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Decentralized Social Media Beckons as Flipboard Embraces ActivityPub
Flipboard, the popular social curation app, has fully embraced the decentralized social web by integrating the networking protocol ActivityPub. In a major move, select Flipboard publi...
Dec 18, 2023Deloitte Leverages AI to Optimize Workforce Amid Growth
Consulting giant Deloitte has been on a major hiring spree, adding 130,000 new employees in 2022 alone. However, the company has also had to notify thousands of potential layoffs rece...
Dec 18, 2023Adobe and Figma's $20 Billion Merger Crumbles Under Regulatory Pressure
Adobe has walked away from its proposed $20 billion purchase of design startup Figma, citing insurmountable regulatory hurdles. The deal faced intense scrutiny from EU and UK antitrus...
Dec 18, 2023Sustainable Startup Turns Nordic Forest Into Skincare of the Future
A new €1 million investment means clean beauty is about to get even more eco-friendly. Stockholm-based FineCell, producer of a revolutionary Nordic forest-based biomaterial called Cel...
Dec 16, 2023Threads Sets Ambitious Roadmap for Fediverse Integration
On Friday, Instagram head Adam Mosseri announced an ambitious vision for integrating Threads, Meta’s Twitter competitor, into the fediverse over the next year. This comes just two day...
Dec 16, 2023Debian May End 32-bit x86 Support
The future of 32-bit x86 (i386) support in Debian GNU/Linux is looking dim. Following a recent Debian developer sprint, it was announced that the Debian kernel, installer, and image t...
Dec 16, 2023Procurement Startup Pivot Raises €20M to Streamline Company Spending
Paris-based startup Pivot has secured €20 million in Series A funding to continue growing its procurement automation platform across Europe. As companies aim to tighten budgets and re...
Dec 13, 2023Andalusia Labs Cashes in Big to Lock Down Digital Assets
Crypto startup Andalusia Labs just scored a monster $48 million Series A funding round to beef up security and risk management for digital assets. With backers like Lightspeed and Mub...
Dec 13, 2023Twitch Gives the Green Light to Artistic Sexual Content
Twitch just made some big changes to its rules around sexual content, now allowing more risqué streams as long as they properly label them. Cartoon boobs? Yes please! Actual human fem...
Dec 13, 2023Move Over Twitter, Threads is Going Fediverse
In a surprise announcement, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg shared that Threads, the company’s Twitter-competitor app, will soon become interoperable with the fediverse via decentralized pro...
Dec 13, 2023