Bluesky announces its $8M seed round and first paid service, custom domains
Hours before Meta launches its anticipated Instagram competitor, Threads, another Twitter rival — Bluesky — is announcing additional funding and its first paid service. In a blog post on Wednesday, the company shared that it raised seed funds totaling $8 million this summer, when it converted from being a public
Read MoreFiat says its cutest EV will tote accessories like, I kid you not, a ‘little shower’
Fiat is slowly trickling out new details on its upcoming Topolino EV, and it turns out the teeny-tiny quadricycle will do some trickling of its own. Designed for short trips in and around dense European cities, Fiat’s owner Stellantis said this week that the upcoming electric vehicle will start at
Read MoreCanadian-based gold miner among the latest MOVEit data breach victims
One of the biggest gold and copper miners in the world is among the latest companies to be listed as victims of the vulnerability in Progress Sofware’s MOVEit file transfer platform, according to a cybersecurity researcher. Brett Callow, Canadian-based threat researcher for Emsisoft, tweeted today that Barrick Gold Corp. of
Read MoreBuilding a Sync Bridge
Adapting event-driven APIs to Promises in JavaScriptEvent-driven architecture (EDA) is a powerful way of building loosely coupled, performant, scalable apps on the web. It enables rich experiences like push notifications, collaborative editing and multiplayer, and other real-time interactions, and encourages modularity.But sometimes the model is inconsistent with what we as
Read MoreCrypto funding drops for fifth straight quarter as investors continue to pull back
Funding for crypto startups continues to grow more scarce. Venture capital flowing into the industry dropped for the fifth consecutive quarter since Q1 2022 to $2.34 billion globally as investors withhold their checkbooks, fearing risks from a severe regulatory stance and an uncertain economy. The second quarter’s $2.34 billion tally
Read More75+ Handpicked Programming Articles Across Medium (April-June 2023)
Better Programming Issue #93Welcome to the latest issue of Coffee Bytes, a newsletter featuring a diverse set of programming stories across Medium to help you get inspired and code throughout this week.This edition spans from Mojo, the buzzing new programming language that seemingly everyone is talking about, to the latest goodies announced
Read MoreOpenAI is forming a new team to bring ‘superintelligent’ AI under control
OpenAI is forming a new team led by Ilya Sutskever, its chief scientist and one of the company’s co-founders, to develop ways to steer and control “superintelligent” AI systems. In a blog post published today, Sutskever and Jan Leike, a lead on the alignment team at OpenAI, predict that AI
Read MoreAstra establishes subsidiary for spacecraft engine business
Astra is carving out its spacecraft engine business as a wholly owned subsidiary, a corporate restructuring that will provide greater flexibility in hiring and financing, according to documents viewed by TechCrunch and a person familiar with the matter. The new subsidiary, Astra Spacecraft Engines, Inc., was incorporated in Delaware on
Read MoreJudge silences White House social media talks in lawsuit that departs from reality
Over the July 4 holiday, it emerged that a judge in Louisiana had issued an injunction preventing the White House from speaking to social media companies in certain ways. The lawsuit this decision is part of, it must be said, is quite mad. Robert F. Kennedy Jr swallowed the Twitter
Read MoreGfycat, the Snap-owned GIF hub, shuts down on September 1
Gfycat, the Snap-owned GIF-hosting platform, announced that it’s shutting down on September 1, pulling its full archive of GIFs offline. Users have two months to save content before it leaves the platform forever. “The Gfycat service is being discontinued,” a message on the website writes. “Please save or delete your
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