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July 6, 2022, 4:55 PM

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CoinDesk:
Toronto-based crypto lender Voyager Digital files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in New York, estimating it has 100,000+ creditors and $1B-$10B in assets  —  The Toronto-based lender filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in New York late Tuesday.  —  Crypto lender Voyager Digital filed …
Ryan Browne / CNBC:
Joe Rossignol / MacRumors:
Apple announces Lockdown Mode in iOS 16, iPadOS 16, and macOS Ventura to protect against “highly targeted cyberattacks” by disabling features, apps, and more  —  Apple today announced a new Lockdown Mode coming to the iPhone, iPad, and Mac with iOS 16, iPadOS 16, and macOS Ventura.
Ryan Weeks / The Block:
Sources: a senior Axie Infinity engineer was duped by a fake LinkedIn job ad before downloading a PDF containing spyware, leading to the $600M+ Ronin hack  —  - Hackers duped a senior engineer at Axie Infinity into applying for a job at a fictitious company.
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Amazon partners with Just Eat Takeaway to offer a free one-year Grubhub+ subscription to US Prime members; Amazon gets equity in Grubhub; DoorDash drops 9%+  —  Amazon tried but then ultimately stepped away from building its own cost-intensive Grubhub and DoorDash competitor in the U.S. back in 2019.
Ryan Browne / CNBC:
The UK's CMA opens an antitrust investigation into Microsoft's proposed Activision Blizzard acquisition, setting a September 1 deadline for its initial decision  —  - It marks one of the first probes by a major antitrust enforcer into the $68.7 billion deal, which was announced in January.
Wall Street Journal:
Experts say a dashboard for managing the Shanghai police database was left exposed from April 2021 to June 2022, letting a hacker steal data on nearly 1B people  —  Cybersecurity experts say error allowed theft of records of nearly 1 billion people, leading to $200,000 ransom note
Javier Espinoza / Financial Times:
Sources: Amazon will share more data with rivals and offer buyers a wider choice of products to assuage EU antitrust regulators, ending two high-profile probes  —  Agreement set to give more information to online platform's third-party sellers and close two probes
Sky News:
James Vincent / The Verge:
Meta open sources its AI translation model, which works across 200 languages, as part of its ambitious R&D project to create a “universal speech translator”  —  Meta's ambition to build a ‘universal translator’ continue  —  Social media conglomerate Meta has created …
Leah Nylen / Bloomberg:
The DOJ hires former Microsoft chief economist Susan Athey as its top antitrust economist; sources say Athey will likely be recused from Apple and Google cases  —  Susan Athey, a Stanford University professor and former chief economist at Microsoft Corp., is joining the Justice Department as its top antitrust economist.
Yueqi Yang / Bloomberg:
Crypto exchange Bitstamp plans to charge a monthly €10 fee for non-US accounts that are inactive for one year with a balance below €200, starting on August 1  —  Crypto exchange Bitstamp plans to charge a monthly “inactivity fee” for certain users, as the market downturn weighs on trading volume in the industry.
Dan Milmo / The Guardian:
The UK proposes an Online Safety Bill amendment forcing tech companies to remove CSAM or Ofcom will fine them up to £18M or 10% of their annual turnover  —  Amendment to online safety bill would require tech firms to make their ‘best endeavours’ to deploy new technology
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