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August 9, 2022, 2:50 AM

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Kollen Post / The Block:
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.
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 …
Chance Miller / 9to5Mac:
iOS 16 beta 5 adds an option to show the battery percentage in the status bar on some iPhones, after Apple removed it for notched models at the 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.
Kate Park / TechCrunch:
Crypto.com says it secured registrations to operate as a virtual asset service provider in South Korea, and acquires two local startups for undisclosed amounts  —  Singapore-based cryptocurrency platform Crypto.com has acquired two startups in South Korea — payment service provider PnLink …
Brad Stone / Bloomberg:
Nikita Mazurov / The Intercept:
Amazon's registries for weddings, birthdays, new babies, and more are publicly visible by default, a sensitive personal data one-stop shop for identity thieves  —  Imagine if a budding identity thief had a free, user-friendly, publicly searchable database that contained the name, location …
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.

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