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Priya Anand / Bloomberg: Reddit defends its usage-based API pricing as covering costs, 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. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Stephen Warwick / iMore: Apple appears to have accidentally made the iOS 17 developer beta available to all users, including those without any developer or paid accounts  —  What is going on here?  —  Apple has massively screwed up distributing the iOS 17 developer beta, accidentally making it available to everyone following WWDC 2023, iMore can confirm. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jamie Crawley / CoinDesk: Bermuda-based Meanwhile, which aims to offer life insurance to US citizens with large BTC holdings, raised $19M across two seeds led by Sam Altman and others  —  Meanwhile’s target audience is U.S. citizens with large BTC holdings, an audience from which it has “seen a lot of early demand.” Lees verder op Tech Meme

Associated Press: FIFA report: 50%+ of soccer players in two 2021 tournaments received abuse on social media, 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. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sarah McBride / Bloomberg: Enterprise software startup Instabase raised a $45M Series C led by Tribe Capital at a $2B valuation, up from $1.05B for its $105M Series B in October 2019  —  Business services startup Instabase Inc. has raised a new round of funding that doubles its valuation to $2 billion … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Justin Ling / Wired: Internal 4chan emails, chat logs, and chaotic moderation decisions reveal how the site’s 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. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Zhiyuan Sun / Cointelegraph: A task force of ten state regulators, including California and Washington’s, issues a Show Cause Order against Coinbase for allegedly violating securities law  —  The SEC is suing the cryptocurrency exchange for alleged unregistered securities offerings.  —  1342 Total views  —  19 Total shares Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jamie Crawley / CoinDesk: Bermuda-based Meanwhile, which aims to provide life insurance to US citizens with BTC holdings, raised $19M across two seed rounds led by Sam Altman and others  —  Meanwhile’s target audience is U.S. citizens with large BTC holdings, an audience from which it has “seen a lot of early demand.” Lees verder op Tech Meme

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. Lees verder op Tech Meme

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