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Discord launches Orbs, a virtual reward system that incentivizes users to interact with ads by completing Quests to earn digital items, after a seven week beta (Lauren Forristal/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/14/discords-virtual-reward-orbs-la…

Discord’s virtual reward, ‘Orbs,’ launches out of beta | TechCrunch
According to Discord, Orbs have been popular among testers, with millions earned and spent during the seven-week beta period.

»Perplexity – KI-Startup bietet 34,5 Milliarden für Chrome:
Perplexity will Googles Browser übernehmen - trotz begrenzter Finanzmittel.«
Ein weiteres Argument um den Chrome Browser und seine Abkömmlinge NICHT zu nutzen, auch wenn Firefox nicht 101% optimal ist.
P.S. zB @…, ein Firefox Abkömmling, ist sehr Privatsphäre freundlich.
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Perplexity: KI-Startup bietet 34,5 Milliarden für Chrome - Golem.de
Perplexity will Googles Browser übernehmen – trotz begrenzter Finanzmittel.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Roadhouse
The Crooked Rugs:
🎵 Melancholy Mind
#TheCrookedRugs
https://thecrookedrugs.bandcamp.com/track/melancholy-mind
https://open.spotify.com/track/5OWxZ5rTJCBEAl9yOE8t97

mist: MIST protein interaction database (2020)
The Molecular Interaction Search Tool (MIST) is a comprehensive resource of molecular interactions, assembled from severla primary sources. MIST currently supports several species, including:.
This network has 50 nodes and 41 edges.
Tags: Biological, Protein interactions, Unweighted

Went out to see Stewart Lee doing his "Man Wulf" show at the Royal Festival hall.
Huge place. Ginormous! Easily the biggest place I've ever seen him perform.
He mocks the 60 million dollar netflix special offensive comedians doing their skits about how they're not allowed to say stuff, while actually saying the stuff they say you're not allowed to say and suffering nothing but millions of dollars for it.
There are things you're *actually* not allowed to say this month of course. But they will not say the things that can get you 14 years in jail: like pointing out the government's collaboration in a genocide and supporting those who oppose it.
The man wulf just mocks the weak instead.
And Stew does too, while by mocking the wolf inside him showing he could be them. Sort of. Only he can't, because even though it's enjoyable and funny and easy to deconstruct, it's still fundamentally inane.
Stew's voice and accents and singing and impersonations have improved considerably!
Great costume. See the show if you can.
#stewartLee #comedy #london

Discord launches Orbs, a virtual reward system that incentivizes users to interact with ads by completing Quests to earn digital items, after a seven week beta (Lauren Forristal/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/14/discords-virtual-reward-orbs-la…

Discord’s virtual reward, ‘Orbs,’ launches out of beta | TechCrunch
According to Discord, Orbs have been popular among testers, with millions earned and spent during the seven-week beta period.

An Indicator analysis of 85 AI "nudify" websites: the sites averaged 18.5M monthly visitors, may generate up to $36M annually, and rely on Big Tech services (Matt Burgess/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/ai-nudify-websites-are-raking-in-millions-…

AI 'Nudify' Websites Are Raking in Millions of Dollars
Millions of people are accessing harmful AI “nudify” websites. New analysis says the sites are making millions and rely on tech from US companies.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Bobby Hutcherson:
🎵 La Malanga (Kenny Dope remix)
#BobbyHutcherson
https://open.spotify.com/track/7M0Flredmst0g1NRD0iLdO

Source: cloud startup Vercel has been approached by investors offering to invest hundreds of millions at an $8B-$9B valuation; it was valued at $3B last year (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/cloud-startup-vercel-fields-o…

Cloud Startup Vercel Fields Offers for $9 Billion Valuation
Vercel, a nine-year-old cloud startup that companies use to host and develop websites and artificial intelligence apps, has been approached by investors offering to invest hundreds of millions of dollars at a valuation between $8 billion to $9 billion, according to a person with direct knowledge ...

Klarna, which is planning a potential NY IPO as soon as September, is focusing on its banking push to boost revenue while shedding its image as a BNPL phenom (Aisha S Gani/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-11/klarna-r…

Klarna Revives Its IPO, But This Time as a Bank
As the payments giant prepares an IPO, it’s trying to persuade millions of consumers to use its debit cards.