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Sources: Elon Musk's deal to buy Twitter is in serious jeopardy as his team concluded that spam account figures aren't verifiable using Twitter's data firehose — Talks with investors have cooled in recent weeks and Musk's camp believes it can't confirm Twitter's claims about spam accounts
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Sources: Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal has become more vocal and aggressive internally; ex-executive: “Twitter is willing to go to war” to make the Musk deal happen — The $44bn takeover of Twitter has been punctuated by public clashes between two executives with wildly differing styles …
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| Salvador Rodriguez / Wall Street Journal: |
Twitter lays off 30% of its talent acquisition team, or fewer than 100 people, as the company faces increasing business pressures and Musk's potential takeover — Company faces increasing business pressures and potential takeover from Elon Musk — Twitter Inc. TWTR 1.52%▲ … | Reuters: |
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A former investment manager sues Celsius for fraud, saying the crypto lender ran a Ponzi scheme by using customer deposits to rig the price of its crypto token — A former investment manager at Celsius Network sued the crypto lender on Thursday, saying it used customer deposits to rig …
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| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
Microsoft rolls back blocking VBA macro scripts by default in Excel, PowerPoint, Access, Visio, and Word, “based on feedback” and “to make improvements” — While Microsoft announced earlier this year that it would block VBA macros on downloaded documents by default … | Andrew Mendez / TechCrunch: |
SpaceX debuts Starlink Maritime, a yacht-focused satellite internet service with speeds up to 350 Mbps, priced at $5K per month and $10K for the dual terminals — Having conquered orbit, SpaceX's next venue seems to be the high seas, through a special yacht-focused sub-brand of its satellite internet service called Starlink Maritime.
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| Immanual John Milton / Bloomberg: |
Glassnode: Bitcoin blockchain activity has dropped 13% from November 2021 highs to early July 2022; balances at exchanges are down 20%+ from a January 20 peak — As the crypto winter deepens, only the staunchest Bitcoin investors are still holding onto their tokens — but not on the exchanges.
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Canadian telecom Rogers is experiencing a major outage, affecting 911 calls and internet access in parts of the country — Rogers confirmed the outage but has no ETA for a fix — Rogers has acknowledged a major outage affecting its internet and phone services throughout Canada this morning …
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| Adam Morgan McCarthy / The Block: |
Hidden Road, a credit network for institutional investors that provides real-time risk management and credit across asset classes, has raised a $50M Series A — - Castle Island Ventures led the $50 million raise which included a host of well known names such as Citadel Securities, FTX Ventures, Wintermute and more.
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| Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: |
The US Treasury Department publishes an international crypto regulation framework, the first publication coming from Biden's executive order on digital assets — The document is the first publication to result from U.S. President Joe Biden's executive order on digital assets.
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| Caitlin Harrington / Wired: |
Tech companies' offer to help employees sidestep abortion bans does not cover gig workers, temporary workers, and subcontractors, deepening the workforce divide — Google, Amazon, and others will help permanent staff seek out-of-state care. But their many contractors remain shut out.
Tweets: @carnage4life, @datascibae, @caitharr, and @hypervisible
| Ian Allison / CoinDesk: |
In a shareholder letter, Blockchain.com CEO says the exchange stands to lose about $270M in loans to Three Arrows Capital but it “remains liquid, solvent” — Blockchain.com “remains liquid, solvent and our customers will not be impacted,” wrote CEO Peter Smith in a letter to shareholders.Sponsor Posts
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