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The NYT overstated the influence of both Slate Star Codex and the Rationalist community on Silicon Valley, and falsely portrayed the tech industry as right-wing

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PayPal says it acquired Tel Aviv-based Curv, which facilitates secure storage of cryptocurrency, source says for nearly $200M

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Germany-based WorkMotion, an HR software startup that helps companies onboard and manage staff abroad, raises ~$24M Series A led by Activant Capital and XAnge

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Some teenagers say French social networking app Yubo, which has 18M downloads in the US, ignored reports that the Uvalde shooter threatened violence on the app

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A new study that used AI to analyze 2M+ contributions by ~365K developers on GitHub finds users with white-sounding names may have more success on the platform

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A look at TokenSniffer, a website tracking cryptocurrency scams that claims to have tracked 42,071 tokens and 2,250 scams or hacks as of June 16

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GetSafe, a “neo-insurer” aimed at millennials that says it has 250K users across Germany and UK, extends its Series B to $93M

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F5 Networks agrees to acquire Volterra, which offers a platform for edge computing across multiple clouds, for $440M in cash and $60M in future consideration

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Sources reveal that sidelining of Mustafa Suleyman, co-founder of DeepMind, from management responsibilities in 2019 was because he bullied staff

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DuckDuckGo surpassed 100M daily search queries for the first time on Jan. 11; since August 2020, the search engine began seeing over 2B search queries per month

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