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Sources: digital asset trading firm Genesis is potentially facing “hundreds of millions” of dollars in losses, partly through exposure to 3AC and Babel Finance — The DCG-owned trading colossus is said to have suffered nine-figure losses partly through exposure to Three Arrows Capital and Babel Finance.| Mark Kleinman / Sky News: |
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EU lawmakers provisionally agree on anti-laundering rules for crypto, requiring verified customer identities for transfers between regulated digital wallets — The European Parliament and Council reached a provisional agreement to force crypto providers to provide identifying information …
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| Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: |
Grayscale Investments sues the US SEC after the agency rejected its application on Wednesday to convert its flagship Grayscale Bitcoin Trust product to an ETF — The SEC rejected Grayscale's application to convert its Grayscale Bitcoin Trust to an exchange-traded fund earlier Wednesday.
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| Sam Biddle / The Intercept: |
Docs: Coinbase is selling features of its intelligence-gathering tool Coinbase Tracer to ICE, letting ICE track crypto transactions including bitcoin and ether — Coinbase, the largest cryptocurrency exchange in the United States, is selling Immigrations and Customs Enforcement a suite …
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| Jason Schreier / Bloomberg: |
Niantic, the company behind Pokémon Go, lays off 8% of its staff, around 85 to 90 people, and cancels four projects; Niantic was valued at $9B in November 2021 — Gaming company Niantic Inc., which has struggled to find another big hit following its 2016 game Pokémon Go …
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Tweets: @tamashiihiroka, @ohnorosco, @harrymccracken, @scobleizer, and @ddiakopoulos
| Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: |
Firefox now offers a feature to strip some web trackers of Meta, HubSpot, and Marketo from URLs, following similar functionality in Brave — Mozilla Firefox 102 was released today with a new privacy feature that strips parameters from URLs that are used to track you around the web.
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| Ari Notis / Kotaku: |
Unity is laying off over 200 people, or 4% of its workforce, two weeks after the CEO said at an all-hands meeting that there won't be any layoffs — Management at the company behind the free game development engine has been a ‘shit show’ recently, sources say
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Researchers say some businesses are exaggerating AI's capabilities, brewing misunderstanding and distorting policymakers' views of AI's power and fallibility — Google, Meta and OpenAI are investing heavily in the technology, which is increasingly capturing the public imagination
Tweets: @dlauer, @dlauer, @dlauer, @timnitgebru, @dmonett, @timnitgebru, @dlauer, @dlauer, @mmitchell_ai, and @dlauer
| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Researchers detail sophisticated malware targeting various routers and taking over Windows, macOS, and Linux devices, in North America and Europe for ~2 years — Router-stalking ZuoRAT is likely the work of a sophisticated nation-state, researchers say. — An unusually advanced hacking group …
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Sources: Byju's has laid off 1,500+ staff from Toppr and WhiteHat Jr, two companies it acquired in the past two years, and ~1,000 from its core operations teams — Byju's has laid off full-time and contractual employees from Toppr, WhiteHat Jr, and its core team across sales and marketing, operations, content and design teams
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| Aisha Counts / Protocol: |
Google Workspace head Javier Soltero, who managed Google's productivity and collaboration tools including Gmail and Meet, is leaving the company on July 15 — Javier Soltero is leaving Google Workspace, Google Cloud President Thomas Kurian announced Wednesday in an email to staff viewed by Protocol.| Christine Hall / TechCrunch: |
London-based Shop Circle, which offers merchants a one-stop shop for e-commerce software, emerges from stealth with $65M in funding led by NFX and QED Investors — The global pandemic ushered in new consumer behavior of shopping online, giving a boost to a U.S. retail e-commerce industry likely … | Jeanne Whalen / Washington Post: |
A Taiwanese minister and TSMC board member urges US Congress to pass the Chips Act, saying the pace of building TSMC's Arizona chip factory depends on subsidies — The island's TSMC has started building a semiconductor factory in Arizona and is training engineers, but the pace of construction depends … | Catherine Shu / TechCrunch: |
India-based GetVantage, which uses AI to offer revenue-based capital of between $10K to $500K to startups, has raised $36M, bringing its total funding to $40M — Some SMEs don't want to get (or have access to) equity funding, but also want to stay away from high-interest bank loans.
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Officials in Zhengzhou, China used the smartphone location tracking-based health code system to stop 1,000+ depositors from protesting over failing rural banks — More than two years into the coronavirus pandemic, everyday life for most of China's 1.4bn citizens hinges on the colour of a health code on a smartphone app.
Tweets: @ftchina, @empo11on, @chinabeigebook, @mmaunder, @wessiedutoit, @dr_ulrichsen, @financialtimes, @alexisak, and @1br0wn
| Margi Murphy / Bloomberg: |
Elliptic: North Korea-backed hacking group Lazarus might be behind Harmony's $100M altcoin theft; the hack bore similarities to the $600M Ronin bridge attack — Suspected North Korean hackers known as the Lazarus Group are believed to be behind the recent $100 million heist on California blockchain Harmony … | Joyce Lee / Reuters: |
Samsung begins mass production of 3nm chips touting a 45% reduction in power usage, a 16% smaller surface area, and 23% better performance compared to 5nm chips — Samsung Electronics Co Ltd (005930.KS) said on Thursday it has begun mass producing chips with advanced 3-nanometre technology …
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| Evelyn Cheng / CNBC: |
The FCC's Brendan Carr calls on Apple and Google to remove TikTok from app stores due to China-related security concerns or explain why they haven't by July 8 — - Brendan Carr, one of the FCC's commissioners, shared Tuesday via Twitter a letter to Apple CEO Tim Cook and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai …
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