You’re just a couple weeks away from meeting the Startup Battlefield 200 companies in person at TechCrunch Disrupt 2023! We’re incredibly proud of — and impressed by — this year’s hand-picked cohort. To avoid utter overwhelm, we’re announcing them in groups, broken out by industry tracks. Note that the track fit may be a bit […]
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Wednesday, 6 September 2023
Ministerial statement on UK’s Online Safety Bill seen as steering out of encryption clash
The UK government appears to have steered out of a direct collision with the tech industry over a controversial, encryption-risking provision in the Online Safety Bill. Mainstream tech giants and smaller encrypted messaging services have been united in warning for many months that the bill poses a direct threaten to the security and privacy of […]
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Tuesday, 5 September 2023
Oklahoma Teacher Suing For Slander Over Book Bans
Summer Boismier is a brave hero.
When the State of Oklahoma passed a stupid "anti-CRT" law and required teachers and librarians to "cover or remove" so-called undesirable literature from their libraries and classrooms, Boismier got out some red poster rolls and wrapped the bookshelves. She wrote on the outside, "books the state does not want you to read," and she provided a QR code linking to the Brooklyn Public Library's banned book initiative, which helps students around the country fight censorship.
Summer Boismier was forced out of her job and now works for... The Brooklyn Public Library.
State Superintendent Ryan Walters wasn't satisfied and pushed to revoke Boismier's teaching license.
OF COURSE Summer Boismier is a former teacher of the year.
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Could Arm be worth more than $51B?
Would Arm be able to wrangle a price-sales and price-earnings premium to Intel and TSMC? We think so.
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U.S. App Store downloads are dropping, new data indicates
There’s a concerning new trend taking place on the U.S. App Store which is impacting companies large and small: many apps are seeing their downloads decline, even as overall App Store revenue grows. The data, which comes from app intelligence firm Appfigures, suggests that some of the biggest apps on the market are slowly losing […]
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Monday, 4 September 2023
Sometimes You Adopt A Dog, Sometimes A Dog Adopts You
Dog owners will attest to the fact that sometimes, their dogs had picked them instead of the usual way of the human picking out the dog.
Scout is one of those types of dogs. Scout was brought into a shelter in the northern part of Michigan as a stray. Nothing was known about him except that he had apparently been abused and even shot at some time. One thing that wasn't known about Scout was that he was an escape artist. One night, he climbed two different fences to get out of the shelter and then crossed a busy highway to get to a nursing home down the street. Once at the nursing home, he just strolled in and picked a couch and curled up to sleep.
He was returned to the shelter, but did the same damn thing a couple more times in short order. The administrator knew fate when she was seeing it and the shelter adopted the dog. Finally, after getting the stupey hoomins to understand that this was his place now, he got down to business. He makes his daily rounds, paying special attention to the residents who have treats or who might have memory issues or who are transitioning. And, of course, he lets all visitors know that this his place and that he's watching them.
Having the love of a good dog is always something special. But when the dog seeks you out, it's truly a blessing.
Open thread below...
PS: H/T Red Painter
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myZoi wants to make remittances less costly for migrant workers
Money sent home by migrant workers not only helps their families, but also enables entire economies to develop. But transferring money comes at a high cost to workers, with remittance fees averaging about 6.5%. MyZoi wants to cut fees by more than half, starting with the five million low-income migrant workers in the United Arab […]
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