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June 28, 2022, 4:00 PM

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Bloomberg:
After freezing withdrawals, crypto exchange CoinFlex plans to issue up to 47M Recovery Value USD tokens, offering a 20% annual return, to repay a $47M debt  —  Cryptocurrency exchange CoinFlex plans to raise funds by issuing a new token that will offer a 20% annual return …
Hadlee Simons / Android Authority:
Arm announces new mobile Armv9 CPUs with improved performance and new GPUs including the flagship Immortalis-G715, its first with hardware-enabled ray-tracing  —  It's that time of the year when industry colossus Arm reveals its new line of CPUs and GPUs that will power the following year's smartphones.
Charlie Warzel / The Atlantic:
a16z's Marc Andreessen and Packy McCormick failing to coherently explain Web3 use cases demonstrates the hollowness of the space, often obscured by boosterism  —  I cannot stop watching crypto profiteers get owned. … I cannot stop watching videos of Web3 boosters failing to explain the usefulness of the technology.
Will Knight / Wired:
A look at DALL-E Mini, a viral image-generation service by Hugging Face based on OpenAI's DALL-E offering good, absurd fun while showing how AI can warp reality  —  The viral image-generation app is good, absurd fun.  It's also giving the world an education in how artificial intelligence may warp reality.
Olivia Snow / Wired:
How SCOTUS overturning Roe could be used to curb online freedoms and surveil vulnerable populations, as happened to sex workers following FOSTA/SESTA in 2018  —  FOSTA/SESTA—laws that deplatformed sex workers—helped build the gallows for overturning Roe v. Wade.
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