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@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-04-23 12:06:10

Sam Bankman-Fried withdraws his request for a new trial, saying he doubts he would receive a fair hearing; his broader appeal remains pending (Olivier Acuna/CoinDesk)
coindesk.com/policy/2026/04/23

SBF withdraws motion for retrial but leaves option open for after appeal ruling
The convicted former founder of the collapsed FTX crypto exchange withdrew, for now, his motion for retrial, saying he believes he would not face a fair trial.

@privacity@social.linux.pizza
2026-04-23 14:45:28

Contextualizing the Proposed SECURE Data Act in the State Privacy Landscape
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Contextualizing the Proposed SECURE Data Act in the State Privacy Landscape
The House Committee on Energy and Commerce’s Republican data privacy working group released their long-awaited comprehensive consumer privacy bill on April 22, titled the “Securing and Establishing Consumer Uniform Rights and Enforcement Act” (SECURE Data Act) (H.R. 8413). Compared to prior federal efforts, the SECURE Data Act closely resembles many of the existing state comprehensive privacy laws—particularly those based on the Washington Privacy Act (WPA) framework—in terms of its s…

@servelan@newsie.social
2026-05-21 22:32:30

A pittance compared to the actual need.
Trump Admin Commits $7.5 Million to Bring More Protein to Food Banks | Civil Eats
civileats.com/2026/05/21/trump

@stargazersmith@social.linux.pizza
2026-07-23 02:39:58

After nearly 30 years, NASA realized this near-Earth asteroid is actually a comet | Space space.com/astronomy/comets/aft

After nearly 30 years, NASA realized this near-Earth asteroid is actually a comet. The discovery may help us defend the planet some day
A seemingly ordinary asteroid has revealed its icy true identity — and new clues for spotting hidden hazards near Earth.

@ErikJonker@mastodon.social
2026-07-22 07:40:53

Before everybody get's too excited about available Chinese open weights models, the infrastructure costs for running these models are immense, it's hard to find specific and reliable data but think about half a million dollars of infrastructure costs for 5-15 users according to this linkedin post.

Kimi K3 just dropped. 2.8 trillion parameters, 1M-token context window, open weights. Capabilities comparable to Fable 5. 🔥 And every enterprise buyer is doing the same math right now. Here is… | Miklos Toth
Kimi K3 just dropped. 2.8 trillion parameters, 1M-token context window, open weights. Capabilities comparable to Fable 5. 🔥 And every enterprise buyer is doing the same math right now. Here is what running it yourself actually costs: - 16x NVIDIA H200 GPUs: ~$500,000. That's GPUs only. No chassis, no networking, no power infrastructure. - Model weights on disk: 1 to 1.7TB depending on quantization. - What's left for actual context: somewhere between 550 and 1,250GB of KV cache. Translat…

@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de
2026-05-22 17:00:04

sp_infectious: Art exhibit dynamic contacts (2011)
This dataset contains the daily dynamic contact networks collected during the Infectious SocioPatterns event that took place at the Science Gallery in Dublin, Ireland, during the artscience exhibition INFECTIOUS: STAY AWAY. Each file in the downloadable package contains a tab-separated list representing the active contacts during 20-second intervals of one day of data collection. Each line has the form “t i j“, where i and j are the a…

sp_infectious: Art exhibit dynamic contacts (2011). 10972 nodes, 415912 edges. https://networks.skewed.de/net/sp_infectious
@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-06-23 14:36:14

The Ethereum Foundation cuts ~20% of its workforce, or 54 staff, as part of a broad restructuring amid leadership turnover and growing Ethereum fragmentation (Margaux Nijkerk/CoinDesk)
coindesk.com/tech/2026/06/23/e

Ethereum (ETH) news: Foundation cuts 20% of staff amid leadership exodus
The reduction follows a period of significant upheaval at the organization’s leadership level.

@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk
2026-06-22 21:20:27

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
Deltron 3030:
🎵 Positive Contact
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@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-06-23 17:16:10

Anthropic launches Claude Tag, an agentic AI coworker for Slack that can learn context, give suggestions, and more, in beta for Claude Team and Enterprise tiers (David Gewirtz/ZDNET)
zdnet.com/article/anthropic-cl

Anthropic rolls out Claude Tag, your new agentic AI coworker in Slack
Claude Tag could turn your Slack channels into shared spaces where an agentic coworker reads the room, joins threads, remembers context, and moves team tasks forward. Is your workplace ready?

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-07-21 15:01:22

Augustus, which is building a federally chartered "AI-native" clearing bank designed around stablecoins, raised $180M led by Tiger Global at a $1B valuation (Krisztian Sandor/CoinDesk)
coindesk.com/business/2026/07/

Stablecoin bank Augustus raises $180 million to build a clearing bank for the AI era
The firm, freshly valued at $1 billion, aims to replace legacy correspondent banking with always-on infrastructure that connects traditional payment systems and stablecoins.