Saturday, June 17, 2023

Block announces an open beta program for Bitkey its self-custodial Bitcoin wallet with Coinbase and CashApp integrations (Andrew Throuvalas/Decrypt)

Andrew Throuvalas / Decrypt:
Block announces an open beta program for Bitkey, its self-custodial Bitcoin wallet, with Coinbase and CashApp integrations  —  Bitkey will allow beta users to withdraw Bitcoin from Coinbase and Cashapp using “copy and paste.”  —  Jack Dorsey's payments company Block announced an open beta program …



Reddit's management risks putting the service in a death spiral as users revolt dedicated moderators quit and its vibrant content moves to other platforms (Boone Ashworth/Wired)

Boone Ashworth / Wired:
Reddit's management risks putting the service in a death spiral as users revolt, dedicated moderators quit, and its vibrant content moves to other platforms  —  When the user revolt ends—if it ever does—Reddit's community won't ever be the same.  —  It's pretty easy to piss people off on Reddit.



Meta scrambles to refocus its resources on usable AI products after a decade-long focus on research in its AI division disincentivized work on generative AI (Wall Street Journal)

Wall Street Journal:
Meta scrambles to refocus its resources on usable AI products after a decade-long focus on research in its AI division disincentivized work on generative AI  —  The CEO considers artificial intelligence critical to long-term growth and is taking more control over efforts.



Sources: the US has found it difficult to distinguish between tech that China can use for its military and tech used commercially by firms particularly with AI (Wall Street Journal)

Wall Street Journal:
Sources: the US has found it difficult to distinguish between tech that China can use for its military and tech used commercially by firms, particularly with AI  —  Defining risky artificial intelligence poses challenge as Washington moves to curb investment in Chinese tech



Chipmakers like TSMC and Samsung race to curb emissions as chip manufacturing makes up most of a device's carbon output a tough job in fossil fuel-reliant Asia (June Yoon/Financial Times)

June Yoon / Financial Times:
Chipmakers like TSMC and Samsung race to curb emissions as chip manufacturing makes up most of a device's carbon output, a tough job in fossil fuel-reliant Asia  —  Meanwhile sister companies with green energy knowhow look set to cash in  —  A greener future is not necessarily a lower-tech future.



A profile of Jack Ma the Chinese tech icon who disappeared from public view for three months after regulators questioned him over a November 2020 speech (Lavender Au/Wired)

Lavender Au / Wired:
A profile of Jack Ma, the Chinese tech icon who disappeared from public view for three months after regulators questioned him over a November 2020 speech  —  The iconic Alibaba founder disappeared from view after criticizing China's government.  He returned to the country in March—as a teacher, not a businessman.



Russian cryptocurrency payment network A7 expands to Africa, as Moscow builds an alternative payments system amid western sanctions after its Ukraine invasion (Financial Times)

Financial Times : Russian cryptocurrency payment network A7 expands to Africa, as Moscow builds an alternative payments system amid weste...