Elizabeth Lopatto

Gotta be honest, that sounds like a name Dril would make up.

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.

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:

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.

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.