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Kim Kardashian settles with the SEC for $1.26M after not reporting a $250K payment to promote EthereumMax on Instagram and won't promote crypto for three years — - Kim Kardashian agreed to pay more than $1 million to settle SEC charges for failing to disclose a payment she received for touting a crypto asset on Instagram.
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| Kadhim Shubber / Financial Times: |
Sources: Celsius founder Alex Mashinsky withdrew $10M from the crypto lender weeks before the company froze user accounts; a source says ~$8M was used for taxes — Scrutiny of Alex Mashinsky grows after crypto lender was left with hole in balance sheet — Celsius Network founder Alex … | Takashi Mochizuki / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Sony plans to make 2M PlayStation VR2 units by March 2023, an ambitious target, and has not yet faced supply chain constraints — Sony Group Corp. plans to make 2 million units of the PlayStation VR2 headset by March next year, people familiar with the matter said …
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| Cristina Criddle / Financial Times: |
Filings: TikTok's European business reports $990M revenue in 2021, up from $172M in 2020, and a $896M loss due to increased spending on its 4,396 staff — Social media platform records revenues of more than $990mn after recruiting thousands more staff — TikTok increased its European …
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Research: Pegasus attacks on Mexican activists and reporters from 2019-2021 used 0-click exploits, after Mexico's president called Pegasus a thing of the past — Key Takeaways — Mexican digital rights organization R3D (Red en los Defensa de los Derechos Digitales) …
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The Vice Society ransomware gang publishes data allegedly from the Los Angeles Unified School District, after the school system did not pay the ransom — The Vice Society Ransomware gang published data and documents Sunday morning that were stolen from the Los Angeles Unified School District during a cyberattack earlier this month.
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| Morgan Meaker / Wired: |
A look at the fake online traffic business, as some ad exchanges look the other way and advertisers are embarrassed to admit they purchased fraudulent inventory — Botmasters have created a Kafkaesque system where companies are paying huge sums to show their ads to bots. And everyone is fine with this.| Ivan Levingston / Bloomberg: |
A profile of Checkout.com founder and CEO Guillaume Pousaz, who owns 60% of the $40B London-based payments company and has begun investing in fintech startups — A college dropout from Switzerland has amassed a $14 billion fortune to become one of the country's richest people by creating a rising star in electronic payments.| Mureji Fatunde / Bloomberg: |
Tally Technologies, which uses AI to automate credit card payments, raised an $80M Series D led by Sway Ventures at an $855M valuation, up from $280M in 2019 — Tally Technologies Inc., a startup that automates credit card payments, has tripled its valuation to $855 million in a funding round led by Sway Ventures.| Elizabeth Dwoskin / Washington Post: |
From shutting down services only in Texas to letting users opt out of hateful content, tech companies are gaming out responses to the state's social media law — Experts said the measure, which bars companies from moderating content, could prove challenging for platforms to deal with
Tweets: @blakersdozen, @edbott, @dsilverman, @ctblogger, and @washingtonpost
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UK-based blockchain gaming startup Improbable, which raised $500M from SoftBank in 2017, is close to raising £100M at a £3B+ valuation, up from £2.5B in 2018 — UK company has abandoned struggle to make video games and turned to creating virtual-world technology| Steve Dent / Engadget: |
University of Illinois, Amazon, Apple, Google, Meta, and others launch the Speech Accessibility Project, aiming to improve voice recognition for disabled users — The University of Illinois (UIUC) has partnered with Amazon, Apple, Google, Meta, Microsoft and nonprofits on the Speech Accessibility Project.
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