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| Maxwell Strachan / VICE: |
Binance, Coinbase, and others deny Ukrainian requests to freeze Russian and Belarusian accounts, citing “economic freedom”, but will comply with sanctions — Binance, the world's largest exchange, said “unilaterally” banning users “would fly in the face of the reason why crypto exists.”
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: the Biden administration is asking crypto exchanges globally to help thwart Russian individuals and organizations from using crypto to avoid sanctions — The Biden administration is asking crypto exchanges to help ensure that Russian individuals and organizations aren't using virtual currencies …
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| Ivana Saric / Axios: |
Meta says it “will be restricting access to RT and Sputnik across the EU at this time” following requests from several governments and the EU — Facebook parent Meta will restrict access to Russian state media on its platforms across the EU in response to Russia's unprovoked invasion of Ukraine …
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| Mark Scott / Politico: |
YouTube will block Kremlin-backed RT and Sputnik in Europe, following similar bans by Meta and TikTok, citing the Ukraine invasion — Google's YouTube said Tuesday that it would block Kremlin-backed media outlets RT and Sputnik from Europe following similar bans by Facebook and TikTok.
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| Washington Post: |
TikTok confirms it has shut down access to Russian sites RT and Sputnik in Europe following requests from individual governments and the European Union — Facebook and TikTok said Monday that the companies would shut down access to Kremlin-controlled media sites RT and Sputnik in Europe, setting the stage for retaliation from Russia.
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Tweets: @bobbyallyn, @kevinrothrock, and @lizzadwoskin
| Joe Flint / Wall Street Journal: |
Netflix won't add any Russian channels in the country “given the current situation” despite a regulation requiring it to add 20 federal channels from March 1 — Russian rule requires services with more than 100,000 subscribers to carry some 20 Russian channels
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| Taylor Hatmaker / TechCrunch: |
| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Microsoft says cyberattacks using new malware hit Ukraine hours before Russia's invasion began; the company added new signatures to Defender within three hours — - Brad Smith, Microsoft's president, wrote in a blog post on Monday about the company's efforts to keep Ukraine informed of cyberattacks.
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| Washington Post: |
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| Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: |
Symantec details China-linked backdoor Daxin, a Windows kernel driver that can hijack TCP connections to stealthily connect with command-and-control servers — Security researchers have discovered Daxin, a China-linked stealthy backdoor specifically designed for deployment in hardened corporate networks …
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| Mathew Di Salvo / Decrypt: |
FTX announces Future Fund, planning to invest between $100M and $1B in 2022 in projects that “improve humanity's long-term prospects”, like safer AI development — The new fund will invest in nonprofit and for-profit projects—with a focus on AI and “reducing catastrophic biorisk,” among other areas.
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| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Meta says it will shut down Instagram's standalone IGTV app in mid-March and will discontinue IGTV's in-stream video ads as the company focuses on Reels — Instagram is ending support for its standalone app for IGTV, the company announced on Monday. Meta, Instagram's parent company …
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| Bloomberg: |
The US is expected to put pressure on SMIC, Lenovo, and other Chinese companies to join sanctions on Russia; China is Russia's biggest electronics supplier — Washington is expected to lean on major Chinese companies from Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp. to Lenovo Group Ltd …
Tweets: @alexplitsas and @evanfeigenbaum
| David Voreacos / Bloomberg: |
The SEC says BitConnect founder Satish Kumbhani, recently charged with running a $2.4B Ponzi scheme, has disappeared from his native India — BitConnect founder Satish Kumbhani, charged criminally in the U.S. last week with a $2.4 billion Ponzi scheme, has vanished from his native India, officials said.| Amanda Yeo / Mashable: |
Reddit quarantines r/Russia and r/RussiaPolitics due to “a high volume of information not supported by credible sources” and bans a moderator — A moderator has also been removed. — Reddit has quarantined subreddit r/Russia due to misinformation, as the internationally … | Patrick Klepek / VICE: |
Developers at EA, Zynga, Ubisoft, and others describe internal turmoil and disapproval over executive-level decisions and plans to use crypto and NFTs in games — An internal culture war is playing out across the video game industry, with developers (and players) pitted against executives and crypto evangelists.
Tweets: @motherboard and @cecianasta
| Morgan Meaker / Wired: |
Interview with Australia's communications minister Paul Fletcher on the efficacy of the country's year-old news bargaining code with Google and Meta — A year after Australia forced tech giants to pay news outlets for the content they display, other countries want to follow suit.
Tweets: @wired, @bitech, @michellemanafy, and @pressgazette
| Financial Times: |
An Israeli judge lifts reporting restrictions on the arrest of former Celsius Network CFO Yaron Shalem in 2021 for suspected fraud, as Celsius raised $400M — Yaron Shalem was one of 10 detained in connection with alleged fraud at other cryptocurrency ventures| Cecilia Kang / New York Times: |
A look at a newly revamped Whole Foods store in Washington, which uses palm-scanning Amazon One tech and Amazon's computer vision-enabled Just Walk Out tech — A newly revamped store in Washington shows how thoroughly Amazon has woven itself into the grocery shopping experience.
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