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An early look at the Jack Dorsey-backed federated social network Bluesky, which emulates Twitter’s looks and feels like a simpler, positive time on the internet (Jay Peters/The Verge)

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Jay Peters / The Verge: An early look at the Jack Dorsey-backed federated social network Bluesky, which emulates Twitter’s looks and feels like a simpler, positive time on the internet  —  Bluesky is really, really fun. … But after spending a few hours in Bluesky since getting my beta invite this week, it’s so far […]

Africa: Inclusion and Innovation Key to African Media Sustainability

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[African Arguments] Forced to adapt to the political establishment, and financially beset by Big Data, what is the future of Africa’s media? from AllAfrica News: ICT and Telecom https://ift.tt/qBWNASF

Angola: Protection Agency Secures Data Legal Protection

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[ANGOP] Luanda — The CEO of the Data Protection Agency (APD), Maria Pinto, said Thursday that in Angola personal and corporate data are legally protected by the Data Protection Law, IT Networks and Systems. from AllAfrica News: ICT and Telecom https://ift.tt/iCf40VU

A nine-figure raise in fintech? Oh my

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Welcome to The Interchange! If you received this in your inbox, thank you for signing up and your vote of confidence. If you’re reading this as a post on our site, sign up here so you can receive it directly in the future. Every week, I’ll take a look at the hottest fintech news of the previous week. […]

No, you’re not raising money to increase your runway

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I often hear founders say they are raising money to increase their runway by 18 to 24 months. In a sense, that is accurate, but only from the startup’s point of view. However, that’s not what an investor is looking for. Your company surviving for another year and a half is not the goal of […]

Is there really a march from the public cloud back on-prem?

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It turns out that the cloud is expensive, and the more workloads you move to the cloud, the more it costs. Go figure. When we were in the “growth at all costs” phase between 2021 and 2022, it was easy to ignore or minimize the costs associated with operating in the cloud. But when companies […]

The US-China Economic and Security Review Commission, created by Congress in 2000, accuses Shein and Pinduoduo’s Temu of data risks, IP infringement, and more (Coco Feng/South China Morning Post)

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Coco Feng / South China Morning Post: The US-China Economic and Security Review Commission, created by Congress in 2000, accuses Shein and Pinduoduo’s Temu of data risks, IP infringement, and more  —  Chinese-backed digital platforms Shein and Temu have become the latest targets of the US government, after an official report raised concerns … from […]

Similarweb: Twitter’s traffic fell 7.7% YoY in March, the third straight month of decline, unique web visitors fell 3.3% YoY, and Android app DAUs fell 9.8% YoY (Shirin Ghaffary/Vox)

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Shirin Ghaffary / Vox: Similarweb: Twitter’s traffic fell 7.7% YoY in March, the third straight month of decline, unique web visitors fell 3.3% YoY, and Android app DAUs fell 9.8% YoY  —  Say goodbye to the old Twitter and hello to the new normal.  —  It’s been a year since Elon Musk initiated his takeover […]

Amid an AI stocks frenzy, enterprise AI company CXApp’s stock closed at $13.85 on April 14, up from a $1.33 closing on April 11, taking its market cap to ~$164M (Subrat Patnaik/Bloomberg)

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Subrat Patnaik / Bloomberg: Amid an AI stocks frenzy, enterprise AI company CXApp’s stock closed at $13.85 on April 14, up from a $1.33 closing on April 11, taking its market cap to ~$164M  —  CXApp Inc. soared 94% on Friday, bringing its rally over the past three days to 941% on the back of […]

Numerous public service Twitter accounts, including for US National Weather Service offices, say they can’t automatically post all alerts due to new API rules (Matt Binder/Mashable)

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Matt Binder / Mashable: Numerous public service Twitter accounts, including for US National Weather Service offices, say they can’t automatically post all alerts due to new API rules  —  Twitter’s new API rules just blocked numerous National Weather Service alert accounts and others from working. from Techmeme https://ift.tt/1ZKzJpc

Google rolls out a Chrome security update to patch a zero-day exploited in the wild, a high-severity type confusion weakness in the V8 JavaScript engine (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer)

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Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: Google rolls out a Chrome security update to patch a zero-day exploited in the wild, a high-severity type confusion weakness in the V8 JavaScript engine  —  Google has released an emergency Chrome security update to address the first zero-day vulnerability exploited in attacks since the start of the year. from Techmeme […]

Twitter exposes secrets, FTC clamps down on review hijackers and Android 14 arrives

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Hello, friends. Looking for a recap of this week’s news? You’re in the right place. It’s Week in Review (WiR), the (more or less) regular newsletter that recaps the top stories from the past few days written by the talented TC team. (Woot, alliteration.) There’s no quicker way to catch up on the stuff that […]

The US military, which uses Twitch and Discord for recruitment, struggles with the risks posed by Gen Z service members who live much of their lives online (Drew Harwell/Washington Post)

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Drew Harwell / Washington Post: The US military, which uses Twitch and Discord for recruitment, struggles with the risks posed by Gen Z service members who live much of their lives online  —  Defense officials told service members not to ‘post anything in Discord that you wouldn’t want seen by the general public.’ But by […]

Yep, ‘Learning Man’ is becoming a thing 

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Welcome to Startups Weekly, a nuanced take on this week’s startup news and trends by Senior reporter Natasha Mascarenhas.  After a Tahoe-based tech conference, Sheel Mohnot, the fintech investor behind Better Tomorrow Ventures, is beatboxing in his head — all day, every day. And while it may feel like an uncommon takeaway from an event […]

This Week in Apps: Newsrooms leave Twitter, Reels expands, Android 14 arrives

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Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy. The app economy in 2023 hit a few snags, as consumer spending last year dropped for the first time by 2% to $167 billion, according to data.ai’s “State of […]

Twitter faces a backlash in Brazil after it initially refused government requests to take down posts and profiles suspected of inspiring violence in schools (Bloomberg)

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Bloomberg: Twitter faces a backlash in Brazil after it initially refused government requests to take down posts and profiles suspected of inspiring violence in schools  —  Twitter is facing condemnation in Latin America’s largest economy for its laissez-faire approach on content suspected of inspiring violence in schools. from Techmeme https://ift.tt/LoNp4MR

Enterprise companies and generative AI: Just looking?

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W elcome to the TechCrunch Exchange, a weekly startups-and-markets newsletter. It’s inspired by the daily TechCrunch+ column where it gets its name. Want it in your inbox every Saturday? Sign up here. This week, I am diving deeper into what generative AI means, or doesn’t mean, for enterprise buyers. I also have some notes on […]

SEC reopens a draft rule, that expands its regulatory powers over crypto, for public comment, adding explicit language to cover digital asset and DeFi exchanges (Lydia Beyoud/Bloomberg)

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Lydia Beyoud / Bloomberg: SEC reopens a draft rule, that expands its regulatory powers over crypto, for public comment, adding explicit language to cover digital asset and DeFi exchanges  —  The US Securities and Exchange Commission on Friday altered a proposed rule to make more explicit that digital-asset exchanges … from Techmeme https://ift.tt/qz3iPmk

The week in AI: OpenAI attracts deep-pocketed rivals in Anthropic and Musk

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Keeping up with an industry as fast-moving as AI is a tall order. So until an AI can do it for you, here’s a handy roundup of the last week’s stories in the world of machine learning, along with notable research and experiments we didn’t cover on their own. The biggest news of the last […]

African climate startups set to gain ground as VC funding shifts their way

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Venture capital activity around climate tech has been heating up in Africa despite the global VC funding cooldown. The continent’s climate tech startups secured over $860 million in equity funding, largely driven by clean energy technologies, representing 3.5x growth amid macroeconomic headwinds last year, data shows, making climate Africa’s most funded sector after fintech. This […]