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Filing: Twitter says Elon Musk's counterclaims “are factually inaccurate, legally insufficient, and commercially irrelevant” and don't justify ending the deal — We still don't have Elon Musk's response to Twitter's lawsuit over his efforts to back out of his $44 billion acquisition … | Wall Street Journal: |
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A New York judge allows Voyager Digital to return $270M in customer cash deposits, settling one of the company's larger issues after filing for bankruptcy — Crypto broker got bankruptcy court approval to return cash deposits — Cryptocurrency brokerage firm Voyager Digital Holdings Inc. secured approval … | CoinDesk: |
How crypto developer Ian Macalinao posed as 11 independent devs and created a web of DeFi protocols that temporarily inflated the total value locked on Solana — The Macalinao brothers used a web of bogus identities to create the illusion of a dev community, juicing value on the Saber protocol and Solana blockchain.| Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land: |
Google updates search results for queries with quotes to show where the phrase appears in the results snippet instead of an overall description of the page — Now Google will now show the quoted text in the snippet where that exact phrase appears on the page.| Nelson Wang / CoinDesk: |
Block reports Q2 revenue down 6.6% YoY to $4.4B, $2.62B net revenue excluding bitcoin, and Cash App bitcoin revenue down 34% YoY to $1.79B; stock is down 5%+ — Despite beating projections, the payments company said its overall revenue fell because of a decrease in bitcoin revenue.| Michelle Price / Reuters: |
Visa and Mastercard end ties with the ad arm of Pornhub owner MindGeek, after a court ruled Visa must face a lawsuit alleging it is liable for CSAM distribution — Visa (V.N) and Mastercard (MA.N) on Thursday said they had suspended ties with the advertisement arm of MindGeek … | Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Microsoft is testing a Game Pass widget on Windows 11 for showing games that have been recently added, are leaving soon, from certain categories, and more — Microsoft's first new Windows 11 widget — Microsoft's first new Windows 11 widget should make it even easier to find out which games are coming to PC Game Pass.| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
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A staff member from Senator Cynthia Lummis' office says the SEC is investigating Binance and every US crypto exchange, including Coinbase — Widely circulated reports that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is investigating $20 billion crypto exchange Coinbase are just the tip of the iceberg … | Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Clubhouse starts beta testing private communities called Houses, which can be created by a person or group looking for a more intimate alternative to Clubs — Clubhouse, the social audio app that rose in popularity amid the pandemic, is looking to shake up its platform with the launch of private communities called “Houses.”| Andrew Romero / 9to5Google: |
YouTube is testing pinch to zoom with its Premium subscribers, allowing users to zoom into a video on-screen, even in landscape mode — YouTube has a program that allows Premium subscribers to access brand new features that aren't quite fully baked. Today, YouTube dropped a new one called … | Joanna Ossinger / Bloomberg: |
Crypto bridge Nomad says anyone returning at least 90% of stolen tokens will be viewed as a white-hat hacker and the remaining 10% will become the reward — Cryptocurrency company Nomad is offering a bounty to recoup funds spirited away in a $190 million hack that again highlighted security vulnerabilities in the digital-token sector.| Andrew Hayward / Decrypt: |
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Cloudflare reports Q2 revenue up 54% YoY to $234.5M, vs. $227.3M est., a $63.5M net loss, and forecast for both Q3 and 2022 above estimates; stock rises 20%+ — Cloudflare Inc. shares surged in the extended session Thursday after the cybersecurity company reported results … | Michael Bodley / Blockworks: |
Sources: EU-based hedge fund Brevan Howard has raised $1B+ from institutional investors for its crypto unit BH Digital, in the largest crypto hedge fund launch — - The inaugural fund's performance has held up quite well, on a relative basis to the market, sources said| Reuters: |
As Nancy Pelosi visited Taiwan, cyberattacks from China and Russia increased on the island; some 7-11 store TVs displayed “Warmonger Pelosi, get out of Taiwan!” — As U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi made a brief visit to Taiwan this week that enraged Beijing …
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