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CoinDesk retains investment bankers at Lazard to help the outlet explore options including a partial or full sale after “numerous” indications of interest — Company has ‘received numerous inbound indications of interest,’ CEO Kevin Worth says — CoinDesk Inc. …
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Sources: Genesis creditors are negotiating a bankruptcy plan with the firm and weighing a one to two-year forbearance period in exchange for cash and DCG equity — - Genesis creditors are negotiating the terms of a possible Chapter 11 filing, according to sources close to the matter.| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple is working on an iPad-based smart display, with smart home controls, video, and FaceTime, and a new Apple TV with a faster processor for H1 2024 — Apple Inc. is working on a slate of devices aimed at challenging Amazon.com Inc. and Google in the smart-home market …
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| Financial Times: |
Sources: Peter Thiel's Founders Fund sold most of its crypto portfolio by the end of March 2022, before the crypto market crash, generating ~$1.8B in returns — Billionaire was early mainstream investor in the digital currency but VC fund no longer has significant exposure
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| Addy Bink / The Hill: |
Amazon plans to close AmazonSmile, launched in 2013 to let customers donate 0.5% of eligible items' purchase prices to a charity, on February 20, 2023 — Amazon will be closing its charity program, AmazonSmile, in the coming weeks in order to “focus its philanthropic giving to programs with greater impact.”
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| James Eyers / Australian Financial Review: |
National Australia Bank creates the AUDN stablecoin, the second major Australian bank after ANZ's A$DC, letting customers settle transactions on the blockchain — National Australia Bank has become the second of the major banks to create a stablecoin, called the AUDN, to allow its business customers … | Reuters: |
The US Treasury's FinCEN unit labels crypto exchange Bitzlato as a “money laundering concern” related to Russian illicit finance; French police seize Bitzlato — The U.S. Treasury Department's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network on Wednesday said it has identified virtual …
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| New York Times: |
Crypto investors say Sam Bankman-Fried frequently promoted and manipulated “Samcoins”, including Solana, Serum, FTT, and Maps, to benefit FTX and Alameda — Sam Bankman-Fried found ways to control the prices of digital coins to benefit his companies, FTX and Alameda, according to cryptocurrency investors.
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| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Mailchimp says a hacker accessed data on 133 accounts via a staff social engineering attack, first detected on January 11, its second breach in six months — Email marketing and newsletter giant Mailchimp says it was hacked and that dozens of customers' data was exposed.| Eric Newcomer / Newcomer: |
Analysis: Series B valuations fell 50% from a $250M median in Q1 2022 to a $125M median in Q4 2022; Q4 2022's VC activity by volume resembled that of Q2 2020 — Series B valuations were cut in half from the first quarter of 2022 to the last — Early-stage startups finally got the message …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Wikimedia launches an updated Wikipedia design, including improved search and accessibility, a refreshed table of contents, and easier language switching — Wikipedia, one of the world's top 10 most visited websites, and a resource used by billions every month, is getting its first makeover on the desktop in over a decade.
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| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Twitter launches Blue on Android for $11 per month, the same as iOS and $3 more than the web, after launching an annual subscription — A day after launching an annual Twitter Blue subscription, the social media company made the paid plan available for purchase for Android users today.
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| Chainalysis: |
Analysis: ransomware attackers received at least ~$457M in 2022, a low estimate, down from ~$766M in 2020 and 2021, as victims increasingly refuse to pay — 2022 was an impactful year in the fight against ransomware. Ransomware attackers extorted at least $456.8 million from victims in 2022, down from $765.6 million the year before.
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| Sam Reynolds / CoinDesk: |
Crypto exchange OKX reports $7.5B in reserves excluding its token; CryptoQuant rates OKX as 100% “clean”, not relying on its native token, while Binance is 87% — The Proof-of-Reserves-Report shows reserves are largely spread between bitcoin, ether, and USDT.
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OKX, Decrypt, crypto.news, CryptoPotato, City A.M., CoinJournal, and CryptoSlate
| Chris Stokel-Walker / Nature: |
Journal editors, researchers, and publishers are debating the role of AI tools like ChatGPT in published literature and whether they should be cited as authors — Chris Stokel-Walker is a freelance journalist in Newcastle, UK. — You can also search for this author in — PubMed Google Scholar
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| Katie Notopoulos / BuzzFeed News: |
Andrew Bosworth talks about Meta's decision to discontinue Portal and how the company nearly made a deal to license Portal's tech and platform to Amazon in 2020 — Meta's CTO Andrew Bosworth told BuzzFeed News how a deal to keep the Portal software going almost happened.| Digiday: |
Similarweb: Twitter referral traffic to 12 major news outlets fell 12% on average from November 2022 to December 2022; only traffic to NY Post and Fox News grew — Under the leadership of Elon Musk, Twitter's role as a traffic referral source to publishers' sites is largely declining.
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Nieman Lab. Tweets: @mattmcgee, @martyswant, @mehdirhasan, @timgatt, @dimensionmedia, @anthony, @mattnavarra, @martyswant, and @digiday
| Nate Freeman / Vanity Fair: |
A look at the art world's deal-with-the-devil approach to the NFT market, after allegations that FTX bought the $24.4M trove of 107 Bored Apes NFTs at Sotheby's — Auction houses and talent agencies thought the Web3 works were a fast track to billions. If it weren't for a global crypto meltdown, they might have pulled it off.
Tweets: @vanityfair, @agreenberg, and @ryder_ripps
| Jennifer Gollan / ProPublica: |
An analysis of 11 online pharmacies selling abortion pills: at least nine use third-party trackers such as Google Analytics to collect and share sensitive data — Some sites selling abortion pills use technology that shares information with third parties like Google.
Tweets: @joshchin, @williamcson, @privacydigest, @jennifergollan, @robinmarty, @cakitchener, @propublica, and @katienotopoulos
| Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: |
Cybersecurity firm Sophos lays off 10% of its global workforce and sources say ~450 employees were let go; Thoma Bravo acquired Sophos for $3.9B in March 2020 — Sophos is laying off about 10% of its global workforce, TechCrunch has learned. Sophos confirmed the layoffs in an email to TechCrunch.
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