Month: July 2022

How to boost a Discord server

If you’ve started joining servers on Discord, you’ll likely have come across a server with a badge in front of its name. A Verified server will have a green checkmark badge before its name. Discord Partner servers are marked by the Discord Partner logo. A server boosted by its members will sport the Server Boost

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Alibaba plans to apply for a primary Hong Kong listing while keeping its NYSE listing, taking advantage of a rule change to attract Chinese tech firms (Reuters)

Reuters: Alibaba plans to apply for a primary Hong Kong listing while keeping its NYSE listing, taking advantage of a rule change to attract Chinese tech firms  —  Alibaba (9988.HK) plans to add a primary listing in Hong Kong to its New York presence, targeting investors in mainland China as it becomes …

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US Congress is working on a bill to crack down on and ban firms that sell spyware from working with the government; experts say market will be hard to curtail (Suzanne Smalley/CyberScoop)

Suzanne Smalley / CyberScoop: US Congress is working on a bill to crack down on and ban firms that sell spyware from working with the government; experts say market will be hard to curtail  —  Congress is waking up to the growing threat of foreign spyware on the heels of several high-profile episodes involving the

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Sources: a bipartisan bill to curb potential risks posed by stablecoins has been delayed by US House lawmakers until at least September (Andrew Ackerman/Wall Street Journal)

Andrew Ackerman / Wall Street Journal: Sources: a bipartisan bill to curb potential risks posed by stablecoins has been delayed by US House lawmakers until at least September  —  Lawmakers continue to negotiate deal, but unable to complete work ahead of August break  —  What Happens If a Crypto Platform Goes Bankrupt?  —  Skip Ad

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OpenJewelry, No Pliers Required

They say that if you want something done right, you gotta do it yourself. Oftentimes, that goes double for getting something done at all. Whereas some people might simply lament the lack of a (stable) Thingiverse-type site for, say, jewelry designs, those people aren’t Hackaday’s own [Adam Zeloof]. With nowhere to share designs among engineering-oriented

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Amazon plans to raise its annual Prime subscription prices across Europe by up to 43% starting on September 15, citing “increased inflation and operating costs” (Jeffrey Dastin/Reuters)

Jeffrey Dastin / Reuters: Amazon plans to raise its annual Prime subscription prices across Europe by up to 43% starting on September 15, citing “increased inflation and operating costs”  —  Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O) will raise fees for its delivery and streaming service Prime in Europe by up to 43% a year …

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Binance CEO sues Bloomberg Businessweek’s Hong Kong publisher for defamation over a June 23 profile, claiming it depicted him as running a Ponzi scheme (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Danny Nelson / CoinDesk: Binance CEO sues Bloomberg Businessweek’s Hong Kong publisher for defamation over a June 23 profile, claiming it depicted him as running a Ponzi scheme  —  It’s not the first time Zhao and Binance have sued the media.  —  Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao on Monday sued Bloomberg Businessweek’s …

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Sources: the SEC is investigating whether Coinbase improperly let Americans trade digital assets that should have been registered as securities (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg: Sources: the SEC is investigating whether Coinbase improperly let Americans trade digital assets that should have been registered as securities  —  Coinbase Global Inc. is facing a US probe into whether it improperly let Americans trade digital assets that should have been registered as securities …

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Michael Stollery, CEO of Titanium Blockchain Infrastructure Services, pleads guilty to carrying out a fraudulent initial coin offering in 2018 that raised $21M (Cameron Thompson/CoinDesk)

Cameron Thompson / CoinDesk: Michael Stollery, CEO of Titanium Blockchain Infrastructure Services, pleads guilty to carrying out a fraudulent initial coin offering in 2018 that raised $21M  —  Michael Stollery admitted to carrying out a fraudulent initial coin offering in 2018.  —  Michael Stollery …

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Content Marketing and HARO: How Both Work Together

Content marketing forms the cornerstone of every successful digital marketing strategy. The age-old adage, “Content is King,” bears relevance to this statement. “What I love about content is it has the power to change people’s lives for a second or for a day or forever. Great content creates space for people to pause and reflect,

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Amazon UK plans to raise its monthly Prime subscription price by £1 to £8.99 and by £16 to £95 annually starting on September 15, the first increase since 2014 (Sarah Butler/The Guardian)

Sarah Butler / The Guardian: Amazon UK plans to raise its monthly Prime subscription price by £1 to £8.99 and by £16 to £95 annually starting on September 15, the first increase since 2014  —  Monthly subscription to increase by 12.5% to £8.99 in latest sign of rising delivery costs

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Instagram’s new TikTok-like UI, which has only partially rolled out, lifts some dark patterns from TikTok, like no longer being able to quickly mute videos (Devin Coldewey/TechCrunch)

Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch: Instagram’s new TikTok-like UI, which has only partially rolled out, lifts some dark patterns from TikTok, like no longer being able to quickly mute videos  —  I, of all people, got a fresh new user interface in Instagram the other day.  Although the company has not rolled it out to all

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Dell is getting out of the phone syncing game

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Remember when everyone wanted to own your phone and your laptop? Dell’s finally tossing in the towel (via Windows Central). On a support page, Dell announced that it’s discontinuing Mobile Connect, the program that syncs your phone’s texts, calls, and notifications to your computer. While Dell is

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