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Harmony stops its Horizon bridge between Ethereum, Binance Chain, and Bitcoin after a theft of ~$100M in altcoins; Harmony says its BTC bridge was not impacted — The layer-1 blockchain's main bridge between Ethereum, Binance Chain, and Bitcoin has been exploited for nine figures, but says its BTC bridge has not been affected.| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: FTX is in talks to acquire a stake in BlockFi but no equity agreement has been reached; FTX gave the crypto lender a $250M credit line this week — FTX gave crypto lender a $250 million credit line this week — Crypto billionaire Sam Bankman-Fried has become a lender of last resort to his beleaguered industry.
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Zendesk agrees to be acquired by an investor group in an all-cash deal valuing the company at ~$10.2B and will go private once the deal closes; stock is up 25%+ — - Customer experience software company Zendesk agreed to be acquired by an investor group in an all-cash transaction valuing it around $10.2 billion.
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Walmart says its hybrid cloud system now has 10K “edge nodes” across the US, cutting annual cloud spending by 10%-18% and lessening its reliance on cloud giants — Retailer says new hybrid system allows the company to switch between cloud providers and its servers, saving time and money| Jonathan Greig / The Record: |
The CISA and the US Coast Guard Cyber Command warn companies of Log4Shell exploits in the wild, citing one incident of threat actors exfiltrating 130GB+ of data — The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the United States Coast Guard Cyber Command (CGCYBER) …
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| Oliver Knight / CoinDesk: |
Axie Infinity developer Sky Mavis plans to restart its bridge and reimburse ~$216.5M in USDC and ether on June 28 to the victims of the $625M Ronin bridge hack — A total of $216.5 million in USDC and ethereum at today's prices will be returned to users. — Sky Mavis, the developer behind …
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| Aoyon Ashraf / CoinDesk: |
Coinbase Derivatives Exchange plans to launch its first crypto derivatives product, Nano Bitcoin futures (BIT), at 1/100th of the size of a Bitcoin, on June 27 — Coinbase Derivatives Exchange hopes to capitalize on a market that is $3 trillion in volume worldwide and provide hedging options for traders.
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| Davey Alba / Bloomberg: |
Source: in February, Meta started an official internal process to shut down CrowdTangle, but paused the plan as the EU's Digital Services Act gained traction — On May 17, as several states held their primary elections, Jesse Littlewood searched the internet using a tool called CrowdTangle …
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| Cameron Thompson / CoinDesk: |
Binance launches Binance Institutional to let VIP and institutional investors trade digital assets; the service is not available to Binance.US customers — The exchange's release of Binance Institutional aligns with CEO Changpeng Zhao's commitment to expand and hire during the bear market.
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Italy's data watchdog finds a local web publisher's use of Google Analytics violates EU data protection rules due to the privacy risk of data transfer to the US — Another strike against use of Google Analytics in Europe: The Italian data protection authority has found a local web publisher's use …
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| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Zomato acquires instant delivery service Blinkit, formerly Grofers, for $568.1M; Blinkit raised about $700M in total and was valued at $1B+ in 2021 — Zomato has acquired Blinkit, a struggling 10-minute grocery delivery startup, in a $568.1 million deal as the loss-making food delivery firm looks …
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Report: Twitter gave Elon Musk more data, including real-time API access, after he complained last week that the large historical data he received wasn't enough — The company reportedly provided Musk with a new tranche of data after his team claimed they couldn't properly run tests to discover evidence of bots.| Leo Schwartz / Rest of World: |
Facebook has emerged in Mexico City as a low-cost alternative to food delivery services like Uber Eats and Rappi, as restaurateurs seek to avoid high fees — The platform has emerged as a hack around Uber Eats and Rappi's high fees. — • XOCHIMILCO, MEXICO
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| Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
OSOM, founded by ex-Essential employees, scraps its OV1 phone and partners with Solana to produce Saga, a $1,000 Web3-focused Android phone launching in Q1 2023 — The OSOM OV1 was a new Android smartphone built from the bones of Essential, but it's now being rebranded as a crypto/web3 device, the “Solana Saga.”Sponsor Posts
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