Sex Workers Took Refuge in Crypto. Now It’s Failing Them
Banks and payments companies have long penalized sex workers. Many thought crypto would be a solution, but now exchanges are dumping them too.
Read MoreBanks and payments companies have long penalized sex workers. Many thought crypto would be a solution, but now exchanges are dumping them too.
Read MoreClaire Boucher is open sourcing her musical persona to let people create their own version of Grimes with AI.
Read MoreImage: Epic Games Fortnite’s new v25.30 update released Tuesday adds a new anime crossover with Jujutsu Kaisen. Alongside some themed outfits you can buy in the shop, the update adds a special series of quests you can complete to earn in-game rewards. And while you’re running around the island while the crossover is going on,
Read MoreJennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge: Matter’s biggest problem is that companies can’t agree on how to support Thread, a protocol Matter picked, especially for border routers joining mesh networks — The Thread protocol offers a robust mesh network designed to solve many of the smart home’s biggest problems.
Read MoreBloomberg: SoftBank reports ~$426M profit for Vision Fund in Q1, up from a ~$16.4B loss in Q1 2022 and ~$30B in FY2022; Vision Fund invested $1.6B in Q1; Arm lost ~$66.4M — – Paper losses on Alibaba led to SoftBank’s group net loss — Arm tumbles to quarterly loss ahead of all-important IPO
Read MoreCredit: Kris Carlon / Android Authority Apple is testing an M3 Max-equipped MacBook Pro, which could be the most potent Apple laptop yet. This machine could come with up to 16 CPU cores, 40 GPU cores, and 48GB of RAM. The M3 Max-powered MacBook Pro is expected to debut in 2024. Apple’s M1 and M2
Read MoreAre you looking for your next laptop? Chances are you’ve already made up your mind on which operating system you want to use. If not, we have a comprehensive guide on picking between Chrome OS, Windows, or MacOS. Now it’s time to choose the form factor. You could go for a traditional laptop, or you
Read MoreBloomberg: Sources including current and former Stability AI employees describe a chaotic company led by an inexperienced CEO often unable to deliver on his lofty promises — After its breakout success with Stable Diffusion, the startup risks ceding its edge in the booming field of generative AI
Read MoreApple wants you to be able to clean virtual spaces in the metaverse if someone else writes all over them.
Read MoreRita Liao / TechCrunch: China releases draft rules for limiting the use of facial recognition to “specific purposes and full necessity,” requiring individual approval, and more — The pervasive use of facial recognition technology across all facets of life in China has elicited both praise for its convenience and backlash around privacy concerns.
Read MoreMelissa Heikkilä / MIT Technology Review: Researchers tested 14 LLMs for political bias and found OpenAI’s GPT-4 was the most left-wing libertarian and Meta’s LLaMA was the most right-wing authoritarian — New research explains you’ll get more right- or left-wing answers, depending on which AI model you ask. — Should companies have social responsibilities?
Read MoreRichard Lawler / The Verge: A US judge denies Google a summary judgment in a $5B lawsuit over the way it tracked users’ internet activities in Incognito mode, pushing it closer to a trial — On Monday, a California judge denied Google’s request for summary judgment in a lawsuit filed by users alleging the company
Read MoreBryson Masse / VentureBeat: Atlanta-based Tractian, which uses AI and edge computing to identify industrial machine failures, raised a $45M Series B led by General Catalyst — Tractian, an industrial asset monitoring company that uses AI to predict mechanical failures, has announced a $45 million Series B funding round led …
Read MoreIllustration: The Verge On Monday, a California judge denied Google’s request for summary judgment in a lawsuit filed by users alleging the company illegally invaded the privacy of millions of people. The people suing Google say that occurred because Google’s cookies, analytics, and tools in apps continued to track internet browsing activity even after users
Read MoreKyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Austin-based One Model, which uses AI to help employers make recruiting, hiring, layoffs, and other HR decisions, raised $41M led by Riverwood Capital — One Model, a platform that uses AI to help employers make decisions about recruiting, hiring, promotions, layoffs and general workplace planning …
Read MoreBloomberg: Sources: some global investors including Warburg Pincus and GIC opt out of Ant Group’s proposed share buyback after the company’s valuation was slashed by 70%+ — – Canada Pension, GIC also passing on opportunity to sell shares — Fidelity, T. Rowe Price will sell some shares back to Ant
Read MoreIllustration: The Verge On Monday, a California judge denied Google’s request for summary judgment in a lawsuit filed by users alleging the company illegally invaded the privacy of millions of people. The people suing Google say that occurred because Google’s cookies, analytics, and tools in apps continued to track internet browsing activity even after users
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Read MoreEllen Nakashima / Washington Post: Sources: in late 2020, the NSA discovered that Chinese hackers had access to Japanese defense networks, with the problem persisting until at least fall 2021 — Tokyo has strengthened its defenses after a major cybersecurity breach, but gaps remain that could slow information-sharing with the Pentagon
Read MoreThe M2 Max model of the MacBook Pro 16. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Over the weekend, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman dug into the specs of a Mac Mini in testing with the new generation of Apple Silicon, and today, he’s reporting that in the high-end 16-inch MacBook Pro, at least one
Read MoreDuring the late 1980s NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) was busy developing the first ever wheeled robot that would roam the surface of Mars. Due to the long round-trip times of any signals between Mars and Earth, development of the firmware that would control the rover was a major point, with the two teams occupied
Read MoreCredit: Kaitlyn Cimino / Android Authority As the wearables market continues to heat up, Google launched Wear OS 4, this year’s update to the company’s operating system. Android-based smartwatches eligible for the update can expect a host of improvement and a few new features. Read on to find out everything we know so far about
Read MoreThe M2 Max model of the MacBook Pro 16. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Over the weekend, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman dug into the specs of a Mac Mini in testing with the new generation of Apple Silicon, and today, he’s reporting that in the high-end 16-inch MacBook Pro, at least one
Read MoreA nurse draws blood from two people at an American Red Cross bloodmobile in Fullerton, California, on January 20th, 2022. | Photo by Paul Bersebach / MediaNews Group / Orange County Register via Getty Images The American Red Cross has fully dropped its blood donor ban on men who’ve had sex with men (MSM) and,
Read MoreFinancial Times: Sources: Meta disbanded the team behind its protein-folding AI project ESMFold this spring, prioritizing commercial AI products over blue-sky research — Move to terminate scientific project comes as Facebook parent prioritises moneymaking AI products over blue-sky research
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