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The US Treasury sanctions crypto mixing service Tornado Cash and 44 related ETH and USDC wallets, citing their use in high-profile hacks, such as by North Korea — - The Treasury is sanctioning DeFi mixing service, Tornado Cash. — The move is the agency's second sanction of a mixing service.
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| Carly Page / TechCrunch: |
Twilio discloses “unauthorized access” on August 4 by a “sophisticated” unknown actor using an SMS-based phishing attack on staff to gain info on some accounts — Communications giant Twilio has confirmed hackers accessed customer data after successfully tricking employees …
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The Verge, SiliconANGLE, BleepingComputer, The Register, Protocol, CRN, CyberScoop, Security Affairs, Bloomberg, BleepingComputer, and GovInfoSecurity.com
Tweets: @zackwhittaker, @ucc_ed, @mikko, @tonyajoriley, @hackingdave, @zackwhittaker, @cz_binance, @hackinglz, @racheltobac, @racheltobac, @zackwhittaker, and @pyrotek3
| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Apple adds option to show battery percentage in the status bar on select iPhones in iOS 16 beta 5, after removing it for models with notches at iPhone X's debut — The battery percentage has finally been added back to the status bar with today's release of iOS 16 beta 5.
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Tweets: @scaryifliteral, @zacbowden, @mikebeas, @bzamayo, @journeydan, @apollozac, @jonyiveparody, and @jeffbenjam
| Ashley Capoot / CNBC: |
Nvidia reports Q2 preliminary earnings, showing $6.7B revenue, down 19% from Q1 and below its $8.1B guidance, driven by lagging gaming revenue; stock drops 7%+ — - Nvidia shares dipped Monday after the company released preliminary earnings that show early second-quarter revenue of $6.7 billion, well below its outlook of $8.1 billion.
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NVIDIA, Ars Technica, The Verge, PCMag, Barron's Online, PC Gamer, Dow Jones Newswires, Bloomberg, and Reuters
Tweets: @mylesudland and @firstadopter
| Jack Stebbins / CNBC: |
Apptopia: Netflix's games have 23.3M downloads and average 1.7M DAUs, under 1% of Netflix's 221M subscribers; Netflix plans to have 50 games by the end of 2022 — - Netflix plans to expand its video game catalog from 24 to 50 by year-end, marking a significant investment.| Sam Nussey / Reuters: |
SoftBank reports a ~$17.23B loss for Vision Fund in Q1 2022, as the value of its tech portfolio fell, including SenseTime and Uber, after a record Q4 2021 loss — SoftBank Group Corp (9984.T) on Monday posted a 2.33 trillion yen ($17.23 billion) loss at its Vision Fund unit in the April-June quarter …
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SoftBank Group Corp.. More:
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Filings: Apple spent $33M in fiscal 2021 and $169M in 2022 to date on acquisition payments, down from $1.5B in 2020, a dramatic slowdown in its dealmaking — Apple Inc., which used to acquire a company every three or four weeks, has dramatically slowed its dealmaking in the past two years …
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Philip Elmer‑DeWitt, PhoneArena, MacRumors, Patently Apple, AppleInsider, MacDailyNews, and 9to5Mac
Tweets: @markgurman and @counternotions
| Sankalp Phartiyal / Bloomberg: |
Sources: India plans to restrict Chinese smartphone makers from selling devices below ~$150 to boost its domestic industry, impacting Xiaomi, Realme, and others — India seeks to restrict Chinese smartphone makers from selling devices cheaper than 12,000 rupees ($150) to kickstart …
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PingWest, Neowin, Inc42 Media, and BGR India
Tweets: @varunkrish, @dattaameet, @mhaskarchief, @byron_wan, @neiltwitz, @baxiabhishek, @counternotions, @r3dash, and @parkyprakhar
| Olga Kharif / Bloomberg: |
A look at potential Ethereum forks, led by some miners, who face grim prospects after the Merge to a proof-of-stake model that's expected as early as September — A monkey wrench is about to be thrown into the already complicated transition that the Ethereum blockchain is slated to go through soon.
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The Block, CryptoSlate, The Block, CoinDesk, The Daily Hodl, CoinDesk, Decrypt, Bloomberg, Crypto Briefing, and The Crypto Basic
Tweets: @justinsuntron, @hasufl, @barrysilbert, @jackniewold, @galois_capital, @econoar, @chainlinkgod, @hsakatrades, @dennis_porter_, @dennis_porter_, @jackniewold, @ntmoney, @justinsuntron, @econoar, @hsakatrades, @galois_capital, @muneeb, @_checkmatey_, @pseudotheos, @adietrichs, @kevinsekniqi, @petejkim, @seldo, @jackniewold, @fatmanterra, @laurashin, and @hosseeb
| Patrick Coffee / Wall Street Journal: |
Lyft forms Lyft Media, a business unit to consolidate and expand its ad offerings, and plans to show more ads in cars, on its app, and at bike-share stations — Through its Lyft Media unit, the ride-hailing company plans to offer more ads inside cars, on its app and at bike-share stations
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Lyft, TechCrunch, PYMNTS.com, and WeRSM
Tweets: @itstheannmarie, @megancgraham, @counternotions, @om, and @patrickcoffee
| Wall Street Journal: |
A profile of Celsius CEO Alex Mashinsky, as the company goes bankrupt; sources say he is a brash entrepreneur who has left many investors and colleagues unhappy — Entrepreneur proposed a stream of moonshot ideas in different industries over many years—and frequently left a string of unhappy colleagues and investors
Tweets: @vlajournaliste, @donnaredel, @yoda, @mikealfred, and @ahcastor
| Reuters: |
Filing: Qualcomm agrees to buy an additional $4.2B in chips from GlobalFoundries' upstate New York factory, bringing its total commitment to $7.4B through 2028 — Qualcomm (QCOM.O) and GlobalFoundries (GFS.O) signed an agreement on Monday to more than double their existing long-term manufacturing agreement …
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