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Imgur is a digital platform where users can find and share a variety of visual content, such as images, memes, GIFs, and visual stories. Users engage with the platform by creating and curating content, with the community voting to highlight the most popular posts. This interaction helps to keep the content fresh and entertaining for a wide audience seeking quick entertainment, information, and inspiration. Imgur's business model focuses on user engagement and generates revenue through advertising, capitalizing on its large and active user base. The goal of Imgur is to uplift its users by consistently providing enjoyable and engaging content.
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4chan, one of the internet’s most infamous image boards, has been hacked. The site went dark after a major security breach. The attackers exploited outdated systems, leaked the site’s source code, restored a long-deleted board, and allegedly exposed private moderator data and user IPs. The hack has triggered heated conversations across X and Reddit, particularly around user privacy and how such a massive failure could happen.How It HappenedHackers believed to be affiliated with the rival imageboard Soyjak.party reportedly found an opening through 4chan’s old tech stack, according to screenshots shared on Imgur (NSFW warning). The site was still running on FreeBSD 10.1, a version last updated nearly a decade ago. Outdated PHP scripts and insecure MySQL functions didn’t help either
Content summary: On Monday, image sharing service Imgur finally released its first mobile app, launching on Android f
Decrypt’s Art, Fashion, and Entertainment Hub. Discover SCENETwo years after they were inscribed on the Bitcoin blockchain, the highly anticipated Taproot Wizards Ordinals collection will go on sale on March 25, the project's creators announced Tuesday.Taproot Wizards will consist of 2,121 Wizard NFTs, modeled after the iconic Bitcoin Wizard meme that surfaced on Reddit in 2013.The collection will be sold in two distinct phases, the first of which will offer Wizard NFTs to those on an allowlist for 0.2 BTC, or $16,340 at today’s prices. An eligibility checker has been launched ahead of the mint.A second phase will allow the general public to mint a Taproot Wizard NFT via Dutch auction. A representative for the project said that the starting price of the auction would be higher than 0.2 BTC, but that the price wouldn’t be revealed until closer to launch.oh wait, is it march already? pic.twitter.com/FjGiQVhQpA — Taproot Wizards (@TaprootWizards) March 2, 2025Taproot Wizards has been a prominent project in the Bitcoin scene for the last couple years, with the artwork inscribed on the blockchain via the Ordinals protocol back in 2023. However, the creators waited beyond the original Ordinals hype window and pursued other ventures, finally opting to release them this month.“When Taproot Wizards were inscribed two years ago, the team promised the sale would happen much later, to test the persistence of the real wizards,” project lead Udi Wertheimer told Decrypt. “The price is a simple function of supply and demand
Image credit: Meta AI. Meta Platforms は先週、カリフォルニア州メンローパークで開催された年次カンファレンス「Meta Connect」で、Facebook、Instagram、WhatsApp 向けの多数の新 AI 機能を披露した。. しかし、Mark Zuckerberg 氏の会社からの最大のニュースは、Metaの研究者たちがオープンアクセスで査読のない Web サイト「arXiv.org」で発表したコンピュータサイエンスの論文である。
VentureBeat presents: AI Unleashed - An exclusive executive event for enterprise data leaders. Network and learn with industry peers. Learn More. Meta Platforms showed off a bevy of new AI features for its consumer-facing services Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp at its annual Meta Connect conference in Menlo Park, California, this week. But the biggest news from Mark Zuckerberg’s company may have actually come in the form of a computer science paper published without fanfare by Meta researchers on the open access and non-peer reviewed website arXiv.org.The paper introduces Llama 2 Long, a new AI model based on Meta’s open source Llama 2 released in the summer, but that has undergone “continual pretraining from Llama 2 with longer training sequences and on a dataset where long texts are upsampled,” according to the researcher-authors of the paper.As a result of this, Meta’s newly elongated AI model outperforms some of the leading competition in generating responses to long (higher character count) user prompts, including OpenAI’s GPT-3.5 Turbo with 16,000-character context window, as well as Claude 2 with its 100,000-character context window.
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Industries
Consumer Software
Entertainment
Company Size
51-200
Company Stage
Late Stage VC
Total Funding
$60M
Headquarters
San Francisco, California
Founded
2009
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