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Sources: crypto hedge fund Three Arrows Capital faces an uncertain future after a $400M+ liquidation; CEO Su Zhu: we are “fully committed to working this out” — The future of crypto hedge fund Three Arrows Capital hangs in the balance as the firm faces potential insolvency after being liquidated by its lenders.
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Tweets: @zhusu, @paoloardoino, @hodlkryptonite, @onchainwizard, @lawmaster, @hodlkryptonite, @sobylife, @nexo, @twobitidiot, @danny8bc, @coryklippsten, @nexo, @defiyst, @midasthefool, @defiyst, @rleshner, @fintechfrank, @lawmaster, @altcryptogems, @alexrkonrad, @autismcapital, @krugermacro, @jasonyanowitz, @tradermayne, @coinbureau, @cz_binance, @robinwigg, @trackinflation, @0xtuba, @cobie, @swissborg, @thinkingusd, @ryan_browne_, @lthomasnews, @ledgerstatus, @alexhern, @cryptoharry_, @midasthefool, @mansourtarek_, @lawmaster, @buccocapital, @econoar, @nope_its_lily, @autismcapital, and @ryansadams
| Molly White / @molly0xfff: |
[Thread] A look at Kraken's announcement of a culture overhaul, eschewing “stereotypical team diversity measurements”, as the crypto exchange touts hiring plans — Kraken, a U.S.-based crypto exchange, has announced they'll be continuing to hire, and have announced a culture overhaul that promotes “diversity of thought” over “stereotypical team diversity measurements” and prohibits describing another's words as “racist” or “x-phobic”. 🧵
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| New York Times: |
Internal Kraken comms and interviews with five workers: some staff accuse CEO Jesse Powell of fostering a hateful workplace and dozens are considering quitting — Jesse Powell, who leads the crypto exchange Kraken, has challenged the use of preferred pronouns, debated who can use racial slurs and called American women “brainwashed.”| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
Carl Pei reveals Nothing phone (1) ahead of its July 12 launch event, saying “leaks are harder to contain nowadays”; details likely to come over the next month — Nothing, the consumer tech startup led by OnePlus co-founder Carl Pei, has shown off the rear design of its debut Phone 1 smartphone.
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| Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times: |
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| Josh Taylor / The Guardian: |
Microsoft retires Internet Explorer after nearly 27 years, disabling the desktop app and directing users to Edge, which arrived with Windows 10 in 2015 — Company says decision to disable desktop app comes as web developers less likely to make sites compatible with browser, which first graced computers in 1995
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Tweets: @tomwarren, @mattdeco, @francoisz, @mims, @lizaoutlives, @shanselman, @johnny_suputama, @gossithedog, @jbenton, @keyon, @smalls1138n, @business, @kantrowitz, @dj_rozwell, @brucel, @lisafleisher, @cassidoo, and @nixcraft
| Alex Heath / The Verge: |
Internal memo: Meta plans to make Facebook more like TikTok, including bringing Messenger back into the app and recommending posts from “unconnected” sources — Facebook employees were recently given a new directive with sweeping implications: make the app's feed more like TikTok.
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| New York Times: |
NHTSA data from July 1, 2021, to May 15, 2022: six people died in 392 incidents involving driver-assistance tech; Teslas were in 273 crashes and five were fatal — The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration released data on 10 months of crashes involving systems like Tesla's Autopilot.
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| Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: |
The EU's General Court sides with Qualcomm over the European Commission's €997M fine from 2018 for allegedly paying Apple billions to use only Qualcomm chips — U.S. chipmaker Qualcomm (QCOM.O) on Wednesday won its fight against a 997-million-euro ($1.05 billion) fine imposed …
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Tweets: @jcbcp, @lewis_crofts, @eucourtpress, and @lewis_crofts
| James Vincent / The Verge: |
YouTube launches a corrections feature, letting creators add infocards in the top right-hand corner of a video at a relevant timestamp — Instead of having to re-upload a whole video — Everyone makes mistakes, but if you mess up a fact or flub a line in a YouTube video it can be hard to correct the error.
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| Miles Kruppa / Wall Street Journal: |
Google says 1.5B+ people watch YouTube Shorts every month; TikTok had 1B+ MAUs in September 2021 and third parties estimated almost 1.6B MAUs in March 2022 — Alphabet's Google discloses Shorts monthly viewership for first time amid heightened competition from TikTok and Instagram Reels
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Tweets: @glenngabe, @meghanbobrowsky, @sarahfrier, and @mhbergen
| Wall Street Journal: |
Source: crypto lender Celsius Networks is looking for financing options from investors and exploring other strategic alternatives, like financial restructuring — Celsius Network, among the largest crypto lenders, has paused user accounts, citing extreme market conditions
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Tweets: @celsiusnetwork, @coinbureau, @mrinaldesai, @pkedrosky, @zerohedge_, @lefterisjp, @nash076, and @nash076
| Max Chafkin / Bloomberg: |
Meta's reported investigation into Sheryl Sandberg's expenses feels strange given the company spends extreme sums of money to boost its CEO and other executives — For an entrepreneur who has made “community” his life's mission, Mark Zuckerberg has always seemed oddly fixated on managing his own appearance.
Tweets: @chafkin, @danawollman, @iankar_, @ebboyd, and @chafkin
| Sydney Maki / Bloomberg: |
As crypto markets tank, El Salvador has so far lost ~$56M after President Nayib Bukele bought 2,301 bitcoin, raising concerns about debt repayments — An epic rout that has wiped out about two-thirds of Bitcoin's value is exacerbating the debt crisis in the world's most crypto-friendly country.
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Tweets: @nayibbukele, @jonaguiar, @silvermanjacob, @getdelta, @fungibies, and @rodrigocampos
| Bloomberg: |
In a note to staff, Spotify says it will slow hiring growth by 25%; Spotify hired 2,000+ staff from 2019 to 2021 bringing its headcount to 6,617; stock up 7%+ — Spotify Technology SA will slow hiring growth by 25%, the latest sign of how fears of a recession are weighing on the economy.| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Fountain, which builds tools to help employers track applicants during the interview process, raised $100M led by B Capital at a nearly $1B valuation — The “Great Resignation,” the trend where workers are leaving their jobs at a higher-than-usual rate, is continuing unabated.
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