Month: April 2023

Q&A with Substack CEO Chris Best about Notes, asking for investment without sharing financial details, and more, as he evades some content moderation questions (Nilay Patel/The Verge)

Nilay Patel / The Verge: Q&A with Substack CEO Chris Best about Notes, asking for investment without sharing financial details, and more, as he evades some content moderation questions  —  Can Substack handle the wrath of Elon Musk and the pain of content moderation?  —  It is fair to say that Substack …

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Vintage Computer Festival East Returns This Weekend

Spring has sprung at the Jersey Shore, and for retrocomputer aficionados that can only mean one thing — the Vintage Computer Festival East is imminent. The East Coast’s premier event for classic computers and associated electronics kicks off tomorrow at the InfoAge Science and History Museum in Wall, NJ, and continues until Sunday. If you’re

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ID.me, the digital ID service used by the IRS and other US agencies, raised a $132M Series D led by Viking Global, bringing its total funding to $240M+ (Julie Muhn/Finovate)

Julie Muhn / Finovate: ID.me, the digital ID service used by the IRS and other US agencies, raised a $132M Series D led by Viking Global, bringing its total funding to $240M+  —  – ID.me announced a $132 million funding round, bringing its total raised to $240 million.  — The company has brought on Samantha

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Twitter is rebranding Super Follows to Subscriptions

Illustration: Alex Castro / The Verge Twitter is rebranding its “Super Follows” feature, which lets you subscribe to individual users to get access to some exclusive content, to just “Subscriptions.” Twitter owner Elon Musk promoted the feature on Thursday, noting that you can find it in the “Monetization” section of settings. Super Follows were first

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Microsoft plans to roll out Windows 11 to HoloLens 2 for free, improving app performance and letting developers integrate web technologies into native apps (Tom Warren/The Verge)

Tom Warren / The Verge: Microsoft plans to roll out Windows 11 to HoloLens 2 for free, improving app performance and letting developers integrate web technologies into native apps  —  Microsoft is bringing Windows 11 to its HoloLens 2 headset.  The update will be available free of charge, and Microsoft …

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Congratulations Low-Power Winners

Congratulations to the winners of the 2023 Hackaday.io Low Power Contest! We challenged you to show us how much you could do with how little, and you did not disappoint. Our judges have put their heads together, and thanks to Digi-Key, our contest sponsor, the top three entries will be taking home a $150 gift

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One of the Western Digital hackers claims they have stolen ~10TB of data, including customer data, and says they are asking for a ransom of “minimum 8 figures” (Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai/TechCrunch)

Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch: One of the Western Digital hackers claims they have stolen ~10TB of data, including customer data, and says they are asking for a ransom of “minimum 8 figures”  —  One of the hackers claimed to have stolen customer data and said they are asking for a “minim 8 figures” as a

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The best entertainment of 2023

Suzume. | Image: Crunchyroll Right now, we are absolutely spoiled for choice when it comes to entertainment. TV shows, movies, and games all come out at such a fast and furious pace that it’s hard to keep up. Not all of them are worth your time, of course — which is where we come in.

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Nansen: ether worth $1.4B is stuck in a withdrawal queue after the Shapella upgrade; Ethereum can process ~$115M in ether withdrawals per day (Elizabeth Howcroft/Reuters)

Elizabeth Howcroft / Reuters: Nansen: ether worth $1.4B is stuck in a withdrawal queue after the Shapella upgrade; Ethereum can process ~$115M in ether withdrawals per day  —  Cryptocurrency investors are facing delays to withdraw funds deposited on the Ethereum blockchain after its major software upgrade …

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