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Patreon cuts ~17% of its staff, or 80 positions, and closes offices in Dublin and Berlin; the company raised $155M in April 2021 at a $4B valuation — The creator subscription company Patreon is the latest company to be affected by a long line of tech layoffs.| Stephanie Bodoni / Bloomberg: |
An EU court backs the European Commission's decision to fine Google over Android antitrust breaches but trims the fine from €4.3B to €4.1B; Google can appeal — Google lost most of the first round of its battle to topple a record 4.3 billion-euro ($4.3 billion) …
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| Brady Dale / Axios: |
The US Treasury clarifies its Tornado Cash guidance and tells users who used the service for lawful transactions can apply for a license to withdraw their funds — New guidance from the U.S. Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control provides a roadmap for people who used Tornado Cash … | Hooyeon Kim / Bloomberg: |
A South Korean court issues an arrest warrant for Terraform Labs founder Do Kwon and five others located in Singapore, following the collapse of LUNA and UST — A court in South Korea issued an arrest warrant for Do Kwon, the founder of the Terraform Labs cryptocurrency ecosystem …
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CoinDesk, Finbold, CoinDesk, Reuters, CNET, TechCrunch, Financial Times, The Block, Wall Street Journal, CNBC, Crypto Briefing, and CryptoSlate
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| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
In an email to developers, Apple says that new App Store ad placements will be available for the 2022 holiday season — - Apple is planning to release new ad “placements” as soon as the holiday season of this year. — The new ad units represent a significant expansion in Apple's advertising inventory …
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iMore, XDA Developers, 9to5Mac, and AppleInsider
Tweets: @eric_seufert, @reedalbergotti, @carnage4life, @quinnypig, @malwaretechblog, and @lapcatsoftware. Thanks:@mattrosoff
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| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Mudge details Twitter's lack of logging, ignoring hackers' ongoing efforts to access its systems, how the FTC let the company “grade its own homework”, and more — A ticking bomb of security vulnerabilities. Covering up security failures. Duping regulators and misleading lawmakers.
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Silicon Republic, Ars Technica, Los Angeles Times, Dan's Stack, and CyberScoop
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| Kris Holt / Engadget: |
EA unveils EA AntiCheat, a kernel-level anti-cheat system for some PC games, launching September 23 to take on cheat developers building kernel-level exploits — Electronic Arts is determined to keep cheaters at bay. The company has developed a kernel-level anti-cheat system for PC …
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| Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: |
Microsoft releases 63 security fixes, including patches for two zero-day flaws, one of which is being actively exploited, and five critical RCE vulnerabilities — Today is Microsoft's September 2022 Patch Tuesday, and with it comes fixes for an actively exploited Windows vulnerability and a total of 63 flaws.| CNBC: |
After surprising CPI data, the Nasdaq closes down 5.16%, Nvidia down 9.47%, Meta down 9.37%, Coinbase down 8.84%, Amazon down 7.06%; BTC fell 9%+ in 24 hours — Stocks fell sharply on Tuesday after a key August inflation report came in hotter than expected, hurting investor optimism …
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Tweets: @thestalwart, @mike_pence, and @iohk_charles
| Cheng Ting-Fang / Nikkei Asia: |
Sources: Apple plans to use TSMC's N3E 3nm chipmaking process, expected in H2 2023, for its A17 chips in some 2023 iPhones and its M3 chips for Macs — Move will mark industry's first adoption of updated production technology — TAIPEI — Apple aims to be the first company to use …
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Meta plans to test Discord-like “Community Chats” in Messenger and Facebook Groups, offering categories, audio and video channels, admin-only chats, and more — Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced this morning that “Community Chats” are coming to Messenger and Facebook Groups.
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Meta, Digit, PhoneArena, Meta, Social Media Today, XDA Developers, Neowin, Android Central, iPhone in Canada Blog, Adweek, and Engadget
Tweets: @messenger, @varunmayya, @sulamatraore, @ldignan, @sulamatraore, @venkatananth, @evanhamilton, @vader7x, and @farokhshahabi
| Leah Nylen / Bloomberg: |
A NY federal judge dismisses the state AGs' claim that Meta and Google colluded via Jedi Blue but rules the ad tech antitrust lawsuit against Google can proceed — An antitrust suit by state attorneys general accusing Alphabet Inc.'s Google of monopolizing the technology underlying online advertising …
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SiliconANGLE, Engadget, The Keyword, US District Court New York, Reuters, The Economic Times, CNET, and CourtListener
Tweets: @leah_nylen, @leah_nylen, @jason_kint, @adamkovac, @caffar3cristina, @jason_kint, @jason_kint, @leah_nylen, and @jason_kint
| Sabrina Ortiz / ZDNet: |
Google signs a cooperative research and development agreement with the US NIST to develop new nanotechnology and semiconductor devices with open-source designs — Chips used to develop new nanotechnology and semiconductor devices oftentimes have a large price tag, posing a big obstacle for innovation.
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NIST, Fierce Electronics, SiliconANGLE, The Register, CRN, FedScoop, Reuters, and Nextgov
Tweets: @commercegov, @research_purdue, and @nist
| Katherine Doherty / Bloomberg: |
SWIFT tests a blockchain project with crypto startup Symbiont to drive “efficiencies in communicating significant corporate events”, like dividends and mergers — SWIFT, the messaging system used by financial institutions globally to convey instructions on tens of millions … | Parikshit Mishra / CoinDesk: |
Charles Schwab, Citadel Securities, Fidelity Digital Assets, and others announce cryptocurrency exchange EDX Markets, leveraging tech from US stock market MEMX — The exchange will be led by Jamil Nazarali, a former senior executive at trading giant Citadel Securities.
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Business Wire, Coinspeaker, crypto.news, Forkast, and Blockworks
Tweets: @shaughnessy119, @thinkingcrypto1, @dongahitesh1, @hsakatrades, and @cryptogucci
| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Twitter says that a preliminary count shows that shareholders have voted to approve Elon Musk's proposed $44B buyout — Twitter's shareholders have voted to approve a proposed $44 billion acquisition by Elon Musk. Reports yesterday suggested that a wide margin of approval was expected for the vote …
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CNN, CNBC, The Block, TheStreet, Android Central, WeRSM, Adweek, Ars Technica, Neowin, WRAL TechWire, ZDNet, Forbes, Input, CoinDesk, The Economic Times, Engadget, TechCrunch, City A.M., and TheGamer
Tweets: @sarahnadav, @jamesrbuk, @ljmontello, @royalhoeliness, @caseynewton, and @gamoid
| Cissy Zhou / Nikkei Asia: |
Chinese regulators approve paid games from Tencent and NetEase for the first time since July 2021, as part of granting 73 games licenses — Beijing gives nod to licenses as it gradually loosens crackdown on tech sector — HONG KONG — Tencent Holdings and NetEase, two of China's biggest …
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