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| Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: |
The US infrastructure bill amends tax code section 6050I to require certain recipients of digital assets worth $10K+ to report sender details to the IRS — The U.S. House of Representatives voted to pass a bipartisan infrastructure bill that contains a controversial cryptocurrency tax reporting requirement.| Jacob Pramuk / CNBC: |
House passes $1T+ bipartisan infrastructure bill, with a controversial crypto tax provision and $65B in broadband funding; Biden could sign the bill within days — - The House passed a more than $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill, sending it to President Joe Biden for his signature.
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| Kevin Roose / New York Times: |
The NFT.NYC conference, now in its third year, was a coming-out party for the NFT community, attracting a record 5,000 attendees from artists to corporate suits — NFT.NYC, a gathering for nonfungible token enthusiasts, offered a taste of a crypto-filled future.
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| Dave Lee / Financial Times: |
Interview with Biz Stone about Future Positive, an investment firm he founded in 2019 with Fred Blackford to focus on investments that can be held for decades — The social media pioneer's firm is chasing investments that have no expiry date — The man who helped create Twitter …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
H2O.ai, which provides an open source machine learning platform to build smart applications, raises a $100M Series E at a $1.6B pre-money valuation — H2O.ai — a startup that has developed an open-source framework as well as proprietary apps that make it easier for any kind of enterprise … | Matt Burgess / Wired: |
A look at the fight between city officials and parents over Stockholm's glitchy app for its schools, as annoyed parents built their own open source version — Stockholm's official app was a disaster. So annoyed parents built their own open source version—ignoring warnings that it might be illegal.| Brian Barrett / Wired: |
The FBI and DHS say a drone dangling copper wires tried to disrupt a PA power substation in July 2020, the first drone attack targeting US energy infrastructure — An attack attempt in 2020 proves the UAS threat is real—and not enough is being done to stop it.| Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal: |
How a scarcity of secondhand chip manufacturing machines, which use older fabrication techniques, has exacerbated the global chip shortage — The world is hungry for semiconductors, and not all of them need to be made with cutting-edge technology. The race is on to find older machines that can still crank out chips.
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| Sarah Gooding / WP Tavern: |
A recently unredacted antitrust complaint alleges that Google gives AMP a “nice comparative boost” by throttling load times of non-AMP ads via one-second delays — The Chrome Dev Summit concluded earlier this week. Announcements and discussions on hot topics impacting … | Catalin Cimpanu / The Record: |
DeFi platform bZx says a hacker stole an estimated $55M worth of cryptocurrency assets after spear-phishing one of its employees and swiping two private keys — A hacker has stolen an estimated $55 million worth of cryptocurrency assets from bZx, a decentralized finance (DeFi) …
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| Madeleine Morley / New York Times: |
A look at digital pets site Neopets, which had 25M users in the mid-2000s, as owner JumpStart Games says 30%-40% of former users returned since March 2020 — When Allison Kennedy visited her Neopets in May after a four-year hiatus, they were crying. Big blue tears of hunger and sadness ran down their cheeks.| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
Report: Apple and TSMC plan to produce 3nm chips for Macs as soon as 2023, with as many as four dies and up to 40 CPU cores per chip — Apple is taking the PC world by storm with its first debut of Apple Silicon chips inside of Macs, taking what it learned from developing the iPhone and iPad …
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