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New York-based crypto analytics startup Allium raised a $40M Series B led by Amplify Partners, with participation from Kleiner Perkins and others (Ben Weiss/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2026/06/23/allium-series-b-amplify-partners-crypto-analytics-st…

Exclusive: Crypto analytics startup Allium raises $40 million to tame blockchain data for Wall Street
Amplify Partners led the Series B fundraise, which included participation from Kleiner Perkins and Theory Ventures.

Will you cancel your Paramount subscription?
https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/paramount-accuses-mark-ruffalo-antisemitism-criticism-studios-links-israel/

Paramount accuses Mark Ruffalo of antisemitism after criticism
Paramount has accused Mark Ruffalo of being "antisemitic" after he criticised the studio over its links to a technology firm supplying Israel. Read more here.

Good morning! I replaced the morning walk with a morning ride. 😊 I tried to push a bit harder today for training. Next time should be lighter again. But it felt really good!
#cycling #goodmorning

fortune: cpu time/usefulness ratio too high -- core dumped.

"Why does Verse exist? Verse exists because Epic wants your game to need Epic, even beyond the point where it goes gold and presses to disc for a consumer to purchase. Verse exists so that they can run your game on their server and extract rent from you even when your game is in maintenance mode. Verse exists to make it easier to integrate your game into Fortnite, so that instead of selling your game through Steam or PSN or the Microsoft Store they can turn Fortnite even further from a game …

Unreal Engine 6, Blueprint, and Verse, or: Capitalism’s Unmatched Innovative Potential for New and…
Last week, Epic Games announced version 6 of their flagship Unreal Engine, one of the most popular and widely-used engines for video game…

Walking out of one of Hong Kong’s last remaining independent bookstores,
hands behind her back but head held high,
the woman’s T-shirt was emblazoned with a simple slogan:
💥“I am a bookstore employee”.💥
Escorted by police,
the woman was among five people arrested during raids on two bookstores last week,
suspected of displaying and selling publications with “seditious” content,
a national security crime which carries a maximum sentence of 10 years.…

‘A statement of freedom’: T-shirt slogan goes viral and book sales rocket in Taiwan after Hong Kong raids
Taiwanese people look on with concern at fate of Hong Kong’s independent booksellers, after series of arrests in recent months

Amazon raises prices for its Echo smart speakers, Fire TV line, Kindle devices, and eero mesh networking systems to offset increases in memory and storage costs (Sebastian Herrera/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2026/08/21/exclusi

Exclusive: Amazon quietly hiked prices on Echo, Fire TV, Kindle, and eero overnight to offset ‘significant increases’ in memory costs
The e-commerce company's hardware price hikes follow similar moves by Apple, Dell, and Microsoft Xbox.

Intel and Fortinet partner to co-develop the Fortinet Security Processor 6, making Fortinet the first named external customer for the Intel 4 process node (Luke James/Tom's Hardware)
https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry

Intel to co-develop and manufacture Fortinet's next-gen firewall ASIC on Intel 4 — node gets its first named external customer
The agreement makes Fortinet the first cybersecurity vendor on Intel's manufacturing customer list.

Databricks co-founder Ion Stoica's GPU orchestration startup SkyPilot, which aims to be neutral across hardware and cloud vendors, raised a $20M seed led by Lux (Lily Mae Lazarus/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2026/07/21/skypilo

SkyPilot, from Databricks’ cofounder, raises $20M to be the Switzerland of AI compute
Backed by Lux Capital, SkyPilot helps customers use GPUs wherever they're available.

Super Micro says its independent probe found no evidence its CEO or senior management knew of an alleged scheme to smuggle $2.5B worth of Nvidia chips to China (Amanda Gerut/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2026/08/20/supermicro-investigation-ceo-nvidia-smuggling/…

Supermicro investigation clears CEO in alleged $2.5 billion smuggling scheme while a criminal trial involving a cofounder is set for next year
The AI-hardware maker’s board found no evidence CEO Charles Liang knew anything about alleged chip smuggling but a pending trial could bring more legal exposure to the beleaguered company.