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| Ryan Weeks / The Block: |
Binance begins enforcing tougher KYC checks on Russian users with holdings exceeding โฌ10,000, following further EU sanctions โ Crypto exchange Binance is enforcing tougher Know Your Customer (KYC) checks for Russian users after the latest wave of European Union sanctions.
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Tweets: @rprose, @mskvsk, @rprose, @electroxts, and @paulcr2009
| MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC: |
The US Treasury sanctions Russian bitcoin miners, including BitRiver; Cambridge University: Russia is the world's third-biggest destination for bitcoin mining โ - For the first time ever, the U.S. Department of the Treasury is taking aim at bitcoin miners operating in Russia, as Putin's war on Ukraine approaches its third month.
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Tweets: @brian_trollz, @thecryptolark, @lindapjones, @matthew_pines, and @lindapjones
| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Instagram plans to tweak its ranking algorithm to highlight original content more and recommend accounts that aggregate and reshare other users' content less โ Instagram head Adam Mosseri announced today that the company is going to tweak its ranking algorithm to highlight original content more on its platform.
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| Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
Amazon unveils Buy with Prime, which lets third-party merchants use Amazon's shipping and logistics network to fulfill orders on their own sites โ - Buy with Prime enables third party retailers to take advantage of Amazon's vast shipping and fulfillment network for orders placed on their own site.
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| New York Times: |
70% of employees at an Atlanta Apple Store agree to hold a union election, making the Apple Store the first to file for a union election with the CWA โ The petition for a union vote continues a trend of organizing at service-sector employers like Starbucks and Amazon.
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| Logan Plant / IGN: |
Report: Sony is working on a PlayStation program to let select partners insert ads within free-to-play games, similar to a reported Microsoft effort for Xbox โ Sony is reportedly planning its own program to insert ads into games. โ After last week's report that Xbox is looking to include โฆ
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Tweets: @ign, @csxii2, @ztlaidlaw, @dieselquan1, and @genepark
| Javier Espinoza / Financial Times: |
Sources: the EU is set to unveil the Digital Services Act, which bans targeting users based on religion, gender, and more, among other rules, on Friday โ Digital Services Act lays out rules for technology groups to keep users safe online โ The EU is poised to unveil a landmark law โฆ
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| Cobie: |
A look at the evolution of crypto staking, from a useful tool to a quasi-Ponzi scheme, and how Yuga Labs is effectively paying people in ApeCoin to hold ApeCoin โ Recently, I was contacted by a member of the board of ApeCoin, which is the BAYC token's equivalent of a board of directors I guess.
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| Bloomberg: |
Elon Musk's claimed commitment to free speech at Twitter follows years of stifling criticism at Tesla and SpaceX, including those trying to unionize โ If Elon Musk is able to take over Twitter Inc., his biggest promise is to transform it into a platform for free speech with few restrictions โฆ
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Tweets: @mr_james_c, @mehdirhasan, @sandibachom, @jdcocchiarella, @moreperfectus, and @rbreich
| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
Cybersecurity authorities of Five Eyes countries warn of Russia-backed hacking groups targeting critical infrastructure organizations in and outside Ukraine โ Today, Five Eyes cybersecurity authorities warned critical infrastructure network defenders of an increased risk that Russia-backed hacking groups โฆ
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Tweets: @nsacyber, @nsa_csdirector, and @deciphersec
| Wall Street Journal: |
A look at Russia's efforts to promote homegrown social media like Rutube and VKontakte, even as local content creators choose to stick with Western services โ Kremlin cracks down on Western social media, but Russia's homemade alternatives are a tough sell| Alex Hern / The Guardian: |
Apple to debut an opt-in child safety feature for iPhones in the UK that scans messages for nudity, but drops some controversial aspects, like notifying parents โ Feature that searches messages will go ahead after delays over privacy and safety concerns โ A safety feature that uses AI technology โฆ | Apoorva Mittal / The Economic Times: |
Singapore-based Rario, a cricket NFTs marketplace that holds NFT rights to six international leagues and over 900 cricketers, raises $120M led by Dream Capital โ Mumbai: Cricket non-fungible tokens (NFTs) platform Rario has raised $120 million, led by Dream Capital, the corporate venture capital and M&A arm of Dream Sports.
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| Bloomberg: |
Filings: Apple spent $2.5M on US lobbying in Q1 2022, up 34% from $1.86M in Q4 2021; Google spent $2.96M in Q1, up 34% QoQ but flat YoY; Microsoft spent $2.5M โ Apple Inc. spent a record quarterly high of $2.5 million on lobbying in the first three months of 2022 amid increased pressure โฆ
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Barack and Michelle Obama's production company Higher Ground doesn't plan to re-sign with Spotify, and is talking to Audible, iHeartMedia, and others โ Barack and Michelle Obama's time with Spotify Technology SA is coming to an end. โ The former first family's production company โฆ
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Protocol, Benzinga, CNN, City A.M., The Guardian, Mashable, Barron's Online, The Verge, and Engadget
Tweets: @jeffnolan, @lea, @evoterra, and @alexthomp
| Chris Metinko / Crunchbase News: |
Seattle-based Convoy, which connects shippers and freight brokers to 400K+ trucks via its app, raises a $160M Series E and $100M in debt at a $3.8B valuation โ The past couple of years exposed many flaws in the global and domestic supply chainsโand investors have taken note that it is an industry ripe for disruption.
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VentureBeat, Benzinga, FreightWaves, Wall Street Journal, GeekWire, Convoy, Yahoo Finance, Reuters, Forbes, Seattle Business Journal, and CNBC
| Catarina Moura / The Block: |
Spruce, a decentralized identity authentication startup that offers a sign-in with Ethereum function, raises a $34M Series A led by a16z โ Spruce, a startup that developed a toolkit for decentralized identity, has raised $34 million in a Series A round led by a16z.
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