Fri. 09/09 – White House Comes Out Against Proof-Of-Work?

Is the US government about to legally curtail proof of work crypto projects? Intel’s big new GPU specs. Uber Eats signs a deal to get into the ankle bots business. What I believe is the oldest startup ever to be acquired by a tech giant. And, of course, the weekend longreads suggestions.Sponsors:DataTribe.com, enter by Sept. 23Ramp.com/techmemeLinks:White House report proposes possible restrictions on proof-of-work crypto mining (The Block)Intel Reveals Specifications For Arc Alchemist Desktop GPUs (Tom's Hardware)Uber Eats and Nuro sign a 10-year deal to do robot food delivery in California and Texas (The Verge)Amazon is buying Cloostermans, a mechatronics specialist in Belgium, to ramp up its robotics operations (The Verge)Weekend Longreads Suggestions:With Stable Diffusion, you may never believe what you see online again (ArsTechnica)They built a Minecraft crypto empire. Then it all came crashing down (Rest of World)Inside the World's First No-Coiner Conference (Decrypt)Just a Few People Crowned Some of YouTube’s Earliest Hits (The Atlantic)The super-rich ‘preppers’ planning to save themselves from the apocalypse (The Guardian)Apple's features graveyard: Once heavily marketed, now gone (Apple Insider)The ‘deaditors’ of Wikipedia (HayKranen.nl)See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.