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How a bot-fighting test turned into edtech’s most iconic brand, Duolingo

TechCrunch

One issue stood out: hackers were creating bots that register thousands of email addresses to send spam. In 2009, he sold reCAPTCHA to Google , a transaction conducted just a year after the internet giant had purchased a license to one of his other research projects , a game focused on image labeling. Image Credits: Duolingo.

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Daily Crunch: US law enforcement agencies take down identity theft marketplace

TechCrunch

Just look after our damn data, already : A massive trove of more than 120,000 passports, driver’s licenses and identity documents uploaded by users of bike-sharing service Mobike have been found online, Zack and Rita report. In addition, the company today announced that its cloud platform is now generally available, reports Frederic.

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Making sense of Klarna

TechCrunch

Siemiatkowski also shares what’s next for the company as it ventures further into the world of retail banking after gaining a bank license in 2017. However, it soon surfaced that there was a misunderstanding in relation to the equity promised and how it should be linked to a longer commitment to the project.

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Elon Musk’s Twitter (now X): Everything you need to know, from layoffs to verification

TechCrunch

The Tesla and SpaceX CEO first announced his bid to buy Twitter in April 2022, zealously driven to rid the platform of spam bots and protect free speech. Our data licensing and API with X is an incredible business. In other words, Twitter has a Verified user spam problem.

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Making sense of Klarna

TechCrunch

Siemiatkowski also shares what’s next for the company as it ventures further into the world of retail banking after gaining a bank license in 2017. However, it soon surfaced that there was a misunderstanding in relation to the equity promised and how it should be linked to a longer commitment to the project.

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Doing shots with true believers at Ethereum’s biggest party

The Verge

This summer, Colorado will begin accepting cryptocurrency to pay for taxes and drivers’ licenses. The Twitch stream crashed, and people began spamming the chat with “rug,” slang in cryptocurrency for a “rug pull,” or when a project’s owners run away with investor money. Then he took questions. Buterin looked tired.

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Elon Musk’s Twitter plans are a huge can of worms

The Verge

I also want to make Twitter better than ever by enhancing the product with new features, making the algorithms open source to increase trust, defeating the spam bots, and authenticating all humans.”. Spam and scam bots. Musk has indicated that “spam and scam bots” and “bot armies” are Twitter’s new Public Enemy No.

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