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Stripe now lets companies pay users in cryptocurrencies via USDC, starting with Twitter paying some creators in crypto for Ticketed Spaces and Super Follows — - Online payments firm Stripe says it will start offering merchants the ability to pay their users in cryptocurrency through the stablecoin USDC.
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| Reuters: |
An investigation details how Binance built ties with the Russian government, including handing over data on opposition leader Alexei Navalny in April 2021 — In April 2021, Russia's financial intelligence unit met in Moscow with the regional head of Binance, the world's largest crypto exchange.
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| Cecilia Kang / New York Times: |
As the EU prepares its third landmark tech law in the past few years, the US has enacted only two narrow federal tech laws in the past 25 years — Federal privacy bills, security legislation and antitrust laws to address the power of the tech giants have all failed to advance in Congress …
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources detail how Elon Musk convinced Morgan Stanley and other banks to back his Twitter bid, including by offering his ideas on boosting Twitter's revenue — Publicly, Elon Musk has said he doesn't care about the economics of owning Twitter Inc. — But during a hectic …
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| Lauren Feiner / CNBC: |
A group of 18 House Republicans asks Twitter's board to preserve all records related to Musk's bid, setting up a potential probe if the GOP wins the majority — - A group of House Republicans is asking Twitter's board to preserve all records related to Elon Musk's offer to buy the company.
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| Joe Flint / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: after churning out 500+ original programs in 2021, Netflix is looking to rein in costs and add fewer new titles with a greater emphasis on quality — Streaming service spent lavishly on productions to win subscribers, but now growth has slowed — For Netflix Inc., NFLX -3.47% ▼ the era of carefree spending is over.
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| Mia Sato / The Verge: |
Jane Manchun Wong: Twitter is working on a feature codenamed “Vibe” that would let users set a status on a per-tweet basis or on a profile level — Status updates could appear on tweets or on profiles — Twitter is reportedly working on a feature that allows users to set a status, codenamed “Vibe.”
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| Naomi Nix / Washington Post: |
Twitter bans ads that promote climate change denial and contradict “scientific consensus” — Twitter says ads can't contradict “scientific consensus” on the environmental crisis — Twitter is banning advertisements that promote climate change denial in an effort to curb …
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Twitter, The Verge, Protocol, Engadget, and Ars Technica
Tweets: @scottpwaldman, @corbinhiar, @arinatter, @twitterforgood, and @ericschultz
| Heather Somerville / Wall Street Journal: |
Ukrainians are replacing DJI drones with BRINC, Skydio, and other US-made drones after unexplained failures with the Chinese company's equipment during the war — U.S. drone makers spot opportunity as use of drones from China-based DJI sparks security concerns| Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
Leaked chat logs: Lapsus$ hacked T-Mobile multiple times in March and stole some projects' source code; T-Mobile says no customer or government info was stolen — KrebsOnSecurity recently reviewed a copy of the private chat messages between members of the LAPSUS$ cybercrime group …
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| Patrick Howell O'Neill / MIT Technology Review: |
Mandiant: one-third of all hacker groups exploiting zero-days in 2021 were financially motivated criminals as opposed to government-backed cyberespionage groups — The most valuable hacking tools were once the domain of governments. Not anymore. — Organized cybercriminals with money …
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BleepingComputer, Mandiant, CyberScoop, TechRadar, and Dark Reading
Tweets: @mandiant, @niallfirth, and @adam_k_levin
| Oliver Knight / CoinDesk: |
Filing: Silk Road creator Ross Ulbricht will see his $183M debt forfeited by selling the 69K+ bitcoins seized in 2020 connected to an unnamed Silk Road hacker — A court filing has revealed that bitcoin seized in 2020 will repay the Silk Road founder's $183 million debt to the U.S. government.| BBC: |
The UK's Department for Transport outlines self-driving vehicle rules, including letting drivers watch TV on built-in screens, ahead of a full framework in 2025 — People using self-driving cars will be allowed to watch television on built-in screens under proposed updates to the Highway Code.
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GOV.UK, The Verge, HotHardware.com News, KnowTechie, ITV News, Redmond Pie, Autocar, The Independent, IGN, Engadget, Pocket-lint, and The Register
| Brian Heater / TechCrunch: |
Agility Robotics, which is developing bipedal warehouse robots, raises a $150M Series B from DCVC, Playground Global, Amazon Industrial Innovation Fund, others — Yesterday, Amazon announced that Agility Robotics is one of the five initial startups benefitting from the company's $1 billion innovation fund.
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SiliconANGLE, FreightWaves, GeekWire, Oregonian, Robotics & Automation News, RoboticsTomorrow.com News, Forbes, WinBuzzer, and Silicon Florist. Thanks:@claudianoel
| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
Glide, a no-code service that lets businesses create apps based on Google Sheets, Excel, or Airtable, raises a $20M Series A led by Benchmark — When Glide came out of Y Combinator in 2019, it was looking to help people with absolutely no coding ability to build a simple, but functional mobile app from data in a spreadsheet.
Tweets: @dvdsgl, @ycombinator, and @sandykory
| Claire Woodcock / VICE: |
Ebook vendors like Hoopla are including titles with COVID-19 disinfo, Holocaust denial, and more; librarians want more transparency and accountability — Librarians say Holocaust deniers, antivaxxers, and other conspiracy theorists are being featured in the catalogs of a popular ebook lending service.| Rebecca Torrence / Fierce Healthcare: |
Mendel, which parses unstructured data from medical records and clinical literature to produce data for research, raises a $40M Series B led by Oak HC/FT — Artificial intelligence startup Mendel has landed $40 million in a series B funding round led by Oak HC/FT for its real-world data platform.
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| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Ethereum scaling project Polygon launches a dedicated blockchain network called Supernets and says it will invest $100M in initiatives that use it — Polygon has launched a new kind of dedicated blockchain network dubbed Supernets and said it will invest $100 million in projects that use it.
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Cointelegraph, SiliconANGLE, Crypto Briefing, and CoinDesk
| Viola Zhou / Rest of World: |
A look at Douban, a Reddit-like social network that China has targeted in its crackdowns; Douban was fined $1.65M in 2021 and has shut down popular forums — Douban's tight-knit communities have finally made it a target of Beijing's tech crackdown. — • HONG KONG
Tweets: @mvzelenks, @restofworld, @sauteesquid, and @violazhouyi
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