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In an open letter, Cameron Winklevoss says Digital Currency Group CEO Barry Silbert has engaged in “bad faith stall tactics” since halting Genesis withdrawals — The fallout from the collapse of Sam Bankman-Fried's crypto empire just got messier, with digital-asset entrepreneur …
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A look back at a tough year for startups, from plummeting investment to scarce public listings, as 2023 shapes up to be even more difficult — Founders and investors face potential further declines before venture-capital market recovers — Startups had a dismal year by nearly every measurement in 2022 …
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A look at the longest tech boom so far, including crypto's rise and fall, VR falling short of its hype, the marketplace economy's growth, pizza robots, and more — From pizza robots to the crypto meltdown, the long bubble has shown us the hilarious, the regrettable, and the unexpectedly triumphant| Stephen Katte / Cointelegraph: |
Luke Dashjr, one of the original core BTC developers, says someone stole “basically all” his BTC by compromising his PGP key; a wallet shows ~217 BTC were moved — A Bitcoin OG and core developer Luke Dashjr claims his PGP key was compromised, resulting in virtually all his Bitcoin being stolen from him on Dec. 31.| Ax Sharma / BleepingComputer: |
PyTorch identifies a malicious dependency using its “torchtriton” library name, warning nightly version users to uninstall; the hacker claims ethical research — PyTorch has identified a malicious dependency with the same name as the framework's ‘torchtriton’ library.
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A look at the wave of US doctors and telehealth startups prescribing ketamine online, aided by looser pandemic-inspired federal rules for controlled substances — People can take the drug at home, thanks to federal action during the pandemic. Some experts worry it's now too easy to get.| Evelyn Cheng / CNBC: |
A look at China's growing, Beijing-endorsed “virtual people” industry, including scandal-free influencers, performers, and customer service representatives — - Tech company Baidu said the number of virtual people projects it's worked on for clients has doubled since last year … | Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: |
A look at what 2023 may bring for crypto regulation in the US and globally, as bankruptcies stretch into the new year, attracting lawmakers and criminal probes — CoinDesk's policy team predicts the issues and topics that may take center stage over the next 12 months.
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| Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times: |
Shopify President Harley Finkelstein says the company's Audiences marketing tool, which uploads customer data to Meta and Google's ad platforms, is a key focus — Canadian ecommerce group touts new tool that allows retailers to pool customer data and better target ads| Rita Liao / TechCrunch: |
An overview of Chinese tech companies rushing to match generative AI tools like DALL-E 2 despite tighter regulations, censorship, US chip sanctions, and more — Chinese tech companies rush to match Stable Diffusion and DALL-E 2, but roadblocks lie ahead — The gigantic technological leap …
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Zomato co-founder and CTO Gunjan Patidar leaves, after the exits of two senior executives and another co-founder in December; Zomato's stock fell 57%+ in 2022 — Zomato said on Monday its co-founder and chief technology officer Gunjan Patidar has left the firm, the latest in a series …
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A profile of Matrix, an open-source, decentralized protocol for messaging interoperability that saw its network's users double in 2022 to at least 80.3M — After years of walled gardens, cross-pollination could be in sight — Interoperability and decentralization have been major themes in tech this year …
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