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| Celsius: |
DeFi lending platform Celsius pauses “all withdrawals, Swap, and transfers between accounts”, due to “extreme market conditions” and citing its Terms of Use — We are writing with a very important message for our community. — Due to extreme market conditions …
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| Brandy Betz / CoinDesk: |
Binance paused bitcoin withdrawals for a few hours on Monday “due to a stuck transaction causing a backlog”; the company says BTC withdrawals have since resumed — CEO Changpeng Zhao attributed the issue to a “stuck transaction,” and promised a quick fix.
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| Bloomberg: |
Major cryptocurrencies crash as the crypto market cap falls below $1T: bitcoin drops 16%+ to ~$23K, ether drops 18%+ to ~$1.2K, and Solana drops 16%+ to ~$28 — Bitcoin plunged to the lowest in about 18 months in Asia trading Monday as the impact of Friday's shock US inflation data continued to reverberate through global risk assets.
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| Matt Turner / Bloomberg: |
As cryptocurrencies tumble, MicroStrategy, which owns 129K+ bitcoins, drops up to 28%; Coinbase, Riot Blockchain, and Marathon Digital each drop as far as 15%+ — Cryptocurrency-related stocks plunged on Monday as Bitcoin tumbled to its lowest level in 18 months amid a deepening selloff …
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| Gary Marcus / The Road to AI We Can Trust: |
Despite differences within the AI community, pretty much all AI experts find the notion that Google's LaMDA might be sentient completely ridiculous — No, LaMDA is not sentient. Not even slightly. … Blaise Aguera y Arcas, polymath, novelist, and Google VP, has a way with words.
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Tweets: @tomgara, @garymarcus, @dkthomp, @erikbryn, @rkrigney, @garymarcus, @sapinker, @bratton, @sharpfootball, @abebab, @jadelgador, @oliviasolon, @erikbryn, @mott_lab_, @pomeranian99, @alexnazaryan, @filmcow, @ron_miller, @lxeagle17, @metroadlib, @marypcbuk, @carnage4life, @tokteacher, @einsteinsattic, @comex, @davidbrin, @erocdrahs, @garymarcus, @thedextriarchy, @mmasnick, and @frankpasquale
| Sarah Lord / CNET: |
Amazon plans to test drone deliveries in Lockeford, California, after receiving FAA approval to service the town, for products ordered through Amazon Prime Air — The service will be called Prime Air and will use drones with sense-and-avoid systems to deliver packages safely. — Sarah Lord
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Tweets: @_katya_long and @elidourado
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft updates Teams to improve echo cancellation and room acoustics on calls using ML models, resulting in less clipping when callers interrupt each other — Your Teams calls should sound a lot better — Microsoft has spent the past two years adding flashy new productivity features to Teams …
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Tweets: @microsoftteams, @pierce, @microsoft, @tomwarren, and @dcseifert
| Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: |
Sources: Alphabet offered to let rival ad intermediaries place YouTube ads, hoping to end an EU antitrust probe and avert a fine of up to 10% of global turnover — Google parent Alphabet (GOOGL.O) has offered to let rival ad intermediaries place advertisements on YouTube to address … | New York Times: |
Microsoft and the CWA union announce a deal that would make it easier for Activision Blizzard's ~7,000 US employees to unionize after the acquisition closes — The accord could ease the path for thousands of workers to unionize at the game company Microsoft is acquiring and addresses an antitrust objection.
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| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
DoorDash rolls out in-app features including support for written reviews, ratings for specific items, and Top 10 lists for restaurants — DoorDash announced today that it's rolling out a number of new features to give users additional ways to discover popular restaurants near them.
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PCMag and DoorDash Newsroom
| Muyao Shen / Bloomberg: |
A look at Ethereum staking service Lido Finance, which holds 4M+ ETH or 32% of the total staked, raising centralization-related security concerns about Eth2 — A cryptocurrency project touted as helping to democratize the Ethereum blockchain is coming under criticism for potentially taking … | Christine Hall / TechCrunch: |
Seattle-based bttn, a B2B medical supply marketplace, raised a $20M Series A led by Tiger Global at a $110M post-money valuation and says it has 7,000 customers — News stories over the past two years spotlighted the problems hospitals and other medical organizations were having in procuring masks … | Molly White: |
A skeptical look at whether crypto can offer self-sovereign identity services without dystopian outcomes, as Buterin, Dorsey, and others explore the idea — Anonymity and trustlessness are central to the crypto world. People don't have to attach real-world identities to crypto wallets …
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