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In his first interview, FTX CEO John Ray says he has set up a task force to explore restarting the exchange, saying customers praised its technology, and more — In his first public interview since taking over the failed cryptocurrency exchange, John J. Ray III said that he's open to the idea of rebooting operations
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CoinDesk retains Lazard investment bankers to help the outlet explore its options, including a partial or full sale, after “numerous” indications of interest — Company has ‘received numerous inbound indications of interest,’ CEO Kevin Worth says
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Sources: Peter Thiel's Founders Fund sold most of its crypto portfolio by the end of March 2022, before the crypto market crash, generating ~$1.8B in returns — Billionaire was early mainstream investor in the digital currency but VC fund no longer has significant exposure
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Wikimedia launches an updated Wikipedia design, including improved search and accessibility, a refreshed table of contents, and easier language switching — Wikipedia, one of the world's top 10 most visited websites, and a resource used by billions every month, is getting its first makeover on the desktop in over a decade.
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| Addy Bink / The Hill: |
Amazon plans to close AmazonSmile, launched in 2013 to let customers donate 0.5% of eligible items' purchase prices to a charity, on February 20, 2023 — Amazon will be closing its charity program, AmazonSmile, in the coming weeks in order to “focus its philanthropic giving to programs with greater impact.”
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple is working on an iPad-based smart display, with smart home controls, video, and FaceTime, and a new Apple TV with a faster processor for H1 2024 — Apple Inc. is working on a slate of devices aimed at challenging Amazon.com Inc. and Google in the smart-home market …
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| James Eyers / Australian Financial Review: |
National Australia Bank creates the AUDN stablecoin, the second major Australian bank after ANZ's A$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 … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Instagram rolls out Quiet Mode, which silences notifications, auto-replies to DMs, and informs friends, and plans to prompt teens to enable the feature at night — Instagram announced today it's expanding its selection of time management tools with the launch of a new feature called “Quiet Mode.”
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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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| 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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| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Steam Deck review, after one year, 435 hours playing games, and 100+ updates: Valve has fixed many issues, making play smooth and the device a compelling buy — I'm making a note here: huge success. … The Steam Deck is my favorite gadget of 2022. I have no hesitation in recommending it anymore.| Financial Times: |
Patreon, Substack, and other “passion economy” startups are laying off staff and abandoning fundraising plans; Dealroom: investment fell 75% to $801M in 2022 — Once high-flying start-ups that serve online creators and influencers have been forced into a painful retrenchment …
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| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
While Stadia struggled due to missteps, Google did right by users when closing the service, like by offering full refunds, and other companies should take note — Google made a few mistakes with its Stadia cloud gaming service. … Pay attention, rival companies: this is how you shut down a service right.
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| Chainalysis: |
Analysis: ransomware attackers received at least $456.8M in 2022, a low estimate, down ~40% 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 …
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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.| 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.| Andy Robinson / Video Games Chronicle: |
Sony announces the PlayStation VR2's full launch game lineup, including Tetris Effect and 12 other new titles; the PSVR 2 will not be backwards compatible — 13 NEW TITLES HAVE BEEN REVEALED FOR THE HEADSET — Sony Interactive Entertainment has confirmed the final PlayStation VR 2 launch line-up …
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