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August 3, 2022, 3:50 PM

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Jason Nelson / Decrypt:
An unknown attacker has been emptying Solana and USDC wallets; Solscan says over 15,000 wallets have been affected, draining $4.46M, primarily in SOL and USDC  —  An unknown attacker drained thousands of wallets containing at least $4 million worth of Solana and USDC late Tuesday night.
Brian Newar / Cointelegraph:
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple plans to delay iPadOS 16 by about a month, partly due to work on its multitasking features, targeting an October release alongside macOS Ventura  —  Apple Inc. expects to delay its next major iPad software update by about a month, taking the unusual step of not releasing …
Thomas Seal / Bloomberg:
Textbook publisher Pearson plans to turn its e-books into NFTs to take a cut from secondhand sales and has a team exploring “the implications of the metaverse”  —  The chief executive officer of Pearson Plc, one of the world's largest textbook publishers, said he hopes technology …
Jessica Klein / Input:
An interview with Bored Ape Yacht Club creators Greg Solano and Wylie Aronow on BuzzFeed “doxxing” them, Yuga Labs, BAYC's future, the Otherside game, and more  —  The evening of February 4, business partners Greg Solano, 33, and Wylie Aronow, 35, were at their respective homes …
Takashi Mochizuki / Bloomberg:
Nintendo misses with Q1 sales down 4.7% YoY to ~$2.3B and operating profit down 15.1% YoY to ~$763M; Switch sales fell 22.9% YoY to 3.43M units  —  Nintendo Co. reported worse-than-expected first-quarter earnings on Wednesday as a weaker yen failed to offset declining hardware and software sales.
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Amazon launches Luna game streaming on Samsung's 2022 smart TVs and monitors, in Samsung Gaming Hub, which has Google Stadia, Xbox Cloud Gaming, and GeForce Now  —  Luna joins Stadia, GeForce Now, and Xbox Cloud Gaming in the Samsung Gaming Hub  —  Amazon's game streaming service, Luna …
Sam Rutherford / Engadget:
Review of the OnePlus 10T, unveiled today for $649: Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 and wired charging are fast, but water resistance is weak and 2MP macro camera is a bust  —  When OnePlus does a mid-year refresh of its phones, typically you end up with a slightly snappier device with a handful of slight refinements.
Jamie Crawley / CoinDesk:
Chiliz, which owns digital fan token service Socios, buys a 24.5% stake in soccer club FC Barcelona's Barça Studios for $100M and plans to expand its Web3 plans  —  Chiliz has acquired a 24.5% stake in Barca Studios, the Spanish soccer giant's digital-content creation arm.
Nikkei Asia:
US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi met with TSMC Chairman Mark Liu, Pegatron Vice Chairman Jason Cheng, and others in Taiwan to discuss the Chips and Science Act  —  TAIPEI — U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi met with Taiwan's most important chip industry leaders in Taipei on Wednesday as part …
Financial Times:
Tom Warren / The Verge:
NPD Group: US consumer spending on video game products fell 13% YoY to $12.35B in Q2 2022; non-mobile subscription content was Q2's only segment that saw growth  —  The video game industry growth has slowed down  —  US consumer spending on video game products has fallen by $1.78 billion in Q2, according to market research firm NPD.
Financial Times:
Source: Meta Global Affairs President Nick Clegg is partly relocating to London for personal reasons, splitting his schedule between California and the UK  —  Global affairs chief will split his time between UK and California as social media group embraces remote leadership
Kate Beioley / Financial Times:
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Match Group says Tinder CEO Renate Nyborg is leaving after less than a year, reorganizes the app's management team, and ends Tinder's crypto and metaverse plans  —  Dating giant Match Group announced a series of changes to Tinder's management team alongside the announcement of disappointing second-quarter earnings on Tuesday.
Caitlin McCabe / Wall Street Journal:
Robinhood plans to cut its headcount by ~23% over “additional deterioration of the macro environment”, after laying off ~9% of full-time employees in April 2022  —  The job cuts mark the second round of layoffs for the online brokerage, which exploded in popularity during the Covid-19 pandemic

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