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Toronto-based crypto lender Voyager Digital files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in New York, estimating it has 100,000 creditors and $1B-$10B in assets — The Toronto-based lender filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in New York late Tuesday. — Crypto lender Voyager Digital filed …
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Nexo, a crypto lender managing assets for ~4M users, says it signed a term sheet to explore buying Vauld, which halted withdrawals and manages assets for ~100K — - Nexo has signed a term sheet with Vauld giving it 60 days of exclusive talks to explore an all-equity acquisition of the company.
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Sources: the US is lobbying the Netherlands to ban ASML from selling some of its older deep ultraviolet lithography systems for chip production to China — The US is pushing the Netherlands to ban ASML Holding NV from selling to China mainstream technology essential in making a large chunk … | Derek B. Johnson / SC Media: |
NIST selects four encryption algorithms designed to withstand future quantum computing hacking threats to be part of its post-quantum cryptographic standard — For years, the National Institute for Standards and Technology have been working on a project to identify and vet a handful …
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The UK's CMA opens an investigation into whether Amazon distorts competition by favoring its own retail business and sellers using its Prime services — Amazon is being investigated by Britain's antitrust watchdog over concerns that some of its practices in the UK may be anticompetitive and result in a worse deal for customers.
| Javier Espinoza / Financial Times: |
Sources: Amazon will share more data with rivals and offer buyers a wider choice of products to assuage EU antitrust regulators, concluding a three-year probe — Agreement set to give more information to online platform's third-party sellers and close two probes| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Amazon partners with Just Eat Takeaway to offer a free annual Grubhub+ subscription to Prime members in the US; Amazon also receives equity in Grubhub — Amazon tried but then ultimately stepped away from building its own cost-intensive Grubhub and DoorDash competitor in the U.S. back in 2019.
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Crypto exchange Bitstamp plans to add a €10/month fee for non-US accounts that are inactive for over one year with a balance below €200, starting August 1 — Crypto exchange Bitstamp plans to charge a monthly “inactivity fee” for certain users, as the market downturn weighs on trading volume in the industry.
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| Leah Nylen / Bloomberg: |
DOJ hires Microsoft's former chief economist Susan Athey as its top antitrust economist; sources say Athey will likely be recused from Apple and Google cases — Susan Athey, a Stanford University professor and former chief economist at Microsoft Corp., is joining the Justice Department as its top antitrust economist.| Hannah Murphy / Financial Times: |
Meta's Stephane Kasriel says the company still plans to roll out NFT support to help creators monetize through cross-platform “memberships” and “subscriptions” — Social media group not adjusting ambitions ‘in any way’ despite crypto crash, says head of fintech| Dan Milmo / The Guardian: |
The UK proposes an Online Safety Bill amendment that would force tech firms to scan for and remove CSAM or be fined up to £18M or 10% of their annual turnover — Home secretary says new powers could require tech firms to remove encrypted abuse material would bring privacy and security
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| David Pan / Bloomberg: |
Core Scientific, a top bitcoin miner with nearly 10% of the network's hash rate, sold 7,202 mined BTC for $167M in June and now holds 1,959 BTC — Core Scientific Inc., a top crypto miner, sold the bulk of its Bitcoin holdings in June as a steep drop in digital assets squeezes finances for even the leaders of the industry.
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| Emily Baker-White / Forbes: |
The Senate Intelligence Committee asks the FTC to investigate whether TikTok misled lawmakers about China-based ByteDance employees accessing American user data — China-based employees at TikTok's parent company, ByteDance, repeatedly accessed sensitive U.S. user data …
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