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| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
A list of some tech companies the SBA says have received PPP loans of more than $150K; Bird and Index Ventures say they are wrongly listed — Scooter companies, AV startups, LIDAR manufacturers among companies receiving PPP loans — Bird, the beleaguered e-scooter company …
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| Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: |
Overview of US gov't data on Paycheck Protection Program loans received by 40+ blockchain firms, led by ConsenSys, which allegedly received $5M-$10M in April — More than 40 companies in the blockchain and cryptocurrency industry collected at least $18 million in payroll loans from the U.S. government.| Paul Mozur / New York Times: |
Facebook, Telegram, Google, and Twitter say they have suspended requests for user data from Hong Kong police, following a new national security law by China — The social network said it would review the city's punitive new national security law, a rare public questioning of Chinese policy by a large American tech company.
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| Benjamin Wallace / Vulture: |
Inside Quibi's implosion, aided by the divisive management styles of Katzenberg and Whitman, compounded by a failure to understand its digital-native audience — The Emmy race has begun! Vulture is taking a close look at the contenders until nomination-round voting closes on July 13.
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| Alex Sherman / CNBC: |
Uber buys food delivery service Postmates for $2.65B in an all-stock deal — - Uber agreed to buy Postmates, the fourth-largest U.S. delivery food service, for $2.65 billion in stock. — Uber had attempted to acquire GrubHub last month but talks failed.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Instagram expands its TikTok rival, Reels, to India in the wake of the country's ban on Chinese apps — In the wake of India's decision to ban TikTok and dozens of other Chinese apps over privacy concerns, Instagram has expanded its TikTok rival, known as Reels, in the region.| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
SCOTUS strikes down a law amended in 2015 to allow robocalls by debt collectors — Collectors of US-backed debt no longer allowed to make robocalls to cell phones. — The US Supreme Court today struck down a provision in US law that let debt collectors make robocalls to cell phones … | Ilya Banares / Bloomberg: |
Canadian privacy watchdog says Clearview AI will cease offering facial recognition tech in Canada and suspend its contract with RCMP — Canada's privacy watchdog said facial recognition software provider Clearview AI Inc. will no longer offer its services in the country …
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| Malkia Devich-Cyril / The Atlantic: |
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| Gene Park / Washington Post: |
AAA games for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X will likely be priced at $69.99, the first rise since 2005, when Activision released COD: 2 for $59.99 — Video games have been $60 for as long as many of you can remember, but price listings for the upcoming “NBA 2K21” titles for PlayStation 5 …
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Ex-Yahoo engineer sentenced to five years of probation and home confinement for hacking into 6,000+ Yahoo Mail accounts to search for sexually explicit content — Hacker sentenced to five years probation, with home confinement condition. — A former Yahoo engineer was sentenced to five years …
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| Aislinn Keely / The Block: |
Investment firm Arca has registered the Ethereum token-based Arca US Treasury Fund with the SEC, after seeking approval nine times over two years — Digital asset-focused investment firm Arca has obtained a registration with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) …
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PR Newswire and BitcoinExchangeGuide
| William Clowes / Bloomberg: |
A Nigerian man with 2.4M Instagram followers, who allegedly conspired to use hacked email accounts to trick others into sending money, was extradited to the US — A Nigerian social-media celebrity was extradited to the U.S. from Dubai to face fraud charges.| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
Researchers observe hackers remotely exploiting a critical bug in BIG-IP products from F5 that act as load balancers within enterprise networks; patch available — For companies that haven't patched their BIG-IP products, it may already be too late. — Any company that uses a certain piece …
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Tweets: @campuscodi, @a_greenberg, and @wired
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