Crypto exchange Gemini has failed to raise money, so the twin sea gods who founded the exchange have dipped into their store of shipwreck treasure to loan the company $100 million.
[Bloomberg.com]
So, remember Twitter Circles? The idea was that you could make a post to a small group of trusted accounts. Except, whoopsie, now those posts are surfacing on the “For you” page on Twitter.
Tyler Mancuso, an adtech company employee, rerouted a payment from Google to his own bank account. He was, of course, quickly caught — but not before he bought $9 million in gold bars.
You may remember that Matt Taibbi wrote a slow thread on Twitter last year that doxxed multiple people. Anyway, Taibbi has been beefing with people about his flop thread, and now Mike Masnick explains how Mehdi Hasan’s interview with Taibbi came for the kill:
Since the interview, Taibbi has been scrambling to claim that the errors Hasan called out are small side issues, but they’re not. They’re literally the core pieces on which he’s built the nonsense framing that Stanford, the University of Washington, some non-profits, the government, and social media have formed an “industrial censorship complex” to stifle the speech of Americans.
The actor Edward Herrmann, who died in 2014, is still the narrator for newly-published audiobooks. His family has used DeepZen Ltd, to reanimate his voice, and presumably make more profits from his synthetic narration.
DeepZen says it has signed deals with 35 publishers in the US, but I didn’t have much trouble distinguishing the AI from the live read in the audio quiz.
David Pecker, the longtime publisher of The National Enquirer, is expected to be a key witness in the case against Donald J. Trump. In 2018, he was granted immunity from prosecution for admitting he’d influenced the 2016 election. Here, the Financial Times reviews the longstanding relationship between The National Enquirer and Trump.
And yes, he is also the “Mr. Pecker” of Jeff Bezos’ absolute banger of a 2019 open letter.
Andy Baio discovered it’s there while trying to fix his printer. If you have a Mac, you can see for yourself. Open Terminal, then type (in a single line):
open /System/Library/Image Capture/
Devices/VirtualScanner.app/
Contents/Resources/simpledoc.pdf
A few other people spotted this before Baio, but there’s no real explanation, he writes. If you’re the person responsible, please email me, you little scamp! I’d love to know how you managed to keep this secret so long.
