Meet the cybercriminals of 2022

December 30, 2022

Arrested, seized, doxed and detained. These are just some of the ways police and prosecutors around the world took down the biggest cyber-crime operations of the year, even if it meant resorting to new and unconventional eyebrow-raising methods. From stashing billions of bitcoin under the floorboards to teenage hackers gatecrashing Fortune 500 networks, this year […]

Meet the cybercriminals of 2022 by Zack Whittaker originally published on TechCrunch

2022’s best and worst dinner guests: Elon Musk and SBF

December 30, 2022

What. A. Year. Hello and welcome back to Equity, a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. In honor of 2022 finally coming to a close, the Equity crew is getting reflective. We dug through the archives, and this week, we’re listening back to Alex, Natasha and […]

2022’s best and worst dinner guests: Elon Musk and SBF by Theresa Loconsolo originally published on TechCrunch

Inside Matrix, the protocol that might finally make messaging apps interoperable

December 30, 2022

Interoperability and decentralization have been major themes in tech this year, driven in large part by mounting regulation, societal and industrial pressure, and the hype trains that are crypto and web3. That rising tide is lifting other boats: an open standards-based communication protocol called Matrix — which is playing a part in bringing interoperability to […]

Inside Matrix, the protocol that might finally make messaging apps interoperable by Paul Sawers originally published on TechCrunch

What would true diversity sound like?

December 30, 2022
What do the people of the United States sound like? Census language data would give you one kind of answer. But numbers don’t capture all the factors in play—assimilation, the past and present of language, whose voices are prioritized. It’s this gap that multidisciplinary artist Ekene Ijeoma and his group Poetic Justice at the MIT…