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June 9, 2023, 7:10 PM
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Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk:
The US DOJ unseals a 2019 indictment charging two Russians with stealing ~647K BTC in the Mt. Gox hack and a 2016 filing charging one of them with running BTC-e  —  One of the individuals also operated BTC-e, the DOJ alleged.  —  The U.S. Department of Justice charged Russian nationals Alexey Bilyuchenko …
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A database on Microsoft's Xandr containing 650K “audience segments” reveals how data brokers classify consumers by surveilling their online and offline activity  —  A spreadsheet on ad platform Xandr's website revealed a massive collection of “audience segments” …
Isabella Simonetti / Wall Street Journal:
Antenna: Netflix gained more US subscribers from May 25 to May 28, after its password-sharing crackdown began, than in any other four days since at least 2019  —  Shortly after change, company had highest rate of sign-ups since Antenna began tracking data in 2019
MK Manoylov / The Block:
Robinhood plans to end support for Solana, Polygon, and Cardano on June 27, following a company review in light of the SEC lawsuits against Coinbase and Binance  —  - Robinhood will no longer support Solana, Polygon or Cardano after June 27, 2023 at 6:59 p.m. ET.
Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security:
Barracuda asked its customers on June 6 to replace impacted Email Security Gateway appliances immediately, after patching a zero-day vulnerability on May 20  —  It's not often that a zero-day vulnerability causes a network security vendor to urge customers to physically remove and decommission …
Jon Porter / The Verge:
Spotify is testing Your Offline Mix, a new playlist feature that automatically saves a mix of users' recently played songs for offline listening  —  / The playlist is described in the app as ‘a mix of recently played songs for when the vibe is high but your connection is low.’
Rahat Sandhu / Reuters:
Binance.US suspends USD deposits and tells customers to withdraw their USD funds as its banking partners could stop fiat withdrawal channels as early as June 13  —  Binance.US on Thursday said the company is suspending USD deposits while notifying customers that their banking partners …
Naomi Nix / Washington Post:
Source: a Meta survey in May 2023 found that 26% of employees expressed confidence in leadership and 43% said they felt valued, vs. 31% and 58% in October 2022  —  The Facebook parent company is betting that more job security and innovations in artificial intelligence will boost the internal mood as well as the company's bottom line
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Karissa Bell / Engadget:
In an AMA about Reddit's API changes, the company's CEO said Reddit can't “subsidize commercial entities”, criticized the Apollo developer's behavior, and more  —  “We'll continue to be profit-driven until profits arrive,” he said.  —  Reddit CEO Steve Huffman has finally spoken publicly …
Juli Clover / MacRumors:
Apollo's developer plans to shut down the Reddit client on June 30, saying “Reddit's recent decisions and actions” make it impossible for Apollo to continue
Vitalik Buterin:
Ethereum must undergo three transitions while evolving from a young experimental technology into a mature tech stack: L2 scaling, wallet security, and privacy  —  Special thanks to Dan Finlay, Karl Floersch, David Hoffman, and the Scroll and SoulWallet teams for feedback and review and suggestions.
Rosie Perper / CoinDesk:
Kraken launches Kraken NFT, a marketplace with 250+ NFT collections across the Ethereum, Solana, and Polygon blockchains, after a beta started in November 2022  —  Now out of its public beta test, the platform has expanded to include over 250 NFT collections.
Sean Hollister / The Verge:
Logitech plans to merge Astro and Blue Microphones into Logitech G and retire the Blue brand, saying “the Blue name will be used to describe our technologies”  —  Now, it's merging both into its Logitech G brand for gamers and streamers — but while Astro will largely continue, the Blue brand is getting axed.

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Deadline:
A US district court judge says she plans to issue a ruling by July 22 on state AGs' request for a temporary stay that would pause the Paramount-WBD merger

The Athletic:
A profile of ESPN analyst Matt Miller, who is accused of stiffing winners of his charity fantasy football leagues and was nearly killed in a car crash in June

Patrick Hipes / Deadline:
Sinclair-owned TV stations affiliated with ABC and NBC aired Trump's speech about elections, using Sinclair's feed; Sinclair owns or operates 177 stations

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Bloomberg:
A look at Japan's expanding chip sector, aided by $14B+ in subsidies, including for TSMC's plant in Kumamoto, which has been hampered by narrow, jammed roads
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
EvenUp, whose AI tool generates legal documents to assess personal injury cases, raised a $50.5M Series B led by Bessemer Venture Partners at a $325M valuation
Ina Fried / Axios:
Mark Zuckerberg shared with employees Meta's plan to add generative AI text, image, and video tools to its products, such as Messenger, WhatsApp, and Instagram
Sam Sabin / Axios:
Google releases a conceptual framework for companies to quickly secure their AI systems against hackers trying to manipulate AI models or steal AI training data
William Turvill / Press Gazette:
Google plans to launch News Showcase, first announced in October 2020, in the US later this summer, alongside partnerships with five local news associations
David Pierce / The Verge:
WhatsApp announces Channels, a one-to-many broadcast feature as “a private way to follow what matters”, and plans to add payment and other monetization services
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