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Meta details influence operations from Russia, impersonating news websites to spread anti-Ukraine content in Europe, and China, targeting the US and Czechia — Russia set up a sprawling and sophisticated network of websites impersonating mainstream media outlets, which it used …
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| Bloomberg: |
FTX US wins the auction for bankrupt crypto brokerage Voyager Digital's assets with a bid valued at ~$1.4B, including an “additional consideration” worth ~$111M — FTX US, the digital-asset exchange founded by billionaire Sam Bankman-Fried, won the auction for the assets of bankrupt crypto brokerage Voyager Digital Ltd.| Jamie Crawley / CoinDesk: |
Study: in January 2022, 62.4% of bitcoin mining electricity came from fossil fuels, contradicting the Bitcoin Mining Council's estimate that ~59% is sustainable — The CCAF uses publicly available data to run a theoretical model to estimate the environmental footprint of bitcoin mining.
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| Angus Whitley / Bloomberg: |
As the Optus hacker appears to release data of 10,000 customers, Optus CEO Kelly Bayer Rosmarin says the Australian police are investigating a ransom demand — Australian mobile-phone company Optus said authorities are investigating an online ransom demand following a major data hack … | Cameron Thompson / CoinDesk: |
Robinhood releases its non-custodial, Polygon-based crypto wallet, Robinhood Wallet, in beta to 10,000 users who signed up in May — Robinhood has been steadily moving away from its original “walled garden” approach to crypto over the past year. — No-fee trading platform Robinhood …
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Meta begins testing a single interface to manage Facebook and Instagram accounts and streamlines registration to help users create accounts on both services — - Meta is testing new features intended to help people more easily manage their Facebook and Instagram accounts via one interface.
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| Michael McSweeney / The Block: |
California, New York, and other states take action against crypto lender Nexo, from sending cease and desists to suing, focusing on interest-bearing accounts — A group of U.S. state regulators announced an array of legal actions against crypto lender Nexo on Monday.| On Substack: |
Substack launches Reader for the web with search, keyboard shortcuts, dark mode, recommendations, and an “Add RSS feed” feature for non-Substack publications — Revenge of RSS — There's a new reading experience waiting for you at Substack.com.
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Flatfile, which automates onboarding, structuring, and cleaning data, raised a $50M Series B led by Tiger Global, bringing its total funding to $94.7M — Data cleansing — prepping data for applications like predictive analytics — takes time. In fact, data scientists spend an estimated 60% …
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Cloud storage startup Wasabi, which competes with AWS' S3, raised a $250M Series D, or $125M equity, led by L2 Point, and $125M debt, at a $1.1B+ valuation — The cloud services sector is still dominated by Amazon and the other so-called “hyperscalers” — e.g. the Microsoft Azures, Google Cloud Platforms and IBM Clouds of the world.
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| Mike Masnick / Techdirt: |
A subreddit with 1.5M members, r/PoliticalHumor, challenges Texas' content moderation law by mandating that comments include “Greg Abbott is a little piss baby” — Last year, I tried to create a “test suite” of websites that any new internet regulation ought to be “tested” against.
Tweets: @mmasnick, @genefortexas, @tentonheart, @peteccde, @espiers, @oneunderscore__, and @mmasnick
| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Chinese startup Nreal launches its $379 Air AR glasses in the US, adding iPhone support with a $59 dongle, expanding on the $599 Nreal Light glasses from 2021 — Augmented reality company Nreal is launching its stripped-down Air glasses in the United States.
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VentureBeat, Ars Technica, XDA Developers, Engadget, Android Central, Android Central, Digital Trends, and ARPost
| Justin Ling / Wired: |
A look at the vote on the new head of the UN's International Telecommunications Union between a US and Russian candidate, and its implications for the open web — UN countries are preparing to pick a new head of the International Telecommunications Union. Who wins could shape the open web's future.
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