| 8:00 PM • | CoinDesk: Sources: digital asset trading firm Genesis is potentially facing “hundreds of millions” of dollars in losses, partly through exposure to 3AC and Babel Finance |
| 7:40 PM • | Wall Street Journal: Researchers say some businesses are exaggerating AI's capabilities, brewing misunderstanding and distorting policymakers' views of AI's power and fallibility |
| 6:50 PM • | Bloomberg: EU lawmakers provisionally agree on anti-laundering rules for crypto, requiring verified customer identities for transfers between regulated digital wallets |
| 6:40 PM • | Sam Biddle / The Intercept: Docs: Coinbase is selling features of its intelligence-gathering tool Coinbase Tracer to ICE, letting ICE track crypto transactions including bitcoin and ether |
| 6:10 PM • | 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 |
| 5:35 PM • | Margi Murphy / Bloomberg: Elliptic: North Korea-backed hacking group Lazarus might be behind Harmony's $100M altcoin theft; the hack bore similarities to the $600M Ronin bridge attack |
| 4:20 PM • | Jack Schickler / CoinDesk: EU lawmakers agree on anti-money laundering rules for crypto, requiring a verified customer identity for transfers between regulated digital wallet providers |
| 3:35 PM • | Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: Researchers detail sophisticated malware targeting various routers and taking over Windows, macOS, and Linux devices, in North America and Europe for ~2 years |
| 2:50 PM • | Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: Firefox now offers a feature to strip some web tracking parameters from URLs, including HubSpot, Marketo, and Meta, following similar functionality in Brave |
| 2:15 PM • | Adlan Jackson / New York Times: A look at YouTube “media critics”, who use humor to dissect the output of more popular YouTubers, discuss the absurdities of influencers, and more |
| 12:10 PM • | Allyson Versprille / Bloomberg: Sources: the Treasury Department and the IRS are likely to postpone a January 2023 starting date for crypto companies to track clients' capital gains and losses |
| 10:55 AM • | Brendan Murray / Bloomberg: Experts express concerns over hackers commandeering ship controls, including automated steering and propulsion systems, despite efforts to address the issues |
| 10:00 AM • | Annie Armstrong / Artnet News: As crypto enters another winter, Jimmy Fallon, Serena Williams, Reese Witherspoon, Meek Mill, and other celebrities quietly remove their NFT profile pictures |
| 9:40 AM • | Iain Martin / Forbes: A look at NGL, an app that lets Instagram users send anonymous DMs, and its content moderation challenges; Data.ai: NGL has 1.75M downloads since November 2021 |
| 8:45 AM • | Stephen Alpher / CoinDesk: MicroStrategy purchased 480 bitcoins at a $20,817 average price from May 3 to June 28, bringing its holdings to 129,699, acquired for ~$3.98B or $30,664 each |
| 8:40 AM • | Christine Hall / TechCrunch: New York-based Nautical Commerce, which offers multivendor marketplace tools, raised a $30M Series A led by Drive Capital, bringing its total funding to ~$33.2M |
| 8:10 AM • | Alex Heath / The Verge: Snap launches Snapchat+, offering exclusive, experimental, and pre-release Snapchat features for $3.99 per month, starting in nine countries |
| 8:05 AM • | Raymond Wong / Input: Carl Pei says Nothing phone (1) will use the mid-range Snapdragon 778G+, not the high-end 8 Gen 1, citing a balance of cost, performance, and power consumption |
| 7:40 AM • | David Yaffe-Bellany / New York Times: Forbes estimates the 16 richest crypto billionaires lost $59B+ between March and June, led by Binance's Changpeng Zhao, as retail investors suffer heavy losses |
| 7:30 AM • | Megha Paul / Tech.eu: London-based Cleo, an AI-powered assistant that aims to help Gen Z users improve their financial health and wellbeing, raised an $80M Series C led by Sofina |
| 7:20 AM • | Steven Ehrlich / Forbes: After providing $750M in credit lines, Sam Bankman-Fried says some crypto companies are “basically too far gone”, “bearish views on Tether are wrong”, and more |
| 7:05 AM • | Wall Street Journal: Internal documents from 2021 show Celsius issued large loans backed by little collateral while pitching itself as less risky than a bank with better returns |
| 6:27 AM • | Mark Kleinman / Sky News: Source: a British Virgin Islands court ordered the liquidation of Singapore-based Three Arrows Capital on June 27; Teneo will handle the insolvency process |
| 6:10 AM • | Patrick McGee / Financial Times: Some VR developers express frustration with Meta's Quest Store fees, a 30% cut for purchases and 15% to 30% for subscriptions, given Meta's criticism of Apple |
| 5:30 AM • | Coralie Mercier / World Wide Web Consortium: W3C plans to become a public-interest non-profit organization in January 2023, saying the change is “imperative to preserve the core mission of the Consortium” |
| 5:25 AM • | Jonathan Stempel / Reuters: A federal judge rules ex-Uber CSO Joe Sullivan must face fraud charges for allegedly covering up a 2016 hack that exposed the data of 57M passengers and drivers |
| 5:20 AM • | Ivan Levingston / Bloomberg: Deliveroo plans to introduce new ad space on its app and website in July, including selling ads on its order-tracker page, in its push to become profitable |
| 5:15 AM • | Evelyn Cheng / CNBC: The FCC's Brendan Carr calls on Apple and Google to remove TikTok from app stores due to China-related security concerns or explain why they haven't by July 8 |
| 4:40 AM • | Bloomberg: Sources: Tesla laid off ~200 Autopilot workers, most of them hourly and focused on data labeling, and closes its San Mateo office, as part of broader reductions |
| 4:30 AM • | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: London-based Entrepreneur First, which invests in nascent startups, connects co-founders, and offers support, has raised a $158M Series C at a ~$560M valuation |
| 4:15 AM • | Josh Smith / Reuters: Experts say the crypto crash has wiped out millions of dollars stolen by North Korean hackers, threatening a key source of funding and its weapons programs |
| 2:20 AM • | Bloomberg: A profile of ADT, which helps Google sell and install Nest smart home products, ahead of unveiling its ADT+ smart home security software and hardware in 2023 |
| 2:05 AM • | Oshry Alkeslasi / Geektime: Tel Aviv-based Konnecto, which helps brands improve their marketing by analyzing consumers' online purchase data, raised a $21M Series A led by PeakSpan Capital |
| 1:30 AM • | Saritha Rai / Bloomberg: Source: Byju's offers to acquire 2U Inc. for ~$15 per share in cash, a 61% premium on its $9.30 Tuesday closing price, valuing the US edtech company at ~$2B |
| 1:00 AM • | Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: London-based Birdie, which offers digital tools to in-home care providers to optimize their workflow, raised a $30M Series B, bringing its total funding to $52M |
| 12:15 AM • | Conor Hale / Fierce Biotech: PicnicHealth, which lets patients manage their health records online and aims to share anonymized data with researchers, raised a $60M Series C led by B Capital |
| 11:40 PM • | Katie Jennings / Forbes: New York-based Nomad Health, an online marketplace for temporary health care jobs, raised $105M, bringing its total funding to $200M+, to expand beyond nurses |
| 10:50 PM • | Corinna Makris / VentureBeat: Normalyze, which enables security teams to continuously analyze, prioritize, and respond to cloud data threats, emerges from stealth with a $22.2M Series A |
| 10:25 PM • | Allison Levitsky / Protocol: Pave, which analyzes HR data to help companies close pay and equity gaps, raised a $100M Series C at a $1.6B valuation and acquires rival Option Impact |
| 9:15 PM • | Andrew Tarantola / Engadget: NOAA triples its weather modeling capabilities and doubles its storage by adding two General Dynamics supercomputers for $505M, each operating at 12.1 petaflops |
| 8:20 PM • | Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Sources: Samsung Display acquires the IP and tech of Germany-based startup Cynora, which specializes in OLED displays for foldable devices, for about $300M |
| 7:55 PM • | Michael Bellusci / CoinDesk: CoinFlex CEO Mark Lamb says crypto investor Roger Ver owes the exchange $47M in USDC, after Ver denied “some rumors” he defaulted on a debt to a counterparty |
| 6:35 PM • | Abner Li / 9to5Google: Google announces Google Public Sector, a new division aiming to bring Google Cloud tech to US educational institutions and federal, state, and local governments |
| 6:05 PM • | Shannon Liao / Washington Post: Sony launches InZone, a brand of PC gaming devices and accessories with PS5 integration, starting with 4K and 1080p 27" monitors and three headphones |
| 4:50 PM • | Jay Peters / The Verge: Meta tests Discord-like changes to Facebook Groups, adding a channels list in a left-aligned sidebar that can include audio rooms, text chats, and feed channels |
| 4:26 PM • | Sarah E. Needleman / Wall Street Journal: Pinterest CEO Ben Silbermann steps down and transitions to executive chairman; Google President of Commerce Bill Ready takes over and joins Pinterest's board |
| 2:10 PM • | Reuters: A deep dive into Truth Social's struggles to build a competitive social media platform, largely because the company alienated tech talent and corporate partners |
| 12:55 PM • | Hadlee Simons / Android Authority: Arm announces new mobile Armv9 CPUs with improved performance and new GPUs including the flagship Immortalis-G715, its first with hardware-enabled ray-tracing |
| 12:05 PM • | Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Opaque Systems, which is building AI to handle data in hardware-based trusted execution environments, raised a $22M Series A led by Walden Catalyst Partners |
| 10:05 AM • | Will Knight / Wired: How Craiyon, formerly DALL-E mini, a viral image-generation tool by Hugging Face based on OpenAI's DALL-E, offers absurd fun and shows how AI can warp reality |
| 9:40 AM • | Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: New York-based Gloat, an AI-powered internal jobs board, raised a $90M Series D led by Generation Investment Management, bringing its total funding to $192M |
| 9:30 AM • | Joey D'Urso / @josephmdurso: [Thread] A look at the English Premier League soccer clubs' crypto sponsorships and fan tokens, most of which have tanked in value, exposing fans to big losses |
| 9:10 AM • | Charlie Warzel / The Atlantic: a16z's Marc Andreessen and Packy McCormick failing to coherently explain Web3 use cases demonstrates the hollowness of the space, often obscured by boosterism |
| 8:50 AM • | Bloomberg: After freezing withdrawals, crypto exchange CoinFlex plans to issue up to 47M Recovery Value USD tokens, offering a 20% annual return, to repay a $47M debt |
| 8:05 AM • | Reuters: A Moscow court fines Twitch, Pinterest, and Airbnb ~$38K and UPS ~$19K for allegedly refusing to store Russian citizens' personal data in Russia |
| 7:45 AM • | Katie Roof / Bloomberg: FrontApp, which offers the Front customer communications tool, raised $65M led by Salesforce and Battery at a $1.7B post-money valuation, up from $859M in 2020 |
| 7:40 AM • | Corrie Driebusch / Wall Street Journal: Long-Term Stock Exchange, a Silicon Valley-based rival to the NYSE and Nasdaq, raised $100M from the Walmart family's James Walton and The Space Between |
| 7:20 AM • | Ashutosh Joshi / Bloomberg: After announcing plans to acquire Blinkit, Zomato's stock dropped 6.6% on Monday and ~8% on Tuesday, 21% below its IPO price, cutting ~$1.1B from its market cap |
| 7:10 AM • | James Vincent / The Verge: Airbnb makes its temporary ban on parties at rented properties, introduced in 2020, permanent, saying the ban “became much more than a public health measure” |
| 6:25 AM • | Documented: Privacy advocates say the SmartLINK app, an alternative to ankle monitors, helped ICE increase the number of people it tracks from <6K to 230K+ in three years |
| 5:55 AM • | Sarah E. Needleman / Wall Street Journal: After Twitter gives Elon Musk access to its firehose and historical tweet data, experts doubt the data will provide conclusive answers on spam accounts and bots |
| 5:35 AM • | Anna Gross / Financial Times: An interview with Arm CEO Rene Haas on the company's plans to use its IPO proceeds to pursue M&A deals and expand hiring, after Arm China changed its leadership |
| 5:10 AM • | Mike Butcher / TechCrunch: A look at Plural, a €250M early-stage fund led by Wise co-founder Taavet Hinrikus, Teleport co-founder Sten Tamkivi, Songkick co-founder Ian Hogarth, and others |
| 5:05 AM • | Shirley Zhao / Bloomberg: Netflix plans to grow its investments in Asia Pacific, which has 15% of its 221.6M subscribers and is forecast to be the biggest driver of further expansion |
| 4:55 AM • | Stephanie Condon / ZDNet: Google makes Earth Engine, which offers sophisticated information about the Earth's surface, available to any commercial or government entity using Google Cloud |
| 4:45 AM • | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: UK-based Speechmatics, which uses AI to translate speech to text regardless of accent, raised a $62M Series B led by Susquehanna and says it has ~170 clients |
| 4:25 AM • | Emily Nicolle / Bloomberg: Paris-based Kaiko, which offers crypto and DeFi market data to institutional investors and businesses, raised a $53M Series B led by Eight Roads |
| 2:30 AM • | Katie Deighton / Wall Street Journal: Hypercasual video games, with ultrasimple gameplay and low-stakes challenges, are getting more sophisticated as studios fight to retain monetizable players |
| 10:30 PM • | Ashley Gold / Axios: Filing: Google asks the US FEC to green light a program that would exempt campaign emails from spam; the GOP alleges Gmail unfairly flags its emails as spam |
| 9:20 PM • | Manish Singh / TechCrunch: New Delhi-based Progcap, a digital bank that provides working capital to SMBs, raised a $40M Series C extension at a $600M valuation, up 3x since September 2021 |
| 7:55 PM • | Wilfried Eckl-Dorna / Bloomberg: Siemens plans to acquire Brightly, a North Carolina-based provider of buildings and infrastructure management cloud software, from Clearlake Capital for $1.58B |
| 6:25 PM • | Olivia Snow / Wired: How SCOTUS overturning Roe could be used to curb online freedoms and surveil vulnerable populations, as happened to sex workers following FOSTA/SESTA in 2018 |
| 5:10 PM • | Allison Johnson / The Verge: T-Mobile launches App Insights out of beta, letting marketers target its customers based on apps they have installed and engagement patterns; users can opt out |
| 5:00 PM • | Jacquelyn Melinek / TechCrunch: Sam Bankman-Fried says FTX has “no active M&A conversations with Robinhood”; Robinhood says an acquisition cannot go through without the founders' approval |
| 4:45 PM • | Emma Roth / The Verge: Google says Hangouts will shut down in November as the Hangouts app begins prompting users to move to Chat |
| 3:56 PM • | TechCrunch: Analysis of Stardust period tracking app, the top free app on the US App Store on June 25, shows it shares users' phone numbers with analytics company Mixpanel |
| 3:45 PM • | Sophia Kunthara / Crunchbase News: London-based BNPL startup Hokodo raised a $40M Series B led by Notion Capital, following an £8.8M Series A in June 2021 |
| 3:40 PM • | Ryan Browne / CNBC: UK regulators investigate Kristo Käärmann, CEO and co-founder of money transfer company Wise, after tax authorities alleged he failed to pay a £720K+ tax bill |
| 3:17 PM • | Bloomberg: Sources: Sam Bankman-Fried's crypto exchange FTX is exploring an acquisition of Robinhood; Robinhood's stock closes up 14% |
| 2:40 PM • | Annie Palmer / CNBC: Amazon plans to host two Prime shopping events in a year for the first time, the second one set for Q4 2022, according to a notice sent to third-party merchants |
| 12:30 PM • | Samantha Cole / VICE: Stardust's privacy policy said it may share “anonymized, encrypted” data to third parties “whether or not legally required”, before being changed after pushback |
| 12:00 PM • | Sebastian Herrera / Wall Street Journal: Amazon's Prime Day shopping event, set for July 12-13, appears to be more low-key than previous years, focused on discounting Amazon-made products |
| 10:55 AM • | Dan Primack / Axios: Filing: Digital World Acquisition Corp., which wants to take Trump's Truth Social public, discloses a federal grand jury issued subpoenas to each board director |
| 10:15 AM • | Jen Wieczner / New York Magazine: Q&A with crypto billionaire Mike Novogratz on crypto as a scam, differences with past crashes, an incoming recession, LUNA's collapse, blaming the Fed, and more |
| 9:45 AM • | Ellen Huet / Bloomberg: CB Insights: global VC activity dropped 23% between Q1 2022 and June 23, 2022, after dropping just 1.4% between Q4 2021 and Q1 2022; total funding dropped 27% |
| 9:25 AM • | Drew FitzGerald / Wall Street Journal: AT&T and Verizon raise the prices of some monthly and older mobile plans, testing consumer budgets; T-Mobile has kept most of its rates flat |
| 9:10 AM • | Chainalysis: A distribution analysis of 10 major DAO governance tokens finds that, on average, less than 1% of all holders have 90% of voting power |
| 9:05 AM • | Thomas Ricker / The Verge: Starlink RV review: works in remote locations and power consumption beats expectations, but can't be used on a moving vehicle and storms degrade performance |
| 9:00 AM • | Bloomberg: Filing: South Korea's largest car sharing startup Socar files for an IPO in Seoul on August 18, seeking to raise at least ~$119M and pricing shares at ~$26-$35 |
| 8:55 AM • | Vicky Ge Huang / Wall Street Journal: As crypto markets melt down, hedge funds are increasingly shorting tether, as a bet against either the broader economy or the quality of the assets backing USDT |
| 8:50 AM • | Thomas Brewster / Forbes: Investigation: Instagram let a man accused of selling photos of children to pedophiles share images on two accounts months after he was charged and arrested |
| 8:45 AM • | Wall Street Journal: Taiwan-based GlobalWafers announces plans to build a $5B silicon wafer factory in Sherman, Texas, aiming to reach 1.2M wafers per month, covering all US demand |
| 8:40 AM • | Washington Post: With Roe overturned, privacy advocates worry period tracking apps are sharing data, with partners or affiliates, that may become evidence of a crime |
| 8:35 AM • | Andrew Rummer / The Block: Voyager Digital issues a default notice to Three Arrows Capital for failing to repay a $650M+ loan; Voyager accessed $75M of credit from Alameda Research |
| 8:25 AM • | Olga Kharif / Bloomberg: Sky Mavis says it plans to reimburse Axie Infinity users and reopen its Ronin bridge on June 28, after hackers stole 173,600 Ether and 25.5M USDC |
| 8:20 AM • | Antoni Slodkowski / Financial Times: Despite UK pressure, Masayoshi Son tells SoftBank shareholders that the Nasdaq remains his “favourite” venue for Arm's IPO, but that nothing has been decided |
| 7:55 AM • | Harsh Upadhyay / Entrackr: Bengaluru-based Solv, a B2B marketplace for SMBs, raised a $40M Series A led by Tokyo-based SBI Holdings, bringing its total funding to nearly $80M |
| 7:30 AM • | Bloomberg: Naspers subsidiary Prosus sold 131.8M+ JD.com shares, a ~4% stake worth almost $4B, as the e-commerce company “does not form part of [its] core strategic focus” |
| 5:55 AM • | Michael Waters / MIT Technology Review: Companies are increasingly weaving data centers, typically located in suburbs and rural areas, into the fabric of cities to further reduce lag times for locals |
| 2:55 AM • | Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Paris-based Strapi, which makes an open-source headless CMS, raised a $31M Series B led by CRV and plans to launch its Strapi Cloud service out of beta in 2023 |
| 12:30 AM • | Vishal Singh / Silicon Canals: Dublin-based &Open, which helps brands send physical and digital gifts at scale to people around the world, raised a $26M Series A led by Molten Ventures |
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