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| Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
MacBook Air M2 review: thinner with a better screen and webcam, but gets warm and throttles aggressively under intense workloads; base model has a slower SSD — New design, new display, new processor, new price — After 14 years, three revisions, and two different processor architectures …
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| Michael McSweeney / The Block: |
NFT marketplace OpenSea CEO Devin Finzer says the company laid off ~20% of employees; OpenSea didn't disclose the number impacted but said that 230 staff remain — - NFT marketplace major OpenSea announced layoffs on Thursday. — CEO Devin Finzer said in a statement that “~20% of our team” had been let go.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Google releases Chrome OS Flex, a Chrome OS version for businesses and schools to run on 400+ old PC and Mac models, after fixing 600+ bugs since February 2022 — Businesses and schools can now install Chrome OS on existing hardware — Google is releasing Chrome OS Flex today …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Stripe, last valued by private investors at $95B, told staff it cut its internal share price by 28%, lowering those shares' implied valuation to $74B — Payments processor was last valued at $95 billion — Payments giant Stripe last valued by private investors at $95 billion …
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| Lucy Harley-McKeown / The Block: |
Los Angeles-based Merkle Manufactory, which is developing a “sufficiently decentralized” social network protocol called Farcaster, has raised $30M led by a16z — - Merkle Manufactory has raised $30 million in a round led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z).
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| Ed Shanahan / New York Times: |
A federal jury convicts Vault 7 leaker Joshua Schulte on nine counts, two years after a previous jury failed to agree on eight of the 10 charges he faced then — The top federal prosecutor in Manhattan said Joshua Schulte had engaged in “one of the most brazen and damaging acts of espionage in American history.”
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| Queenie Wong / CNET: |
Meta says Facebook is testing a way for users to create up to five profiles linked to one account and that switching between profiles will require only two taps — The social network says users will be able to add up to five profiles to their Facebook account. — Queenie Wong
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| Katie Paul / Reuters: |
Meta releases its first human rights report, including due diligence in 2020 and 2021 and a summary of a controversial human rights impact assessment of India — Facebook-owner Meta (META.O) released its first annual human rights report on Thursday, following years of accusations that it turned …
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| Leah Nylen / Bloomberg: |
Sources: the US DOJ is likely to reject Alphabet's concessions and file an antitrust lawsuit in the coming weeks over Google's dominance of the online ad market — The US Justice Department is likely to reject concessions offered by Alphabet Inc., clearing the way for an antitrust lawsuit … | Cho Mu-Hyun / ZDNet: |
Samsung says it has developed a new GDDR6 DRAM with a 24Gbps data transfer rate, 30%+ faster than its 18Gbps predecessor, built on its 10nm process using EUV — The new DRAM will allow premium graphics cards to support a data processing rate of up to 1.1TB, Samsung says.
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| Financial Times: |
Former staff and internal documents detail Celsius' implosion; its own compliance unit warned of poor oversight and misrepresentation of financial information — When Daniel Leon, one of the founders of Celsius Network, posted a Twitter video addressed to Warren Buffett in January 2021, he was in high spirits.
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| Nikkei Asia: |
Sources: Intel told customers it will raise prices on most of its CPUs and peripheral chips in autumn due to rising costs; source: prices could rise up to 20% — Customers told move is a response to cost pressures — Intel flagged future “targeted” price rises when it presented its last quarterly earnings in April.| Krisztian Sandor / CoinDesk: |
Circle releases a detailed, but unaudited, breakdown of its reserve assets for USDC, showing $42.1B in short-term US government bonds and $13.6B in cash — The asset breakdown comes at a time when crypto firms and their finances are under increasing scrutiny in the ongoing crypto credit crisis.
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| Reuters: |
TSMC beats Q2 estimates with record net profit up 76.4% YoY to $7.94B and revenue up 36.6% YoY to $18.16B, forecasting revenue growth above the past 10 quarters — Taiwan's TSMC (2330.TW) posted a 76.4% surge in second-quarter profit on Thursday, the biggest jump in earnings in eight quarters …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: activist investor Elliott Management told Pinterest that it has built a stake of 9%+ in the company in recent months; stock is up 15%+ after hours — Activist investor, which has built up a stake of over 9%, has been in discussions with social-media company
Tweets: @stevekovach
| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
India-based OneCard, which offers mobile-first credit cards, raised a $100M+ Series D led by Temasek, source says at a $1.4B+ valuation, up from $750M in Jan. — FPL Technologies, an Indian startup that offers credit cards to customers under the brand name OneCard, is the latest … | Annabelle Dickson / Politico: |
Source: UK's Online Safety Bill is expected to be dropped from parliamentary schedule next week, delaying it until the fall, after Boris Johnson's resignation — LONDON — Progress on Britain's proposed new content regulation law is expected to be delayed until the fall …
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| Lucinda Shen / Axios: |
Pulley, which offers cap table management software, raised a $40M Series B led by Founders Fund at a valuation between $150M and $300M — Pulley, an equity management software company, raised $40 million in Series B funding in a round led by Founders Fund.
Tweets: @shenlucinda and @danprimack
| Martin Matishak / The Record: |
The inaugural report by the DHS Cyber Safety Review Board finds that Log4j has become an “endemic vulnerability” that will persist at least for the next decade — The flaw uncovered late last year in the widely-used Log4j Java library will remain a danger for many years to come … | Joanna Ossinger / Bloomberg: |
JPMorgan: bitcoin's production cost dropped from ~$24K at the start of June to ~$13K now, as miners seek profitability by deploying more efficient mining rigs — Bitcoin's cost of production has dropped from about $24,000 at the start of June to around $13,000 now, which may be seen …
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