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| Maxwell Strachan / VICE: |
Binance, Coinbase, and others deny Ukrainian requests to freeze Russian and Belarusian accounts, citing “economic freedom”, but will comply with sanctions — Binance, the world's largest exchange, said “unilaterally” banning users “would fly in the face of the reason why crypto exists.”
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CNBC, Decrypt, Engadget, SiliconANGLE, PYMNTS.com, Web3 is going just great, Crypto Briefing, CoinDesk, CryptoPotato, New York Post, and ZyCrypto
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: the Biden administration is asking crypto exchanges globally to help thwart Russian individuals and organizations from using crypto to avoid sanctions — The Biden administration is asking crypto exchanges to help ensure that Russian individuals and organizations aren't using virtual currencies …
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Reuters, Silicon Republic, Al Jazeera, CoinDesk, Crypto Briefing, Bitcoinist.com, CoinGape, PYMNTS.com, Protocol, Cointelegraph, and CoinQuora
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| Sam Reynolds / CoinDesk: |
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Tweets: @jonwu_, @dogecoin, @jacqmelinek, @elliptic, and @jacqmelinek
| Ivana Saric / Axios: |
Meta says it “will be restricting access to RT and Sputnik across the EU at this time” following requests from several governments and the EU — Facebook parent Meta will restrict access to Russian state media on its platforms across the EU in response to Russia's unprovoked invasion of Ukraine …
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Washington Post, TechCircle, Silicon Canals, Variety, PCMag, Engadget, Reuters, ZDNet, The Verge, The Independent, and The Hill
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| Mark Scott / Politico: |
YouTube will block Kremlin-backed RT and Sputnik in Europe, following similar bans by Meta and TikTok, citing the Ukraine invasion — Google's YouTube said Tuesday that it would block Kremlin-backed media outlets RT and Sputnik from Europe following similar bans by Facebook and TikTok.
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Tweets: @googleeurope, @jimwaterson, @eliothiggins, @jessikkaaro, @hillelneuer, @eliothiggins, @christopherjm, and @eliothiggins
| Washington Post: |
TikTok confirms it has shut down access to Russian sites RT and Sputnik in Europe following requests from individual governments and the European Union — Facebook and TikTok said Monday that the companies would shut down access to Kremlin-controlled media sites RT and Sputnik in Europe, setting the stage for retaliation from Russia.
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Tweets: @bobbyallyn, @fedorovmykhailo, @kevinrothrock, and @lizzadwoskin
| Joe Flint / Wall Street Journal: |
Netflix won't add any Russian channels in the country “given the current situation” despite a regulation requiring it to add 20 federal channels from March 1 — Russian rule requires services with more than 100,000 subscribers to carry some 20 Russian channels
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Tweets: @kevinrothrock, @ryanwaniata, @rainofterra, @euromaidanpress, and @liahaberman
| Casey Newton / Platformer: |
Social networks and the internet have been a valuable force multiplier for Ukraine and the allies of democracy during the early days of Russia's invasion — How much will it matter? Notes on the platforms in wartime — Over the past decade, the biggest tech companies came to feel less …
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| NBC News: |
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| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Microsoft says cyberattacks using new malware hit Ukraine hours before Russia's invasion began; the company added new signatures to Defender within three hours — - Brad Smith, Microsoft's president, wrote in a blog post on Monday about the company's efforts to keep Ukraine informed of cyberattacks.
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Microsoft On the Issues, New York Times, BetaNews, Microsoft Security …, Neowin, Slashdot, cybernews.com, The Hacker News, VentureBeat, and Windows Central
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| Mathew Di Salvo / Decrypt: |
FTX announces Future Fund, planning to invest between $100M and $1B in 2022 in projects that “improve humanity's long-term prospects”, like safer AI development — The new fund will invest in nonprofit and for-profit projects—with a focus on AI and “reducing catastrophic biorisk,” among other areas.
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Future Fund, Coinspeaker, and Blockworks
| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Meta says it will shut down Instagram's standalone IGTV app in mid-March and will discontinue IGTV's in-stream video ads as the company focuses on Reels — Instagram is ending support for its standalone app for IGTV, the company announced on Monday. Meta, Instagram's parent company …
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| David Voreacos / Bloomberg: |
The SEC says BitConnect founder Satish Kumbhani, recently charged with running a $2.4B Ponzi scheme, has disappeared from his native India — BitConnect founder Satish Kumbhani, charged criminally in the U.S. last week with a $2.4 billion Ponzi scheme, has vanished from his native India, officials said.| Cecilia Kang / New York Times: |
A look at a newly revamped Whole Foods store in Washington, which uses palm-scanning Amazon One tech and Amazon's computer vision-enabled Just Walk Out tech — A newly revamped store in Washington shows how thoroughly Amazon has woven itself into the grocery shopping experience.
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The Verge and Daring Fireball
Tweets: @ceciliakang, @evan_greer, @ceciliakang, @nytimestech, @esquiring, @kottke, @a_l, @pt, @pete_wells, @edbott, @puiwingtam, @garrytan, @ceciliakang, @nickconfessore, @richard_florida, @rkgwork, @clancynewyork, and @tonyromm
| Patrick Klepek / VICE: |
Developers at EA, Zynga, Ubisoft, and others describe internal turmoil and disapproval over executive-level decisions and plans to use crypto and NFTs in games — An internal culture war is playing out across the video game industry, with developers (and players) pitted against executives and crypto evangelists.
Tweets: @motherboard and @cecianasta
| Morgan Meaker / Wired: |
Interview with Australia's communications minister Paul Fletcher on the efficacy of the country's year-old news bargaining code with Google and Meta — A year after Australia forced tech giants to pay news outlets for the content they display, other countries want to follow suit.
Tweets: @wired, @bitech, @michellemanafy, and @pressgazette
| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Indian fintech unicorn BharatPe co-founder Ashneer Grover resigns from the company's board, following a probe into alleged financial irregularities — Ashneer Grover, a founder and the public face of BharatPe, has resigned from the board and left the managing director position he held …
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| Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: |
Payhawk, which offers spend management software to European businesses, adds $100M to its Series B at a $1B post-money valuation, up from $570M in November 2021 — European spend management startup Payhawk has added $100 million to its Series B round that I already covered back in November.
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Finextra, EU-Startups, Silicon Canals, Tech.eu, Insider, and Payhawk
| Financial Times: |
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