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| Samantha Cole / VICE: |
Stardust, the top iOS period tracker, says in its privacy policy it may disclose “anonymized, encrypted” data to third parties “whether or not legally required” — Stardust Period Tracker was the most-downloaded free app on iOS over the weekend. — Samantha Cole
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| Washington Post: |
With Roe overturned, privacy advocates worry period tracking apps are sharing data, with partners or affiliates, that may become evidence of a crime — Privacy advocates fear that fertility data could fall into the wrong hands. — With a menstrual-tracking app, you can see when your periods and fertile days start and end.
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| Andrew Rummer / The Block: |
Voyager Digital issues a default notice to Three Arrows Capital for failing to repay a $650M+ loan; Voyager accessed $75M of credit from Alameda Research — - Voyager Digital has issued a default notice against Three Arrows Capital for failure to repay a loan worth more than $650 million.
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| Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
SSD benchmarks show the 256GB 13" MacBook Pro with M2 has ~50% slower read and ~30% slower write speeds than the previous generation 256GB MacBook Pro with M1 — Following the launch of Apple's new 13-inch MacBook Pro with the M2 chip, it has been discovered that the $1,299 base model …
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| Vicky Ge Huang / Wall Street Journal: |
As crypto markets melt down, hedge funds are increasingly shorting tether, as a bet against either the broader economy or the quality of the assets backing USDT — Professional investors got interested in shorting tether after the collapse of another stablecoin, TerraUSD
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| Yuka Hayashi / Wall Street Journal: |
Taiwan-based GlobalWafers announces plans to build a $5B silicon wafer factory in Sherman, Texas, aiming to reach 1.2M wafers per month, covering all US demand — Silicon facility would aim to supply wafers to Intel, TSMC, creating 1,500 U.S. jobs — WASHINGTON—GlobalWafers Co. …
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| New York Times: |
Hundreds of procurement documents detail the software bought by China to sift through vast troves of surveillance data, helping “predict” possible troublemakers — The more than 1.4 billion people living in China are constantly watched. They are recorded by police cameras that are everywhere …
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| Thomas Ricker / The Verge: |
Starlink RV review: works in remote locations and power consumption beats expectations, but can't be used on a moving vehicle and storms degrade performance — Stay connected while disconnecting — The problem with going off-grid is the lack of connection.| Sebastian Herrera / Wall Street Journal: |
Amazon's Prime Day shopping event, set for July 12-13, appears to be more low-key than previous years, focused on discounting Amazon-made products — Sales growth for the shopping event has slowed as retailer contends with high inflation, consumers' shifting habits and cost cuts| Chainalysis: |
A distribution analysis of 10 major DAO governance tokens finds that, on average, less than 1% of all holders have 90% of voting power — This blog is a preview of our State of Web3 Report. Sign up here to reserve your copy and we'll email you the full report when it comes out in June!
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Tweets: @justinbenson, @damedoteth, @dennishegstad, @chainalysis, @campuscodi, @sniko_, @zackseward, @ourielohayon, and @songadaymann
| Ellen Huet / Bloomberg: |
CB Insights: global VC activity dropped 23% between Q1 2022 and June 23, 2022, after dropping just 1.4% between Q4 2021 and Q1 2022; total funding dropped 27% — Venture capital-backed startups raised far fewer rounds of funding during the past three months than they did during …
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| Jen Wieczner / New York Magazine: |
Q&A with crypto billionaire Mike Novogratz on crypto as a scam, differences with past crashes, an incoming recession, LUNA's collapse, blaming the Fed, and more — A little over a year ago, when I interviewed Mike Novogratz, a veteran hedge-fund manager and crypto billionaire, I asked him what he was excited about.
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