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River Markets, which gives professional traders a single place to trade across multiple prediction markets, raised an $8.5M seed led by Haun Ventures (Camila Grigera Naón/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2026/08/11/exclusive-river-m…

Exclusive: River Markets announces $8.5 million seed round to build prediction market trading tools for institutions
The round was led by Haun Ventures alongside Y Combinator, Coinbase Ventures and others.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@publictorsten/117081965131151970
“[Perplexity] warned that publishers who deploy ‘deceptive advertising like markdown ads‘ risk a reputational downgrade in Perplexity’s proprietary search index, including a hit to their t…

I rediscovered an old archive of my wiki, which used OddMuse, a wiki engine written in Perl and developed by @… (the good old time)
So I decided to write a Python converter to bring it back to life. I’ll probably discover that 80% of the content is useless, but the remaining 20% might still be worth preserving.
The converter is crappy but it works…

Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Time Magazine zeigt KI-Bots separate Markdown-Seiten mit eingebetteten Anzeigen

Time Magazine zeigt KI-Bots separate Markdown-Seiten mit eingebetteten Anzeigen
Das Time Magazine betreibt eine zweite Version seiner Website nur für KI-Crawler – inklusive Werbung, die nur sie sehen. Die sollen in Chatbot-Antworten landen.

NYT CEO Kopit Levien confirms The Athletic is no longer pursuing a major partnership with Kalshi, saying "we take the trust of our readers incredibly seriously" (Brett LoGiurato/Status)
https://www.status.news/p/the-prediction-market-predicament

The Prediction Market Predicament
Prediction markets are making inroads with major news organizations, but at the Status Summit, two of the industry’s most influential leaders raised questions about whether embracing them could undermine reader trust.

«Zehntausende US-Dollar Schaden durch aufgeblähte Sicherheitswarnungen:
Meldungen zu Sicherheitslücken sind für Open-Source-Projekte wichtig – viele davon seien inzwischen aber aufgeblähtes Marketing, meint Peter Gutmann.»
Genau so läuft das KI-Marketing. Fühle dich sicher wenn du AI nutzt, weil du unbegründete Angst davor hast. So wird Open-Source schlecht geredet, damit teure Closed-Source Produkte anscheinend sicher sein sollten.
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Interview: Zehntausende US-Dollar Schaden durch aufgeblähte Sicherheitswarnungen
Meldungen zu Sicherheitslücken sind für Open-Source-Projekte wichtig – viele davon seien inzwischen aber aufgeblähtes Marketing, meint Peter Gutmann.

The UN just passed a resolution "promoting world maps that more accurately show the size of various continents".
"Only the United States voted to oppose the resolution after describing it as a “radical ideological project,”"
Maybe because on the new map, Greenland no longer looks the size of Africa? And people would notice and start laughing?

The CFTC uses its "emergency authority" to order Kalshi to continue operating in New York after the state filed a lawsuit in July seeking to shutter Kalshi (Nikhilesh De/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2026/08/11

CFTC orders Kalshi to continue offering prediction markets in New York after state lawsuit
New York sued Kalshi last month in a bid to block it from operating sports-related prediction markets.

A look at ADI Predictstreet's troubled launch, marked by tiny trading volumes, withdrawal bugs, and other issues, as it tried to challenge Kalshi and Polymarket (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/sports/soccer/fifas-pred…

Kalshi referred 32 possible insider traders to the CFTC in the three months through June; sources: CFTC has up to 20 ongoing probes using just Kalshi's evidence (Sharon LaFraniere/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/12/us/politics/predic…

Prediction Firms Are Flagging Insider Traders. Many Will Not Face Charges.
The agency that polices the industry does not have the staffing, the legal tools or the will to broadly crack down on wagers that are easily manipulated, experts say.