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Genesis, a digital assets financial services firm, may be in hot water as it looks to raise fresh capital for its lending unit or potentially face bankruptcy if it can’t, according to a report by Bloomberg. Genesis was facing a liquidity crisis after FTX collapsed, which “created unprecedented market turmoil, resulting in abnormal withdrawal requests […]

Crypto firm Genesis says it has “no plans to file bankruptcy imminently” by Jacquelyn Melinek originally published on TechCrunch

It’s never a bad time to back up your data. But for Twitter users, it’s arguably more urgent than usual, what with the platform’s recent… unpredictability. Mass firings and resignations, whiplash policy changes and crippled infrastructure don’t instill a ton of confidence that Twitter will remain stable well into the distant future. That’s why it’s […]

Quit Twitter better with these free tools that make archiving a breeze by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch

A German law requiring social media platforms to promptly respond to reports of hate speech — and in some cases remove illegal speech within 24 hours of it being brought to their attention — looks like it will provide an early test for whether Elon Musk-owned Twitter will face meaningful legal consequences over how recklessly […]

Musk’s impact on content moderation at Twitter faces early test in Germany by Natasha Lomas originally published on TechCrunch

COPs are traditionally about setting targets, and COP27 finally gives countries a tool to achieve them.

Private investors appear key to COP27’s ‘loss and damage’ fund for vulnerable countries by Tim De Chant originally published on TechCrunch

New data from Carta indicates that Series C is the current, and real, bottleneck in Venture Land, which means that this is the new crunch point for startups looking to raise their next tranche of cash.

Series C is the new venture-startup bottleneck by Alex Wilhelm originally published on TechCrunch

When Ananye Agarwal took his dog out for a walk up and down the steps in the local park near Carnegie Mellon University, other dogs stopped in their tracks.  That’s because Agarwal’s dog was a robot—and a special one at that. Unlike other robots, which tend to rely heavily on an internal map to get…

At the heart of all advertising lies the ultimate goal: Cut through the noise and capture a potential consumer’s interest.

Track and capture: Getting started with attention metrics by Ram Iyer originally published on TechCrunch