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Bitcoin fell ~10% to around $31,000, its lowest level since July 2021, as investors flee riskier investments; Ethereum, Solana, Avalanche, and others also fell — Bitcoin rebounded from a swoon below $30,000 as a selloff in stocks moderated and a bout of calm washed across global markets.| Sam Kessler / CoinDesk: |
CoinMarketCap: the UST stablecoin loses its USD peg, falling below $0.80, after the Luna Foundation Guard pledges $1.5B of its bitcoin reserves to defend UST — TerraUSD (UST) has lost its dollar peg for the second time in three days, falling to as low as $0.95 on Monday … | Sam Reynolds / CoinDesk: |
Binance has temporarily suspended withdrawals of LUNA and UST tokens due to a high volume of pending withdrawals and “network slowness and congestion” — Binance has suspended withdrawals of LUNA and UST tokens due to “network slowness and congestion.”| Thomas Claburn / The Register: |
Study claims the implementation of EU's GDPR has reduced the number of apps on Google Play by a third, increased costs, and reduced revenues for app developers — Privacy rules increase cost, reduce choice, slash revenues, study concludes — Europe's data protection regime has reduced … | The Information: |
Sources: Meta is considering reducing the money it gives news outlets and focusing on news content as short videos on Facebook rather than as links to articles — Meta Platforms is considering reducing the money it gives news organizations as it reevaluates the partnerships it struck … | Ionut Ilascu / BleepingComputer: |
Researchers detail a malicious campaign that used Windows event logs to store malware, a technique that has not been previously documented publicly in attacks — Security researchers have noticed a malicious campaign that used Windows event logs to store malware, a technique … | Washington Post: |
Researchers: Elon Musk, who vowed to defeat Twitter's “spam bots or die trying”, has long benefited from “fanbots” boosting Tesla shares and deriding critics — Mechanized accounts have sought to boost Tesla shares, deride critics and push the pending takeover of Twitter.| Drew Harwell / Washington Post: |
Clearview AI reaches a settlement with the ACLU by agreeing to stop selling or offering free access to its facial recognition database to most US businesses — The settlement marks one of the most significant court actions yet against a company known for downloading billions of people's photos … | Anushree Dave / The Block: |
Mark Zuckerberg says Meta will start letting some US creators test digital collectibles and NFTs on Instagram this week, and won't charge for sharing NFTs — Meta will start testing digital collectibles and NFTs on Instagram this week, according to chief executive Mark Zuckerberg.| Ari Levy / CNBC: |
Coinbase, Robinhood, Rivian, UiPath, Marqeta, and Toast are down 65%+ from their IPO; over half of 53 tech companies that went public in 2021 are down 50%+ — - After a banner year for tech IPOs in 2021, the most notable companies to go public are now suffering some of the biggest losses on the market.| Ian Allison / CoinDesk: |
Arianee, which provides NFTs tied to the provenance and ownership of luxury goods, raises a €20M Series A led by Tiger Global — Paris-based Arianee, a platform for linking non-fungible tokens (NFTs) to luxury brands, has raised a 20 million euro ($21 million) Series A funding round led … | Bloomberg: |
Match Group sues Google, alleging the company abuses its power with a requirement that developers use Google's billing system for Android apps in the Play Store — Match Group Inc. accused Alphabet Inc.'s Google in a lawsuit of acting as a monopolist with its app store billing rules … | Tara Deschamps / Canadian Press: |
Canada's Competition Bureau files to block Rogers' $26B purchase of Shaw, as the merger would lead to “higher prices, poorer service quality, and fewer choices” — The Competition Bureau has filed an application to block Rogers Communications Inc.'s purchase of Shaw Communications Inc … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Paddle, which provides a billing backend for SaaS companies, raises a $200M Series D led by KKR at a $1.4B valuation, bringing its total raised to $293M — Software as a service has become the default for how organizations adopt and use apps these days, thanks to advances in cloud computing and networking … | Jason Del Rey / Vox: |
Amazon is testing paying rural mom-and-pop shops a per-package fee to deliver orders within a 10-mile radius to neighbors in Nebraska, Mississippi, and Alabama — The e-commerce giant is recruiting local businesses in Alabama, Mississippi, and Nebraska as part of a secretive new delivery program.
Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens.
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