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A look at the similarities and differences between the SEC's lawsuits against Coinbase and Binance, as the SEC views every crypto exchange in the US as illegal — SEC v. Crypto — “A decent rule of thumb,” I wrote in March, “is that all cryptocurrency exchanges are doing crimes … | Robert Armstrong / Financial Times: |
Crypto is dangerous nonsense and should be regulated like smoking, gambling, or pyramid schemes, not granted the dignity of regulation under US securities law — But not for the reasons the exchanges think — This article is an on-site version of our Unhedged newsletter.
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| Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac: |
Apple releases a Game Porting Toolkit based on open-source platform Wine to translate DirectX 12 into Metal 3, a potentially massive step for Mac gaming — One of the new features in macOS Sonoma is Game Mode, which Apple claims improves gaming performance on Apple Silicon Macs.
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| Michael Potuck / 9to5Mac: |
Apple makes iOS 17, iPadOS 17, watchOS 10, and macOS Sonoma developer betas free for anyone with an Apple ID, not just users with $99/year developer accounts — For years, access to the iOS developer beta and other developer builds has only been available through a $99/year developer account.
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| Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: |
Court filing: the SEC asked a DC court to grant a temporary restraining order that would freeze assets tied to Binance.US' holding and operating companies — The filing comes a day after the SEC sued Binance. — The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) asked a court to grant …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Investigations: Instagram helps connect and promote a vast network of accounts openly devoted to underage sex content; Meta plans to increase its controls — The Meta unit's systems for fostering communities have guided users to child-sex content; company says it is improving internal controls
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| Casey Newton / Platformer: |
How Twitter, YouTube, and Meta gave up on removing lies about the 2020 US Presidential elections, having briefly banded together to do the right thing — For a time, they fought the good fight — but not any more — I. — On tech platforms these days you can get away with just about anything …
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| Alyssa Mercante / Kotaku: |
A look at Twitch's new ad rules covering branded content, a crucial source of income for creators; after an outcry, Twitch says the update was “overly broad” — 'The top 100 streamers on Twitch just got told they're not allowed to make 80 percent of their revenue the way they're used to making it.'
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| Joe Tidy / BBC: |
The Clop ransomware group tells the BBC, British Airways, Boots, and others to email them or data stolen via the MOVEit hack will be released on June 14 — A prolific cyber crime gang thought to be based in Russia has issued an ultimatum to victims of a hack that has hit organisations around the world.| Jeffrey Dastin / Reuters: |
Google Cloud partners with Priceline to help the travel agency develop an AI chatbot for planning trips, suggesting hotels like a “personal concierge”, and more — Want a New York hotel near a Christmas market, a vegan restaurant, or another attraction?
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| The Verge: |
Apple acquires Los Angeles-based Mira, which makes AR headsets for companies and the US military; the startup had raised ~$17M and was once advised by Jony Ive — Apple has acquired Mira, a Los Angeles-based AR startup that makes headsets for other companies and the US military …
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| Javier Espinoza / Financial Times: |
Sources: the EU is considering a mandatory ban on using equipment from Huawei and other companies that are deemed to present a security risk in 5G networks — Brussels concerned lack of action by member states to bar high-risk companies threatens security of entire bloc
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| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Automattic launches Jetpack AI Assistant for WordPress and Jetpack-powered sites, letting users generate content, translate text into 12 languages, and more — Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com and the main contributor to the open-source WordPress project, launched an AI assistant …
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| Bloomberg: |
Sequoia's plan for three firms, a major shift, highlights the impact of rising US-China tensions and efforts by Silicon Valley to create distance from China — Sequoia Capital's plan to split itself into three separate regional firms represents a major shift at one the world's foremost venture capital firms.
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| Financial Times: |
Nigeria-based Tingo, which offers mobiles and credit to farmers, fell ~80% after Hindenburg alleged the Nasdaq-listed fintech is an “exceptionally obvious scam” — Report alleges that Nasdaq listed company is an ‘exceptionally obvious scam’ — Shares in Tingo Group more than halved …
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| Emily Birnbaum / Bloomberg: |
A profile of Google General Counsel Halimah DeLaine Prado after SCOTUS unanimously sided with the company in Gonzalez v. Google, as state cases test Section 230 — Google's general counsel, Halimah DeLaine Prado, was with friends in the suburbs of Boston for some rare personal time when she learned …
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| Cecilia Kang / New York Times: |
Sources: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has met with over 100 members of Congress, alongside VP Harris and cabinet members, to discuss AI regulation in recent months — The chief executive of OpenAI, which makes ChatGPT, has met with at least 100 U.S. lawmakers in recent months. He has also taken his show abroad.
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| Sarah E. Needleman / Wall Street Journal: |
Email: Reddit lays off ~90 employees, or ~5% of its workforce, and slows hiring, as the company restructures key parts of its business to break even in 2024 — Moves aim to help social-media company break even next year — Social-media company Reddit is laying off roughly 90 employees … | Maghan McDowell / Vogue Business: |
Louis Vuitton announces “Treasure Trunk” NFTs costing €39K each and granting access to future products and experiences, in a hard pivot from an NFT-based game — The collection of phygital “Treasure Trunks” marks the first time that the luxury brand will sell NFTs …
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| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
1Password launches a passkey public beta for Chrome, Edge, Safari, Firefox, and Brave but not its mobile apps, after announcing passkey support in November 2022 — After several months of teasing, password manager 1Password has now launched its public beta for passkeys … Sponsor Posts
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