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Paul Sawers / TechCrunch: Jack Dorsey's Bitcoin Legal Defense Fund is backing 11 Bitcoin developers in a lawsuit that Craig Wright filed to regain access to ~$5B of BTC he claims to own  —  It's not just the Bitcoin community who should be concerned  —  A crypto wallet theft lawsuit brought about by a man who claims … http://www.techmeme.com/230429/p7?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger#a230429p7

Mike Masnick / Techdirt: Six months after Elon Musk's takeover of Twitter, an overview of its alternatives, including Mastodon, Bluesky, and Nostr, and how they might evolve and improve  —  Today is six months since Elon took over Twitter and began this bizarre speedrun of the content moderation learning curve … http://www.techmeme.com/230429/p6?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger#a230429p6

Forbes: Filing and sources: drone delivery startup Zipline is raising a $330M Series F at a ~$4.2B valuation, up from its $2.7B valuation for its Series E in June 2021  —  The funding, revealed in a filing, shows that the logistics company priced a $330 million Series F funding round in April. http://www.techmeme.com/230428/p15?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger#a230428p15

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Pinterest announces a multi-year strategic ad partnership with Amazon, its first ads partner, to bring more brands and relevant products to the social network  —  Pinterest today announced a multiyear strategic ad partnership with Amazon aimed at bringing more brands and relevant products to its platform. http://www.techmeme.com/230427/p35?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger#a230427p35

Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: Meta says time spent on Instagram grew 24%+ since Reels launched thanks to AI recommendations, and expects Reels to be revenue-neutral by year end or early 2024  —  Meta shared some updated engagement info around its platforms on its Q1 2023 quarterly earnings call on Wednesday … http://www.techmeme.com/230426/p29?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger#a230426p29

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: News sharing app Artifact adds an AI tool to generate article summaries, while noting users should still read the full articles due to occasional errors  —  Artifact, the personalized news aggregator from Instagram's founders is further embracing AI with the launch of a new feature that will now summarize news articles for you. http://www.techmeme.com/230425/p41?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger#a230425p41

Kris Holt / Engadget: BeReal claims 20M+ DAUs and is testing letting users post three snapshots per day; Apptopia: BeReal had less than 6M DAUs in March 2023 and ~15M in October 2022  —  BeReal, Apple's iPhone app of the year for 2022, wants you to know that it's still going strong. http://www.techmeme.com/230424/p18?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger#a230424p18