Sources: Coinbase is pausing new projects, freezing hiring, cutting costs, and giving staff more stock grants after its stock fell 75%+ in the past six months buff.ly/39Ghqiz

The NFT slump is real, as the Block data reports: weekly NFT sales declined by just over 70% from a high of nearly 1M units in the third week of 2022 to 250K+ at the end of May #Blockchain #NFTs buff.ly/3QbF2fJ

GitHub launches Copilot AI, which suggests lines of code to developers, out of preview for $10/month or $100/year and says 1.2M+ tried the preview in 12 months buff.ly/3HK8rds

BlackRock partners with Coinbase to help institutional investors manage and trade crypto, starting with BTC, using BlackRock's Aladdin system; COIN jumps 25%+ buff.ly/3JsrFFh

Online crypto casinos like Stake are luring gamers into gambling, sometimes to the point of bankruptcy, with celebrity endorsements and sponsored Twitch streams buff.ly/3SxaOoU

WhatsApp starts to roll out privacy features to let users leave Groups silently, choose who can see when they are online, and block screenshots of View Once messages buff.ly/3zM8ulr

It seems that Apple is indeed moving through a slump, as Apple has laid off about 100 recruiter contractors in the past week, a rare move as part of a push to rein in hiring and spending. The cuts underscore that a slowdown is underway at the company. buff.ly/3QxR9na

A very interesting move by Google, as they announced the creation of a panel of online consumers last Tuesday, to feed their estimations of online conversions across its measurement products. buff.ly/3A2lCD6 #MarketingMixModelling #Google

Bitwarden an open-source password manager for individuals and enterprises, raised $100M led by PSG, its first substantial outside funding since 2015 buff.ly/3KSZxMk

Sources: seeking to increase profits, Coinbase hired Wall Street traders and explored using its own cash to trade crypto in 2021, including a $100M transaction buff.ly/3DLeONE

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Bo Nix will forgo the 2023 NFL draft and return to Oregon next season, the team announced 🦆 es.pn/3BN2daN

A research from Stanford University shows that programmers who used AI tools like GitHub #copilot to solve a set of coding challenges produced less secure code than those who did not. #coding #ai #research #artificialintelligence #github buff.ly/3hOQFNq

Apple News: plans to unveil its “Reality Pro” headset this spring, before WWDC; the new Mac Pro will look like the 2019 model but lose user-upgradeable RAM buff.ly/3vNxTtf

Journal editors, researchers, and publishers are debating the role of AI tools like ChatGPT in published literature and whether they should be cited as authors buff.ly/3kstf1u

Reddit is preparing for its initial public offering (IPO), which will be a significant milestone for Social Media. This IPO reflects the transformation of forums into global powerhouses and their impact on various aspects of modern digital discourse. reut.rs/3vHFNrr

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