WordPress blogs can now be followed in the fediverse, including Mastodon
In March, WordPress.com owner Automattic made a commitment to the fediverse — the decentralized social networks that include the Twitter rival Mastodon and others — with the acquisition of an ActivityPub plug-in that allows WordPress blogs to reach readers on other federated platforms. Now, the company is announcing ActivityPub 1.0.0
Read moreTugende takes first step towards repayment of defaulted $5M Goldfinch loan
Tugende, a venture-backed lender based in Uganda, and Warbler Labs, the company building Goldfinch, a decentralized credit protocol, have agreed on a loan restructuring plan that may lead to the recovery of the $5 million loan that the East African motorcycle taxi financing company defaulted months ago. Warbler Labs arrived
Read moreFirebase Remote Configuration — Making It Work For You
Firebase Remote Config — Making It Work For YouBecause remote is always betterBecausePhoto by Rima Kruciene on UnsplashRemote configurations are useful since they allow you to alter behavior in your application without having to release another version. One prominent example is using remote configurations to decide if a feature should be turned on or off.
Read morePinterest’s Gen Z-focused Shuffles app has now inspired a new Pinterest feature
A year ago, Pinterest’s then brand-new collage-making app Shuffles was going viral on TikTok as Gen Z users sought out invites in order to create their own inspirational image boards. Now, that collage-making capability is heading over to Pinterest’s main app with the launch of a new feature that lets
Read moreSpotify’s newest feature allows songwriters to promote their work
Spotify announced today the launch of “Songwriter Promo Cards,” a promotional tool for songwriters to highlight their songs and get discovered by new listeners and potential collaborators. Songwriter Promo Cards are customizable social media assets that songwriters can create on promocards.byspotify.com. Songwriters search for their name, select their profile and
Read moreFormer DCG, Blockchain Capital investors launch $20M early-stage fund at crypto advisory firm Reverie
After a couple years of dabbling in angel investments, crypto advisory firm Reverie is now bringing a bigger checkbook to bear. The firm is launching a flagship $20 million fund to invest in pre-seed and seed-stage crypto companies, its co-founder Larry Sukernik exclusively told TechCrunch. The fund, anchored by two
Read morePatronus AI conjures up an LLM evaluation tool for regulated industries
It turns out that when you put together two AI experts, both of whom formerly worked at Meta researching responsible AI, magic happens. The founders of Patronus AI came together last March to build a solution to evaluate and test large language models with an eye towards regulated industries where
Read moreDatabricks raises $500M more, boosting valuation to $43B despite late-stage gloom
Data analytics and AI software maker Databricks has raised a Series I round worth more than $500 million, earning a valuation of $43 billion. This round sticks out, particularly as many late-stage startups are seeing their valuations being slashed amid a wider funding slowdown. Databricks last raised $1.6 billion in
Read moreSmart display company Hearth Display raises $4.6M additional funding
Hearth Display, a hardware company making digital whiteboards for family task management, has raised $4.6 million in additional funding. The round, which is a bridge round, has a mix of existing and new investors including Female Founders Fund, Stellation Capital, Sweater Ventures, Behind Genius Ventures, an SPV led by Golden
Read moreGroup theory and RSA encryption
RSA encryption a map from numbers mod n to numbers mod n where n is a public key. A message is represented as an integer m and is encrypted by computing c = me mod n where e is part of the public key. In practice, e is usually 65537
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