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Proof, which provides legal document serving, e-filing, and other online litigation services, raised a $30.4M Series B led by Long Ridge Equity Partners (PYMNTS.com)
https://www.pymnts.com/news/investment-tra

Proof Raises $30.4M to Grow Litigation Services Platform
Proof Technology has secured $30.4 million in Series B funding to scale its platform for legal document serving, eFiling and other litigation services

As developers we pay Apple 30% to have a great App Store platform that they keep free of garbage...
...after being told what the garbage is by journalists.
https://www.404media.co/apple-removes-nonconsensual-ai-nude-apps-fo…

Apple Removes Nonconsensual AI Nude Apps Following 404 Media Investigation
Apple and Google appear more willing to take action against these apps than they were in the past.

💧 ProtoDUNE's argon filling underway, a significant step toward next era of neutrino research
https://phys.org/news/2024-04-protodune-argon-underway-significant-era.html

ProtoDUNE's argon filling underway, a significant step toward next era of neutrino research
CERN's Neutrino Platform houses a prototype of the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) known as ProtoDUNE, which is designed to test and validate the technologies that will be applied to the construction of the DUNE experiment in the United States.

A specific achievement: check off all the following train stops in a single journey:
• #Poznań Dębiec
• Poznań Dębina
• Łódź Dąbrowa
(all the district names refer to the oak tree)
And I don't mind just passing through them, but actually getting off at Dębiec and taking the change at Dębina. It's roughly a 1 km walk over a non-colliding route, which is usually safer than running between platforms on the main station.
#rail

Very excited to see this collaboration between 2 of the most interesting research & scholarly communication infrastructure initiatives out there. This stellar cast of scholars & infrastructure builders will undoubtedly be pushing the limits in fascinating ways. This is a project worth following. Bravo!
From: @…

COPIM (@copim@hcommons.social)
The second pilot project is: Database as Book and Lively Community Archive: https://copim.pubpub.org/pub/database-book-launch which will build a “database as book” to support an emergent collective of critical STS scholars in Kenya in collaboration with the Research Data Share Collective, African Minds, and Platform for Experimental Collaborative Ethnography (PECE).

An analysis of ~65 NYT articles on US anti-trans legislation from the year to February 15, 2024: 66% did not quote a trans person, and 18% had misinformation (Media Matters for America)
https://www.mediamatters.org/new-york-time

Seen but not heard: The New York Times failed to quote trans people in over 60% of 2023 stories on anti-trans legislation
A new report from Media Matters and GLAAD finds that The New York Times excluded the perspectives of trans people from two-thirds of its stories about anti-trans legislation in the year following public criticism for its handling of the topic. Media Matters previously reported that the Times helped fuel a right-wing anti-trans panic in 2022 by platforming anti-trans extremists, painting rising transgender identification as a social contagion, and fearmongering about the costs of transgender acc…

Els Ampe, the founder of the party Voor U in Flemish Brabant invites you to our march on February 25 in Brussels. She hopes to see you there Source : https://www.promoteukraine.org/els-ampe-th

Filmmakers, critics, and users detail why Prime Video failed in Africa; Amazon laid off staff and scaled back operations on the continent in January 2024 (Jesusegun Alagbe/Rest of World)
https://restofworld.org/2024/amazon-prime-video-africa-layoffs/

How Prime Video failed so spectacularly in Africa
Filmmakers, critics, and users blame the platform’s struggle in Africa on poor user experience, a lack of local content, and mediocre publicity.

Filmmakers, critics, and users detail why Prime Video failed in Africa; Amazon laid off staff and scaled back operations on the continent in January 2024 (Jesusegun Alagbe/Rest of World)
https://restofworld.org/2024/amazon-prime-video-africa-layoffs/

How Prime Video failed so spectacularly in Africa
Filmmakers, critics, and users blame the platform’s struggle in Africa on poor user experience, a lack of local content, and mediocre publicity.

AI coding assistant startup Augment emerges from stealth with a $227M Series B at a $977M post-money valuation, following a $25M Series A led by Sutter Hill (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/24/eric

Exclusive: Eric Schmidt-backed Augment, a GitHub Copilot rival, launches out of stealth with $252M
Augment, a startup developing an AI-powered platform similar to GitHub's Copilot, has launched out of stealth valued at nearly $1 billion.