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June 28, 2023, 7:15 PM

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Yogita Khatri / The Block:
Report: FTX's exchange reboot may include a joint venture, a rebrand, and stakes for certain customers; indications of interest in the restart are due this week  —  - FTX has a deadline of this week for interested parties to submit their proposals to potentially help restart the exchange, the WSJ reported.
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Jesse Coghlan / Cointelegraph:
The Verge:
Sony accidentally spilled confidential PlayStation information and its Call of Duty revenue by redacting a court document with a Sharpie, revealed after a scan  —  Sony highly confidential information about its PlayStation business has just been revealed by mistake.
Romain Dillet / TechCrunch:
Proton launches its E2E encrypted open-source password manager Proton Pass, available for free on iOS, Android, and browsers Chrome, Firefox, Edge, and Brave  —  A couple of months after unveiling Proton Pass, Proton — the company behind end-to-end encrypted email service Proton Mail …
Emma Roth / The Verge:
DoorDash announces new features for couriers, including “earn by time” for a guaranteed hourly minimum rate, real-time location sharing, and Dash Along the Way  —  DoorDash is making a big change to the way couriers get paid.  In an announcement on Wednesday …
Bloomberg:
An interview with senior Binance executive Yi He, who has been out of the global spotlight and has children with CZ, on regulators, compliance, Okcoin, and more  —  One senior Binance executive has managed to stay out of the global spotlight over the past six years and counting …
Jack Schickler / CoinDesk:
The EU Commission publishes its digital euro legislative plans, including privacy and financial stability safeguards; some backers question the CBDC's benefits  —  Officials want a digital payment system available to “everyone, everywhere, for free.”  —  BRUSSELS, Belgium …
Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch:
Phone monitoring app LetMeSpy, used to spy on thousands of Android users, says a hacker stole the messages, call logs, and locations the spyware had intercepted  —  A data breach reveals the spyware is built by a Polish developer  —  A hacker has stolen the messages, call logs …
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Carl Pei's Nothing raised $96M led by Highland Europe before the Phone (2)'s launch, taking the company's funding to $250M; sources say 2022 revenue was $200M  —  Smartphone sales are in decline as handset makers grapple with saturated markets and a tough consumer economic climate.
Mark Bergen / Bloomberg:
OpenAI plans to open an office in London, its first office outside of the US, due to “world-class talent”; Sam Altman had floated Poland and France  —  ChatGPT creator OpenAI Inc. has chosen London as the home of its first corporate office outside the US, according to a company statement issued Wednesday.
New York Times:
UK convenience stores are increasingly using facial recognition tech to combat shoplifting, which critics say is a disproportionate solution for minor crimes  —  British merchants are increasingly using the technology to combat shoplifting, raising questions about its spread as artificial intelligence rapidly improves it.
Dan Goodin / Ars Technica:
Analysis: the Clop ransomware group has breached 122 organizations and stolen the data of ~15M people to date by exploiting a zero-day flaw in Progress' MOVEit  —  The dramatic fallout continues, with as many as 122 organizations now breached.  —  The dramatic fallout continues …
Andrew Brust / The New Stack:
Databricks announces LakehouseIQ, an LLM interface that lets companies use natural language to search and query their data, new Lakehouse AI tools, and more  —  We review Databricks' announcements at Data and AI Summit, and how they counter yesterday's Snowflake Summit reveals.
Alan Ohnsman / Forbes:
Autonomous trucking company TuSimple aims to sell its US business; CEO Cheng Lu says the plan is not the result of pressure due to CFIUS' review of the company  —  The company's CEO says there's no firm buyer lined up and that the plan to separate U.S. operations doesn't arise from pressure related to a CFIUS review.
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