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June 30, 2024, 3:25 AM

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Janko Roettgers / The Verge:
Redbox's owner, Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment, files for bankruptcy protection; Chicken Soup took on $325M in debt when it acquired Redbox in 2022  —  Redbox's owner, Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment, filed for bankruptcy protection overnight.
Paul Kiernan / Wall Street Journal:
The US finalizes rules requiring custodial crypto platforms to report user transaction info to the IRS; DeFi platforms are exempt amid fierce crypto lobbying  —  Treasury finalizes rules to deter crypto tax evasion—but softens them after industry lobbying push
Wired:
Filings and DOJ officials describe how a gang threatened, assaulted, and tortured 11 victims in likely the worst crypto-focused serial extortion case in the US  —  More than a dozen men threatened, assaulted, tortured, or kidnapped 11 victims in likely the worst-ever crypto-focused serial extortion case of its kind in the US.
Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk:
A US judge rules that SEC charges against Binance, Binance.US, and CZ for violating federal securities laws can proceed, but dismisses secondary sales charges  —  A federal judge ruled the SEC had plausibly alleged Binance, Binance.US and Changpeng Zhao violated federal securities laws.
Dallin Grimm / Tom's Hardware:
Hugging Face unveils Open LLM Leaderboard v2 that tests models across six benchmarks; Chinese models dominate the top 10 with Alibaba's Qwen taking the top spot  —  Optimizing LLMs to be good at specific tests backfires on Meta, Stability.  —  Hugging Face has released its second LLM leaderboard …
Foo Yun Chee / Reuters:
EU tech regulators asked Temu and Shein to provide details on how they comply with the Digital Services Act by July 12, following complaints by consumer bodies  —  Chinese fast-fashion e-commerce retailer Temu and China-founded peer Shein were ordered by EU tech regulators to provide details …
Evgeny Morozov / Financial Times:
How Avery Johnson and Warren Brodey, early members of the American Society for Cybernetics, created a lab in 1967 with a utopian vision to personalize computing  —  In the late 1960s, a secret US lab was dedicated to mapping the edges of computing  —  At around 3pm on October 24 1968 …
Luisa Beltran / Fortune:
Chime buys enterprise employee rewards company Salt Labs, sources say in a deal worth up to $173M; Salt Labs had raised $18M and was valued at $80M in December  —  Jason Lee, the entrepreneur who cofounded the payroll service DailyPay, is selling his latest startup, Salt Labs, to neobank Chime Financial.

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