Richard MacManus / The New Stack: A look at Meta’s plan to adopt ActivityPub for Threads, what makes ActivityPub attractive, and the technical challenges and social pressure Meta will face  —  Threads will soon connect its 100 million users to the fediverse via ActivityPub.  But Meta faces a number of technical and social challenges. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Chainalysis: A mid-2023 crypto crime update: inflows to illicit entities drop 65% YoY, scammers net ~$3.3B less than H1 2022, and ransomware took $175.8M more than H1 2022  —  2023 so far has been a year of recovery for cryptocurrency after a chaotic 2022, with prices of digital assets like Bitcoin up over 80% on the year as of June 30. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Reuters: Recursion, which uses AI models for drug discovery, raised $50M from Nvidia and plans to train its models on Nvidia’s platform using its own 23,000TB+ datasets  —  Nvidia (NVDA.O) invested $50 million to speed up training of biotech firm Recursion’s (RXRX.O) artificial intelligence models for drug discovery … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Cam Thompson / CoinDesk: Sound, which helps artists mint their songs as NFTs, raised a $20M Series A led by a16z with Snoop Dogg and others participating and launches out of beta  —  The company aims to help artists make a living for their music by minting their songs on-chain and selling them directly to fans. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ercan Ersoy / Bloomberg: Banking and insurance startup Papara became Turkey’s first fintech unicorn after its Beka Finance deal; startups.watch: Turkish startups raised $111M in H1 2023  —  Turkey’s Papara became the country’s first fintech firm to reach unicorn status following a recent deal with Spain’s Beka Finance SV SA. Lees verder op Tech Meme