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July 16, 2022, 6:25 PM

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Jef Feeley / Bloomberg:

Filing: Elon Musk's lawyers say Twitter is unfairly pushing for a “warp speed” four-day trial in September and ask for a court date in February 2023 or later — Elon Musk's lawyers say Twitter Inc. officials are unfairly pushing for a “warp speed” trial over claims …

Jonathan Vanian / CNBC:

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Mat Di Salvo / Decrypt:

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed into law a national ban on using digital assets for payments, but allows investing in digital assets like bitcoin — The drastic move comes after mixed signals from Russia's leaders and regulators. — Russian President Vladimir Putin today signed …

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Moneycontrol:

Report: in emails sent to three creators, Coinbase says it is “temporarily shutting down” its US affiliate program on July 19 and plans to relaunch it in 2023 — According to a Business Insider article, cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase will “temporarily shut down” its US affiliate-marketing programme on July 19.

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Zac Bowden / Windows Central:

Sources: Microsoft plans to move to a three-year release cycle for major Windows versions, with new features up to four times a year, starting in 2023 — The new Windows roadmap. — Microsoft is shifting to a new engineering schedule for Windows which will see the company return …

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Madhumita Murgia / Financial Times:

Experts say archiving content from TikTok is challenging and urge the platform to preserve and provide access to content for war crime investigations in Ukraine — The Chinese-owned video app is a trove of digital intelligence that lawyers are attempting to mine and archive

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Will Oremus / Washington Post:

Study: as the war persists, Meta has responded fairly effectively to Russian propaganda flagged by Ukrainian officials, while YouTube, Twitter, and LinkedIn lag

More: The Economic Times. Tweets: @bostonjoan, @moonalice, @lydiaon10, @washingtonpost, @willoremus, @old_guardianhs, and @kashiomi_art

Ryan Tracy / Wall Street Journal:

TikTok says its global CSO Roland Cloutier will step down in September to take an advisory role, and that the move is not related to security concerns in the US — Roland Cloutier to take advisory role; Kim Albarella, head of security risk, tapped as interim CSO

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Christopher Mathias / HuffPost:

New Gab accounts appear to be automatically following the GOP nominee for PA governor Doug Mastriano, after he paid Gab $5K in April for “campaign consulting” — The GOP nominee for governor of Pennsylvania paid the far-right platform a $5,000 “consulting” fee.

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Maxwell Strachan / VICE:

Interview with MetaMask founders who say “we can't stop people from making Ponzis on blockchains” and “putting your money in cryptocurrencies is gambling” — Co-founder Aaron Davis says in his first joint interview with Dan Finlay that “it feels too little too late …

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Arielle Pardes / Wired:

Many rapid delivery startups, which surged during the pandemic, have either retreated or shut down after struggling to make the economics work — Companies that promise groceries delivered in 15 minutes surged during the pandemic—but are now in retreat. — It took only eight months for Jokr …

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Alastair McCready / VICE:

Online scam centers in Southeast Asia have perfected “pig butchering”, a romance-meets-investment fraud, to lure victims into bogus investment schemes — Thousands of imprisoned and abused workers are propping up Southeast Asia's ‘pig butchering’ industry, an online fraud emptying bank accounts across the world.

Tweets: @almccready1, @bitfinexed, @ryan_knutson, and @caseynewton

Financial Times:

India escalates its crackdown on Oppo, Vivo, and Xiaomi, which control ~60% of its smartphone market, with claims of tax evasion and unlawful remittances — Oppo, Vivo and Xiaomi hit by claims of tax evasion and unlawful remittances in legal actions that have stoked tensions with China

Vittoria Elliott / Wired:

Experts say a ruling against Twitter in its lawsuit against content removal orders in India could let the government censor a wide swath of platforms and sites — A ruling against the company could allow the government to censor a wide swath of platforms and set a global precedent.

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