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“Canine-Inspired Memecoins Regain Favour in the Eyes of Investors”

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The value of the newest such memecoin Bonk (BONK), a Shiba Inu-themed Solana token, has increased by over 400% on the month, according to CoinMarketCap data. The Bonk hype has faded since, but other Solana-based memecoins like Dogwifhat (WIF) have also benefited a lot from the interest. The token currently has a market cap of around $218 million, according to CoinGecko data. Still, these market moves are signaling that retail interest and appetite is turning toward crypto again after a prolonged bear market. Previously, Warden worked at the Milken Institute and oversaw initiatives relating to capital market development, fintech financial inclusion, cryptocurrencies and blockchain.

” “Enhancing Security: Google’s Latest Desktop Chrome Update Includes Proactive Safety Check”

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Google is launching a few updates to Chrome on desktop this week that aim to make your browsing experience a bit safer and give you more control over your browser’s memory usage. The marquee feature for this update is proactive Safety Check. Starting with version 120, which actually launched a few weeks ago, desktop Chrome’s Safety Check on desktop will now run in the background and send out proactive alerts when it detects if a password in Chrome has been compromised or when an extension you’ve installed is malware. It’ll also remind you to update Chrome. Google is also highlighting two other updates to Chrome on desktop today.

Intrinsic: Leveraging Y Combinator Support to Revolutionize Trust and Safety Infrastructure

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“Intrinsic is a fully customizable AI content moderation platform,” Mellata said. Intrinsic, he explained, lets customers “ask” it about mistakes it makes in content moderation decisions and offers explanation as to its reasoning. The platform also hosts manual review and labeling tools that allow customers to fine-tune moderation models on their own data. “Most conventional trust and safety solutions aren’t flexible and weren’t built to evolve with abuse,” Mellata said. “The broader slowdown in tech is driving more interest in automation for trust and safety, which places Intrinsic in a unique position,” Mellata said.

Introducing Kosmik: The Ultimate Visual Canvas with Built-In PDF Reader and Web Browser

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Kosmik was founded in 2018 by Paul Rony and Christophe Van Deputte. And that’s when he started to build Kosmic, Rony told TechCrunch, drawing on a prior background in computing history and philosophy. It also features a built-in browser, saving users from having to switch windows when they need to find a relevant website link. Additionally, the platform also sports a PDF reader, which lets the user extract elements such as images and text. “I think that everything revolves around the idea that we do not have the best web browser, text editor or PDF reader,” Rony said.

Indian Telecom Law Gains Approval, Enabling Musk’s Starlink to Proceed Despite Privacy Concerns

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The bill also mandates biometric verification for subscribers and restricts the number of SIM cards each subscriber uses to limit fraud. The legacy of the old scammers in the telecom sector will be left behind, and arrangements will be made through this bill to make the telecom sector a sunrise sector,” Ashwini Vaishnaw, the Indian telecom minister, said while introducing the bill in the parliament. Interestingly, the telecom bill excludes the term “OTT,” available in its initial draft last year, indicating regulations for over-the-top (OTT) messaging apps such as WhatsApp, Signal, and Telegram. “The bill is regressive as it enhances the government’s colonial-era powers to intercept communications and shut down the internet. It undermines end-to-end encryption, which is crucial for privacy,” said Namrata Maheshwari, Asia Pacific Policy Counsel at Access Now, in a prepared statement.

Global Outages Continue to Plague Elon Musk’s X

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Elon Musk’s social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, suffered an outage globally earlier Thursday that lasted for more than an hour. X Pro, formerly known as TweetDeck, also faced the outage. This was not Twitter’s first outage – the abrupt workforce cuts earlier exposed the site to more vulnerabilities and reliability issues. The last major outage on the platform, which was still called Twitter at that time, occurred in early July. Users encountered “rate limit exceeded” and “cannot retrieve tweets” errors.

“Top 6 Gifts for Modern Remote Professionals to Enhance their Work-from-Home Experience in the Year 2023”

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6 work from home gifts for remote workers in 2023 A gift guide for remote workers, by a remote worker, because the WFH life is here to stayAccording to WFHResearch, 40% of US employees work remotely at least one day a week. Here are my six work from home essentials to gift the remote worker in your life. While that may be a bit dramatic, a ring light is an easy way to help any remote worker look more professional on camera. To add a little light to a remote worker’s life (quite literally), I suggest LUXSURE’s selfie ring light. I suggest gifting an ergonomic mouse, like Logitech’s Lift Vertical Ergonomic Mouse.

Fulfillment Remains in Demand: GreyOrange Completes $135M Funding Round

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Headquartered roughly 20 miles north of Atlanta, in suburban Roswell, Georgia, GreyOrange was founded in 2011 – the year before Amazon’s Kiva deal shook the industry. GreyOrange announced a $140 million Series C in 2018 and today announced that it has closed out a $135 million growth financing Series D. Anthelion Capital led the round, which also featured returning investments from Mithril, 3State Ventures and Blume Ventures. Over the years, it has been working to build a full stack solution for warehouse, fulfillment and 3PL needs. That includes Kiva-like AMRs (autonomous mobile robots), forklifts and bin systems for picking, coupled with its own first-party (“hardware-agnostic”) fleet management software. CEO Akash Gupta noted that this round will – in part – go toward delivering systems to customers.

EU Imposes Strictest Online Content Regulations on Three Pornographic Websites

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Back in April, the EU announced an initial list of 17 so called very large online platforms (VLOPs) and two very large online search engines (VLOSE) designated under the DSA. The addition of the three platforms designated today changes that. age verification, not self declaration) prior to accessing content — but that could be set to change in the region as a result of the trio being designated VLOPs. Today we designate 3 additional very large online platforms. Pornhub, Stripchat and XVideos meet the user thresholds to fall under stricter #DSA obligations.

Tesla Seeks Temporary Pause in Federal Racial Discrimination Lawsuit While Resolving Other Legal Matters

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Tesla requests pause in federal racial bias lawsuit as it wraps up other casesTesla wants to pause a federal agency’s lawsuit against the automaker for racial bias against its Black workers at its Fremont assembly plant. The electric vehicle maker, in a filing in San Francisco federal court Monday, accused the U.S. The EEOC’s lawsuit alleges that Tesla violated federal law by tolerating widespread and ongoing racial harassment of its Black employees and subjecting some workers to retaliation for opposing harassment. Tesla also faces a proposed class action that alleges racial harassment filed by workers in 2017. Tesla’s filing on Monday says the federal court should decline to open a third lawsuit until the existing cases are resolved.