The trial of Nathaniel Chastain, an ex-OpenSea product manager accused of insider trading in NFTs, begins this week, one of the first cases for digital assets (Reuters)

Reuters:
The trial of Nathaniel Chastain, an ex-OpenSea product manager accused of insider trading in NFTs, begins this week, one of the first cases for digital assets  —  U.S. prosecutors will square off this week against a former employee of OpenSea, the world's largest marketplace for non-fungible tokens …

Government has issued a warning for these Mozilla Firefox users

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Analysts, investors, and founders expect a hard year for tech startups, including more down rounds; PitchBook says 400+ unicorns haven't raised funds since 2021 (Lizette Chapman/Bloomberg)

Lizette Chapman / Bloomberg:
Analysts, investors, and founders expect a hard year for tech startups, including more down rounds; PitchBook says 400+ unicorns haven't raised funds since 2021  —  The startup world has had a tough year — plagued by mass layoffs, plummeting venture capital investment and the chaotic collapse of Silicon Valley Bank.

Super.com, formerly Snapcommerce, raised $60M in equity and $25M via a credit facility to launch a super app for deals, taking its total funding to $200M+ (Christine Hall/TechCrunch)

Christine Hall / TechCrunch:
Super.com, formerly Snapcommerce, raised $60M in equity and $25M via a credit facility to launch a super app for deals, taking its total funding to $200M+  —  The current inflation environment has all of us looking for ways to cut costs and save some money.

Google may be working on AI-powered cloud offerings

“Google has moved the engineering team responsible for making artificial intelligence chips into Google Cloud, a spokesperson confirmed, in a step that could make the cloud unit more competitive with its bigger rivals, Microsoft and Amazon Web Services, in selling AI-powered software to businesses,” the report read. Google competes with Amazon and Microsoft in Cloud space. https://ift.tt/IsPzaJC

A look at LAION, a free AI training data set with 5B+ images used in Google's Imagen and Stable Diffusion, created by high school teacher Christoph Schuhmann (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg:
A look at LAION, a free AI training data set with 5B+ images used in Google's Imagen and Stable Diffusion, created by high school teacher Christoph Schuhmann  —  In front of a suburban house on the outskirts of the northern Germany city of Hamburg, a single word — “LAION” — is scrawled in pencil across a mailbox.