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Warsaw-based Vue Storefront, which lets front-end developers build composable e-commerce sites, raised a $20M Series A extension led by Felix Capital (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Warsaw-based Vue Storefront, which lets front-end developers build composable e-commerce sites, raised a $20M Series A extension led by Felix Capital — The current slowdown in e-commerce growth, and in some pockets straight declines in spend, might not seem like the most opportune time to build …

US charges fugitive crypto exec Do Kwon with eight counts of fraud

Do Kwon, the founder of Terraform Labs and creator of the collapsed stablecoin Terra, has been charged with eight counts of fraud by federal prosecutors in the Southern District of New York, including “wire fraud, commodities fraud, securities fraud, and conspiracy to defraud and engage in market manipulation,” according to The New York Times. Prosecutors

The TikTok Hearing Revealed That Congress Is the Problem

The interrogation of CEO Shou Zi Chew highlighted US lawmakers’ own failure to pass privacy legislation.

Utah Gov. Spencer Cox signs two bills regulating social media apps, including requiring age verification for all users and permission from parents for minors (Bryan Schott/Salt Lake Tribune)

Bryan Schott / Salt Lake Tribune: Utah Gov. Spencer Cox signs two bills regulating social media apps, including requiring age verification for all users and permission from parents for minors — Gov. Spencer Cox, who signed the bills on Thursday, said the state is prepared for a legal fight over the tech company regulations.

Ondol: Korean Underfloor Heating

One of the many aspects of the modern world we often take for granted is the very technology that keeps our accommodation at a habitable temperature. Examples of this include centralized heating systems using hot-water circulation, or blown air ducted to multiple rooms from a central furnace. Certainly in Europe, once the Romans shipped out,

Congress seems more determined to ban TikTok than ever

TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew appears before Congress to defend the platform against a ban. | Photo by Becca Farsace / The Verge TikTok’s CEO, Shou Zi Chew, seemed to arrive at the Capitol well-prepared. Taking his seat before dozens of House Energy and Commerce Committee members Thursday, he opened a packet of notes, diligently

US prosecutors in New York charge Terraform Labs co-founder Do Kwon with eight counts, including securities fraud, commodities fraud, and wire fraud (Ava Benny-Morrison/Bloomberg)

Ava Benny-Morrison / Bloomberg: US prosecutors in New York charge Terraform Labs co-founder Do Kwon with eight counts, including securities fraud, commodities fraud, and wire fraud — Terraform Labs co-founder Do Kwon, who presided over a more than $40 billion cryptocurrency implosion last year, was charged with fraud by US prosecutors in New York.

TikTok Paid for Influencers to Attend the Pro-TikTok Rally in DC

The embattled social media company brought out the checkbook to ensure at least 30 of its biggest assets—creators—were in DC to help fend off critics.

Framework’s next move is a 16-inch modular gaming laptop

Credit: Framework Framework is working on a 16-inch modular gaming laptop. The machine will be highly customizable and designed to last for years. Preorders are expected to begin later this Spring with shipments starting near the end of the year. Nirav Patel, the founder of Framework — a company best known for its 13-inch modular

Twitter Blue subscriptions roll out globally, despite missing many promised features

Illustration: Alex Castro / The Verge People all over the world can now pay for Twitter, as the company has announced that its Twitter Blue subscription service is now available globally. While the subscription has been pretty widely available before (you could sign up for it in almost 50 countries), the expanded availability reflects the

Oracle Helidon taps virtual threads for ‘pure performance’

Oracle’s Helidon, a set of Java libraries for developing cloud-native microservices, is set to improve performance via virtual threads with the planned 4.00 version. Currently in an alpha state of development, Helidon 4.0.0 introduces Nima, a web server based on virtual threads, which are JVM-managed lightweight threads that can improve scalability. Virtual threads, previewed in

WhatsApp just got a lot faster on desktop, adds support for 8 person video calls

Credit: WhatsApp Meta just launch a new WhatsApp desktop app for Windows 10 and higher. The new app is said to load faster than previous experiences on Windows. WhatsApp has also made it possible to host videos with up to eight people. If you use WhatsApp on your computer, your experience is about to get

A Little Chess with Your Timepiece

Some things remain classics, even after centuries, and chess and watches have certainly stood the test of time. [W&M Levsha] decided to combine them both in this “Chess Club” watch containing a miniature chess game frozen in time. [W&M Levsha] used an off-the-shelf wristwatch for the mechanism and case, but rearranged the parts and built

Expedia, Instacart, Kayak, Klarna, OpenTable, Shopify, Slack, Wolfram, Zapier, and others release the first third-party ChatGPT plugins (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Expedia, Instacart, Kayak, Klarna, OpenTable, Shopify, Slack, Wolfram, Zapier, and others release the first third-party ChatGPT plugins — OpenAI’s viral AI-powered chatbot, ChatGPT, can now browse the internet — in certain cases. — OpenAI today launched plugins for ChatGPT …

Wind energy is recovering from a 2022 slump

Aerial view of an offshore wind farm on July 2nd, 2022, in Zhoushan, Zhejiang Province of China. | Photo by Yao Feng / VCG via Getty Images The wind energy industry is recovering from a worrying slump in 2022, according to a new report from BloombergNEF. Growth in global capacity — encompassing offshore and onshore

Why LLMs aren’t a dumb fad like crypto, but the biggest thing since the World Wide Web, and on the coding front, the biggest thing since IDEs and Stack Overflow (Steve Yegge/Sourcegraph Blog)

Steve Yegge / Sourcegraph Blog: Why LLMs aren’t a dumb fad like crypto, but the biggest thing since the World Wide Web, and on the coding front, the biggest thing since IDEs and Stack Overflow — Heya. Sorry for not writing for so long. I’ll make up for it with 3000 pages here. — I’m

ISA over TPM to Your PC

Sometimes you really want to use your legacy SoundBlaster instead of emulating it for classic games. While modern PCs don’t have ISA slots, [TheRasteri] is fixing this shortcoming with his dISAppointment board. (via Adafruit) ISA was the standard card bus for PCs during the golden age of DOS gaming, and many of these games will

Terraform Labs co-founder Do Kwon was detained in Montenegro while trying to fly to Dubai using falsified Costa Rican travel documents (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg: Terraform Labs co-founder Do Kwon was detained in Montenegro while trying to fly to Dubai using falsified Costa Rican travel documents — Terraform Labs co-founder Do Kwon, who presided over a more than $40 billion cryptocurrency implosion last year, was detained in Montenegro just over a month …

Twitter Blue subscriptions roll out globally, but still miss some big features like prioritized ranking in conversations and seeing half as many ads (The Verge)

The Verge: Twitter Blue subscriptions roll out globally, but still miss some big features like prioritized ranking in conversations and seeing half as many ads — While the subscription has been pretty widely available before (you could sign up for it in almost 50 countries), the expanded availability reflects …

Shou Chew’s answers to often-hostile questions did little to calm bipartisan fury aimed at TikTok, instead giving critics more fuel to insist the US ban the app (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg: Shou Chew’s answers to often-hostile questions did little to calm bipartisan fury aimed at TikTok, instead giving critics more fuel to insist the US ban the app — TikTok Chief Executive Shou Chew’s appearance in Congress on Thursday did little to calm the bipartisan fury directed at the viral video-sharing service.

Where can you stream the best Jenna Ortega movies and TV shows?

Credit: HBO Max Jenna Ortega is one of the biggest rising stars in Hollywood. Making a name for herself in horror films, popular TV shows, and award-winning dramas after years as a child actor, her career is already a knockout and is poised to be huge for years to come. If you’re looking for where

API Gateways: The Doorway to a Microservices World

What Is a Microservices Architecture? A microservices architecture is a software development approach where a large, complex application is broken down into smaller, independent services that can be developed, deployed, and scaled independently. Each service is designed to perform a specific business capability and communicates with other services through well-defined interfaces using lightweight protocols such

Oracle adds machine learning features to MySQL HeatWave

Oracle is adding new machine learning features to its data analytics cloud service MySQL HeatWave. MySQL HeatWave combines OLAP (online analytical processing), OLTP (online transaction processing), machine learning, and AI-driven automation in a single MySQL database. To read this article in full, please click here

PCIe For Hackers: Link Anatomy

Last time, we looked over diffpairs, their basics, routing rules and the notorious tolerances of PCIe when it comes to diffpairs. Now, let’s take a look at the exact signals that make PCIe tick, as well as give you an overview of which sockets you can get PCIe on. I separate PCIe sockets into two

Sonos plans Move (Gen 2) portable speaker for second half of 2023

Don’t expect Sonos to drastically change the design of the second-gen Move. | Photo by Dan Seifert / The Verge It’s fixing to be a very busy year of new hardware from Sonos. The company is days away from releasing its latest products, the Era 300 and Era 100 speakers. CEO Patrick Spence has repeatedly