Pepecoin, a meme coin launched in April, has a $1B+ market cap despite concerns about concentrated ownership; Arkham: a trader turned $263 into $3.8M in profits (Krisztian Sandor/CoinDesk) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 21:41 Rating: 5

Elon Musk has latched onto "unregretted user-minutes", an undefined metric for measuring Twitter's success, after taking issue with mDAUs during the takeover (Tim Higgins/Wall Street Journal) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 21:41 Rating: 5

A look at Art Blocks, an NFT marketplace for generative art whose sales reportedly dropped to $6.5M in April 2023 from $587M in August 2021 (Ryan Weeks/The Block) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 18:41 Rating: 5

The International Olympic Committee adds Fortnite to its Olympic Esports Series competition, which will also feature Just Dance and Gran Turismo (Tom Phillips/Eurogamer.net) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 15:41 Rating: 5

Scammers appear to be hacking verified Meta accounts to impersonate the company and run Facebook ads asking users to download shady tools likely with malware (Taylor Hatmaker/TechCrunch) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 13:41 Rating: 5

An in-depth look at the regulatory risks for OpenAI under GDPR, including questions around future data scraping and handling "right to be forgotten" requests (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 12:41 Rating: 5

In an email to users, Twitter acknowledges a bug that showed some Circle tweets to users outside of the Circle in April 2023 and says the issue has been fixed (Filipe Espósito/9to5Mac) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 17:41 Rating: 5

Brydge, an iPad, Mac, and Surface accessory maker, is shutting down; sources: Brydge has neither paid its staff salaries nor fulfilled orders since January 2023 (Chance Miller/9to5Mac) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 15:41 Rating: 5

Sources: the US DOJ is investigating if Binance was used to let Russians skirt US sanctions, alongside a probe into its alleged use to evade sanctions on Iran (Chris Strohm/Bloomberg) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 14:41 Rating: 5

Out of ~150,000 early subscribers to Twitter Blue in November, just ~68,157 were still subscribed as of April 30, showing Blue has an abnormally high churn rate (Matt Binder/Mashable) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 13:41 Rating: 5