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A profile of Vitalik Buterin, who says he decided “to try to be more risk-taking and less neutral” to shape Ethereum with “lots of good crazy and bad crazy” — In a few minutes, electronic music will start pulsing, stuffed animals will be flung through the air … | Joseph Cox / VICE: |
A developer of the popular open-source networking tool node-ipc allegedly sabotaged its code to wipe data on computers that use the tool in Russia and Belarus — The shortsighted protest has caused a massive uproar in the open source community. — A technologist and maintainer … | Reuters: |
Brazil's Supreme Court orders the shutdown of Telegram, gives Brazilian phone carriers, Apple, and Google five days to block it from their platforms — Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes ordered the suspension of messaging app Telegram, following a request from the country's federal police …
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Instacart plans to add a $0.40 fee to orders “over the next month” that goes to shoppers to help with gas prices, even if shopper's cars are hybrid or electric — The move follows temporary surcharge announcements from Lyft and Uber — Grocery delivery platform Instacart announced Friday …
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Meta locks out some users, whether they had enabled Facebook Protect or not, after asking them to activate the security feature in a spam-like message in March — And some can't get in even if they turned it on — Early in March, a bunch of Facebook users got a mysterious, spam-like email titled …
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| Mitchell Clark / The Verge: |
After some creators speak out, Vimeo caps monthly bandwidth usage to 2TB instead of charging the top 1% users; creators have minimum 30 days to appeal charges — Before, creators were suddenly told they may have to pay thousands of dollars — Vimeo has announced that it's making … | New York Times: |
A look at China-made hit fantasy RPG Genshin Impact, as China expands into the video game market once dominated by Japan by imitating its Japanese competitors — Genshin Impact, a nearly picture-perfect reproduction of Japanese fantasy role-playing games, has raked in billions of dollars …
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| Adnan Bhat / Rest of World: |
Doctors say the rise of fantasy sports apps has led to a spike in gambling addiction in India, where gambling is illegal but fantasy gaming has no clear laws — All forms of gambling are illegal in India but there are no clear laws when it comes to fantasy gaming, which is quickly becoming a threat.
Tweets: @adnanmbhat
| Edward Ongweso Jr / VICE: |
The state of crypto and the metaverse, as seen at SXSW, is underwhelming and pathetic, showing off only how rich its boosters are and little of social utility — The first SXSW in three years was taken over by crypto-mania fueled by marketing hype. — It did not really hit …
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| David Welch / Bloomberg: |
GM buys SoftBank Vision Fund 1's stake in Cruise for $2.1B, increasing GM's ownership to 80%, and says the company will invest another $1.35B in Cruise — General Motors Co. bought out the SoftBank Vision Fund 1's stake in self-driving startup Cruise LLC for $2.1 billion …
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Sources: FanCraze, a marketplace for cricket NFTs previously known as Faze Technologies, is raising a $100M Series A led by B Capital and Insight Partners — An online platform for trading officially-licensed digital cricket collectibles, is raising about $100 million in a new funding round … | Sam Schechner / Wall Street Journal: |
Experts say banning Telegram, a popular destination for unfiltered news to an estimated 40M+ users in Russia, is technically difficult and may prompt a backlash — The social media and chat app has become an increasingly popular destination for unfiltered news, pro-Kremlin propaganda and everything in betweenSponsor Posts
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