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Two groups of senators say they are nearing a last-minute deal on crypto oversight, but an agreement may come too late to get added to the infrastructure bill — - Senators say they are nearing last-minute crypto compromise — The amendment may not get called up for a vote in Senate
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Fight for the Future, Washington Post, Politico, Finbold, Forkast, Vox, Wall Street Journal, CNBC, CoinDesk, Cryptonews, and Forbes
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| Washington Post: |
How the cryptocurrency industry gained influence in Washington and became one of the biggest stumbling blocks holding up the passage of the infrastructure bill — The infrastructure bill is in part stalled as negotiations proceed on how closely to regulate the crypto industry
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| Ben Lovejoy / 9to5Mac: |
Apple publishes a CSAM FAQ to address misconceptions and concerns about photo scanning, but leaves potential government pressure unaddressed — Apple has responded to misconceptions and concerns about its photo scanning announcements by publishing a CSAM FAQ - answering frequently asked questions about the features.
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Apple, The Verge, Protocol, Wall Street Journal, AppleInsider, MacRumors, BGR, iPhone in Canada Blog, and Cult of Mac
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| Daniel Cooper / Engadget: |
Facebook redesigns its data transfer tool to let users move images to Photobucket and event listings to Google Calendar, as part of the Data Transfer Project — announced that it has added two new destinations for when you want to move your data from the social network.| Reuters: |
India's Supreme Court rules that Amazon and Walmart's Flipkart must face antitrust investigations ordered against them last year by the competition commission — Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O) and Walmart's (WMT.N) Flipkart must face antitrust investigations ordered against them in India …
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| Sam Shead / CNBC: |
Delivery Hero takes a 5.09% stake, worth around £400M, in rival Deliveroo, sending shares of Deliveroo up over 10% from £3.36 to £3.60 per share — - The firm's stock climbed from £3.36 ($4.66) per share to £3.60 per share in early deals on the London Stock Exchange Monday … | Julia Fioretti / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Cloud Village, the music streaming arm of Chinese gaming giant NetEase, is postponing the launch of its $1B Hong Kong IPO — - Cloud Village tested investor demand for the IPO last week — Tech shares have been hit by Chinese regulatory clampdown
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Reuters, Financial Times, and South China Morning Post
| Olivia Solon / NBC News: |
Call center operator Teleperformance, which counts Apple, Amazon, and Uber as clients, wants to monitor staff working from home in Colombia, via AI-powered cams — Colombia-based call center workers who provide outsourced customer service to some of the nation's largest companies …
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Slashdot. Tweets: @oliviasolon, @jathansadowski, @uniglobalunion, @buttermilk1, @carnage4life, @techwontsaveus, @nandelabra, @evacide, @dangillmor, @hypervisible, @carnage4life, @foxcahn, @oliviasolon, and @oliviasolon
| Ankush Das / It's FOSS News: |
Firefox for Desktop dropped from ~244M MAUs in December 2018 to ~198M MAUs in July 2021, down ~46M, as users moved to Chrome and Chromium-based browsers — Mozilla's Firefox is losing users big time since 2018, why are users moving away from it? Is this something to be worried about?
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Tom's Guide, KnowTechie, PC Gamer, Gizmodo, TechRadar, Game Rant, and TechSpot
Tweets: @lightbwk, @marktorromeo, @thanr, @fabriceneuman, @chrisshort, @jotbe, and @campuscodi
| Catherine Shu / TechCrunch: |
Indonesian crypto assets service Pintu closes a $35M Series A+ led by Lightspeed Ventures, two months after a $6M Series A — Just two months after its last funding announcement, Indonesian crypto assets platform Pintu has closed a $35 million Series A+. The new round was led by Lightspeed Ventures … | Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Bangalore-based UpGrad, an edtech startup that specializes in higher education and upskilling courses, raises $185M led by Temasek at a $1.2B valuation — UpGrad, a Bangalore-based startup that specializes in higher education and upskilling courses, said on Monday it has raised $185 million …
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The Economic Times, Bloomberg, DealStreetAsia, and Tech in Asia
| Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal: |
Kitchen automation has risen during the pandemic, with robots from Miso Robotics, Chowbotics, and other startups now replacing some jobs in fast food chains — Fast-food chains are working with a host of startups to bring automation to their kitchens — In a White Castle just southeast of Chicago …
Tweets: @mims, @mattbeane, @mims, @wsj, @mileskimball, and @mims
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