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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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| 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.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Snapchat rolls out parental controls through a new Family Center feature, letting parents see who teens are talking to, but not view the content of the messages — Snapchat today is rolling out its first set of parental controls, after announcing last October it was developing tools …
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Report: Samsung plans to make an additional $3.3B investment in Vietnam in 2022 to produce semiconductor components by July 2023 and open an R&D center in Hanoi — Samsung Electronics plans to make an additional US$3.3 billion investment in Vietnam this year, enabling the South Korean technology giant … | Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac: |
WhatsApp now lets users delete a private or group chat message up to two days and 12 hours after sending it; before, users had 1 hour, 8 minutes, and 16 seconds — While iMessage is getting the option to “unsend” messages for the first time with iOS 16 beta, WhatsApp already provides a similar feature.
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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 …
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| Brad Stone / Bloomberg: |
Amazon's planned acquisitions of iRobot and One Medical are emblematic of Andy Jassy's hunt for a so-called fourth “pillar,” beyond AWS, Prime, and Marketplace — Amazon has snapped up robotic vacuum maker iRobot, undaunted by antitrust concerns. But first:| Wall Street Journal: |
Despite YouTube suspending hundreds of Kremlin-linked channels, Russia has yet to ban the service, some argue because the Kremlin views it as too big to block — Access to the video site allows Russians access to one of the few sources of independent information about the Ukraine war| 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 … | Andrew Romero / 9to5Google: |
Oppo and OnePlus halt sales in Germany after a court found in July 2022 the two companies used 5G technology without paying for the appropriate Nokia patents — Oppo - an OEM that has a far-reaching consumer base - has officially withdrawn from selling devices in Germany.
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| 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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