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November 11, 2021, 11:25 PM

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Taylor Hatmaker / TechCrunch:
Discord CEO Jason Citron says the service has no plans to add crypto and NFT tools, following a backlash to an internal concept he shared on Twitter  —  Discord founder and CEO Jason Citron sought to reassure users Wednesday that the company doesn't have impending plans to shift its business toward NFTs.
Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
Owen Fernau / The Defiant:
Ethereum Name Service's ENS token hits $1B market cap, just two days after its airdrop in which users received the token for free in their crypto wallets  —  ENS, the governance token of Ethereum Name Service, hit a market capitalization of $1.1B in early morning trading Eastern Standard Time.
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / VICE:
Google researchers found a watering hole attack in August exploiting a macOS zero-day and targeting Hong Kong pro-democracy sites; Apple patched on September 23  —  “The nature of the activity and targeting is consistent with a government backed actor,” the Google researchers say.
Wall Street Journal:
A look at Binance, which sources say could be worth $300B if it goes public, as its unfettered, unregulated growth comes to an end amid global scrutiny  —  The trading platform surged by operating from nowhere in particular—without offices, licenses or headquarters.  Now governments are insisting on taking some control.
Sandra Upson / Wired:
Profile of CryptoPunks, an NFT project founded by two Canadian developers in 2017, which has reached $1.5B in lifetime sales as NFTs explode in popularity  —  When two Canadian coders started an online project called CryptoPunks, they had no idea they'd spark a hyped-up, blockchain-fueled cultural juggernaut.
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Spotify acquires audiobook distributor Findaway and says it expects the deal to close in Q4 2021  —  In an effort to expand beyond music, Spotify has been investing hundreds of millions to build out its podcasts business.  Now the company has set its sights on another form of audio …
Rebecca Falconer / Axios:
US joins a global cybersecurity partnership launched in 2018 with 80 countries and companies like Google and Microsoft, after declining to sign up under Trump  —  The U.S. is now part of an international agreement on cybersecurity that the Trump administration declined to sign up for …
Ashley Carman / The Verge:
Patreon CEO Jack Conte says the service is building native video hosting, which would reduce creators' reliance on YouTube  —  CEO Jack Conte: 'We're building a video product'  —  This story is part of a group of stories called  —  Patreon is building a video hosting solution and native player.
Helene Braun / CoinDesk:
Miami Mayor Francis Suarez says the city will give residents a bitcoin yield from staking MiamiCoin  —  The city's mayor, Francis Suarez, announced the news on CoinDesk TV on Thursday.  —  The city of Miami will soon give out a “bitcoin yield” to its citizens from the staking of its cryptocurrency …
Mitchell Clark / The Verge:
YouTube starts hiding public dislike counts on videos to keep smaller creators from being targeted by dislike attacks, following a test in March  —  Creators will still be able to see how many people disliked their videos  —  YouTube has announced that it'll be hiding public dislike counts on videos across its site, starting today.
Takashi Mochizuki / Bloomberg:
Sources: Sony cuts PS5 production targets from 16M to 15M by March 2022 due to component and logistics constraints, as first-year PS5 sales fall behind PS4  —  - Full-year PS5 sales goal at risk from production snags  — Sony CFO warned Covid-19 still affecting output and supply
Emily Bary / MarketWatch:
Weave Communications, which offers cloud tools for small business communications, drops 21.7% in its NYSE debut, after raising $120M in its IPO  —  ‘What QuickBooks is to small-business accounting, we will be to small-business customer communication,’ CEO says
Catalin Cimpanu / The Record:
Trend Micro report details the activities of hacker-for-hire group Void Balaur, which has targeted US telecom companies and others since the mid-2010s  —  Cyber-security firm Trend Micro has published today a 46-page report detailing the history and activity of a hacker-for-hire group …

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