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Amazon unveils new robotic tech for its warehouses, including Proteus, its “first fully autonomous mobile robot” meant to safely move large carts around workers — It can pick things up, put them down, and move them around — Amazon has announced its “first fully autonomous mobile robot …
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| Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette: |
Google redesigns News, elevating local news and fact checks, and relaunches the service in Spain after eight years, following Spain adopting EU copyright rules — Google News is relaunching in Spain almost eight years after it shut down to avoid paying publishers when the country introduced … | Kashmir Hill / New York Times: |
As part of its new Responsible AI Standard rules, Microsoft plans to remove Azure's facial analysis tools, which can guess gender, age, and emotional state — The technology giant will stop offering automated tools that predict a person's gender, age and emotional state and will restrict the use of its facial recognition tool.| Yogita Khatri / The Block: |
Tether plans to launch a stablecoin pegged to the British pound in July, dubbed GBPT, initially available on Ethereum, its fifth fiat-pegged stablecoin — - Tether has launched a new stablecoin pegged 1:1 to the British pound. — It will be initially available on Ethereum.
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| Mike Isaac / New York Times: |
Meta agrees to alter its ad targeting and pay a $115,054 fine to settle a DOJ discrimination lawsuit for allegedly limiting which Facebook users saw housing ads — HUD had accused Meta of engaging in housing discrimination by letting advertisers restrict who could see housing ads on Facebook based …
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Researchers detail fundamental cryptography flaws in MEGA's end-to-end encryption scheme that could let the cloud storage service decipher stored files — Fundamental flaws uncovered in Mega's encryption scheme show service can read your data. — In the decade since larger …
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MEGA: Malleable Encryption Goes Awry. More:
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| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
An analysis of how Apple's ATT approach is blatantly anti-competitive and harms targeted advertising that is an essential ingredient to the new internet economy — Last week the German Bundeskartellamt ("Federal Cartel Office") announced in a press release:
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| Augusta Saraiva / Bloomberg: |
Hired: despite D&I initiatives, female African American tech workers earned $0.92 for every $1 a white male counterpart earned in 2021, down from $0.94 in 2020 — As American corporations announce a record number of diversity and inclusion initiatives, Silicon Valley has seen …
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| Sheldon Reback / CoinDesk: |
Crypto broker Voyager says its exposure to Three Arrows Capital consists of 15,250 bitcoin and $350M USDC; Voyager might issue a “notice of default” — The crypto broker asked for a first repayment by June 24. — Crypto broker Voyager Digital may issue as “notice of default” …
| Tom Matsuda / The Block: |
Blockchain payments infrastructure company Roxe plans to go public via SPAC on the Nasdaq, valuing it at $3.6B — - Blockchain payments infrastructure company Roxe has announced plans to list on the Nasdaq via a SPAC called Goldenstone Acquisition. — The company says it will be valued at $3.6 billion after the merger.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
GitHub launches Copilot AI, which suggests lines of code to developers, out of preview for $10/month or $100/year and says 1.2M+ tried the preview in 12 months — Free for students and maintainers of popular open-source projects — Microsoft-owned GitHub is launching its Copilot AI tool today …
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| Bloomberg: |
Internal memo: two of Amazon's top Black executives, SVP of logistics warehouses Alicia Boler Davis and VP of transportation services Dave Bozeman, are leaving — Two of Amazon.com Inc.'s top Black executives are leaving amid a management shakeup as Chief Executive Officer Andy Jassy puts … | Jay Peters / The Verge: |
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| Chris Metinko / Crunchbase News: |
Crypto exchange FalconX, which focuses on institutions, has raised a $150M Series D led by GIC and B Capital at an $8B valuation, up from $3.75B in August 2021 — Despite a rocky couple of months for crypto, San Francisco-based FalconX locked up a $150 million Series D and more than doubled its valuation from just 10 months ago.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Twitter tests Twitter Notes with select users, for creating long-form content with rich text formatting and uploaded media that can be tweeted upon publishing — In what could be one of Twitter's more significant changes since doubling the character count from 140 to 280 characters … | Peter White / Deadline: |
Barack and Michelle Obama's production company Higher Ground signs a first-look deal with Amazon's Audible; Spotify: “we declined to extend our deal” — President Barack Obama & Michelle Obama's Higher Ground has found a new podcast home. — The company, which is behind audio series …
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| Paul Vieira / Wall Street Journal: |
The Canadian government approves legislation that will compel YouTube, TikTok, and streaming services to boost domestic content; the law now heads to the Senate — Government says measures needed to foster growth in domestic cultural sector and make Canadian content more accessible
Tweets: @paulvieira
| Bloomberg: |
SoftBank Group International CEO Michel Combes is leaving his post after five months and will be replaced by SBGI Managing Partner Alex Clavel on June 30 — SoftBank Group Corp.'s Michel Combes is leaving his post as head of overseas arm SoftBank Group International (SBGI) …
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SoftBank Group Corp. and TechCrunch
| Mack DeGeurin / Gizmodo: |
A DARPA report finds blockchains are vulnerable to “unintended centralities”, such as powerful new crypto miners, that could pervasively affect their security — The report points to a handful of, “unintended centralities,” it argues could concentrate blockchain power in the hands of a few select individuals or groups.
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Trail of Bits. More:
Trail of Bits Blog, NPR, SlashGear, Engadget, and Nextgov
Tweets: @darpa, @newsforbitcoin, and @dwbradley
| Financial Times: |
Hong Kong court records: crypto exchange Huobi has launched a lawsuit against a former executive over accusations he made $5M trading against a Huobi account — Employee allegedly made $5mn after setting up a retail account in his father's name — A former senior manager at Huobi …
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Decrypt, Blockchain News, watcher.guru, Investing.com India, CryptoPotato, and The Block. Tweets: @kadhim
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Munich-based Personio, maker of cloud-based HR and recruiting software for SMBs, raised a $200M Series E extension at a $8.5B valuation led by Greenoaks Capital — Personio — a startup out of Munich, Germany that styles itself as a Workday and ServiceNow focused on the small and medium businesses …
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Silicon Republic, Tech.eu, Personio, Sifted, Silicon Canals, Forbes, Insider, Bloomberg, and Reuters. Thanks:@ingridlunden
| Connie Loizos / TechCrunch: |
Accel announces a $4B global, late-stage fund, after announcing $3B across funds for early- and growth-stage startups in June 2021 — Accel, the 39-year-old venture firm, just pulled a major power move. It announced, via a simple blog post, that it has just closed a new, global … Sponsor Posts
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