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@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-12-17 13:35:40

Sources: Binance has been exploring ways to reboot its Binance.US affiliate, including a recapitalization to cut CZ's stake, which is a hurdle to expansion (Bloomberg)
bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

@UP8@mastodon.social
2025-11-18 22:18:40

🤑 $54m to walk: getting fired as a college football coach is a booming industry
theguardian.com/sport/2025/oct

$54m to walk: getting fired as a college football coach is a booming industry
Brian Kelly’s departure from LSU is just the latest in a series of big money firings. It’s also a jarring state of affairs for many struggling fans

@boris@cosocial.ca
2025-10-16 21:54:47

Wardley: Not a Fan of ChatGPT blog.bmannconsulting.com/3m3dm

Wardley: Not a Fan of ChatGPT - 3lxsr74rnk22h
Large language models are coherence engines not truth engines, we don't teach the critical thinking needed to properly evaluate the outputs.

@fgraver@hcommons.social
2025-11-18 15:39:46

Great comment by @…:
«[…] private institutions are fundamentally extractive. Decisions are made on the basis of profit or some similar self-serving motivation. They provide as little as possible for the revenue they receive. Public institutions, by contrast, are fundamentally constructive. They exist to promote the social good or (if we believe Mark Carney) s…

OLDaily (@oldaily@mastodon.social)
Profit, Education, and Student Grants | HESA #oldaily https://www.downes.ca/post/78493 Alex Usher argues against banning Canada Student Financial Assistance Program (CSFAP) grants to students attending for-profit institutions. Here's the argument, in a (tiny) nutshell: "it implies that ownership is the cause of bad results. And, frankly, I am not sure this is true." And poof! The entire left of the political spectrum has disappeared in a single sentence.

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-10-18 15:56:16

Two Wikipedia contributors disarmed a gunman who threatened to kill himself at WikiConference to protest a policy banning editors who identify as pedophiles (Andy Newman/New York Times)

Wikipedia Volunteers Avert Tragedy by Taking Down Gunman at Conference
After the man walked onto the stage at the “Wiki World’s Fair” event and threatened to kill himself, witnesses said, two members of the audience jumped in to stop him.

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-10-17 12:10:46

Sources: French regulator ACPR is carrying out anti-money laundering checks on Binance and others, as it seeks to determine eligibility for EU MiCA licenses (Claudia Cohen/Bloomberg)
bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-10-18 17:26:21

WhatsApp updates its Business API terms to ban general-purpose chatbots starting January 15, 2026, affecting WhatsApp assistants of OpenAI, Perplexity, others (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
techcrunch.com/2025/10/18/what

WhatssApp changes its terms to bar general purpose chatbots from its platform | TechCrunch
WhatsApp is banning general purpose chatbots from using its Business API

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-11-19 20:11:09

Sources: Coinbase is preparing to launch a prediction market powered by Kalshi to allow its clients to bet on events such as elections and sports (Yueqi Yang/The Information)
theinformation.com/articles/co

Coinbase to Launch Prediction Market Powered by Kalshi
Coinbase is preparing to launch a prediction market to allow its crypto clients to bet on events such as elections and sports, according to two people familiar with the matter. The market will be powered by prediction market company Kalshi and will put Coinbase in a booming but increasingly ...

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-10-18 06:35:50

Inside Hyperliquid, a booming DEX for perpetual crypto futures still controlled by a small insider group, raising questions about how decentralized it really is (Muyao Shen/Bloomberg)
bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-11-17 11:05:40

Investigation: $28B in crypto tied to illicit activity flowed into crypto exchanges like Binance over the last two years, as President Trump embraces crypto (New York Times)
nytimes.com/2025/11/17/technol

The Crypto Industry’s $28 Billion in ‘Dirty Money’
As President Trump has championed crypto and the industry has gone mainstream, funds from scammers and other criminal groups have flowed onto major crypto exchanges.