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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 …
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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.
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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
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The UK's CMA opens an investigation into whether Amazon distorts competition by favoring its own retail business or sellers that use its Prime services — Amazon is being investigated by Britain's antitrust watchdog over concerns that some of its practices in the UK may be anticompetitive and result in a worse deal for customers.
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Sources: the US is lobbying the Netherlands to ban ASML from selling its older deep ultraviolet lithography systems for making less-advanced chips to China — The US is pushing the Netherlands to ban ASML Holding NV from selling to China mainstream technology essential in making a large chunk … | 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.
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NIST selects four encryption algorithms designed to withstand future quantum computing hacking threats and underpin its future cryptography standards by 2024 — For years, the National Institute for Standards and Technology have been working on a project to identify and vet a handful …
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Meta fintech head Stephane Kasriel says the company still plans to add NFT support to let creators monetize via cross-platform “memberships” and “subscriptions” — Social media group not adjusting ambitions ‘in any way’ despite crypto crash, says head of fintech
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Experts say a dashboard used to manage the Shanghai police database was left exposed from April 2021 to June 2022, letting a hacker steal details on ~1B people — Cybersecurity experts say error allowed theft of records of nearly 1 billion people, leading to $200,000 ransom note
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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 …
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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.| 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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