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Frank Bajak / Associated Press:
Microsoft says hacktivist group Anonymous Sudan' DDoS attacks “temporarily impacted availability” of Azure, Teams, Outlook, and more services in early June 2023  —  In early June, sporadic but serious service disruptions plagued Microsoft's flagship office suite …
Boone Ashworth / Wired:
Reddit's management risks putting the company in a death spiral as users revolt, dedicated moderators quit, and its vibrant discussions move to other platforms  —  When the user revolt ends—if it ever does—Reddit's community won't ever be the same.  —  It's pretty easy to piss people off on Reddit.
Andrew Throuvalas / Decrypt:
Block announces an open beta program for Bitkey, its self-custodial Bitcoin wallet, offering Coinbase and CashApp integrations; Block plans to add BTC trading  —  Bitkey will allow beta users to withdraw Bitcoin from Coinbase and Cashapp using “copy and paste.”
Camomile Shumba / CoinDesk:
Report: a group of central banks developed 33 API functionalities to test 30+ CBDC online, offline, and in-store use cases, via QR codes, phones, and more  —  An API layer could facilitate a wide range of central bank digital currency payment scenarios, a Bank for International Settlements and Bank of England experiment has shown.
Manish Singh / TechCrunch:
Investors of Bengaluru-based Mojocare say they found “financial irregularities” at the health care startup, which has raised ~$23M from Sequoia India and others  —  Mojocare investors have found “financial irregularities” at the Indian health and wellness startup and are moving …
Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk:
A US federal judge signs off on a temporary agreement between Binance, Binance.US, and the SEC to ensure only Binance.US employees can access US customer funds  —  The proposed agreement addresses the SEC's motion for a temporary restraining order.  —  A federal judge signed off …
New York Times:
WhatsApp keeps banning Taliban officials' accounts due to US sanctions, causing disruptions at the nascent government, which relies on the app for communication  —  The Taliban administration is stuck in a cat-and-mouse game with WhatsApp, which is off-limits to the nascent government because of U.S. sanctions.

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New York Times:
Sources: if Sony and Apollo acquire Paramount Global, they plan to sell off CBS, cable channels like MTV, and Paramount+, while keeping Paramount Pictures

Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
Sources: WBD plans more cost cutting to hit financial targets for next year, including the possibility of more layoffs, and has decided to raise Max prices

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The New York Times Games rolls out a Wordle archive with 1,000+ past puzzles for “Games” and “All Access” subscribers, and adds its WordleBot to NYT Games app

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Brad Stone / Bloomberg:
How a seminal 2017 paper by Google researchers laid the groundwork for the 2020s AI boom, causing a Silicon Valley frenzy not seen since the 1990s dot-com fever
Tonya Riley / CyberScoop:
Genetic testing company 1health.io settles with the US FTC for $75K after allegedly exposing sensitive health data, in the FTC's first genetic info enforcement
Sean Lyngaas / CNN:
Oregon and Louisiana warn that the MOVEit hackers may have stolen the SSNs and driver's license numbers of 3.5M Oregonians and 3M+ Louisianians from state DMVs
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