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Andrew Thurman / Cointelegraph:Synthetix, which develops a DeFi protocol for trading derivatives, raises $12M after three VC firms purchased its native tokens directly from its DAO treasuryAs the community debates VCs participating in DAOs, Synthetix welcomes three new community members Click here to read full news..

Dan Taylor / Tech.eu:UK-based online car retailer Cazoo raises $630M through a two percent sale via convertible senior notes, led by Viking Global InvestorsUK-based online car retailer Cazoo has raised $630 million to support continued UK and Continental European expansion plans Click here to read full news..

Erin Griffith / New York Times:Inside Bitcoin 2021 in Miami, the first major in-person crypto conference since the pandemic startedIt was the largest Bitcoin event in the world and the first major in-person crypto conference since the pandemic started. The jargon, the liquor and the millionaire talk flowed. Click here to read full news..

The Cornell Alliance for Science seeks to build “a significant international alliance of partners” to “correct misinformation and counter conspiracy theories” slowing progress on climate change, synthetic biology, agricultural innovations, and other issues. This week Slashdot reader wooloohoo shared their report from Slyvia Tetteh, who works with Ghana’s chamber of Agribusiness and serves as an intermediary to farmers:The advent of climate change, coupled with new plant pests and diseases, has worsened the plight of Ghanaian farmers, relegating them to remain in poverty as their crop yields and incomes plunge. Modern, climate-smart agricultural technologies, such as genetically modified crops (GMOs), can…

During a 92-minute presentation Wednesday on the state of the free software movement, Richard Stallman spoke at length on a wide variety of topics, including the need for freedom-respecting package systems. But Stallman also shared his deepest thoughts on a topic dear to the hearts of Slashdot readers: privacy and currency: I won’t order from online stores, because I can’t pay them . For one thing, the payment services require running non-free JavaScript… [And] to pay remotely you’ve got to do it by credit card, and that’s tracking people, and I want to resist tracking too…. This is a really…

Long-time Slashdot reader destinyland writes:Today sees an event celebrating the 50th anniversary of 1970s children’s programming giants Sid & Marty Krofft. (Born in 1929, Sid Krofft will turn 93 in July). And reportedly Marty Krofft has now partnered with NFT producer Orange Comet “in a multiyear contract to release NFTs based on the often enigmatic and much-beloved television shows they have brought to us since 1969.” The first one commemorates Land of the Lostdropping sometime after September. Today I learned their big break in America came from making puppets for Dean Martin’s show, followed by designing and directing the Banana…

Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet:FBI, CISA, and ODNI, with support from NSA, say an APT likely Russian in origin is responsible for all or most of the recently discovered hacks of US agenciesJoint statement from the FBI, CISA, ODNI, and NSA says SolarWinds hack was likely Russian in origin. Click here to read full news..

“The official Python software package repository, PyPI, is getting flooded with spam packages…” Bleeping Computer reported Thursday. “Each of these packages is posted by a unique pseudonymous maintainer account, making it challenging for PyPI to remove the packages and spam accounts all at once…”PyPI is being flooded with spam packages named after popular movies in a style commonly associated with torrent or “warez” sites that provide pirated downloads: watch-(movie-name)-2021-full-online-movie-free-hd-… Although some of these packages are a few weeks old, BleepingComputer observed that spammers are continuing to add newer packages to PyPI… The web page for these bogus packages contain spam…

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft has been orbiting an asteroid called Bennu for more than two years to fine-tune the agency’s existing models of its trajectory. “As a result, scientists behind new research now say they’re confident that the asteroid’s total impact probability through 2300 is just 1 in 1,750,” reports Space.com. From the report: Estimates produced before OSIRIS-REx arrived at the space rock tallied the cumulative probability of a Bennu impact between the years 2175 and 2199 at 1 in 2,700, according to NASA. While a slightly higher risk than past estimates, it represents a minuscule change in an already minuscule…

Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch:Berlin-based Mayd, which offers rapid pharmacy deliveries, raises a 30M Series A led by Lightspeed, following a 13M seed in October 2021Berlin-based Mayd, a startup that’s building an on-demand medicine delivery platform in Europe, has fast followed a chunky seed raise last fall Click here to read full news..