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July 14, 2022, 6:15 PM

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Dan Seifert / The Verge:
MacBook Air M2 review: thinner with a better screen and webcam, but gets warm and throttles aggressively under intense workloads; base model has a slower SSD  —  New design, new display, new processor, new price  —  After 14 years, three revisions, and two different processor architectures …
Michael McSweeney / The Block:
NFT marketplace OpenSea CEO Devin Finzer says the company laid off ~20% of employees; OpenSea didn't disclose the number impacted but said that 230 staff remain  —  - NFT marketplace major OpenSea announced layoffs on Thursday.  — CEO Devin Finzer said in a statement that “~20% of our team” had been let go.
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Stripe, last valued by private investors at $95B, told staff it cut its internal share price by 28%, lowering those shares' implied valuation to $74B  —  Payments processor was last valued at $95 billion  —  Payments giant Stripe last valued by private investors at $95 billion …
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Google releases Chrome OS Flex, a Chrome OS version for businesses and schools to run on 400+ old PC and Mac models, after fixing 600+ bugs since February 2022  —  Businesses and schools can now install Chrome OS on existing hardware  —  Google is releasing Chrome OS Flex today …
Lucy Harley-McKeown / The Block:
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Ed Shanahan / New York Times:
A federal jury convicts Vault 7 leaker Joshua Schulte on nine counts, two years after a previous jury failed to agree on eight of the 10 charges he faced then  —  The top federal prosecutor in Manhattan said Joshua Schulte had engaged in “one of the most brazen and damaging acts of espionage in American history.”
Katie Paul / Reuters:
Meta releases its first human rights report, including due diligence in 2020 and 2021 and a summary of a controversial human rights impact assessment of India  —  Facebook-owner Meta (META.O) released its first annual human rights report on Thursday, following years of accusations that it turned …
Queenie Wong / CNET:
Meta says Facebook is testing a way for users to create up to five profiles linked to one account and that switching between profiles will require only two taps  —  The social network says users will be able to add up to five profiles to their Facebook account.  —  Queenie Wong
Leah Nylen / Bloomberg:
Sources: the US DOJ is likely to reject Alphabet's concessions and file an antitrust lawsuit in the coming weeks over Google's dominance of the online ad market  —  The US Justice Department is likely to reject concessions offered by Alphabet Inc., clearing the way for an antitrust lawsuit …
Cho Mu-Hyun / ZDNet:
Samsung says it has developed a new GDDR6 DRAM with a 24Gbps data transfer rate, 30%+ faster than its 18Gbps predecessor, built on its 10nm process using EUV  —  The new DRAM will allow premium graphics cards to support a data processing rate of up to 1.1TB, Samsung says.
Uday Sampath / Reuters:
Adobe report: US online sales during Amazon Prime Day jumped 8.5% from last year to nearly $12B; Prime members bought 300M+ items, or 100K products a minute  —  U.S. online sales during Amazon.com Inc's (AMZN.O) Prime Day shopping event jumped 8.5% from last year to nearly $12 billion …
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Manish Singh / TechCrunch:
India-based OneCard, which offers mobile-first credit cards, raised a $100M+ Series D led by Temasek, source says at a $1.4B+ valuation, up from $750M in Jan.  —  FPL Technologies, an Indian startup that offers credit cards to customers under the brand name OneCard, is the latest …
Reuters:
TSMC beats Q2 estimates with record net profit up 76.4% YoY to $7.94B and revenue up 36.6% YoY to $18.16B, forecasting revenue growth above the past 10 quarters  —  Taiwan's TSMC (2330.TW) posted a 76.4% surge in second-quarter profit on Thursday, the biggest jump in earnings in eight quarters …
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Efforts to regulate crypto should be ramped up amid the crash, after it gained an illusion of respectability through association with high-profile institutions  —  When the Federal Reserve speaks, it speaks in Fedspeak.  A pithy turn of phrase or a striking metaphor can all too easily turn into a headline …

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