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Bitcoin fell to under $18K on Saturday, below its $19,511 high during its 2017 bull cycle, as ether dropped below $1K; both are down 70%+ since November 2021 — Bitcoin plunged through several closely watched price levels to the lowest since late 2020 as evidence of deepening stress within …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Roughly $2T of cryptocurrency value, or more than two-thirds of all the crypto that existed, has been erased since bitcoin hit an all-time high in November 2021 — The cryptocurrency industry was built on swagger, enthusiasm and optimism. All three are in short supply these days, as losses and layoffs mount.
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Despite rocketing inflation and a cratering crypto market, many Latin American traders still see crypto as a way to circumvent unstable or stagnant economies — Caught between rocketing inflation and a cratering crypto market, many stick with Bitcoin. — • MEXICO CITY, MEXICO
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| New York Times: |
Apple employees at a store in Towson, Maryland vote 65-33 to unionize, making it the company's first US store where employees voted in favor of unionization — Roughly two-thirds of employees at the store in Towson, Md., voted to join the union. — Give this article- - - Read in app
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| Kishan Vyas / XDA Developers: |
WhatsApp widely rolls out new privacy control settings to give users more control over who can see their Profile Photo, About, Last Seen, and Status — WhatsApp is rolling out new privacy control settings to provide users greater control over who can see their profile photo, “About,” “Last seen,” and WhatsApp Status.
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| Emily Baker-White / BuzzFeed News: |
Leaked audio from 80+ internal TikTok meetings: ByteDance staff in China repeatedly accessed data about US TikTok users between September 2021 and January 2022 — For years, TikTok has responded to data privacy concerns by promising that information gathered about users in the United States …
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| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Meta unveils Avatars Store, where users can buy digital clothes for avatars, and plans to make it a marketplace where developers can create and sell clothing — Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced today that the company is launching a digital designer clothing store called the “Meta Avatars Store.”
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Facebook: Mark Zuckerberg. Tweets: @metanewsroom, @juddlegum, @ummjackson, @ummjackson, @jerryiannelli, @okconsoomer, @davetroy, @rjcc, @jcoviedo6, @malooski_vt, @_zeets, @meat__hook, @silvermanjacob, @conor64, @_cingraham, @seldo, @stockunit, @itsliran, @ummjackson, @ummjackson, @ummjackson, @hipcityreg, @seyitaylor, @angelofuture, @coreykindberg, @sandeepnailwal, @ummjackson, @matt_on_tech, @drewcoffman, @thenickwalsh, @damedoteth, @michaelzimmer, @glowsteeze, @keithdsouza, @dinafierro_, @liahaberman, @tajocrypto, @realtorstarshar, @maghanmcd, @maxasteele, @shiringhaffary, @meta, @nssmag, and @maghanmcd
| Elizabeth Dwoskin / Washington Post: |
Interviews with the members of Peter Thiel's inner circle describe how he came to the decision to leave Facebook's board — Inside the billionaire investor's journey from Facebook board member to an architect of the new American right — On a summer morning in 2019 …
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| David Shepardson / Reuters: |
The US FAA says Verizon and AT&T agreed to delay some C-Band 5G usage until July 2023 as airlines retrofit some airplane radio altimeters to limit interference — The Federal Aviation Administration said Friday that Verizon Communications (VZ.N) and AT&T (T.N) have voluntarily agreed … | Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch: |
Brex says the company will no longer work with SMBs that don't have “professional” funding and will shut down “tens of thousands” of accounts on August 15, 2022 — Three months after announcing it would make a big push into software and enterprise …
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| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
India lifts its ban on Mastercard from issuing debit, credit, or prepaid cards after the company showed “satisfactory compliance” with local data storage rules — India has lifted business restrictions on Mastercard, nearly a year after imposing the ban, once again allowing …
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| Kate Conger / New York Times: |
A jury finds ex-Amazon engineer Paige Thompson guilty of wire fraud and hacking charges for downloading the personal info of 100M+ Capital One customers in 2019 — Paige Thompson's lawyers said she had been looking for cracks so they could be fixed. A jury found her guilty of wire fraud and hacking charges.
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