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As Apple ramped up Mac chip investments, improvements to its other chips slowed down; sources say Apple Watch Series 8 might be able to detect a fever in users — When it comes to Apple's chip advancements, the company's iPhone and watch are taking a back seat to the Mac.
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| Dan Milmo / The Guardian: |
Chainalysis: NFT sales totaled just over $1B in June 2022, a 12-month low since June 2021 when sales were $648M; sales reached a peak of $12.6B in January 2022 — Sales of non-fungible tokens totalled just over $1bn in June, compared with peak of $12.6bn in January
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| Jane Clinton / Guardian: |
The UK Army confirms its Twitter and YouTube accounts were compromised on July 3 and used to promote cryptocurrency giveaway scams before being restored — Investigation under way after interview with Elon Musk uploaded to video channel and picture of cartoon monkey seen on Twitter| Ionut Ilascu / BleepingComputer: |
HackerOne says an employee stole vulnerability reports submitted through its bug bounty platform and disclosed them to seven companies for financial rewards — A HackerOne employee stole vulnerability reports submitted through the bug bounty platform and disclosed them to affected customers to claim financial rewards.
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| Pew Research Center: |
Survey: experts are split on the evolution of an immersive metaverse by 2040, worry about the dominant platforms building it, and expect more useful AR and MR — Hype? Hope? Hell? Maybe all three. Experts are split about the likely evolution of a truly immersive ‘metaverse.’ They expect …
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| Justin Ling / Wired: |
A look at national security concerns around modern cars filled with cameras and sensors, as a Chinese town bans Teslas during a communist party conclave — Putting sensor-packed Chinese cars on Western roads could be a privacy issue. Just ask Tesla. China's Electric Dream| Arthur Hayes / Entrepreneur's Handbook: |
After 3AC's collapse, centralized lenders with exposure to 3AC had failed, while their decentralized counterparts liquidated collateral and continued operating — This current crypto nuclear bear market marks my third brush with generalised market carnage.
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| Jeremy Hill / Bloomberg: |
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| Michael McSweeney / The Block: |
| Sarah Butler / The Guardian: |
Amazon launches a “micromobility” hub in Hackney, London with a fleet of e-cargo bikes and on-foot delivery staff to replace thousands of van deliveries — Online retailer opening ‘micromobility’ hub in Hackney as part of efforts to cut carbon emissions
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| Mitchell Clark / The Verge: |
Google plans to auto-delete visits to abortion clinics, domestic violence shelters, weight loss centers, and other sensitive places from users' location history — Along with visits to other potentially sensitive locations — Google says it'll start automatically deleting visits to abortion clinics … | Nelson Rauda Zablah / New York Times: |
How El Salvador President Nayib Bukele weaponized bitcoin to whitewash his government's growing authoritarianism on the world stage and spread local propaganda — SAN SALVADOR — Bitcoiners — enthusiasts of the world's most popular cryptocurrency — aren't supposed to trust government.
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| Chris Gilliard / Wired: |
Machine learning-powered surveillance systems will never eliminate the risk of US school shootings, no matter how expansive and intricate the systems become — The failure is not only in the spurious systems, but in the belief that more data can improve them.
Tweets: @hypervisible, @chrisggarrod, @barryfriedman1, @eileenguo, @missig_geek, @autumm, @iwillleavenow, and @evacide
| Meir Orbach / CTech: |
Source: Celsius has laid off 150 employees, around a quarter of its staff, after pausing withdrawals on June 13; the lender says it is exploring restructuring — The American-Israeli company is parting ways with around 150 employees as it continues to look for a way out of a crisis that saw … | Olga Kharif / Bloomberg: |
Meta plans to shut down Novi, its digital wallet pilot, on September 1, 2022; users will no longer be able to add money to their accounts starting on 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.
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