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Associated Press:
FIFA report: 50%+ of soccer players in two 2021 tournaments received social media abuse, a third of which was racist; some players and clubs demand change — Missing penalties in a major international soccer final was bad enough for three Black players on England's national team.

Sarah McBride / Bloomberg:
Enterprise software startup Instabase raised $45M led by Tribe Capital at a $2B valuation, after raising $105M at a $1.05B valuation in October 2019 — Business services startup Instabase Inc. has raised a new round of funding that doubles its valuation to $2 billion, a deal buoyed …

Scharon Harding / Ars Technica:
Counterfeit tech scams run amok on Walmart and eBay because the platforms, despite their resources, have failed to properly vet sellers and products — If I can spot a fake SSD, why can't Walmart? — Online retailers that host third-party sellers, like Amazon and Walmart, have extensive, competitively priced electronics selections.

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Apple Vision Pro will take at least five years to supplant the iPhone, reflected by Tim Cook not wearing one; the spatial computing UI is what's most impressive — Hey everyone, it's Mark. Apple introduced the Vision Pro on Monday at WWDC, looking to an era beyond the iPhone, iPad and Mac.

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Curri, a last-mile logistics service for the construction industry, raised a $42M Series B, taking its funding to $48.2M, and launches an API to book vehicles — In 2018, Matt Lafferty and Brian Gonzalez co-founded Curri, a tech platform focused on last-mile logistics for the construction industry.

Ben Thompson / Stratechery:
Apple Vision Pro is incredibly compelling as a product and for its potential use cases; what the device says about society, though, is a bit more pessimistic — It really is one of the best product names in Apple history: Vision is a description of a product, it is an aspiration for a use case …


Austin Weinstein / Bloomberg:
The SEC sues Coinbase, alleging the exchange operated as an unregistered broker since at least 2019 and broke the rules by offering “staking”; COIN drops 15%+ — The Securities and Exchange Commission sued Coinbase Global Inc. in federal court in New York on Tuesday, alleging the crypto firm for years broke its rules.

Tom Wilson / Reuters:
Nansen: investors pulled ~$780M from Binance and $13M from its US affiliate in the past 24 hours, following the SEC's lawsuit — Investors have pulled around $780 million from crypto exchange Binance in the last 24 hours, data firm Nansen said on Tuesday, a day after the world's biggest crypto exchange …

Kathrin Hille / Financial Times:
At TSMC's annual meeting, geopolitics took center stage for the first time, as CEO Mark Liu defended the US expansion, saying the plans were “not all downside” — Shareholders question strategy but chair says new foundries outside Taiwan can help it maintain global leadership

Priya Anand / Bloomberg:
Reddit defends its usage-based API pricing, arguing the company “needs to be fairly paid to continue supporting high-usage third-party apps” — A number of Reddit forums plan to go dark for two days later this month to protest the company's decision to increase prices for third-party app developers.

Alex Konrad / Forbes:
Sequoia plans to split into three firms, Sequoia in the US and Europe, HongShan in China, and Peak XV in India and Southeast Asia, “no later than” March 2024 — Venture capital's biggest global brand is breaking up, with Sequoia's China and India and Southeast Asia funds relaunching …

Justin Ling / Wired:
Internal 4chan emails, chat logs, and moderation decisions reveal how the site's team of moderators, called “janitors”, allowed racism and violence to take over — Internal company documents reveal how the imageboard's chaotic moderation allowed racism and violence to take over.

Benj Edwards / Ars Technica:
Apple avoided mentioning AI at WWDC, instead referring to machine learning and transformers while describing features; M2 Ultra was touted for training models — Apple prefers using “machine learning,” or just having AI work in the background. — Amid notable new products …

Ian King / Bloomberg:
Filing: Intel plans to sell 35M+ shares in Mobileye, raising around $1.48B for its spending plans; after the sale, Intel will retain an ~88% stake in Mobileye — Intel Corp., the largest US chipmaker by revenue, will sell part of its holdings in Mobileye Global Inc., raising about $1.48 billion for its ambitious spending plans.

Ryan Smith / AnandTech:
Intel details PowerVia, a backside power delivery technology promising performance and manufacturing benefits, set to be introduced in its chips in 2024 — At next week's annual VLSI Symposium, Intel will be presenting a trio of highly-anticipated papers about their progress …


It's been a while since I asked about writing into AI chatbots -- ie writing something designed to be queried via something like ChatGPT, or ideally, ChatGPT itself. A few bullet points follow.
- I already have a writing tool that I use for everything.
- I figure by now a service probably exists that can ingest RSS or (ideally) OPML -- and have it be processed and kept updated as things change.
- I have a sizable documentation project coming up, and I'd like to, if possible, start off with the new medium. I think we can make docs that work much better.
- Of course I asked ChatGPT itself but it was no help. They said to use their API. I want to use something that uses their API. I can't spare the time to become a developer at this time.
- If you know of such a service, or would like to make one -- send me an email or (better) post a comment here.