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March 11, 2023, 1:01 PM

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Frank Chaparro / The Block:
Circle says $3.3B of its ~$40B USDC reserves remain at Silicon Valley Bank and that the crypto payments firm will follow state and federal regulators' guidance  —  - After being largely silent on Friday, Circle said it has $3.3 billion in exposure to Silicon Valley Bank …
Bloomberg:
Coinbase “temporarily” pauses conversions of USDC into USD during the weekend; USDC depegged and traded at ~$0.90 as investors reacted to Circle's SVB exposure  —  The second-largest stablecoin in crypto fell from its intended $1 peg on Saturday, trading as low as 81.5 cents …
Krisztian Sandor / CoinDesk:
Circle's USDC has seen $1B in net redemptions since SVB's collapse and lost its $1 peg, after Circle said SVB is one of six banks managing USDC cash reserves  —  Stablecoin issuer Circle held an undisclosed amount of USDC's cash reserves at now-failed Silicon Valley Bank.
TechCrunch:
How startup founders are reacting to Silicon Valley Bank's collapse, as some worry about frozen funds, operating expenses, and paying employees full salaries  —  Engineers at Polymath Robotics were working late Wednesday night on multiple projects when co-founder and CEO Stefan Seltz-Axmacher noticed chatter …
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Marc Rubinstein / Net Interest:
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Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch:
How the FBI proved that NetWire was a Remote Access Trojan and not a legitimate remote admin tool, leading to the seizure of the website selling the malware  —  On Thursday, the U.S. government announced that it had seized a website used to sell malware designed to spy on computers and cellphones.
Giovanni Colantonio / Digital Trends:
ChatGPT seems to have plagiarized at least one mobile game to “invent” a game called Sumplete, after being prompted to create a Sudoku-like puzzle  —  ChatGPT can add another job to its résumé: game developer.  With just a few simple prompts from a user …
Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer:
Brazil is seizing shipments of Flipper Zero, a $169 portable security penetration testing tool for wireless devices, due to its alleged use in criminal activity  —  The Brazilian National Telecommunications Agency is seizing incoming Flipper Zero purchases due to its alleged use in criminal activity …

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