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In his first interview, FTX CEO John Ray says he has set up a task force to explore restarting the exchange, saying customers praised its technology, and more — In his first public interview since taking over the failed cryptocurrency exchange, John J. Ray III said that he's open to the idea of rebooting operations| Wall Street Journal: |
CoinDesk retains Lazard investment bankers to help the outlet explore its options, including a partial or full sale, after “numerous” indications of interest — Company has ‘received numerous inbound indications of interest,’ CEO Kevin Worth says| Financial Times: |
Sources: Peter Thiel's Founders Fund sold most of its crypto portfolio by the end of March 2022, before the crypto market crash, generating ~$1.8B in returns — Billionaire was early mainstream investor in the digital currency but VC fund no longer has significant exposure| Addy Bink / The Hill: |
Amazon plans to close AmazonSmile, launched in 2013 to let customers donate 0.5% of eligible items' purchase prices to a charity, on February 20, 2023 — Amazon will be closing its charity program, AmazonSmile, in the coming weeks in order to “focus its philanthropic giving to programs with greater impact.”| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Wikimedia launches an updated Wikipedia design, including improved search and accessibility, a refreshed table of contents, and easier language switching — Wikipedia, one of the world's top 10 most visited websites, and a resource used by billions every month, is getting its first makeover on the desktop in over a decade.| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple is working on an iPad-based smart display, with smart home controls, video, and FaceTime, and a new Apple TV with a faster processor for H1 2024 — Apple Inc. is working on a slate of devices aimed at challenging Amazon.com Inc. and Google in the smart-home market … | James Eyers / Australian Financial Review: |
National Australia Bank creates the AUDN stablecoin, the second major Australian bank after ANZ's A$DC, letting customers settle transactions on the blockchain — National Australia Bank has become the second of the major banks to create a stablecoin, called the AUDN, to allow its business customers … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Instagram rolls out Quiet Mode, which silences notifications, auto-replies to DMs, and informs friends, and plans to prompt teens to enable the feature at night — Instagram announced today it's expanding its selection of time management tools with the launch of a new feature called “Quiet Mode.”| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Twitter launches Blue on Android for $11 per month, the same as iOS and $3 more than the web, after launching an annual subscription — A day after launching an annual Twitter Blue subscription, the social media company made the paid plan available for purchase for Android users today.| Chris Stokel-Walker / Nature: |
Journal editors, researchers, and publishers are debating the role of AI tools like ChatGPT in published literature and whether they should be cited as authors — Chris Stokel-Walker is a freelance journalist in Newcastle, UK. — You can also search for this author in — PubMed Google Scholar| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Steam Deck review, after one year, 435 hours playing games, and 100+ updates: Valve has fixed many issues, making play smooth and the device a compelling buy — I'm making a note here: huge success. … The Steam Deck is my favorite gadget of 2022. I have no hesitation in recommending it anymore.| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Mailchimp says a hacker accessed data on 133 accounts via a staff social engineering attack, first detected on January 11, its second breach in six months — Email marketing and newsletter giant Mailchimp says it was hacked and that dozens of customers' data was exposed.| Financial Times: |
Patreon, Substack, and other “passion economy” startups are laying off staff and abandoning fundraising plans; Dealroom: investment fell 75% to $801M in 2022 — Once high-flying start-ups that serve online creators and influencers have been forced into a painful retrenchment … | Katie Notopoulos / BuzzFeed News: |
Andrew Bosworth talks about Meta's decision to discontinue Portal and how the company nearly made a deal to license Portal's tech and platform to Amazon in 2020 — Meta's CTO Andrew Bosworth told BuzzFeed News how a deal to keep the Portal software going almost happened.| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Link, which lets merchants in the US accept direct bank payments, raised a $10M seed led by Tiger Global and a $20M Series A led by Valar — People are addicted to credit cards — and it's no wonder, given the lucrative rewards that many of them offer. But for merchants, credit cards tend to be less appealing.| The Verge: |
Nvidia GeForce Now Ultimate with RTX 4080 hands-on: impressive input latency, but some visuals are still hazy and only six games support 240fps right now — For $20 a month, Nvidia will rent you an RTX 4080 gaming PC in the cloud. It feels phenomenal in some games, but there's still work to be done.| Nate Freeman / Vanity Fair: |
A look at the art world's deal-with-the-devil approach to the NFT market, after allegations that FTX bought the $24.4M trove of 107 Bored Apes NFTs at Sotheby's — Auction houses and talent agencies thought the Web3 works were a fast track to billions. If it weren't for a global crypto meltdown, they might have pulled it off.| Sam Reynolds / CoinDesk: |
Crypto exchange OKX reports $7.5B in reserves excluding its token; CryptoQuant rates OKX as 100% “clean”, not relying on its native token, while Binance is 87% — The Proof-of-Reserves-Report shows reserves are largely spread between bitcoin, ether, and USDT.
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