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| Kellen Browning / New York Times: |
Twitch confirms the Buffalo gunman livestreamed Saturday's attack on its platform, saying it took his channel down within two minutes of the violence starting — Officials said the gunman broadcast the attack live on Twitch, the livestreaming site owned by Amazon that is popular with gamers.
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| Peter White / Deadline: |
Sources: Netflix is exploring live streaming for its unscripted shows and stand-up specials, which would enable live voting for competitions — EXCLUSIVE: Netflix is going live for the first time. — Deadline understands that the streamer is exploring the launch of live streaming.
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| Edward Ongweso Jr / VICE: |
Retail traders after Terra's crash: some say they lost their life savings, others shared suicidal ideation on forums, and some now realize it's a Ponzi scheme — It took less than a week for the third largest stablecoin and its ecosystem to become virtually worthless, wiping out countless traders' savings.| Yogita Khatri / The Block: |
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| Mia Sato / The Verge: |
OpenSea says it rolling out a new system to detect and remove copycat NFTs and verify accounts in an effort to “improve authenticity” on the marketplace — The updates are an attempt to cut down on plagiarism and fakes — OpenSea is rolling out features to “improve authenticity” …
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| Caitlin Harrington / Wired: |
A look at the Apple Together solidarity movement, which is providing tools and support for the company's retail, AppleCare, and other employees to organize — A solidarity movement called Apple Together has provided tools and support as the company's retail employees organize.
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Wall Street Journal. Tweets: @moreperfectus, @banana_genius, @applelaborers, @applelaborers, @wsj, @jones_lucia, @caitharr, @sunrisemvmt, @evanderburg, @acoreunion, @allinoniphone, @machinistsunion, @tnewmstweet, @katiebindley, @applelaborers, @carnage4life, @dannygroner, @aparanjape, @wgawest, @greg_shill, and @fatemehx2
| Kevin Helms / Bitcoin News: |
Germany's Ministry of Finance confirms that the sale of crypto assets is tax-free as long as they're held for over a year, even if used for staking and lending — The German Ministry of Finance has published a letter officially confirming that the sale of crypto assets is tax-free after one year …
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Opinion: to boost its car project, Apple should acquire EV startup Canoo, which warned it is running out of money, and whose former CEO now works for Apple — Apple could take a look at struggling electric-vehicle startup Canoo to help it build up its car project.
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MacRumors, iLounge, Philip Elmer‑DeWitt, AppleInsider, GSMArena.com, and Forbes
Tweets: @raunofreiberg and @apple_tomorrow
| Arielle Pardes / Wired: |
Several women who attended Miami's Bitcoin 2022 conference were harassed and say the conference didn't enforce its anti-harassment policies — For some women, inappropriate conduct from other conference-goers continued to haunt them online. — Miami's annual gathering of Bitcoin zealots began with a bull.
Tweets: @wired, @do82nic, @mslopatto, @technollama, @morganmeaker, @jasonfugate98, @gregarious, @ralexjimenez, @pardesoteric, and @basedkarbon
| Mike Masnick / Techdirt: |
Texas' content moderation law is clearly unconstitutional and forces social media services to allow a torrent of spam or face a deluge of frivolous litigation — So, I already had a quick post on the bizarre decision by the 5th Circuit to reinstate Texas' social media content moderation law …
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| Cat Zakrzewski / Washington Post: |
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| Joshua Oliver / Financial Times: |
An interview with Sam Bankman-Fried on crypto hype, blockchain's potential to build a fairer financial system, bitcoin as an asset, philanthropy, and more — When an aide told me that “one of our drivers” would pick me up for my lunch with Sam Bankman-Fried, I imagined a hulking black SUV … | Kenrick Cai / Forbes: |
Material Security, which helps enterprises protect sensitive info stored in email accounts even if they are hacked, raises a $100M Series C at a $1.1B valuation — A growing wave of tech layoffs have given rise to remorseful CEOs' lamentations that they hired too quickly during the pandemic.
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Material Security, GovInfoSecurity, and SecurityWeek
Tweets: @material_sec, @kenrickcai, and @traestephens
| Sean Michael Kerner / VentureBeat: |
Evisort, which offers an AI-powered contract management software, raises a $100M Series C led by TCV, bringing its total funding to $155.6M — For lawyers and the organizations that employ them, time is quite literally money. The business of contract management software is all about helping …
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PR Newswire, Reuters, Forbes, Artificial Lawyer, The Global Legal Post, and FinSMEs
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