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Flip, a TikTok rival that let shoppers post video reviews and earn cash based on engagement, has shut down; it had raised $300M and was valued at $1B in 2024 (Ann Gehan/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/tiktok-challenger-flip-shuts

TikTok Challenger Flip Shuts Down
Flip, a video-sharing social media app that at one point tried to challenge TikTok’s dominance, has shut down, according to a message to users and the company’s website. Flip didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment. The social commerce app raised over $300 million from investors since its founding in 2019, and was valued in April 2024 at more than $1 billion, according to PitchBook

It’s taking me way longer to set up for my seminar than last time. Like 6 hours longer lol - such is my tinnitus induced sleep deprivation - despite it being a similar simple bunch of machines.
If anyone happens to be in Karlsruhe and wants to come and laugh at me / wants to offer moral support - feel free to join! 😁 This time it’s called ‘Let Sound Be Sound: Technology, Perception, and the Question of Music’. Somehow it’s my third visit to the Akademie. 🤪

About 5.8 million federal student loan borrowers
– roughly 31%
– were 90 days or more past due on their payments as of April 2025,
according to analysis from TransUnion,
as delinquency and default rates soar in the wake of pandemic-era repayment relief ending.
⚠️US federal student loan debt is worth almost $1.7 Trillion
💥with 42.7 million people owing some form of federal loan debt.
👉And in May, the Trump administration resumed collecting on default…

Passage leading out of the Chapter House, Wells Cathedral, Somerset, April 2025
#photography #heritagephotography #documentingplaces

foursquare_friendships: Foursquare global friendships (2013)
A network of user friendships on Foursquare, from April 2012 to September 2013. The 'old' and 'new' dataset correspond to two snapshots taken before and after the check-in data collection period.
This network has 114324 nodes and 607333 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted

Practical Takeaways from FPF’s Privacy Enhancing Technologies Workshop
https://fpf.org/blog/practical-takeaways-from-fpfs-privacy-enhancing-technologies-workshop/
@…

CASE: An Agentic AI Framework for Enhancing Scam Intelligence in Digital Payments
Nitish Jaipuria, Lorenzo Gatto, Zijun Kan, Shankey Poddar, Bill Cheung, Diksha Bansal, Ramanan Balakrishnan, Aviral Suri, Jose Estevez
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.19932

CASE: An Agentic AI Framework for Enhancing Scam Intelligence in Digital Payments
The proliferation of digital payment platforms has transformed commerce, offering unmatched convenience and accessibility globally. However, this growth has also attracted malicious actors, leading to a corresponding increase in sophisticated social engineering scams. These scams are often initiated and orchestrated on multiple surfaces outside the payment platform, making user and transaction-based signals insufficient for a complete understanding of the scam's methodology and underlying patte…

Tiny flowers on an Eastern Redbud (aka 𝐶𝑒𝑟𝑐𝑖𝑠 𝑐𝑎𝑛𝑎𝑑𝑒𝑛𝑠𝑖𝑠) tree flowering in late April somewhere in downtown Ithaca
#photo #photography #flowers

An analysis of ~200 Shein items between April and July: prices spiked in April, settled at 12.5% above pre-tariff levels by late May, and jumped again in July (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/graphics/USA-TRUMP/TARIFF-SHEIN/lbpgzlrjzvq/

How price increases are adding up at Shein
Evidence for the impact of Trump’s trade war has shown up at the popular China-founded online retailer.

bitcoin: Bitcoin transactions (2009-2013)
A network of Bitcoin transactions spanning January 2009 to April 2013. Nodes are public-key "addresses" at some time within the given period, and each edge is marked with the time (at a resolution of seconds) of the transaction.
This network has 6336770 nodes and 16057711 edges.
Tags: Economic, Cryptocurrency, Unweighted, Timestamps