An LGBTQ-owned auto shop started an online fundraiser to cover $25,000 in funeral costs for Club Q shooting victims. In 2 days, donors raised nearly $700,000.

People light up candles at a makeshift memorial for the victims of Saturday’s fatal shooting at Club Q in Colorado Springs, Colo., outside Rocco’s WeHo in West Hollywood, Calif., Sunday, Nov. 20, 2022. AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes Nov. 20, five people were killed and 18 were injured at a shooting at ClubQ in Colorado Springs. Hours…

Crypto and NFTs aren’t welcome in Grand Theft Auto Online

Enlarge / Cold hard (virtual) cash only in GTA Online, please. Cryptocurrencies and NFTs have been formally disallowed from Grand Theft Auto Online‘s popular role-playing (RP) servers. That’s according to a new set of guidelines posted on Rockstar’s support site last Friday. In the note, the game’s publisher says its new RP server rules are…

Daily Crunch: No-code fintech services startup Taktile closes $20M Series A round

To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PDT, subscribe here. Soooo you may have received the, erm, first edition of Daily Crunch yesterday, where we mentioned a certain conference, placing it in the wrong country. Whoops — we updated the headline. Sorry,…

Ukio, a premium apartment rental platform for Europe’s ‘flexible workforce’, raises $28M

Ukio, a short-term furnished apartment rental platform aimed at the “flexible workforce,” has raised €27 million ($28 million) in a Series A round of funding. The cash injection constitutes €17 million in equity and €10 million in debt, and follows some 14 months after the Spanish company announced a €9 million seed round of funding….

Elon Musk wanted to reinstate a right-wing satire account on day one as Twitter chief

Elon Musk sent Twitter staff a memo on Thursday confirming job cuts would be announced on Friday. Carina Johansen/Getty Images Elon Musk expressed interest in reinstating the Babylon Bee’s twitter account hours after he took over. According to The Washington Post, Musk thought the right-wing satire site shouldn’t have been banned. The Babylon Bee had…

Rich countries driving the climate crisis have agreed to pay developing nations for damage. But collecting the money will be tough.

The entrance to the United Nations’ COP27 climate summit in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt. Catherine Boudreau/Insider Developing nations won creation of a “loss and damage” fund for climate disasters. Fossil fuel interests prevailed, with countries walking away with few new plans to curb pollution.  The planet is still on track to warm to catastrophic levels by…