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| Joanna Ossinger / Bloomberg: |
After UST's collapse, most rival algorithmic stablecoins are below their dollar peg; the biggest non-algorithmic stablecoins USDT and USDC are mostly holding — Stablecoins besides TerraUSD are failing to live up to their billing as the collapse of the algorithmic token has investors pondering …
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Tweets: @stablekwon, @johnbrownlow, @terra_money, @ariadneconill, @molly0xfff, @lukeisamazing, @kadhim, @mskidchaos, @traderkoz, @jerallaire, @davidgerard, @nkulw, @jemgold_, @lawmaster, @sbf_ftx, @katie_martin_fx, @zhusu, @bramcohen, @alexhern, @rekthq, @lawmaster, @tautologicaly, @carnage4life, @lhm1, @sbf_ftx, @kadhim, @macnbtc, @lubchansky, @carnage4life, @lawmaster, @sbf_ftx, @barrysilbert, @thestalwart, @trustlessstate, @timccopeland, and @parismarx
| Tim Copeland / The Block: |
Terraform Labs resumes Terra block production, with staking disabled, after halting the blockchain “to prevent governance attacks” following LUNA's collapse — Quick Take — Terraform Labs has said the Terra blockchain has been halted. — This is due to concerns …
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| Financial Times: |
Tether CTO Paolo Ardoino declines to reveal details about the company's $40B US government bond holdings, for fear of revealing its “secret sauce” — Token's tech chief declines to provide details on Treasury holdings on fear of revealing ‘secret sauce’
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| Shaurya Malwa / CoinDesk: |
Terra's LUNA drops to $0.01, a 99%+ decline in 24 hours, down from $60 earlier this week and $120 in mid-April, after Terra's UST stablecoin lost its dollar peg — LUNA tokens lost 96% in the past 24 hours alone, prompting more to be minted in a mechanism that helped lift the UST price.
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| @kayvz: |
[Thread] Twitter product chief Kayvon Beykpour says he is leaving at the request of CEO Parag Agrawal, who wants to “take the team in a different direction” — Interrupting my paternity leave to share some final @twitter-related news: I'm leaving the company after over 7 years.
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| Bloomberg: |
In a memo, Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal announces a hiring freeze and other cost-cutting efforts; VP of product Jay Sullivan will take over as head of product — Twitter Inc. Chief Executive Officer Parag Agrawal announced a hiring freeze and other cost-cutting efforts on Thursday …
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| Ryan Browne / CNBC: |
Bitcoin fell below $26K for the first time since December 2020, down 20%+ in a week; ether fell to $1,704, its lowest level since July 2021, down 30%+ in a week — - The price of bitcoin plunged below $26,000 on Thursday, hitting its lowest level in 16 months.
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| David Yaffe-Bellany / New York Times: |
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
After mocking Apple for removing the iPhone's headphone jack in an August 2021 ad for the Pixel 5a, Google quietly drops the headphone jack with the Pixel 6a — The Pixel 6A offers a lot of good features, but not a headphone jack — Google just revealed the Pixel 6A at Google I/O on Wednesday …
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Tweets: @chriswelch, @starfire2258, @dcseifert, @robpegoraro, @jaypeters, and @_gbalaji
| David Pierce / The Verge: |
A look at Google's “ambient computing” strategy, a bid to unify its disparate hardware lines, led by the Pixel team, while keeping its Android partners happy — Making ambient computing happen is forcing Google to change how it does everything — The story of this year's Google I/O actually started three years ago.
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YouTube, AppleInsider, Patently Apple, and Telecoms.com
Tweets: @mcelhearn, @louisgray, and @therealmarvin
| Lauren Feiner / CNBC: |
Twitter shares fall to about $46, dropping its market cap to $9B below Elon Musk's purchase price of $54.20, amid investor concerns about the deal — - Twitter shares have fallen to about $46, well below Elon Musk's purchase price of $54.20. — The sell-off has created a $9 billion gap between … | Scott Stein / CNET: |
Mark Zuckerberg gives an early look at mixed reality on Meta's Project Cambria headset; Meta announces Presence Platform to let developers make MR apps — A demo of Meta Cambria demonstrates how it blends AR and VR, while Quest 2 headsets could be used to develop apps in the meantime. — Scott Stein
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Tweets: @sadlyitsbradley, @metanewsroom, @ricmac, @boztank, @jetscott, and @boztank
| Financial Times: |
Brian Armstrong says there's “no risk of bankruptcy” after Coinbase said in its filing that its users might lose all their crypto if the exchange goes bankrupt — Shares in crypto exchange fall 23% after bleak results and new risk disclosure — Shares in cryptocurrency exchange …
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| Thomas Stackpole / HBR.org: |
Q&A with crypto skeptic Molly White, who runs Web3 Is Going Just Great, on Web3's evolving problems and cultural draw, blockchain privacy issues, and more — Welcome to Web3 — What Is Web3? — Why Blockchain's Ethical Stakes Are So High Web3 Will Run on Cryptocurrency What a DAO Can — and Can't — Do
Tweets: @molly0xfff, @theburningmonk, @marcprecipice, @morganricks1, @carnage4life, and @ahcastor
| Scott Stein / CNET: |
An interview with James Park, Fitbit co-founder and Google's wearables division head, on how the Pixel Watch factors into Fitbit and its future plans, and more — James Park talks to CNET about the Google Pixel Watch, and where Fitbit's vision goes from here. — Scott Stein
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google and Samsung announce Health Connect to simplify connectivity between health and fitness apps and allow users to share their data across apps — At its Google I/O developer conference, Google and Samsung today announced Health Connect, a new initiative that will simplify … | Paul Hill / Neowin: |
Google releases Android 13 Beta 2 with finer privacy controls, an improved Material You theme system, the ability to change the language of each app, and more — At its Google I/O event on Wednesday, Google released the second beta of Android 13. The search giant highlighted several …
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| Lauren Kaori Gurley / VICE: |
Leaked memo shows the anti-union talking points that Apple is sending retail store leaders, including that workers could lose “flexibility” and merit promotions — Apple is instructing managers to tell retail workers that they could lose benefits and career opportunities if they unionize.
Tweets: @motherboard, @audreyjcarleton, @lorenzofb, @carlquintanilla, @katiedrumm, @jason_koebler, and @laurenkgurley
| Lucas Matney / TechCrunch: |
Ex-Facebook crypto chief David Marcus launches Lightspark, a payments startup that is building on Bitcoin's Lightning network, backed by a16z, Paradigm, others — After his departure from Facebook in November, many crypto industry insiders speculated where long-time executive David Marcus would land.
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Tweets: @spiritofbitcoin, @smtuffy, @sriramk, @mikeisaac, @kantrowitz, @thestalwart, and @mikeisaac
| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
A US appeals court rules 2-1 to let Texas enforce a social media law stopping Twitter, Facebook, and other services with 50M+ users from moderating content — A judge blocked a similar law in Florida on First Amendment grounds — The controversial Texas social media law HB 20 …
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Techdirt, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Vox, Ars Technica, Gizmodo, PCMag, Protocol, and ExchangeWire.com
Tweets: @rmfifthcircuit, @b_fung, @mjs_dc, @wendyndavis, @mmasnick, @daphnehk, @b_fung, @justinamash, @mmasnick, @mjs_dc, @mjs_dc, @popehat, @medialawprof, @b_fung, @popehat, @popehat, @popehat, @popehat, @popehat, @popehat, @dangillmor, @popehat, @videah_, @popehat, @popehat, @popehat, @popehat, @elisugarman, and @nomadicmatt
| Ariel Shapiro / The Verge: |
Spotify promotes Bill Simmons to oversee global sports strategy and names Parcast founder Max Cutler as head of creator content and partnerships — He will lead a new global sports push for the streamer — Spotify has lost a number of top executives in the past month … | Reuters: |
Foxconn reports Q1 net profit rose 5% YoY to ~$985M but warns that Q2 revenue could slow due to rising inflation, cooling demand, and supply chain issues — Shovel and FoxConn logo are seen before the arrival of U.S. President Donald Trump for the Foxconn Technology Group groundbreaking ceremony …
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