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| Rita Liao / TechCrunch: |
OpenSea warns all its users of email phishing attempts after an employee at email vendor Customer.io downloaded and sent email details to an external party — Opensea, the popular NFT marketplace that hit a colossal $13 billion valuation in January, is warning users of email phishing after a data breach.
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Tweets: @opensea, @opensea, @cz_binance, @alexhern, @opensea, @opensea, @irinaheaver, @ahiddensociety, @eclecticmethod, @officer_cia, @troyhunt, @screentimes, @gcluley, @punk6529, @opensea, and @ryancarson
| Yueqi Yang / Bloomberg: |
CoinFlex postpones plans to resume withdrawals, saying they will return “as soon as possible”, as its CEO declines to share how much its rvUSD token has raised — Cryptocurrency exchange CoinFlex won't resume withdrawals Thursday as it had planned as it continues to raise funds …
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Tweets: @rogerkver, @caseynewton, @gmorton512, @arjunkharpal, @thomastthai, and @wallstreetsilv
| Yogita Khatri / The Block: |
Source: FTX walked away from a deal with Celsius after finding the crypto lender had a $2B hole in its balance sheet and was difficult to deal with — - FTX was interested in making a deal with Celsius but walked away because of the state of its finances, two sources told The Block.
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Sources: digital asset trading company Genesis is potentially facing “a few hundred million dollars” in losses, partly through exposure to 3AC and Babel Finance — The DCG-owned trading colossus is said to have suffered nine-figure losses partly through exposure to Three Arrows Capital and Babel Finance.| Joanna Ossinger / Bloomberg: |
Bitcoin is on track for its worst quarter since Q3 2011, plunging 58%, after sliding 6%+ to fall below $19,000 on Thursday, the second time in a fortnight — Bitcoin is on track for its worst quarter in more than a decade, as more hawkish central banks and a string of high-profile crypto blowups hammer sentiment.
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Barron's Online, Bloomberg, CNBC, Cryptonews, Decrypt, Cointelegraph, Decrypt, and CryptoPotato
Tweets: @saylor, @grady_booch, @ercwl, @fomocapdao, and @bigcheds
| Ari Notis / Kotaku: |
Unity lays off “slightly more than 200 people”, or 4% of its workforce, two weeks after the CEO said at an all-hands meeting that there would not be any layoffs — Management at the company behind the free game development engine has been a ‘shit show’ recently, sources say
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Protocol, Bloomberg, Input, Engadget, MCV/DEVELOP, Game Developer, GamesIndustry.biz, Fossbytes, PC Gamer, VentureBeat, and Wccftech
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| Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac: |
Apple says South Korean app developers can now use external payment methods from KCP, Inicis, Toss, and NICE by submitting a new app version, saving 4% in fees — Earlier this year, Apple announced that it would comply with a new law in South Korea that required the company to allow third-party payment providers in App Store apps.
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Tweets: @appfairness, @vladsavov, @johnvoorhees, @bzamayo, and @timsweeneyepic
| Joyce Lee / Reuters: |
Samsung becomes the first company to mass produce 3nm chips, beating TSMC, touting up to 45% lower power usage over 5nm chips, 23% more performance, and more — Samsung Electronics Co Ltd (005930.KS) said on Thursday it has begun mass producing chips with advanced 3-nanometre technology … | Stephen Nellis / Reuters: |
Apple's CarPlay update, demoed at WWDC 2022, will let users tap an app to navigate to a pump and buy gas from its dashboard as early as this fall — Apple Inc (AAPL.O) wants you to start buying gas directly from your car dashboard as early as this fall, when the newest version …
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| Bloomberg: |
Filing: ex-Apple retail chief Ron Johnson's at-home tech setup company Enjoy files for bankruptcy less than a year after a SPAC merger and sells to Asurion — Enjoy Technology Inc., a retail startup founded by former Apple Inc. executive Ron Johnson, filed for bankruptcy on Thursday … | Reuters: |
An investigation details an Indian hacking-for-hire scheme to obtain documents in legal cases, starting in 2013 and targeting 100+ US and European organizations — A trove of thousands of email records uncovered by Reuters reveals Indian cyber mercenaries hacking parties involved …
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The Keyword and BleepingComputer
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| Karen Weise / New York Times: |
Documents show Amazon has restricted items and search results related to LGBTQ people and issues in the UAE, after the Emirati government threatened penalties — Sales of items including flags and books were blocked in the country, where homosexuality is criminalized. — Give this article- - - Read in app
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The Guardian, Protocol, Gizmodo, Engadget, The Verge, ExchangeWire.com, Insider, and BBC
Tweets: @reckless, @jldastin, @rgay, @kyweise, @the_lefty1945, and @oliharris808
| Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: |
Grayscale Investments sues the US SEC after the agency rejected its application on Wednesday to convert its flagship Grayscale Bitcoin Trust product to an ETF — The SEC rejected Grayscale's application to convert its Grayscale Bitcoin Trust to an exchange-traded fund earlier Wednesday.
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Tweets: @sonnenshein, @smdiehl, @bowtiedbull, @jbsdc, @adam3us, @nategeraci, @jenn_rosenthal, @smtuffy, and @bitboy_crypto
| Taylor Hatmaker / TechCrunch: |
YouTube says channels can't hide subscriber counts starting on June 29 to fight fake accounts, and rolls out an “increase strictness” comment moderation setting — Spam isn't a new problem for social media, but everyone seems to agree that it's gotten a lot worse lately.| Wired: |
Section 230 is the last line of defense for abortion speech online, without which platforms could face legal liability for distributing abortion information — Dobbs should be a wake-up call for anyone seeking to undercut the immunity protections afforded by Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act.
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Fight for the Future and Vanity Fair
| Bloomberg: |
Interviews detail Didi's fall due to China's crackdown, losing $60B+ in market cap in one year and blindsiding executives, after its $4.4B US IPO in June 2021 — It was an unusually frigid December weekend when Cheng Wei summoned his inner circle to his Beijing office.
Tweets: @cocojournalist, @karisoo1, and @donweinland
| Zeke Faux / Bloomberg: |
An in-depth look at the 2016 Bitfinex hack and US government's case against Ilya Lichtenstein and Heather Morgan, aka Razzlekhan, over alleged money laundering — The hackers had been inside the Bitfinex servers for weeks before attempting the heist. They'd watched users on the cryptocurrency exchange buy and sell Bitcoins.
Tweets: @kaileyleinz, @chafkin, @oliviasolon, @cfarivar, @zekefaux, @oliviasolon, @crypto, and @latseema
| Bloomberg: |
EU lawmakers provisionally agree on anti-laundering rules for crypto, requiring verified customer identities for transfers between regulated digital wallets — The European Parliament and Council reached a provisional agreement to force crypto providers to provide identifying information …
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Bitcoinist.com, CoinDesk, PYMNTS.com, CryptoSlate, The Block, Coinspeaker, Silicon Republic, Reuters, and Decrypt
Tweets: @ernesturtasun, @okovarikmep, @mhiesboeck, @mhiesboeck, @gladstein, @theguyswann, @ernesturtasun, @paultang, and @samrusani
| Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: |
London-based Snowplow Analytics, which helps companies collect and analyze customer data, raised a $40M Series B led by NEA, bringing its total funding to $55M — Snowplow Analytics Ltd., a startup that helps businesses collect and own their customer data, said today it has closed …
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VentureBeat, TechCrunch, and Snowplow
| Raffaele Huang / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Tencent, ByteDance, and others lay off thousands of employees, after Chinese internet companies cut tens of thousands during regulatory crackdowns — Latest round of job cuts at Chinese tech giants comes even as Beijing signals easing of its regulatory campaign against the sector| Financial Times: |
An investigation details an operation by Chinese hacking group APT40 to lure graduates who studied English into translating stolen documents via a front company — FT investigation reveals student translators were targeted by front company for Beijing-backed hacking group APT40
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Bob's Newsletter. Tweets: @maxseddon, @lehtior2, @greenmiranda, @mattgarrahan, @howelloneill, @razhael, @jchengwsj, and @lukolejnik
| Wall Street Journal: |
Researchers warn that some businesses exaggerate AI's capabilities, brewing misunderstanding and distorting policymakers' views of AI's power and fallibility — Google, Meta and OpenAI are investing heavily in the technology, which is increasingly capturing the public imagination
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Newslit Daily and Fossbytes
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