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CoinDesk: 60 mins ago

Sources: digital asset trading firm Genesis is potentially facing “hundreds of millions” of dollars in losses, partly through exposure to 3AC and Babel Finance

Wall Street Journal: 81 mins ago

Researchers say some businesses are exaggerating AI's capabilities, brewing misunderstanding and distorting policymakers' views of AI's power and fallibility

Bloomberg: 2 hours ago

EU lawmakers provisionally agree on anti-laundering rules for crypto, requiring verified customer identities for transfers between regulated digital wallets

Mark Kleinman / Sky News:

Source: a British Virgin Islands court ordered the liquidation of Singapore-based Three Arrows Capital on June 27; Teneo will handle the insolvency process

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CoinDesk:

Sources: digital asset trading firm Genesis is potentially facing “hundreds of millions” of dollars in losses, partly through exposure to 3AC and Babel Finance

Alex Heath / The Verge:

Snap launches Snapchat+, offering exclusive, experimental, and pre-release Snapchat features for $3.99 per month, starting in nine countries

Josh Smith / Reuters:

Experts say the crypto crash has wiped out millions of dollars stolen by North Korean hackers, threatening a key source of funding and its weapons programs

Dan Goodin / Ars Technica:

Researchers detail sophisticated malware targeting various routers and taking over Windows, macOS, and Linux devices, in North America and Europe for ~2 years

Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer:

Firefox now offers a feature to strip some web tracking parameters from URLs, including HubSpot, Marketo, and Meta, following similar functionality in Brave

Jason Schreier / Bloomberg:

Niantic, the company behind Pokémon Go, lays off 8% of its staff, around 85 to 90 people, and cancels four projects; Niantic was valued at $9B in November 2021

Evelyn Cheng / CNBC:

The FCC's Brendan Carr calls on Apple and Google to remove TikTok from app stores due to China-related security concerns or explain why they haven't by July 8

Stephen Alpher / CoinDesk:

MicroStrategy purchased 480 bitcoins at a $20,817 average price from May 3 to June 28, bringing its holdings to 129,699, acquired for ~$3.98B or $30,664 each

Annie Armstrong / Artnet News:

As crypto enters another winter, Jimmy Fallon, Serena Williams, Reese Witherspoon, Meek Mill, and other celebrities quietly remove their NFT profile pictures

Raymond Wong / Input:

Carl Pei says Nothing phone (1) will use the mid-range Snapdragon 778G+, not the high-end 8 Gen 1, citing a balance of cost, performance, and power consumption

David Yaffe-Bellany / New York Times:

Forbes estimates the 16 richest crypto billionaires lost $59B+ between March and June, led by Binance's Changpeng Zhao, as retail investors suffer heavy losses

Wall Street Journal:

Researchers say some businesses are exaggerating AI's capabilities, brewing misunderstanding and distorting policymakers' views of AI's power and fallibility

Wall Street Journal:

Internal documents from 2021 show Celsius issued large loans backed by little collateral while pitching itself as less risky than a bank with better returns

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