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Bitcoin falls by 8%+ to below $19,000 for the first time since December 2020, the twelfth straight day of decline, as ether drops below $1,000 — Bitcoin dropped below $19,000 for the first time since December 2020 as evidence of deepening stress within the crypto industry keeps piling up against a backdrop of monetary tightening.
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Leaked audio from 80+ internal TikTok meetings: ByteDance staff in China repeatedly accessed data about US TikTok users between September 2021 and January 2022 — For years, TikTok has responded to data privacy concerns by promising that information gathered about users in the United States …
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TikTok says it has completed migrating its US users' data to Oracle's servers in the US — TikTok has completed migrating its U.S. users' information to servers at Oracle Corp (ORCL.N), in a move that could address U.S. regulatory concerns over data integrity on the popular video app, the company confirmed to Reuters.
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Meta unveils Avatars Store, where users can buy digital clothes for avatars, and plans to make it a marketplace where developers can create and sell clothing — Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced today that the company is launching a digital designer clothing store called the “Meta Avatars Store.”
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Brex says it will no longer work with SMBs that do not have venture funding and will shut down “tens of thousands” of accounts after August 15 — Three months after announcing it would make a big push into software and enterprise, fintech giant Brex is apparently abandoning …
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The US DOJ says RSocks, a Russian botnet used to hijack millions of devices worldwide for use as proxy servers, was disrupted in an international operation — The Department of Justice announced Thursday that the U.S. and international law enforcement partners in the United Kingdom, Germany …
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Chipmakers including TSMC embark on a $120B investment spree across Taiwan, with 20 new fabs ready or in the works, dwarfing planned investments in US and Japan — 20 new fabs ready or in pipeline, dwarfing planned investments in U.S. and Japan — TAIPEI — Taiwan's chipmakers have launched … | Lauren Feiner / CNBC: |
In a letter, 21 US lawmakers ask Google to clamp down on “misleading” search results that steer people searching for abortions services to anti-abortion clinics — - A group of lawmakers are urging Google to clamp down on misleading search results that allegedly steer people searching …
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A jury finds ex-Amazon engineer Paige Thompson guilty of wire fraud and hacking charges for downloading the personal info of 100M+ Capital One customers in 2019 — Paige Thompson's lawyers said she had been looking for cracks so they could be fixed. A jury found her guilty of wire fraud and hacking charges.| Coco Liu / Bloomberg: |
Beijing-based MegaRobo, which applies robotics and AI to life sciences research, has raised a ~$300M Series C led by GGV Capital and Asia Investment Capital — Six-year-old biotech startup MegaRobo Technologies has raised about $300 million from investors including an arm of Goldman Sachs Group Inc. …
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Sources: ByteDance shuts down its Shanghai games studio, in a setback to its gaming ambitions after struggling to make a splash in the Chinese gaming market — ByteDance Ltd. has shut down a game development studio it acquired just three years ago, slashing more than a hundred jobs … | Randy Thanthong-Knight / Bloomberg: |
Canada's Rogers and Shaw reach a deal to sell Shaw's Freedom Mobile to rival Quebecor for $2.2B, a major step in solving antitrust concerns about their merger — Rogers Communications Inc. and Shaw Communications Inc. said they've reached a deal to sell Shaw's wireless division to rival Quebecor Inc. …
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