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FTX US wins the auction for bankrupt crypto brokerage Voyager Digital's assets with a bid valued at ~$1.4B, including an “additional consideration” worth ~$111M — FTX US, the digital-asset exchange founded by billionaire Sam Bankman-Fried, won the auction for the assets of bankrupt crypto brokerage Voyager Digital Ltd.| Jonathan Vanian / CNBC: |
Meta begins testing a single interface to manage Facebook and Instagram accounts and streamlines registration to help users create accounts on both services — - Meta is testing new features intended to help people more easily manage their Facebook and Instagram accounts via one interface.
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| Michael McSweeney / The Block: |
California, New York, and other states take action against crypto lender Nexo, from sending cease and desists to suing, focusing on interest-bearing accounts — A group of U.S. state regulators announced an array of legal actions against crypto lender Nexo on Monday.| Angus Whitley / Bloomberg: |
As the Optus hacker appears to release data of 10,000 customers, Optus CEO Kelly Bayer Rosmarin says the Australian police are investigating a ransom demand — Australian mobile-phone company Optus said authorities are investigating an online ransom demand following a major data hack … | On Substack: |
Substack launches Reader for the web with search, keyboard shortcuts, dark mode, recommendations, and an “Add RSS feed” feature for non-Substack publications — Revenge of RSS — There's a new reading experience waiting for you at Substack.com.
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A subreddit with 1.5M members, r/PoliticalHumor, challenges Texas' content moderation law by mandating that comments include “Greg Abbott is a little piss baby” — Last year, I tried to create a “test suite” of websites that any new internet regulation ought to be “tested” against.
Tweets: @mmasnick, @genefortexas, @tentonheart, @peteccde, @espiers, @oneunderscore__, and @mmasnick
| Jamie Crawley / CoinDesk: |
Study: in January 2022, 62.4% of bitcoin mining electricity came from fossil fuels, contradicting the Bitcoin Mining Council's estimate that ~59% is sustainable — The CCAF uses publicly available data to run a theoretical model to estimate the environmental footprint of bitcoin mining.
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| Justin Ling / Wired: |
A look at the vote on the new head of the UN's International Telecommunications Union between a US and Russian candidate, and its implications for the open web — UN countries are preparing to pick a new head of the International Telecommunications Union. Who wins could shape the open web's future.
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lowyinstitute.org. Tweets: @ngleicher, @justin_ling, @vestager, @trengriffin, @jgriffiths, and @jmulvenon
| Melissa Repko / CNBC: |
Walmart debuts metaverse experiences Walmart Land and Walmart's Universe of Play in Roblox, which it calls a testing ground, to try to reach younger shoppers — - Walmart is entering the metaverse with two experiences, Walmart Land and Walmart's Universe of Play, in gaming platform Roblox.
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| Munsif Vengattil / Reuters: |
Samsung launches a co-branded credit card with Axis Bank in India, where it has 175M customers, offering 10% cashback to customers buying Samsung products — Samsung Electronics (005930.KS) is targeting repeat purchases from its 175 million customers in India through a new cashback credit card …
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| Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: |
Researchers found 75 apps on Google Play and 10 on Apple's App Store that engaged in ad fraud and collectively had 13M installs; Apple and Google removed them — Security researchers have discovered 75 applications on Google Play and another ten on Apple's App Store engaged in ad fraud.
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HUMAN, iThinkDifferent, SiliconANGLE, PhoneArena, Dark Reading, 9to5Mac, iPhone in Canada Blog, MacRumors, 7NEWS, Digital Information World, and IT之家
Tweets: @securewithhuman, @fosspatents, @thezedwards, and @lapcatsoftware
| Financial Times: |
South Korea's science minister says a “sense of crisis” has gripped the country's chip industry, as new legislation aims to boost its global competitiveness — Lee Jong-ho says new legislation will boost competitiveness in supply chain and security
Tweets: @crsdavies and @chadbown
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