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| Frank Chaparro / The Block: |
Circle says $3.3B of ~$40B USDC reserves remain at Silicon Valley Bank and it will follow guidance provided by state and federal regulators — - After being largely silent on Friday, Circle said it has $3.3 billion in exposure to Silicon Valley Bank, which collapsed earlier in the day and was placed in FDIC receivership.
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| Bloomberg: |
Coinbase says it is “temporarily pausing” conversions of USDC into USD during the weekend; USDC traded at ~$0.90 as investors reacted to Circle's SVB exposure — The second-largest stablecoin in crypto fell from its intended $1 peg on Saturday, trading as low as 81.5 cents … | Krisztian Sandor / CoinDesk: |
Circle's USDC sees $1B in net redemptions since SVB's shutdown and has lost its $1 peg, after Circle said SVB is one of six banks managing USDC cash reserves — Stablecoin issuer Circle held an undisclosed amount of USDC's cash reserves at now-failed Silicon Valley Bank.
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| TechCrunch: |
How startup founders are reacting to Silicon Valley Bank's collapse, as some worry about frozen funds, operating expenses, and paying employees full salaries — Engineers at Polymath Robotics were working late Wednesday night on multiple projects when co-founder and CEO Stefan Seltz-Axmacher noticed chatter …
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| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Filing: Roku held ~26% of its $1.9B in cash and equivalents at SVB, “largely uninsured”, and says the remaining amount will be sufficient for at least 12 months — About one-fourth of Roku's cash and equivalents — nearly half a billion dollars — has been held in Silicon Valley Bank …
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| Sarah Wynn / The Block: |
Filing: crypto lender BlockFi, which filed for bankruptcy protection in November 2022, has $227M in uninsured funds in Silicon Valley Bank — - Crypto lender Blockfi has millions in uninsured funds because the cash is a money market mutual fund, according to a bankruptcy document filed on Friday.
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| Dan Primack / Axios: |
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| Lizette Chapman / Bloomberg: |
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| Matt Levine / Bloomberg: |
As the “Bank of Startups”, Silicon Valley Bank collapsed from its exposure to interest-rate risk, a lack of diversity among depositors, and VC herd mentality — Programming note: Money Stuff was supposed to be off today, but: bank run! — SVB
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| Austin Weinstein / Bloomberg: |
Filing: SVB investors and depositors tried to pull $42B on March 9; the bank had a negative cash balance of $958M on March 9, per an order for taking possession — Investors and depositors tried to pull $42 billion from Silicon Valley Bank on Thursday in one of the biggest US bank runs … | Marc Rubinstein / Net Interest: |
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| Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch: |
How the FBI proved that NetWire was a remote access trojan malware and not a remote admin tool, leading to the seizure of the website selling the malware — On Thursday, the U.S. government announced that it had seized a website used to sell malware designed to spy on computers and cellphones.
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Krebs on Security, Department of Justice, and SecurityWeek
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@lorenzofb, @patrickwardle, and @malwarejake
| Giovanni Colantonio / Digital Trends: |
A look at Sumplete, a game ChatGPT claimed it “invented” after being prompted to create Sudoku-like puzzles and is identical to at least one other mobile game — ChatGPT can add another job to its résumé: game developer. With just a few simple prompts from a user …
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Sumplete, Puzzled's Substack, Insider, and Gizmodo
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@marioprime, @tomchivers, @andrewmartonik, @marioprime, @dannyrichman, @marcosbl, and @psythor
| James Vincent / The Verge: |
LinkedIn's decision to start publishing “AI-powered conversation starters” to provoke discussions is a milestone and may herald semiautomated social networks — It makes sense that LinkedIn would be the first major social network to push AI-generated content on its users.
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gHacks Technology News. Tweets:
@adamsinger, @marywareham, @carnage4life, @jjvincent, and @jonlamart
| Chris Stokel-Walker / Wired: |
Leaked docs: Twitter's API access Enterprise Packages start at $42K/month for 50M tweets, or ~0.3% of its monthly output, 25K filters, and 50K archive queries — Tiers will start at $500,000 a year for access to 0.3 percent of the company's tweets. Researchers say that's too much for too little data.
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BetaNews. Tweets:
@marshallk, @sparklingruby, @pbjost, @chrismessina, @_subnet, @marshallk, @gusthema, @wearytolove, @epro, @viditb, @0mgould, @ryanmaue, and @stokel. Thanks:@stokel
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