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FTX US has won the auction for bankrupt crypto brokerage Voyager Digital 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.| 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.| Mike Masnick / Techdirt: |
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.
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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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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| 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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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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The UK's ICO could fine TikTok £27M after provisionally finding that the company may have breached data protection rules by failing to protect children's data — ByteDance Ltd.'s TikTok faces a possible fine of 27 million pounds ($28.9 million) after the UK's privacy watchdog provisionally found …
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Paris-based Regate, which offers an all-in-one platform to manage invoices, expense reports, and payments, raised a $20M series A led by Valar Ventures — French startup Regate has raised a $20 million Series A funding round (€20 million) led by Valar Ventures.| Chloe Xiang / VICE: |
Text-to-image generation systems like DALL-E and Midjourney use datasets built by scrapping images without explicit permission and it's not easy to opt out — In one stark example of how sensitive images can end up powering these AI tools, a user found a medical image in the LAION dataset … | Anuchit Nguyen / Bloomberg: |
Thailand's LINE MAN Wongnai, which provides food delivery and runs an e-commerce platform for businesses, raised a $265M series B led by GIC at a $1B+ valuation — Thai food and parcel delivery app Line Man Wongnai raised $265 million in a round led by Singaporean sovereign fund GIC Pte, becoming the nation's latest startup unicorn.
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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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