eric Schiermeyer sues co-founder Wright Thurston, alleging he stole 8.6B GALA tokens, worth $130M, from the Web3 gaming startup; GALA drops 13%  —  – The value of Gala Games’ token has dropped 13% following a lawsuit filed by its CEO accusing the company’s co-founder of theft of $130 million in GALA tokens. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Emma Green / New Yorker: A look at Optima Academy Online, an all-virtual school launched in 2022 that lets US parents opt out of public school by putting their kid in a Meta Quest 2  —  It’s 6 a.m. A little girl, who looks to be about ten years old, hits the button on her alarm clock. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: Microsoft plans to deprecate WordPad, automatically included with Windows since 1995, via a future Windows update, as the app is no longer under development  —  Microsoft announced today that it will deprecate WordPad with a future Windows update as it’s no longer under active development … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal: How startups offering AI-powered cameras, tree-mounted sensors, water-dumping drones, satellite data, and more are helping prevent, detect, and fight wildfires  —  We can already detect fires from space, soon after they start.  Here’s why we don’t yet have a nationwide system for alerting us when they do—but could someday. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Matt Binder / Mashable: After ADL’s CEO noted talking to X CEO Yaccarino last week, anti-Semitic X posts surged and #BanTheADL trended as Elon Musk replied to and liked far-right posts  —  Anti-Semitic rhetoric has been especially rampant on the platform over the past 24 hours.  —  Over the past 24 hours … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Nitasha Tiku / Washington Post: A look at the endless battle being waged by a group of internet sleuths, trans engineers, and activists to banish stalking forum Kiwi Farms from the internet  —  The anonymous forum, known as Kiwi Farms, keeps popping back online despite a relentless campaign by transgender activists and a former insider Lees verder op Tech Meme

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: A look at the iPhone’s upcoming Lightning to USB-C transition; sources say the revamped iPad Pro’s Magic Keyboard coming in 2024 will have an aluminum top case  —  Also: The company confirms the date of its Sept. 12 iPhone 15 event and aims to overhaul device production with 3D printers. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Yiwen Lu / New York Times: The San Francisco Fire Department says two Cruise driverless taxis blocked an ambulance carrying a patient who later died at a hospital; Cruise denies any fault  —  Two Cruise taxis delayed an ambulance carrying a car accident victim to a hospital, a department report said.  The company said it was not at fault. Lees verder op Tech Meme