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DeFi lending platform Celsius pauses “all withdrawals, Swap, and transfers between accounts”, citing extreme market conditions — We are writing with a very important message for our community. — Due to extreme market conditions, today we are announcing that Celsius is pausing …
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| Bloomberg: |
Major cryptocurrencies are crashing: bitcoin drops by 10%+ to below ~$24K, ether drops by 20%+ to below $1.2K, Avalanche drops 20%+, and Solana drops 19%+ — Bitcoin plunged to the lowest in about 18 months in Asia trading Monday as the impact of Friday's shock US inflation data continued to reverberate through global risk assets.
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| Matt Turner / Bloomberg: |
As crypto tumbles, MicroStrategy, which owns 129K+ bitcoins, drops as much as 23%, while Coinbase, Riot Blockchain, and Marathon Digital each drop 14%+ — Cryptocurrency-related stocks plunged in premarket trading Monday as Bitcoin tumbled to its lowest level in 18 months amid a deepening selloff …
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| Daniel Roberts / Decrypt: |
Celsius' token CEL fell 70% in one hour after the DeFi lending giant suspended withdrawals, dropping to about ¢20 amid a broader crypto market slump — On Sunday night, with crypto markets already in freefall, controversial crypto lender Celsius announced it was suddenly pausing all customer withdrawals, swaps, and transfers.
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| Nitasha Tiku / Washington Post: |
A look at advanced large language models, as Google places an engineer on paid leave after he became convinced that its LaMDA chatbot generator was sentient — AI ethicists warned Google not to impersonate humans. Now one of Google's own thinks there's a ghost in the machine.
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| Gary Marcus / The Road to AI We Can Trust: |
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
WWDC 2022 analysis: Stage Manager is a confusing mess, clues about an upcoming AR/VR headset, CarPlay's new interface as a precursor to an Apple car, and more — The next-generation CarPlay interface is a precursor to an eventual Apple-designed Tesla rival.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Study: some streaming devices keep playing content when TVs are off, leading to ~17% of ads being shown when users can't see them, costing brands $1B+ per year — Lack of communication between TV sets and streaming devices causes estimated waste of over $1 billion in ad dollars| Janko Roettgers / Protocol: |
Q&A with Unity CEO John Riccitiello, who thinks the metaverse will be compelling with millions of destinations but won't be dominated by users' 3D avatars — Unity CEO John Riccitiello thinks the metaverse is the future of the internet. He just doesn't believe it will look like Fortnite or Meta's Horizon Worlds.
Tweets: @avvyland and @nickstatt
| Molly White: |
A skeptical look at crypto as a foundation for self-sovereign identity and some likely dystopian outcomes, as Buterin, Dorsey, and others explore the idea — Anonymity and trustlessness are central to the crypto world. People don't have to attach real-world identities to crypto wallets …
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| AnnaMaria Andriotis / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Apple plans to use Apple ID data for identity verification and fraud prevention in its BNPL service, alongside credit reports and FICO scores — Tech giant will approve borrowers and fund loans itself rather than rely on a bank — Apple Inc. tiptoed into finance with Apple Pay …
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| Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
How Amazon entices creators to join its Influencer Program, which launched in 2017 and pays a commission for generated sales, by flying them to resorts and more — - Last month, Amazon hosted more than a dozen Instagram, TikTok and YouTube stars at a glitzy Mexico resort.| Paul Alcorn / Tom's Hardware: |
Intel claims its Intel 4 node, its first to use EUV lithography, offers 21.5% higher frequencies or 40% power reduction vs Intel 7, up to 2x transistor density — Intel announced the first details of its ‘Intel 4’ process node and shared an image of a Meteor Lake processor's compute die at the 2022 IEEE VLSI Symposium.
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