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| Jeffrey Dastin / Reuters: |
As anti-abortion state laws kick in, law enforcement could force tech companies to give up users' search history, geolocation, and other pregnancy-related data — The technology industry is bracing for the uncomfortable possibility of having to hand over pregnancy-related data to law enforcement …
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| Mark Sullivan / Fast Company: |
After SCOTUS overturned Roe v. Wade, Apple, Meta, Google, and other tech companies announce or reaffirm policies supporting employees seeking abortion services — A number of tech and media companies are responding to the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade by offering to pay …
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| New York Times: |
Sources: Meta told staff not to discuss the Roe v. Wade ruling on wide-reaching internal channels, citing a company memo issued after the May draft opinion leak — Meta told its workers on Friday not to openly discuss the Supreme Court's ruling eliminating the constitutional right to an abortion …
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| Ming-Chi Kuo / Medium: |
As Apple is expected to debut a headset in January 2023 and Meta slows VR investments, a look at opportunities for the VR supply chain and other headset makers — (1) One of the keys to the VR industry's rapid growth in the past 2-3 years is Meta sold VR headsets at a loss and aggressively promoted its VR business.
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| Tracy Wang / CoinDesk: |
Sources: Goldman Sachs is looking to raise $2B from investors to buy up distressed assets from crypto lender Celsius Network in the event of a bankruptcy filing — The Wall Street firm is seeking $2 billion in commitments from investors to buy distressed assets at steep discounts if the crypto lender goes bankrupt.
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| Richard Waters / Financial Times: |
Michael Saylor, whose company MicroStrategy holds bitcoin now worth ~$2.7B, says bitcoin “is still at an early stage in its development and poorly understood” — Software entrepreneur has remained calm even as crypto markets crashed — What do you do when you head the public company … | Julie Muhn / Finovate: |
Detroit-based Autobooks, a payment and accounting service for small businesses, raised a $50M Series C led by Macquarie, bringing its total funding to ~$98M — - Autobooks has received $50 million in a Series C funding round led by Macquarie Capital. — The investment more than doubles … | Tom's Hardware: |
An interview with AMD's SVP Sam Naffziger on challenges facing the company, its coming RDNA 3 chiplet design, GPU performance and power efficiency, and more — A look into the future RDNA 3 architecture — We recently had a chance to speak with Sam Naffziger, AMD's Senior Vice President …
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| Abubakar Idris / Rest of World: |
A look at the rise of BNPL services in Nigeria as some doubt the success of local startups amid weak ID verification systems and scant consumer credit records — BNPL startups in Nigeria are gambling millions of venture dollars on solving a problem of weak ID verification and scant consumer credit records.| Brian Newar / Cointelegraph: |
Harmony stops its Horizon bridge between Ethereum, Binance Chain, and Bitcoin after a theft of ~$100M in altcoins; Harmony says its BTC bridge was not impacted — The layer-1 blockchain's main bridge between Ethereum, Binance Chain, and Bitcoin has been exploited for nine figures, but says its BTC bridge has not been affected.
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| Paul Bischoff / Comparitech: |
Research: 67 separate ransomware attacks impacted 954 US schools and colleges in 2021, costing education institutions an estimated $3.56B in downtime alone — In 2021, 67 individual ransomware attacks affected 954 schools and colleges, potentially impacting 950,129 students.
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| Finextra: |
Crypto trading platform Bitpanda, which has 1,000+ staff per LinkedIn and raised $263M at a $4.1B valuation in 2021, says it is cutting its headcount to ~730 — Vienna-based Bitpanda is the latest crypto player to make job cuts, informing staffers that it will axe hundreds of positions as it face up to a dramatically altered market.
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