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Facebook launches Creator Fast Track, offering big Instagram, TikTok and YouTube creators guaranteed monthly pay and boosted reach to post on Facebook (Zach Vallese/CNBC)

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Zach Vallese / CNBC : Facebook launches Creator Fast Track, offering big Instagram, TikTok and YouTube creators guaranteed monthly pay and boosted reach to post on Facebook   —  Meta on Wednesday launched a new program aimed at luring top creators from TikTok and YouTube to Facebook, offering guaranteed pay and boosted reach. from Techmeme https://ift.tt/QzFBtAY

Elon Musk pours cold water on April 1 Tesla Roadster unveiling — but says it'll 'probably' happen later that month

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Elon Musk has pushed back the Roadster reveal. Tesla Elon Musk said Tesla would "hopefully" unveil the long-awaited Roadster next month, "probably in late April." The car has been delayed for years, with reservations open since 2017. Tesla previously promised supercar-level speed, 620 miles of range, and four seats. Tesla has pushed back the reveal of its long-delayed next-generation Roadster — again. But Elon Musk says it could arrive as soon as late next month. On Tuesday, the Tesla CEO said on X that the company will "hopefully" unveil the electric sports car next month, "probably in late April." That timeline is already slipping from Musk's recent guidance. In an October interview with podcaster Joe Rogan, Musk said the car would be released "hopefully before the end of the year." Then, in November, during Tesla's annual shareholder meeting, he said that the company was "tentatively aiming" to have th...

Arizona sues Kalshi for allegedly operating an illegal gambling business and unlawfully facilitating betting on elections; Kalshi faces a similar suit in Nevada (Anna Washenko/Engadget)

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Anna Washenko / Engadget : Arizona sues Kalshi for allegedly operating an illegal gambling business and unlawfully facilitating betting on elections; Kalshi faces a similar suit in Nevada   —  It's also facing a similar lawsuit in Nevada.  —  Kalshi has been sued by Arizona's attorney general for operating … from Techmeme https://ift.tt/NsC3YDv

Kim Jong Un's daughter may be training to one day succeed him. See the extended Kim family in photos.

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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and his daughter Kim Ju Ae visit the newly built Kalma coastal tourist area in Wonsan, North Korea, December 29, 2024, in this photo released by North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency. KCNA/via REUTERS Kim Jong Un is the third member of the Kim family to serve as leader of North Korea. His grandfather Kim Il Sung was the first, and he started an unusual dynastic succession. Photos show the family's rule, and the potential fourth member of the dynasty, Kim Ju Ae. Last week, North Korean state media released photos of Kim Jong Un testing firearms at a munitions factory with his daughter, Kim Ju Ae . The new photo-op came amid growing speculation that Ju Ae will be designated as Kim Jong Un's successor. The supreme leader's daughter has only entered the public eye within the last five years. Maintaining North Korea's most powerful family dynasty has required secrecy and mythologizing for decades. Kim Jong Un beca...

Nvidia unveils DLSS 5, which uses a real-time neural rendering model to add photorealistic lighting to game frames, arriving this fall to RTX 50-series GPUs (Richard Leadbetter/Digital Foundry)

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Richard Leadbetter / Digital Foundry : Nvidia unveils DLSS 5, which uses a real-time neural rendering model to add photorealistic lighting to game frames, arriving this fall to RTX 50-series GPUs   —  A massive technological leap for graphics - and we've been hands-on with four games.  — Share:- 0- - - - - - -  —  Video from Techmeme https://ift.tt/4A7VnKS

Digital asset wealth management platform Abra plans to go public on Nasdaq via a SPAC merger with New Providence at a $750M pre-money valuation (Stacy Jones/Decrypt)

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Stacy Jones / Decrypt : Digital asset wealth management platform Abra plans to go public on Nasdaq via a SPAC merger with New Providence at a $750M pre-money valuation   —  Abra Financial Holdings, the San Francisco-based digital asset wealth management platform, said Monday it will go public through a business combination … from Techmeme https://ift.tt/621YerU

Scanner, which helps organizations build cloud-native security data lakes for threat hunting, detection, and response, raised a $22M Series A led by Sequoia (Ionut Arghire/SecurityWeek)

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Ionut Arghire / SecurityWeek : Scanner, which helps organizations build cloud-native security data lakes for threat hunting, detection, and response, raised a $22M Series A led by Sequoia   —  The company connects AI agents to security data lakes for interactive investigations, detection engineering, and autonomous response. from Techmeme https://ift.tt/x617hkp