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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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| Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
Apple announces Lockdown Mode in iOS 16, iPadOS 16, and macOS Ventura to protect against “highly targeted cyberattacks” by disabling features, apps, and more — Apple today announced a new Lockdown Mode coming to the iPhone, iPad, and Mac with iOS 16, iPadOS 16, and macOS Ventura.
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| Ryan Weeks / The Block: |
Sources: a senior Axie Infinity engineer was duped by a fake LinkedIn job ad before downloading a PDF containing spyware, leading to the $600M+ Ronin hack — - Hackers duped a senior engineer at Axie Infinity into applying for a job at a fictitious company.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Amazon partners with Just Eat Takeaway to offer a free one-year Grubhub+ subscription to US Prime members; Amazon gets equity in Grubhub; DoorDash drops 9%+ — Amazon tried but then ultimately stepped away from building its own cost-intensive Grubhub and DoorDash competitor in the U.S. back in 2019.| Ryan Browne / CNBC: |
The UK's CMA opens an antitrust investigation into Microsoft's proposed Activision Blizzard acquisition, setting a September 1 deadline for its initial decision — - It marks one of the first probes by a major antitrust enforcer into the $68.7 billion deal, which was announced in January.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Experts say a dashboard for managing the Shanghai police database was left exposed from April 2021 to June 2022, letting a hacker steal data on nearly 1B people — Cybersecurity experts say error allowed theft of records of nearly 1 billion people, leading to $200,000 ransom note
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| 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, ending two high-profile probes — Agreement set to give more information to online platform's third-party sellers and close two probes
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| James Vincent / The Verge: |
Meta open sources its AI translation model, which works across 200 languages, as part of its ambitious R&D project to create a “universal speech translator” — Meta's ambition to build a ‘universal translator’ continue — Social media conglomerate Meta has created …
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: rugged Apple Watch planned for 2022 will have a larger, ~2" shatter-resistant screen, non-aluminum metal case, workout tracking improvements, and more — Apple Inc. plans its largest smartwatch display to date, a bigger battery and a rugged metal casing as part … | Leah Nylen / Bloomberg: |
The DOJ hires former Microsoft 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.| Reuters: |
Sam Bankman-Fried says he and FTX still have a “few billion” to save struggling crypto companies, but that the worst of the liquidity crunch has likely passed — July 6 (Reuters) - Sam Bankman-Fried, head of one of the largest cryptocurrency exchanges, FTX, said he and his company still have a …
| Hannah Murphy / Financial Times: |
Meta fintech head Stephane Kasriel says the company still plans to add NFT support to let creators monetize via cross-platform “memberships” and “subscriptions” — Social media group not adjusting ambitions ‘in any way’ despite crypto crash, says head of fintech
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| Yueqi Yang / Bloomberg: |
Crypto exchange Bitstamp plans to charge a monthly €10 fee for non-US accounts that are inactive for one year with a balance below €200, starting on 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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Tweets: @crypto_bitlord7, @maticbitenc, @veryfinanceguy, @jarvis_labs_llc, and @rnr_0
| Emily Flitter / New York Times: |
As crypto markets tumbled, strict US regulatory rules on risky assets mostly insulated Wall Street from the chaos, while retail investors had no such safeguards — As cryptocurrency prices plunged and funds failed, strict rules on risky assets helped Wall Street companies sidestep the worst.
Tweets: @drewharwell, @ianguider, @tphillips, @glastris, and @drfarls
| Dan Milmo / The Guardian: |
The UK proposes an Online Safety Bill amendment forcing tech companies to remove CSAM or Ofcom will fine them up to £18M or 10% of their annual turnover — Amendment to online safety bill would require tech firms to make their ‘best endeavours’ to deploy new technology
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