Colleen Ballinger’s toxic gossip train won’t stop chugging on
The YouTuber apology video is an art form. A penitent creator must be remorseful, but not theatrical. Concise, but not rehearsed. Honest, but not defensive. Above all, an apology video cannot be memeable, or it’ll never be taken seriously. Colleen Ballinger’s apology saga, however, will be one of the most
Read moreFirst Amendment org challenges restrictions on TikTok at Texas universities
Through a new lawsuit, a free speech group and research coalition that studies technology’s effect on society are pushing back against a ban on TikTok affecting government devices in the state of Texas. In the lawsuit, filed by Columbia University’s Knight First Amendment Institute on behalf of the Coalition for
Read moreCyber Security Today, Week in Review for Friday, July 14, 2023
Welcome to Cyber Security Today. This is the Week in Review for the week ending Friday, July 14th, 2023. I’m Howard Solomon, contributing reporter on cybersecurity for ITWorldCanada.com and TechNewsday.com in the U.S. In a few minutes Terry Cutler, head of Montreal’s Cyology Labs, will be here with commentary on
Read moreStartups, be careful who you sell to
Welcome to Startups Weekly. Sign up here to get it in your inbox every Friday. As a photographer, the saga of Amazon buying Digital Photo Review (DPReview among friends) before slowly grinding it into the ground and then suddenly announcing they were closing the site, and then going “j/k, we’re
Read moreAll money is not created equal: What raising venture debt looks like
David Spreng Contributor Share on Twitter David Spreng is a seasoned venture and growth debt lender with 30 years of experience, the founder and CEO of Runway Growth Capital, and the author of All Money Is Not Created Equal. The first step in the process of raising venture debt is
Read moreLarge language models and mnemonics
The Major mnemonic system encodes numbers as words in order to make them easier to remember. Digits correspond to consonant sounds (not spellings) as explained here. You can use the system ad hoc, improvising an encoding of a word as needed, or you can memorize canonical encodings of numbers, also
Read moreDesigners sue Shein over AI ripoffs of their work
A group of designers are suing Shein, the Chinese fast-fashion firm reportedly valued at $66 billion, for allegedly stealing independent artists’ works “over and over again, as part of a long and continuous pattern of racketeering.” The designers — Krista Perry, Larissa Martinez and Jay Baron — claim in their
Read moreReddit is killing its Gold awards system
After triggering protests over its API changes, Reddit is making another change that is angering its users, as the company announced that it’s sunsetting its coins and awards system. Although the platform says it’s working on a new rewards system, it hasn’t provided any details about when it could launch.
Read more8 reasons why the venture capital market isn’t as miserable as you think
Did the global venture capital market bottom out in the first quarter of this year? The second? There’s good reason to believe that the massive correction in venture capital activity that we’ve seen over the past six quarters has run its course. More importantly, we’re seeing early indications that we
Read moreTechCrunch+ roundup: SaaS sales toughlove, cybersecurity survey, ‘the new venture normal’
I kept the statistics for my high school’s football team. After each game, I shared the numbers with local sportswriters, who were always impressed with the number of rushing and passing yards we accumulated. We were state champions, but those box scores didn’t include the ground we lost due to
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