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Source: FTX walked away from a deal with Celsius after finding the crypto lender has a $2B hole in its balance sheet — - FTX was interested in making a deal with Celsius but walked away because of the state of its finances, two sources told The Block. — Celsius had a $2 billion hole in its balance sheet, one source said.
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Sources: digital asset trading firm Genesis is potentially facing “hundreds of millions” of dollars in losses, partly through exposure to 3AC and Babel Finance — The DCG-owned trading colossus is said to have suffered nine-figure losses partly through exposure to Three Arrows Capital and Babel Finance.| Rita Liao / TechCrunch: |
OpenSea tells customers that an employee at email vendor Customer.io downloaded and sent email details to an external party, impacting almost all users — Opensea, the popular NFT marketplace that hit a colossal $13 billion valuation in January, is warning users of email phishing after a data breach.
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Tweets: @opensea, @opensea, @irinaheaver, @ahiddensociety, @cz_binance, @alexhern, @gcluley, @opensea, @opensea, @eclecticmethod, @officer_cia, @troyhunt, @screentimes, @punk6529, @opensea, and @ryancarson
| Joanna Ossinger / Bloomberg: |
Bitcoin is on track for its worst quarter since Q3 2011, dropping 56%, after falling as much as 4.4% to just above $19K on Thursday — Bitcoin is on track for its worst quarter in more than a decade, as more hawkish central banks and a string of high-profile crypto blowups hammer sentiment.
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| Joyce Lee / Reuters: |
Samsung becomes the first to mass produce 3nm chips, beating TSMC, touting 45% lower power usage compared to 5nm chips, a 16% smaller surface area, and more — Samsung Electronics Co Ltd (005930.KS) said on Thursday it has begun mass producing chips with advanced 3-nanometre technology … | Ari Notis / Kotaku: |
Unity lays off over 200 people, or 4% of its workforce, two weeks after the CEO said at an all-hands meeting that there would not be any layoffs — Management at the company behind the free game development engine has been a ‘shit show’ recently, sources say
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Tweets: @iwgb_gw, @nickstatt, @nickstatt, @tprstly, @protopop, @dj_link, @liasae, and @marctech1996
| Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac: |
Apple says South Korean app developers can now use external payment methods from KCP, Inicis, Toss, and NICE by submitting a new version, reducing fees by 4% — Earlier this year, Apple announced that it would comply with a new law in South Korea that required the company to allow third-party payment providers in App Store apps.
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Tweets: @appfairness, @timsweeneyepic, @vladsavov, @johnvoorhees, and @bzamayo
| Stephen Nellis / Reuters: |
Apple's CarPlay update, demoed at WWDC, lets users navigate to a pump and buy gas from its dashboard — Apple Inc (AAPL.O) wants you to start buying gas directly from your car dashboard as early as this fall, when the newest version of its CarPlay software rolls out, accelerating …
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| Karen Weise / New York Times: |
Documents show Amazon has restricted items and search results related to LGBTQ people and issues in the UAE, after the Emirati government threatened penalties — Sales of items including flags and books were blocked in the country, where homosexuality is criminalized. — Give this article- - - Read in app
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| Reuters: |
An investigation details an Indian hacking-for-hire scheme to obtain documents in legal cases, starting in 2013 and targeting 100+ US and European organizations — A trove of thousands of email records uncovered by Reuters reveals Indian cyber mercenaries hacking parties involved …
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Tweets: @shanehuntley, @razhael, @reuters, @razhael, @howelloneill, @iblametom, @shashj, and @razhael
| Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: |
Grayscale Investments sues the US SEC after the agency rejected its application on Wednesday to convert its flagship Grayscale Bitcoin Trust product to an ETF — The SEC rejected Grayscale's application to convert its Grayscale Bitcoin Trust to an exchange-traded fund earlier Wednesday.
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Tweets: @sonnenshein, @smdiehl, @jbsdc, @smtuffy, @bowtiedbull, @adam3us, @nategeraci, @jenn_rosenthal, @cryptadamist, and @bitboy_crypto
| Bloomberg: |
Interviews detail Didi's fall due to China's crackdown, losing $60B+ in market cap in one year and blindsiding executives, after its $4.4B US IPO in June 2021 — It was an unusually frigid December weekend when Cheng Wei summoned his inner circle to his Beijing office.
Tweets: @cocojournalist, @karisoo1, and @donweinland
| Wired: |
Section 230 is the last line of defense for abortion speech online, without which platforms could face legal liability for distributing abortion information — Dobbs should be a wake-up call for anyone seeking to undercut the immunity protections afforded by Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act.
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| Zeke Faux / Bloomberg: |
An in-depth look at the 2016 Bitfinex hack and US government's case against Ilya Lichtenstein and Heather Morgan, aka Razzlekhan, over alleged money laundering — The hackers had been inside the Bitfinex servers for weeks before attempting the heist. They'd watched users on the cryptocurrency exchange buy and sell Bitcoins.
Tweets: @kaileyleinz, @chafkin, @cfarivar, @oliviasolon, @zekefaux, @oliviasolon, @crypto, and @latseema
| Bloomberg: |
EU lawmakers provisionally agree on anti-laundering rules for crypto, requiring verified customer identities for transfers between regulated digital wallets — The European Parliament and Council reached a provisional agreement to force crypto providers to provide identifying information …
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CoinDesk, PYMNTS.com, Bitcoinist.com, Silicon Republic, CryptoSlate, The Block, Reuters, Coinspeaker, and Decrypt
Tweets: @ernesturtasun, @okovarikmep, @mhiesboeck, @mhiesboeck, @gladstein, @theguyswann, @ernesturtasun, @paultang, and @samrusani
| Bloomberg: |
Filing: ex-Apple retail chief Ron Johnson's at-home tech setup company Enjoy files for bankruptcy less than a year after a SPAC merger and sells to Asurion — Enjoy Technology Inc., a retail startup founded by former Apple Inc. executive Ron Johnson, filed for bankruptcy on Thursday … | Raffaele Huang / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Tencent, ByteDance, and others lay off thousands of employees, after Chinese internet companies cut tens of thousands during regulatory crackdowns — Latest round of job cuts at Chinese tech giants comes even as Beijing signals easing of its regulatory campaign against the sector| Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: |
London-based Snowplow Analytics, which helps companies collect and analyze customer data, raised a $40M Series B led by NEA, bringing its total funding to $55M — Snowplow Analytics Ltd., a startup that helps businesses collect and own their customer data, said today it has closed …
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| Taylor Hatmaker / TechCrunch: |
YouTube says channels can't hide subscriber counts starting on June 29 to fight fake accounts, and rolls out an “increase strictness” comment moderation setting — Spam isn't a new problem for social media, but everyone seems to agree that it's gotten a lot worse lately.| Wall Street Journal: |
Researchers warn that some businesses exaggerate AI's capabilities, brewing misunderstanding and distorting policymakers' views of AI's power and fallibility — Google, Meta and OpenAI are investing heavily in the technology, which is increasingly capturing the public imagination
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| Jason Schreier / Bloomberg: |
Niantic, the company behind Pokémon Go, lays off ~8% of its staff, around 85 to 90 people, and cancels four projects; Niantic was valued at $9B in November 2021 — Gaming company Niantic Inc., which has struggled to find another big hit following its 2016 game Pokémon Go …
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Android Police, Wall Street Journal, Engadget, Kotaku, Pocket Gamer.biz, Android Headlines, TechSpot, SlashGear, MCV/DEVELOP, Destructoid, TechCrunch, MobileSyrup, Digital Trends, Polygon, Dot Esports, The Verge, IGN, TheGamer, Protocol, San Francisco Business Journal, Android Central, iMore, Game Developer, and GameSpot
Tweets: @ohnorosco, @harrymccracken, @scobleizer, @ddiakopoulos, and @tamashiihiroka
| Aisha Counts / Protocol: |
Google Workspace head Javier Soltero, who managed Google's productivity and collaboration tools including Gmail and Meet, is leaving the company on July 15 — Javier Soltero is leaving Google Workspace, Google Cloud President Thomas Kurian announced Wednesday in an email to staff viewed by Protocol.
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Tweets: @jsoltero, @jsoltero, @protocol, @killedbygoogle, and @jsoltero
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