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P2P.org, which provides staking infrastructure for Ethereum and 49 other blockchain programs, including Cardano and Cosmos, raised a $23M Series A (Jonah Elkowitz/Decrypt) 20-04-2023

Jonah Elkowitz / Decrypt: P2P.org, which provides staking infrastructure for Ethereum and 49 other blockchain programs, including Cardano and Cosmos, raised a $23M Series A  —  Founder Konstantin Lomashuk credits the recent Shanghai upgrade, which it says has increased institutional interest in Ethereum staking. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Imgur says it will delete “old, unused, and inactive content” that's not tied to a user account, starting on May 15 (Mariella Moon/Engadget) 20-04-2023

Mariella Moon / Engadget: Imgur says it will delete “old, unused, and inactive content” that’s not tied to a user account, starting on May 15  —  For years, Imgur has made sharing photos and GIFs on the internet as easy as uploading a file — you don’t even need an account to use it. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Berachain, a bear-themed crypto project building a Layer 1 blockchain on the Cosmos SDK, raised $42M in a private token round led by Polychain Capital (Yogita Khatri/The Block) 20-04-2023

Yogita Khatri / The Block: Berachain, a bear-themed crypto project building a Layer 1 blockchain on the Cosmos SDK, raised $42M in a private token round led by Polychain Capital  —  – Berachain raised $42 million in a private token round led by Polychain Capital.  — The new Layer 1 blockchain is being built on the Cosmos SDK and will be EVM compatible. Lees verder op Tech Meme

TransUnion, one of the three major credit agencies in the US, will provide credit scores for individuals when they apply for loans on blockchain-based protocols (Krisztian Sandor/CoinDesk) 20-04-2023

Krisztian Sandor / CoinDesk: TransUnion, one of the three major credit agencies in the US, will provide credit scores for individuals when they apply for loans on blockchain-based protocols  —  TransUnion, one of the largest credit agencies in the U.S., will provide off-chain credit scores for blockchain-based loan applications … Lees verder op Tech Meme

OpenAI, which may have trained its models on people's data without consent, faces legal stakes in the EU, which has strict privacy laws and is conducting probes (Melissa Heikkilä/MIT Technology Review) 20-04-2023

Melissa Heikkilä / MIT Technology Review: OpenAI, which may have trained its models on people’s data without consent, faces legal stakes in the EU, which has strict privacy laws and is conducting probes  —  The company’s AI services may be breaking data protection laws, and there is no resolution in sight. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Docs: Tiger Global told investors that its $12.7B fund had a paper loss of 20% as of December 2022, down from an 8% loss as of June and 11% loss as of September (Erin Woo/The Information) 20-04-2023

Erin Woo / The Information: Docs: Tiger Global told investors that its $12.7B fund had a paper loss of 20% as of December 2022, down from an 8% loss as of June and 11% loss as of September  —  Tiger Global Management’s $12.7 billion venture fund, launched near the peak of the tech stock boom in October 2021 … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Meta's Oversight Board supports Meta's content moderation actions during the pandemic but asks Meta to assess its impact on public health and human rights (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge) 20-04-2023

Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: Meta’s Oversight Board supports Meta’s content moderation actions during the pandemic but asks Meta to assess its impact on public health and human rights  —  Meta’s Oversight Board — an independent panel the social media giant selected to deliberate its content decisions … Lees verder op Tech Meme

NYC-based CoreWeave, which provides access to SKUs of Nvidia GPUs in the cloud, raised a $221M Series B at a $2B valuation, bringing its total funding to $371M (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch) 20-04-2023

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: NYC-based CoreWeave, which provides access to SKUs of Nvidia GPUs in the cloud, raised a $221M Series B at a $2B valuation, bringing its total funding to $371M  —  CoreWeave, an NYC-based startup that began as an Ethereum mining venture, has secured a large tranche of funding as it continues … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Executives, inventors, investors, and lawyers accuse Apple of copying their ideas after talks about partnerships or integrating their tech into Apple products (Aaron Tilley/Wall Street Journal) 20-04-2023

Aaron Tilley / Wall Street Journal: Executives, inventors, investors, and lawyers accuse Apple of copying their ideas after talks about partnerships or integrating their tech into Apple products  —  Aspiring partners accuse tech giant of copying their ideas; Apple says it plays by the rules  —  It sounded like a dream partnership … Lees verder op Tech Meme

OpenAI, which may have trained its models on people's data without consent, faces legal stakes in the EU, which has strict privacy laws and is conducting probes (Melissa Heikkilä/MIT Technology Review) 20-04-2023

Melissa Heikkilä / MIT Technology Review: OpenAI, which may have trained its models on people’s data without consent, faces legal stakes in the EU, which has strict privacy laws and is conducting probes  —  The company’s AI services may be breaking data protection laws, and there is no resolution in sight. Lees verder op Tech Meme