Solana Mobile still has a long way to go until it hits breakeven
If Solana Mobile’s devices have 100,000 users, Yakovenko views that user base as a stronger distribution channel for dApps than through traditional app stores like Google or Apple. © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Read moreSwift retaliation: Fans strike back after explicit deepfakes flood X
Nonconsensual deepfake porn of Taylor Swift went viral on X this week, with one post garnering more than 45 million views, 24,000 reposts and hundreds of thousands of likes before it was removed. The pop star has one of the world’s most dedicated, extremely online, and incomprehensibly massive fanbases. Now,
Read moreQuebec cybersecurity institute gets $1.3 million grant from Google
Google’s philanthropic arm is giving a $1.3 million grant to a Quebec agency for cybersecurity research. The company said today the funds from Google.org are going to the Multidisciplinary Institute for Cybersecurity and Cyber Resilience (IMC2) to support research on the growing number of global cyber risks. IMC2 is a
Read moreBitcoin and Ethereum decline on the week, Worldcoin to launch a new Orb and Terraform Labs files for bankruptcy
Welcome to TechCrunch Crypto, formerly known as Chain Reaction. To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important crypto stories delivered to your inbox every Thursday at 12 p.m. PT, subscribe here. Hello and welcome back to the second edition of the new and improved TechCrunch Crypto newsletter. As
Read moreBell and Québecor spar over MVNO access service agreements
Bell has accused Québecor of refusing to enter into necessary mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) access agreements. This comes a month after Québecor accused Bell, in a Part 1 application to the Canadian Radio-television Telecommunications Commission (CRTC), of undue delays in granting access to its network for the launch of
Read moreOpenAI drops prices and fixes ‘lazy’ GPT-4 that refused to work
OpenAI is always making slight adjustments to its models and pricing, and today brings just such an occasion. The company has released a handful of new models and dropped the price of API access — this is primarily of interest to developers, but also serves as a bellwether for future
Read moreData Privacy Week: Are you meeting the fundamentals?
Data Privacy Week is a period when organizations should reflect on whether they are at least doing the basics, says British Columbia’s privacy czar. “The basic fundamentals” are what privacy pros need to be pondering this week, Michael McEvoy, B.C’s information and privacy commissioner, said in an interview. “Which,” he
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