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Musk says Twitter will start manually authenticating accounts starting next week, with blue check marks for people, gold for companies, and gray for governments (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)

Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: Musk says Twitter will start manually authenticating accounts starting next week, with blue check marks for people, gold for companies, and gray for governments  —  Elon Musk says that Twitter’s check mark program could return on Friday, December 2nd, with a new procedure to verify individual identities …

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Making Paper Strandbeester

We love the artistry of paper mechanisms.  Simple tools and techniques creating humor, beauty, and amazement. [Federico Tobon] from [Wolfcat Workshop] makes amazing automata, crosses between cut paper art, origami, and traditional carved wood automata.  He’s put out a useful new video on making linkages in paper parts. In this short video, [Federico] shows us

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Squish That Stack With Rampart

[P B Richards] and [Aaron Flin] were bemoaning the resource hunger of modern JavaScript environments and planned to produce a system that was much stingier with memory and CPU, that would fit better on lower-end platforms. Think Nginx, NodeJS, and your flavour of database and how much resource that all needs to run properly. Now

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IMF calls for more crypto regulation in Africa, says 25% of countries in sub-Saharan Africa have regulated crypto and two-thirds have imposed some restrictions (Ana Paula Pereira/Cointelegraph)

Ana Paula Pereira / Cointelegraph: IMF calls for more crypto regulation in Africa, says 25% of countries in sub-Saharan Africa have regulated crypto and two-thirds have imposed some restrictions  —  FTX’s collapse is one of the reasons why countries in the region should adopt regulation, noted the monetary fund.  —  120 Total views

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Germany-based Temedica, which offers a health data insight service to pharma companies, raised a €25M Series B extension, bringing its total Series B to €42M (Dan Taylor/Tech.eu)

Dan Taylor / Tech.eu: Germany-based Temedica, which offers a health data insight service to pharma companies, raised a €25M Series B extension, bringing its total Series B to €42M  —  Aimed at offering a complete and total understanding of medical patient care realities, Munich-based Temedica …

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