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BlockFi says it agreed to an option to be acquired by FTX for up to $240M; the deal also includes a $400M revolving credit facility from FTX — Troubled crypto lender BlockFi said Friday that it agreed to an option to be acquired by FTX for up to $240 million.
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| Mitchell Clark / The Verge: |
Google plans to auto-delete user visits to medical facilities like abortion clinics, domestic violence shelters, and weight loss centers from location histories — Along with visits to other potentially sensitive locations — Google says it'll start automatically deleting visits to abortion clinics …
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In a letter to nine GOP senators, TikTok says China-based employees who clear internal security protocols can access certain information on TikTok's US users — TikTok, the viral video-sharing app owned by China's ByteDance Ltd., said certain employees outside the US can access information …
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| Dan Milmo / The Guardian: |
The EU agrees on new crypto rules, including measures guarding against market abuse and requiring crypto firms to disclose environmental impacts of their assets — MiCA law contains measures to guard against market abuse and manipulation — The EU has moved to rein in the “wild west” …
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Sources: Klarna is nearing a deal to raise ~$650M mostly from existing investors led by Sequoia Capital at a ~$6.5B valuation, down from $45.6B in June 2021 — The deal would be a huge comedown for the company, which investors valued at $45.6 billion in 2021
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| Michael McSweeney / The Block: |
Voyager Digital temporarily suspends trading, deposits, and withdrawals citing market conditions, after issuing a default notice to 3AC in June on a ~$650M loan — - “This was a tremendously difficult decision, but we believe it is the right one given current market conditions,” CEO Stephen Ehrlich said in a statement.
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| Jeremy Hill / Bloomberg: |
Three Arrows Capital files for Chapter 15 bankruptcy, a move that protects its US assets while a liquidation is carried out in the British Virgin Islands — Crypto hedge fund Three Arrows Capital has filed for Chapter 15 bankruptcy, a move that protects its US assets while a liquidation is carried out in the British Virgin Islands.| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Biden to award a posthumous Medal of Freedom to Steve Jobs for changing the way the world communicates and transforming the computer, music, and film industries — The Biden Administration has announced the recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom for this year.
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| Olga Kharif / Bloomberg: |
Meta will shut down Novi, its digital wallet pilot, on September 1; users will no longer be able to add money to their accounts starting July 21 — The remainder of the cryptocurrency project that Meta Platforms Inc.'s Founder Mark Zuckerberg took a beating over from Congress is officially shutting down.| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
The European Commission says Amazon agreed to drop “dark patterns” from the process required to unsubscribe from its Prime membership across its sites in the EU — Amazon has agreed to simplify the process required for cancelling its Prime membership subscription service across …
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| Che Pan / South China Morning Post: |
Over 10 Chinese entities establish openKylin, an open-source code community to develop a homegrown desktop OS and reduce China's reliance on Windows and macOS — The city has matured considerably despite being new to governing itself following the handover in 1997.
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Google gave user data to Russian ad company RuTarget, including potentially sensitive info about users in Ukraine, four months after the US sanctioned RuTarget — The internet giant may have provided Sberbank-owned RuTarget with unique mobile phone IDs, IP addresses, location information … | New York Times: |
Netflix executives say they don't plan to change programming; two bank analysts say a cheaper ad-supported tier could cannibalize the higher-paying subscribers — Long Hollywood's leading innovator, the streaming service is staying the course, despite serious challenges to its business and questions about its content.
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