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Filing: the SEC sues Coinbase in New York court, alleging the exchange acted as an unregistered broker since at least 2019; COIN drops 10%+ (Austin Weinstein/Bloomberg)

Austin Weinstein / Bloomberg: Filing: the SEC sues Coinbase in New York court, alleging the exchange acted as an unregistered broker since at least 2019; COIN drops 10%+  —  The Securities and Exchange Commission sued Coinbase Global Inc. in federal court in New York on Tuesday, alleging the crypto firm broke US securities rules.

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Internal 4chan emails, chat logs, and moderation decisions reveal how the site’s team of moderators, called “janitors”, allowed racism and violence to take over (Justin Ling/Wired)

Justin Ling / Wired: Internal 4chan emails, chat logs, and moderation decisions reveal how the site’s team of moderators, called “janitors”, allowed racism and violence to take over  —  Internal company documents reveal how the imageboard’s chaotic moderation allowed racism and violence to take over.

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Sequoia plans to split into three firms, Sequoia in the US and Europe, HongShan in China, and Peak XV in India and Southeast Asia, “no later than” March 2024 (Alex Konrad/Forbes)

Alex Konrad / Forbes: Sequoia plans to split into three firms, Sequoia in the US and Europe, HongShan in China, and Peak XV in India and Southeast Asia, “no later than” March 2024  —  Venture capital’s biggest global brand is breaking up, with Sequoia’s China and India and Southeast Asia funds relaunching …

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Tools for the enterprise: Inside the CTO’s toolbox

One of the key responsibilities of a chief technology officer (CTO) is to help define an organization’s technology strategy. This includes identifying tools and services that can deliver benefits in a cost-effective manner, and help organizations remain innovative and competitive. I recently asked five CTOs to identify the technology areas that are particularly strategic or promising

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What’s missing in your cloud optimization projects

The concept of cloud optimization is emerging out of the concerns that many businesses are not getting the value out of cloud computing they expected. Simply put, companies are discovering that their existing cloud-hosted systems need to undergo “optimization.” This can range from refactoring code to ensure processor and storage efficiencies, to finding new and

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Latest Apple Xcode IDE improves code completion

Apple has spruced up its signature Xcode IDE with enhanced code completion and an improved compiler, with Xcode 15. The Xcode platform itself also supports development for new Vision Pro devices. Unveiled June 5 and now in beta, Xcode 15 offers enhanced code completion to help developers write safer code faster, now referencing all development

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Filing: Intel plans to sell 35M+ shares in Mobileye, raising around $1.48B for its spending plans; after the sale, Intel will retain an ~88% stake in Mobileye (Ian King/Bloomberg)

Ian King / Bloomberg: Filing: Intel plans to sell 35M+ shares in Mobileye, raising around $1.48B for its spending plans; after the sale, Intel will retain an ~88% stake in Mobileye  —  Intel Corp., the largest US chipmaker by revenue, will sell part of its holdings in Mobileye Global Inc., raising about $1.48 billion for

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An interview with Craig Federighi on the new privacy and safety enhancements across iOS 17, iPadOS 17, watchOS 10, and macOS Sonoma, working with AI, and more (Michael Grothaus/Fast Company)

Michael Grothaus / Fast Company: An interview with Craig Federighi on the new privacy and safety enhancements across iOS 17, iPadOS 17, watchOS 10, and macOS Sonoma, working with AI, and more  —  It used to be just technology journalists and privacy advocates who got excited about the new privacy features that Apple …

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Want Lower Power? Add More Cores!

[Jacob Beningo] over at Embedded.com recently posted his thoughts on how to do a low-power microcontroller design. On the surface, some of his advice seems a little counter-intuitive. Even he admits, “…I’m suggesting adding more cores! I must be crazy!” There are a few tips, but the part he’s talking about is that you can

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Intel details PowerVia, a backside power delivery technology promising performance and manufacturing benefits, set to be introduced in its chips in 2024 (Ryan Smith/AnandTech)

Ryan Smith / AnandTech: Intel details PowerVia, a backside power delivery technology promising performance and manufacturing benefits, set to be introduced in its chips in 2024  —  At next week’s annual VLSI Symposium, Intel will be presenting a trio of highly-anticipated papers about their progress …

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An overview of updates and announcements that didn’t make it into the WWDC keynote, including iOS 17 dropping support for iPhone 8, iPhone 8 Plus, and iPhone X (Dan Moren/Six Colors)

Dan Moren / Six Colors: An overview of updates and announcements that didn’t make it into the WWDC keynote, including iOS 17 dropping support for iPhone 8, iPhone 8 Plus, and iPhone X  —  Apple’s Monday keynote at WWDC was jam-packed as usual, but even at two hours there’s never enough time to cover everything

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In its Binance lawsuit, the SEC cited 12 coins as assets falling under its purview, taking the value of tokens categorized as unregistered securities to $115B+ (Yueqi Yang/Bloomberg)

Yueqi Yang / Bloomberg: In its Binance lawsuit, the SEC cited 12 coins as assets falling under its purview, taking the value of tokens categorized as unregistered securities to $115B+  —  The list of digital tokens deemed as unregistered securities by the Securities and Exchange Commission now spans over $115 billion …

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In a draft, a trade group including the NYT, WaPo, Disney, and NBCUniversal warns publishers that AI tools built on their archives could break copyright laws (Ryan Barwick/Marketing Brew)

Ryan Barwick / Marketing Brew: In a draft, a trade group including the NYT, WaPo, Disney, and NBCUniversal warns publishers that AI tools built on their archives could break copyright laws  —  A group whose members include the New York Times and the Washington Post has advice on how to navigate concerns surrounding AI.

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TypeScript 5.1 production release arrives

 TypeScript 5.1, featuring easier implicit returns for undefined-returning functions and allowing unrelated types for getters and setters, is now available as a production release as of June 1. Version 5.1 features a whole host of coding enhancements for Microsoft’s strongly typed language that builds on JavaScript. With easier implicit returns for undefined-returning functions, TypeScript 5.1

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Lagos-based Helium Health, which provides SaaS tools, financing, and insights for health care providers and public health organizations, raised a $30M Series B (Tage Kene-Okafor/TechCrunch)

Tage Kene-Okafor / TechCrunch: Lagos-based Helium Health, which provides SaaS tools, financing, and insights for health care providers and public health organizations, raised a $30M Series B  —  Helium Health, the African startup that provides software-as-a-service tools, financing, and insights for healthcare providers …

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