Gaming, Wealth, and Dystopian Futures

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.

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Links:

• 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)

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