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The US Treasury sanctions crypto mixing service Tornado Cash and 44 related ETH and USDC wallets, citing their use in high-profile hacks, such as by North Korea — - The Treasury is sanctioning DeFi mixing service, Tornado Cash. — The move is the agency's second sanction of a mixing service.
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| Carly Page / TechCrunch: |
Twilio discloses “unauthorized access” on August 4 by a “sophisticated” unknown actor using an SMS-based phishing attack on staff to gain info on some accounts — Communications giant Twilio has confirmed hackers accessed customer data after successfully tricking employees …
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| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
iOS 16 beta 5 adds an option to show the battery percentage in the status bar on some iPhones, after Apple removed it for notched models at the iPhone X's debut — The battery percentage has finally been added back to the status bar with today's release of iOS 16 beta 5.
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| Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac: |
WhatsApp lets users delete a private or group chat message up to two days and 12 hours after sending it; previously, users were allowed a little over an hour — While iMessage is getting the option to “unsend” messages for the first time with iOS 16 beta, WhatsApp already provides a similar feature.
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| Jack Stebbins / CNBC: |
Apptopia: Netflix's games have 23.3M downloads and average 1.7M DAUs, under 1% of Netflix's 221M subscribers; Netflix plans to have 50 games by the end of 2022 — - Netflix plans to expand its video game catalog from 24 to 50 by year-end, marking a significant investment.
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| Kate Park / TechCrunch: |
Crypto.com says it has secured registrations to operate as a virtual asset service provider in South Korea, acquires two local startups for undisclosed amounts — Singapore-based cryptocurrency platform Crypto.com has acquired two startups in South Korea — payment service provider PnLink …
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Despite YouTube suspending hundreds of Kremlin-linked channels, Russia has yet to ban the service, some argue because the Kremlin views it as too big to block — Access to the video site allows Russians access to one of the few sources of independent information about the Ukraine war| Che Pan / South China Morning Post: |
Report: Samsung plans to make an additional $3.3B investment in Vietnam to produce new semiconductor components by July 2023 and open a new R&D center in Hanoi — Samsung Electronics plans to make an additional US$3.3 billion investment in Vietnam this year, enabling the South Korean technology giant … | Andrew Romero / 9to5Google: |
Oppo and OnePlus have halted sales in Germany after a court found the two companies were using 5G technology without paying for appropriate patents from Nokia — Oppo - an OEM that has a far-reaching consumer base - has officially withdrawn from selling devices in Germany.
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SoftBank reports a ~$17.23B loss for Vision Fund in Q1 2022, as the value of its tech portfolio fell, including SenseTime and Uber, after a record Q4 2021 loss — SoftBank Group Corp (9984.T) on Monday posted a 2.33 trillion yen ($17.23 billion) loss at its Vision Fund unit in the April-June quarter …
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Filings: Apple spent $33M in fiscal 2021 and $169M in 2022 to date on acquisition payments, down from $1.5B in 2020, a dramatic slowdown in its dealmaking — Apple Inc., which used to acquire a company every three or four weeks, has dramatically slowed its dealmaking in the past two years …
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A profile of Celsius CEO Alex Mashinsky, as the company goes bankrupt; sources say he is a brash entrepreneur who has left many investors and colleagues unhappy — Entrepreneur proposed a stream of moonshot ideas in different industries over many years—and frequently left a string of unhappy colleagues and investors
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