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The SEC sues Binance and CEO Changpeng Zhao, accusing the company of mishandling billions in customer funds, lying to regulators and investors, and more — The S.E.C. said the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange mixed “billions of dollars” in customer funds and secretly sent …
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| Reuters: |
Bank records: from 2019 to 2020, Binance executive Guangying Chen operated five Silvergate accounts belonging to Binance's purportedly independent US affiliate — A senior Binance executive was the main operator for five bank accounts belonging to the giant cryptocurrency exchange's purportedly …
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Binance's Richard Teng is the frontrunner to become CEO if Changpeng Zhao steps down, as US regulatory scrutiny makes succession planning more urgent — In mid-May, cryptocurrency exchange Binance got some bad news in a far-flung corner of its sprawling universe.
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@wublockchain, @binance, @patrick_tankt, @mdudas, and @emilyjnicolle
| New York Times: |
Internal document: Twitter's US ad revenue from April 1 to the first week of May fell 59% YoY to $88M; sources say that performance is unlikely to improve soon — In internal forecasts, the company projected that ad sales would keep declining, handing a tough challenge to its new chief executive.
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@chris.chabot.dev, @marisakabas.bsky.social, and @triketora.bsky.social
| Alexa Corse / Wall Street Journal: |
Stanford researchers: Twitter didn't stop uploads of 40+ known child sexual abuse images in recent months; the issue seemed fixed in May after staff were told — Social-media platform has now improved its detection system, Stanford Internet Observatory was told
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| Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: |
Atomic Wallet investigates user reports of compromised accounts and tries to block stolen crypto from being sold; a researcher says the hack could exceed $35M+ — The developers of Atomic Wallet are investigating reports of large-scale theft of cryptocurrency from users' wallets, with over $35 million in crypto reportedly stolen.
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@atomicwallet, @zachxbt, @atomicwallet, @atomicwallet, @zachxbt, @zachxbt, @zachxbt, @cz_binance, @buffalu__, @peckshieldalert, @anbessa100, and @bleepincomputer
| Sahar Elhabashi / Spotify: |
Spotify cuts ~200 jobs, or 2% of its staff, at its podcast unit, combines Parcast and Gimlet into a renewed Spotify Studios, and reports 100M+ podcast listeners — Below is an adaptation of an internal update on Spotify's Podcast Business from Sahar Elhabashi, VP, Head of Podcast Business.
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@said_mitch, @michellemanafy, @zachthemack, @kerrymflynn, @ashleyrcarman, and @marypcbuk
| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
To protest Reddit's API pricing for third-party apps, r/videos, r/reactiongifs, r/earthporn, and other big subreddits plan to go private on June 12 for 48 hours — Some of Reddit's biggest communities including r/videos, r/reactiongifs, r/earthporn, and r/lifeprotips are planning to set themselves …
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| Cristiano Lima / Washington Post: |
Instagram restores Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s account, banned in 2021 for “sharing debunked claims” about COVID-19 and vaccines, after his presidential bid launch — The prominent anti-vaccine campaigner was suspended in 2021 for spreading misleading health claims.
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Gizmodo, Cryptopolitan, The Hill, Insider, WHDH 7News, Cointelegraph, Bitcoinist.com, New York Post, The Hill, Reuters, The Daily Caller, RADAR, Breitbart, and Deadline
Bluesky:
@alkapdc.bsky.social, @kenwhite.bsky.social, @carnage4life.bsky.social, @jetjocko.bsky.social, and @shellen.bsky.social
Tweets:
@jack, @jack, @elonmusk, @robertkennedyjr, @nberlat, @jonahdispatch, @ebakerwhite, @azi, @robertkennedyjr, @schmutzie, @pt, and @viacristiano. Thanks:@viacristiano
| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
Google announces passkeys on Workspace accounts in open beta, letting staff at 9M+ organizations sign in without a password, rolling out in the coming weeks — Google has taken a significant step toward a passwordless future with the start of an open beta for passkeys on Workspace accounts.
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Google Help Center, ZDNet, SiliconANGLE, TechCrunch, 9to5Google, TechRadar, and Help Net Security
| Madhumita Murgia / Financial Times: |
An interview with sci-fi writer Ted Chiang on AI's limits, how current machines are not conscious, his 2010 novella The Lifecycle of Software Objects, and more — The visionary author on the limits of AI, the uses of science fiction — and why there's a ‘market opportunity for volleyballs’
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The Verge and Daring Fireball
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@joshspero, @sarahreesbrenna, @ananyo, @mulegirl, and @alexgroundwater
| Ilena Peng / Bloomberg: |
Carbon Health launches a GPT-4 tool to create medical records, using Amazon Transcribe Medical for transcription, and says nearly 90% are accepted without edits — A new tool uses GPT artificial intelligence to create medical records, allowing doctors to focus on their patients instead of their notes.Sponsor Posts
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