Commentary: The old guard in venture reigns supreme
Black founders raised $212 million out of $29 billion this Q2, picking up just 0.71% of the capital allocated to U.S. founders this quarter, according to Crunchbase. In Q2 2022, Black founders raised $602 million out of $62 billion, or 0.97%, of the capital allocated. In total, Black founders raised
Read moreApp Store users are downrating Twitter’s rebranding to X with 1-star reviews
Many people have mixed feelings over Twitter’s rebranding to X, in preparation for its transformation into owner Elon Musk’s vision of an “everything app.” But on the U.S. App Store, users have been venting their frustrations over the name change, leading to a surge in 1-star negative reviews, a new
Read moreAdvanced Async Testing: Unstructured Concurrency
Write robust and maintainable software using modern language featuresImage generated using MidjourneyIn the first two chapters, we built our testing foundation: We developed techniques to separate concerns through dependency injection and then created mock versions of our injected services.Subsequently, in Part III, we wrote our first asynchronous tests that checked whether
Read moreX, formerly Twitter, streamlines its crowdsourced fact-checking system Community Notes
Elon Musk-owned X, the company formerly known as Twitter, is streamlining its crowdsourced fact-checking feature Community Notes. The feature historically has provided information to users about why they were seeing a fact check appended to a tweet, er, post. Now, after three years of development, the company says this extra
Read moreMondee security lapse exposed flight itineraries and unencrypted credit card numbers
Travel giant Mondee has secured an exposed database that was spilling sensitive customer information, including detailed flight and hotel itineraries and unencrypted credit card numbers. Anurag Sen, a good-faith security researcher known for discovering inadvertently exposed data on the internet, found the database and shared details with TechCrunch to alert
Read moreApple Card’s Savings account reaches over $10B in deposits
Apple announced today that Apple Card’s high-yield Savings account offered by Goldman Sachs has reached over $10 billion in deposits from users since launching in April. The Savings account offers an APY (annual percentage yield) of 4.15%. Since launch, 97% of Savings customers have chosen to have their Daily Cash
Read moreSubaru doubles its plans for new EVs, targeting 8 models by 2028
It seems like Subaru is finally getting ready to release a full lineup of electric vehicles. Known for clever marketing schemes that won over sporty lesbians, dog-loving dinks, outdoorsy families and Crocodile Dundee fans alike, the Japanese automaker has so far lagged behind the competition as far is its electrification
Read moreA Better Frontend Component Structure: Component Trees
Easily avoid frontend component directories with high cognitive loadA clear and concise way to look at your frontend components in a frontend project (source: Midjourney)Since following advice on the internet long ago, I adopted a certain component structure that “just works.”ScenarioLet’s first imagine a simplified frontend app directory structure, taking some
Read moreUK privacy watchdog warns Meta over plan to keep denying Brits a choice over its ad tracking
The U.K.’s data protection watchdog has responded to Meta’s announcement yesterday that it intends to offer (other) Europeans a free choice to deny its tracking-for-ad-targeting but won’t be asking U.K. users for their consent to its surveillance — with some, er, pointed remarks. Take it away, Stephen Almond, the Information
Read moreI Built a Trashtalk Wordle With ChatGPT Using LLM Decorator and Function Calling
Photo by Nils Huenerfuerst on UnsplashWith the new release of ChatGPT callback functions, I wanted to test it out with a new simple app.After a brainstorming session that was shorter than it should have been, I came up with the idea of the trashtalk Wordle. Just imagine how fun (and annoying) it
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