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S3 Ventures, Tacora close on new funds to boost Austin startups

TechCrunch

One is S3 Ventures , a venture capital firm that’s been around since 2005, which raised $250 million for its Fund VII, touting itself as “the largest venture capital fund focused on Texas-based startups.” Tacora has signed some term sheets already, but is going through the regulatory due diligence process, Findley said.

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10 fastest growing US tech hubs for IT talent

CIO

Dice defines a growing tech hub as a city with universities and colleges to recruit from, venture funding opportunities, a strong social scene for networking, and existing companies looking to hire talent. These 10 cities are the fastest growing tech hubs by salary, according to Dice. increase from 2021, according to Dice. Sacramento, Calif.

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#742 My Body, My Pixels: A Deep Dive on Digital Autonomy with Todd Zywicki, Professor of Law at George Mason University

Modern CTO

He served as Co-Editor of the Supreme Court Economic Review from 2006-2017 and as Editor from 2001-2002. He received his JD from the University of Virginia, where he was executive editor of the Virginia Tax Review and John M. From 2005-2009 he served as an elected Alumni Trustee of the Dartmouth College Board of Trustees.

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6 cybersecurity trends we’re thankful for

The Parallax

And social media and other personal-data sources can be used to profile and manipulate people, including voters.As Even “tough” passwords can be hacked, or the account recovery protocol can be exploited and social-engineered away from the account owner. election security experts grab the attention of influencers in D.C.

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Rising Tide Rents and Robber Baron Rents

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

This can be due to the ownership of a scarce asset, the creation of monopolistic conditions that enable rising returns in a specific sector, or policy decisions that favour directly or indirectly a specific group of interest.” Amazon aimed to help customers find the best quality and price for any one of millions of products.

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ChatGPT, Author of The Quixote

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Ted Chiang wrote a thoughtful piece for the New Yorker called ChatGPT is a Blurry JPEG of the Web that opens with the analogy of a photocopier making a slight error due to the way it compresses the digital image. In many ways, they are, but they also have generative capabilities that we don’t often associate with compression. joined Flickr.

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Austin emerges as a city of unicorns and tech giants

TechCrunch

S3 Ventures founder and managing director Brian Smith notes that when he started the firm in 2005, venture capital in Texas was finally starting to recover from the dot.com bust. It’s even more difficult for minority and women founders with the funding systems in place,” he added.