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- Designing Babies: How Technology Is Changing the Ways We Create Children
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- Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization
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- effectively banned abortion
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- empower and help promote conservative agendas nationwide. Brandon Bell/Getty Images Trump reacted with approval to 'hang Mike Pence' chants from rioters on January 6
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- ENGLAND - MARCH 01: Next Gaming Rapid from Italy takes part in a qualifying match at the 2015 Call of Duty European Championships at The Royal Opera House on March 1
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- England. The event sees 28 teams from across Europe and the Middle East compete in order to qualify for the 2015 Call of Duty world finals in Los Angeles on 27 March
- enhanced monthly child tax credit
- Enlarged photographs have been made into memorials to the nineteen children and two teachers who died when an 18-year-old gunman opened fire in a classroom at Robb Elementary School a week ago
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- epic flooding
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- essentially ending almost all abortions in the country.
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- Exclusive: How John Roberts killed the census citizenship question
- expand existing health care benefits
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- Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signs the Parental Rights in Education bill at Classical Preparatory school Monday
- Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks during the Conservative Political Action Conference in Orlando
- Florida. Douglas R. Clifford/Tampa Bay Times/AP Fact check: Emails show one of DeSantis' stories backing the rationale for so-called 'Don't Say Gay' law didn't happen as the governor says
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- formally denying any relationship
- former President Donald Trump
- former President Donald Trump's deputy chief of staff for communications
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- Former U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during the American Freedom Tour at the Austin Convention Center on May 14
- former Vice President Joe Biden. (Photo by Jeff Swensen/Getty Images) Jeff Swensen/Getty Images Opinion: Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner go their own way on January 6
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- Grimes reveals she and Musk welcomed their second child together
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- gunned down 19 children and two teachers
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- has donated million to the online learning organization Khan Academy.
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- Hayden suffers a stroke
- Hayden tells CNN that Trump represents a “clear and present danger
- He resubmitted his application after he smoked marijuana during a live podcast interview in September 2018.
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- TechCrunch debuts a tool to check if an Android device is one of hundreds of thousands hacked by one of several spyware apps, after its probe into TheTruthSpy (Zack Whittaker/TechCrunch)
- Israel-based Agora, which helps real estate investment companies automate back-office processes, has raised a M Series A led by Insight Partners (Philip Russo/Commercial Observer)
- TikTok introduces "Shopping Ads", letting brands place shoppable videos on the For You page, promote catalog listings, and direct users to live shopping events (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
- Sources: Qualcomm is planning a return to the server processors market and is seeking customers, including AWS, for a chip stemming from its purchase of Nuvia (Ian King/Bloomberg)
- Tether partners with "top five" accountancy firm BDO Italia to issue monthly assurance and attestation reports of its reserves "very soon" (Yogita Khatri/The Block)
- A coalition of 70 TikTok stars, with a combined 51M+ followers, pledges to cease work with Amazon until the company meets the demands of the Amazon Labor Union (Washington Post)
- HiBob, which offers cloud-based HR tools, has raised a 0M Series D led by General Atlantic at a .45B valuation, up from .65B in October 2021 (Paul Sawers/TechCrunch)
- Cisco beats estimates with Q4 revenue flat YoY at .1B, vs. .8B est., and a fiscal year 2023 guidance of 4% to 6% revenue growth YoY, vs. 2.3% est. (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
- World Bank's IFC partners with blockchain startup Chia and others to launch the Carbon Opportunities Fund, using M to buy and tokenize carbon credits (Reuters)
- Former Nintendo female contract testers in the US describe years of sexual harassment, gender discrimination, and a lack of advancement opportunities for women (Sisi Jiang/Kotaku)
- Google says it is using its most powerful large language model PaLM to help robots from Alphabet X spinout Everyday Robots understand complex human commands (Will Knight/Wired)
- Top publicly-traded US bitcoin miners Core Scientific, Marathon Digital, and Riot Blockchain lost 2M, 2M, and 6M in Q2 respectively after impairments (David Pan/Bloomberg)
- Analysis: of the US exports to China that required a license in 2020, the Commerce Department approved 94%, or 2,652, applications for tech exports (Kate O'Keeffe/Wall Street Journal)
- Jump Crypto plans to build a new Solana validator client using C++, called Firedancer, in a bid to improve the network's frequent outages and slowdowns (Tracy Wang/CoinDesk)
- Amazon has accused the FTC of harassing its top executives, including Jeff Bezos and Andy Jassy, as part of its probe into Prime membership scheme (Dave Lee/Financial Times)
- Filing: Elliott Management sold all of its 10M shares in Twitter in Q2 amid Musk's takeover bid; the hedge fund had no common stock in Twitter as of June 30 (Antoine Gara/Financial Times)
- Walmart partners with Paramount to include the .99/month ad-supported tier of the Paramount+ streaming service as part of its Walmart+ subscription (Reuters)
- TikTok rolls out a text-to-image "AI greenscreen", letting users create a basic background for videos from a text prompt (James Vincent/The Verge)
- The US' .5B broadband budget for underserved areas is withheld until the FCC makes new service maps, which aren't expected by rural providers until late 2023 (Wall Street Journal)
- Ahead of US midterms, a look at TikTok's struggles to keep misinformation off of its platform during foreign elections, like in Australia and France this year (Tiffany Hsu/New York Times)
- Sources: Apple ads team lead Todd Teresi is now reporting directly to Eddy Cue and wants to increase the group's ad revenues from B a year to double digits (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
- Big investment firms, including Abrdn, BlackRock, and Charles Schwab, are embracing digital assets despite the crypto crash, as consumer groups raise concerns (Financial Times)
- Analysis: Tencent and Alibaba, whose stocks have dropped 60% and 65% respectively since February 2021, have lost more market value than any other stock globally (Jeanny Yu/Bloomberg)
- A profile of COO Javier Olivan, who has become Meta's "unofficial fixer" and has had a hand in all of the company's major competitive battles and acquisitions (Kurt Wagner/Bloomberg)
- Uber will end its free loyalty program Uber Rewards on November 1, 2022, to focus on its new Uber One membership program (Emma Roth/The Verge)
- China's internet watchdog publishes a list of 30 algorithms used in popular apps, including Wechat, Taobao, and Douyin, with brief descriptions of their use (Reuters)
- Experts say Coinbase's decision to stop emailed price alerts during 2022's crypto crash likely contributed to retail investor losses and was potentially illegal (Ali Breland/Mother Jones)
- Amazon's new reality show Ring Nation featuring footage from its Ring home security cameras is the company's latest effort to normalize its surveillance network (Edward Ongweso Jr/VICE)
- Dutch authorities arrest a Tornado Cash developer suspected of involvement in concealing money laundering, two days after the US sanctioned the crypto mixer (Yogita Khatri/The Block)
- Sources: YouTube plans to launch a "channel store" for streaming services as early as this fall and is talking with partners about subscription revenue splits (Wall Street Journal)
- Sources detail Meta's challenges in building encrypted messaging products, including users' apathy toward encryption, which could change due to Roe's reversal (Casey Newton/Platformer)
- Memo: meditation app Calm lays of 20% of its staff; sources say Calm employed ~400 people and approximately 90 were laid off; Calm was valued at B in 2020 (Patrick Coffee/Wall Street Journal)
- A California bill targeting social media companies for features that could addict minors dies in legislature, after Meta, Twitter, and Snap lobbied against it (Sarah Donaldson/Wall Street Journal)
- Google has agreed to pay M to settle a court case with Australia's ACCC over misleading some Android users about collection of personal location data (The Guardian)
- Google appears to be testing a feature to let users launch cloud games from Stadia, Amazon Luna, Xbox Cloud Gaming, and Nvidia's GeForce Now from search results (Sean Hollister/The Verge)
- Researchers bought 5G IoT plans from 10 carriers and found security flaws exposing private SIM card data and, in some cases, large streams of other users' data (Lily Hay Newman/Wired)
- Docs and sources detail how two men in Phoenix, Arizona ran one of the largest known YouTube music royalty scams, leading to a wire fraud indictment and more (Kristin Robinson/Billboard)
- Hong Kong-based Insilico, which uses machine learning to identify potential drug targets, raised M from Prosperity7, bringing its total Series D to M (Rita Liao/TechCrunch)
- Elliptic: cross-chain bridge RenBridge has been used to launder 0M in crime-related crypto cash since 2020; Conti ransomware group used it to launder M+ (MacKenzie Sigalos/CNBC)
- Microsoft makes its 1,538 3D emoji library available in open source on GitHub and Figma, allowing creators to remix and customize them for free (Tom Warren/The Verge)
- After suffering huge losses, SoftBank plans to reduce its Alibaba stake from 23.7% as of June 30 to 14.6%, raising around B in the current quarter (Kosaku Narioka/Wall Street Journal)
- Las Vegas-based Fortress Blockchain Technologies, which is building financial, regulatory, and tech B2B infrastructure for Web3 companies, raised a .5M seed (JD Alois/Crowdfund Insider)
- Biden adviser Tim Wu denies reports of him leaving the White House, saying "I'm not leaving anytime soon - still have lots of work to do" (Emily Birnbaum/Bloomberg)
- Sources: US DOJ is preparing to sue Google over its ad market business as soon as September, as the DOJ's antitrust division conducts interviews with publishers (Bloomberg)
- AppLovin offers to buy Unity for .85/share, an 18% premium to Unity's Monday closing price, in a .54B all-stock deal; AppLovin stock is down 9%+ (Eva Mathews/Reuters)
- GitHub partners with code-signing service Sigstore to add support for signing npm software packages, helping improve the security of open source projects (Lily Hay Newman/Wired)
- Snapchat introduces parental controls through a new Family Center feature, letting parents see who teens are talking to but not view the content of the messages (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
- Crypto.com says it has secured registrations to operate as a virtual asset service provider in South Korea, acquires two local startups for undisclosed amounts (Kate Park/TechCrunch)
- Sources: DataRobot's CFO and several other execs have resigned after CEO Dan Wright's resignation last month, amid an uproar over execs' quiet stock sales (Kevin McLaughlin/The Information)
- Apptopia: Netflix's games have 23.3M total downloads and average 1.7M DAUs, less than 1% of its subscribers; Netflix plans to reach 50 games by the end of 2022 (Jack Stebbins/CNBC)
- SoftBank Vision Fund posts a ~.23B loss in the April-June quarter as the value of its tech portfolio, including SenseTime Group and Uber, fell (Sam Nussey/Reuters)
- Fitbit will end desktop syncing for PC and macOS in October, moving file transfers to its smartphone app, and local music and playlists to Deezer and Pandora (Abner Li/9to5Google)
- An examination of data collected by Tesla: what information its vehicles record, how Tesla uses this data to develop Autopilot, and who actually owns the data (Mark Harris/IEEE Spectrum)
- At least four top executives associated with a Chinese state-run semiconductor fund, which has invested B in total, have been arrested on corruption charges (Zeyi Yang/MIT Technology Review)
- Online crypto casinos like Stake are luring gamers, in some cases to the point of bankruptcy, by using celebrity endorsements and sponsored streams on Twitch (Cecilia D'Anastasio/Bloomberg)
- UK-based Cera, whose app uses data analytics and AI to manage at-home health care, has raised 0M split equally between debt and equity led by Kairos HQ (Mike Butcher/TechCrunch)
- A look at Netflix scrambling to build an ad business and revive its subscriber growth; sources: Reed Hastings expects Netflix could charge ~ per 1,000 views (Wall Street Journal)
- [Thread] via iRobot, Amazon, one of the most powerful data collection companies on earth, will get another vast and intrusive set of data about people's homes (Ron Knox/@ronmknox)
- Analysis: Binance, Crypto.com, Coinbase, FTX, and other crypto companies have committed .4B+ to sports marketing in the past 18 months (Kim Bhasin/Bloomberg)
- A brief history of AI and why some AI researchers believe the technology they have built is sentient or conscious despite no evidence (Cade Metz/New York Times)
- The US DOJ says Alexander Vinnik, founder of BTC-e, a crypto exchange alleged to have laundered B+ in proceeds, was extradited from Greece to the US (Sean Lyngaas/CNN)
- A look at FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried's increasing US political contributions, including M+ to back Biden in 2020, and uncertainty about his goals and leanings (Elena Schneider/Politico)
- Sources: former TikTok content moderators working for a third-party company say they were trained using CSAM from a shared document with wide internal access (Alexandra S. Levine/Forbes)
- Crypto bridge Nomad says anyone returning at least 90% of stolen tokens will be viewed as a white-hat hacker and the remaining 10% will become the reward (Joanna Ossinger/Bloomberg)
- YouTube is testing pinch to zoom with its Premium subscribers, allowing users to zoom into a video on-screen, even in landscape mode (Andrew Romero/9to5Google)
- Cloudflare reports Q2 revenue up 54% YoY to 4.5M, vs. 7.3M est., a .5M net loss, and forecast for both Q3 and 2022 above estimates; stock is up 21%+ (Wallace Witkowski/MarketWatch)
- As Nancy Pelosi visited Taiwan, cyberattacks increased there, likely from China; some 7-11 store TVs displayed the words "Warmonger Pelosi, get out of Taiwan!" (Reuters)
- Analysis: B in crypto has been stolen from cross-chain bridges across 13 hacks in 2022 so far, accounting for 69% of total funds stolen (Chainalysis)
- Data.ai: users spend 4+ hours in mobile apps daily in 13 markets, including the US, the UK, Japan, and India, and 5+ hours in Indonesia, Singapore, and Brazil (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
- Filing: the SEC has been probing Robinhood's compliance with short selling rules since October 2021 and requested more information from the company in Q2 2022 (Hannah Lang/Reuters)
- Interviews with two dozen Triller creators and others show that the TikTok rival missed payments after promising Black creators K monthly, with half in equity (Taylor Lorenz/Washington Post)
- Due to concerns over cloud computing costs, some companies are shifting their data and ML models to on-premises servers and investing in hybrid infrastructure (Kate Kaye/Protocol)
- US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi meets with TSMC chairman Mark Liu and others to discuss implementation of the Chips and Science Act during her Taiwan visit (Nikkei Asia)
- Source: Nick Clegg is partly relocating to London for personal reasons, splitting his time between California and the UK, as Meta embraces remote leadership (Financial Times)
- Sources: Nancy Pelosi is set to meet with TSMC's chairman Mark Liu to discuss implementation of the Chips and Science Act during her visit to Taiwan (Washington Post)
- SEC filing: e-commerce marketing automation service Klaviyo raised 0M from Shopify; Klaviyo has raised ~5M and was valued at .5B in May 2021 (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)
- Uber reports Q2 revenue rose 105% YoY to .1B, above .39B estimates, and a .6B net loss; mobility gross bookings rose 57% YoY to .4B; stock jumps 10%+ (Sofia Pitt/CNBC)
- Leaked Roblox documents show how the platform handles grooming, automatic image scanning, and mass shooting simulators; Roblox says it has over 2,600 moderators (Joseph Cox/VICE)
- Global Payments plans to acquire fintech peer EVO Payments for nearly B, a 24% premium on EVO's last closing price, and expects the deal to close by Q1 2023 (Niket Nishant/Reuters)
- Amazon says its 2021 carbon footprint rose 18% YoY and 40% from 2019 to ~71.54M metric tons of CO2 equivalent, despite its plans to be "net zero carbon" by 2040 (Matt Day/Bloomberg)
- India generates ~B from auctioning airwaves, including for 5G; Reliance Jio spent B+ on 24,740 megahertz, followed by Bharti Airtel and Vodafone (Bloomberg)
- Researchers say Meta is failing to moderate dangerous content in Kenya on Facebook, citing failures in AI, as well as linguistic and cultural expertise gaps (Neha Wadekar/Washington Post)
- In iOS 16 beta 4, Apple Pay finally works in non-Safari browsers like Chrome and Edge, a move that may be in response to the EU's Digital Markets Act (Emma Roth/The Verge)
- Inside China's B virtual influencer industry, as motion capture actors complain of hard working conditions powering their avatars four to five hours per day (Rest of World)
- How Tor is fighting Russia's efforts since December 2021 to block the anonymous browser, such as by using Telegram to share details of volunteer-run Tor bridges (Matt Burgess/Wired)
- A look at the supply chain resilience myth, as efforts to replicate the chipmaking process inside single countries or regions reveal and exacerbate bottlenecks (Nikkei Asia)
- Chasing TikTok's success and leaving behind the protection of hard-to-replicate, large social graphs could end the lengthy dominance of platforms like Facebook (Cal Newport/New Yorker)
- The US and Japan plan to open an R&D center for 2nm chips in 2022 and start mass production in 2025, to establish secure supply chains amid tensions over Taiwan (Rieko Miki/Nikkei Asia)
- Dell XPS 13 Plus review: thin with a great OLED screen and a powerful P-series chip but expensive, gets very hot, mediocre battery life, and very few ports (Monica Chin/The Verge)
- How Modi's government is increasingly skirting India's own internet rules to crack down on free speech and dissent on social media, under a "fake news" pretext (Mark Bergen/Bloomberg)
- Some streamers on Twitch, a more intimate platform than others, endure threats and stalkers and say Twitch gives limited support when dangerous situations arise (New York Times)
- RPA Supervisor, which lets companies integrate and manage their robotic process automation tools, has raised a M Series A led by Dawn Capital (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)
- Brazilian prosecutors ask WhatsApp to delay its Communities feature launch in Brazil until January to avoid spreading misinformation around the October election (Anthony Boadle/Reuters)
- Amazon will shut down Drive, its cloud storage service launched in 2011, at the end of 2023 to focus "on photos and video storage with Amazon Photos" (Abner Li/9to5Google)
- Sources: a Chinese government PR division asked to open a stealth account on TikTok, targeting Western audiences; TikTok declined the "sensitive" request (Olivia Solon/Bloomberg)
- Battle-royale game BGMI, with 16.5M MAUs in India, delisted from iOS and Android app stores after Indian government ban, two years after a ban of Krafton's PUBG (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)
- Apple expects a faster sales growth in Q4, citing easing parts shortages and strong iPhone demand; Tim Cook says Apple is also "being more deliberate" in hiring (Reuters)
- TikTok confirms it has quietly begun testing HTML5 minigames with new partners, including Vodoo and Nitro Games, after a test with Zynga in November 2021 (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
- Sources: Meta begins telling its 50 US news partners that it will no longer pay for content to run on Facebook's News Tab, ending a three-year deal from 2019 (Sara Fischer/Axios)
- A look at the recent rise of protestware, where developers deliberately sabotage their own software libraries as a means of protest for a cause they believe in (Ax Sharma/TechCrunch)
- Fantasy sports app Underdog has raised a M Series B at a 5M valuation, and plans to launch licensed sports betting in Ohio and Colorado next year (Katherine Sayre/Wall Street Journal)
- Meta CFO David Wehner will take on a new role as the company's first CSO, starting on November 1, 2022; Vice President of Finance Susan Li will take over as CFO (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)
- Human Security, an enterprise bot mitigation and fraud prevention service, merges with PerimeterX, which helps protect web apps; terms were not disclosed (Paul Sawers/TechCrunch)
- Internal TikTok PR documents suggest responses to difficult questions, including downplaying AI, links to ByteDance, and "the China association" (Chris Stokel-Walker/Gizmodo)
- US CFPB Director Rohit Chopra says the agency should "take a very careful look" at Big Tech entering the buy now, pay later space, after Apple's BNPL debut (Stefania Palma/Financial Times)
- Four former ByteDance employees say the company promoted pro-China content to Americans in its now-defunct news app TopBuzz; ByteDance denies the claims (Emily Baker-White/BuzzFeed News)
- Meta plans to increase the prices of its Quest 2 headsets to 0 for 128GB and 0 for 256GB on August 1, and bundle Beat Saber for free through December 31 (Ian Hamilton/UploadVR)
- The Iran-Israel cyberwar, which has disrupted critical infrastructure and civilian life in both countries, has grown increasingly public in the past two years (Gil Baram/Washington Post)
- Kylie Jenner and Kim Kardashian post Stories sharing a petition to "Make Instagram Instagram Again" and "stop trying to be TikTok" that has 100K+ signatures (Travis Clark/Insider)
- Binance CEO sues Bloomberg Businessweek's Hong Kong publisher for defamation over a June 23 profile, claiming it depicted him as running a Ponzi scheme (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)
- Meta, Google, Microsoft, Amazon join NIST in calling for an end of the leap second, which keeps clocks in sync with the Earth's rotation but can cause glitches (Stephen Shankland/CNET)
- Internal docs from 2017 show Roblox's plan for China expansion: censorship compliance, expecting to be hacked and copied by partners like Tencent, and more (Joseph Cox/VICE)
- Google employees, kept in the dark about firm's sale of advanced AI tools to Israel, say it could bolster Israel's ongoing military occupation of Palestine (Sam Biddle/The Intercept)
- Filing: Voyager says the restructuring proposal by FTX and Alameda is "a low-ball bid dressed up as a white knight rescue" that disrupts the bankruptcy process (Yueqi Yang/Bloomberg)
- An in-depth look at the research collaboration between NASA and the FAA since 2017 to write new US airspace rules for safely accommodating millions of drones (Chris Feliciano Arnold/Bloomberg)
- How Apple, Amazon, and Google are trying to secure live sports streaming rights, working to convince leagues to switch from traditional TV and cable networks (New York Times)
- How China's mass collection of personal info and its new, unevenly enforced data security rules contribute to a thriving underground market for stolen data (Karen Hao/Wall Street Journal)
- How the nearly two-year-old chip shortage upended Detroit's car manufacturing, which a historian says may be the biggest disruption since the 1970s fuel crisis (Jeanne Whalen/Washington Post)
- A look at the bipartisan American Data Privacy and Protection Act, which privacy experts say might finally give the US a strong federal data protection law (Gilad Edelman/Wired)
- DoorDash and Uber Eats are moving beyond food, focusing on groceries and alcohol as users cut spending due to high inflation and a potential economic downturn (Preetika Rana/Wall Street Journal)
- Meta closed down 7%+ and Alphabet closed down 5%+ on Friday, as Snap's weak earnings, inflation, and other factors lead to worries about online advertising (Richard Waters/Financial Times)
- Sources: FBI determined around 2017 that Huawei gear in cell towers near US military bases in the Midwest was capable of capturing and disrupting DoD comms (Katie Bo Lillis/CNN)
- An interview with Matthew Ball on his new book about the metaverse, which he sees as the next phase of the internet, Meta's big pivot, AR hardware, and more (Nilay Patel/The Verge)
- Senate votes 64-34 to advance a bill to provide ~B in US chip production subsidies, paving way for a larger package that would include additional R&D funding (Natalie Andrews/Wall Street Journal)
- Gordian Software, whose API enables airlines to sell flight add-ons like seat selection or additional baggage, has raised a M Series A at a 0M valuation (Ariyana Griffin/Forbes)
- Microsoft unveils Viva Engage, a social-community app launching in late August, that brings Stories and other image and video sharing tools to Teams (Mary Jo Foley/ZDNet)
- Zebedee, which focuses on adding Bitcoin and Lightning payment support in games, raises a M Series B led by Kingsway Capital with Square Enix among investors (Andrew Hayward/Decrypt)
- US lawmakers release internal Amazon, Meta, and Google documents that they say show evidence of self-preferencing, as they call for tougher tech antitrust laws (Makena Kelly/The Verge)
- Netflix plans to launch its cheaper, ad-supported plan in "the early part of 2023", starting in "a handful of markets where advertising spend is significant" (Todd Spangler/Variety)
- Google finds Android spyware, distributed outside the Play Store, that Russians disguised as an app for Ukrainians to launch DDoS attacks against Russian sites (Corin Faife/The Verge)
- Sources: China will impose a B+ fine on Didi over its cybersecurity practices and ease restrictions, letting Didi restore its apps and pursue a Hong Kong IPO (Wall Street Journal)
- Crunchyroll drops prices in nearly 100 countries and territories, cutting the Mega Fan plan by 25% in the UK, nearly 50% in the UAE, and nearly 90% in India (Kris Holt/Engadget)
- A look at Netflix's franchise-building efforts, as it plans to build brands that traverse film, TV, games, and consumer products, to counter slowing growth (Reuters)
- Several historic sites in Nepal, where TikTok creators have reportedly trampled crops and even caused traffic jams while filming, have erected "No TikTok" signs (Abhaya Raj Joshi/Rest of World)
- Amazon files a lawsuit against the admins of 10K+ Facebook groups that offer cash or goods to people willing to post bogus product reviews on Amazon (Taylor Hatmaker/TechCrunch)
- Albania shuts down access to online public services and government websites due to a cyberattack, just a few months after launching an online services portal (Jonathan Greig/The Record)
- Amazon starts rolling out a Prime Video redesign for Android and connected TV devices, with a Netflix-like look, a top 10 list, a vertical navigation, and more (Chris Welch/The Verge)
- ByteDance says it is exploring designing its own chips for video platforms and entertainment apps because it can't find suppliers that can meet its requirements (Arjun Kharpal/CNBC)
- The US must grant more green cards to retain tech leaders; Turkish MIT and Caltech grad Erdal Arikan, whose work led to Huawei's early 5G lead, had to leave US (Foreign Policy)
- Slack to update its subscriptions on Sept. 1, with free plans getting access to the last 90 days of messages and Pro plans to cost a max .74/user per month (Greg Kumparak/TechCrunch)
- A private antitrust lawsuit, filed in California, accuses Apple of using its smartphone dominance to fend off competition to Apple Pay from rival payment apps (Malathi Nayak/Bloomberg)
- New York-based Meow, which offers corporate investors a compliant-first approach to cryptocurrency investing, raised a M Series A led by Tiger Global (PYMNTS.com)
- Netflix tests charging customers in five Latin American countries an extra fee if they use an account for more than two weeks outside of their primary residence (Lucas Shaw/Bloomberg)
- IBM reports Q2 revenue up 9% YoY to .54B, vs .18B est., with its infrastructure unit, which includes mainframe computers, up almost 19% YoY to .24B (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
- Russia fines Google 8M for not censoring topics including the war with Ukraine, after Google's Russian subsidiary filed for bankruptcy earlier this year (Bill Toulas/BleepingComputer)
- Uber settles DOJ lawsuit over "wait-time" fees it charged disabled people for taking too long to board vehicles, paying 65K+ passengers a total of about .24M (Jackie Davalos/Bloomberg)
- Sources: Apple plans to slow hiring and spending growth next year in some divisions to cope with a potential economic downturn; the move won't affect all teams (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
- Analysis: the cumulative market cap of recently listed fintechs in the US had fallen 6B in 2022 through July 15, with shares falling an average of over 50% (Financial Times)
- Sources: several US chip makers are deliberating whether to oppose the Chips Act if its final language disproportionately benefits manufacturers like Intel (Stephen Nellis/Reuters)
- A UK judge quashes the CMA's order that Meta must sell Giphy and refers the case back to the agency; CMA says it aims to complete the review within three months (Katharine Gemmell/Bloomberg)
- Andy Jassy has quietly put his own imprint on Amazon in his first year as CEO, making more changes than many expected, including a hands-on approach to lobbying (New York Times)
- After Apple notified Thai activists and human rights supporters in November they had been hacked, Citizen Lab confirms 30+ have been hacked by NSO's Pegasus (Joseph Menn/Washington Post)
- Inside Project Galileo: How the MoonSwatch Was Made
- Tracxn: ~.5B in VC funding was raised by Indian education startups from 2014 to 2021, with about half of that in 2021 alone, as they vie for US marketshare (Nikkei Asia)
- Researchers say Alibaba's cloud platform that hosted Shanghai's now-leaked police database used outdated systems that didn't offer the ability to set a password (Karen Hao/Wall Street Journal)
- Chinese grocery delivery firm Missfresh, which had raised B+ in VC funding from Tiger, Goldman, others, falls in market cap on Nasdaq from B in 2021 to M (Financial Times)
- Adam Neumann's Flowcarbon and some other startups offering cryptocurrencies backed by carbon-offset credits have slowed product rollouts amid the crypto crash (Wall Street Journal)
- Sydney-based Hivery, whose software helps retailers select the right mix of products to stock on store shelves, has raised a M Series B led by Tiger Global (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)
- GameStop looks to diversify its meme money – TechCrunch
- Seattle-based Phaidra, which develops AI software to automate building controls for power plants and other industrial facilities, has raised a M Series A (Mark Bergen/Bloomberg)
- Despite China's scrutiny of online credit, smaller services have proliferated in China, as the penetration rate of online microlending reached 69.2% in 2021 (Yaling Jiang/South China Morning Post)
- The Best Turntables for Your Vinyl Collection
- 14 Xbox Game Pass Games Worth Playing
- A look at YouTube's strategy that began in 2019 of signing Twitch streamers who have a network of collaborators to try and build its own game streaming culture (Nathan Grayson/Washington Post)
- AI Art Is Challenging the Boundaries of Curation
- How to Make Sure You’re Getting the Best Streaming Quality
- How to Support People in States Where Abortion Is Under Threat
- An app for India's largest public employment program is jeopardizing the livelihood of millions in the country due to technical glitches and poor connectivity (Sabah Gurmat/Rest of World)
- MakeMyMove: at least 71 US cities and town are now offering cash grants and other perks to attract remote tech workers, up from 24 in October 2021 (Christopher Mims/Wall Street Journal)
- Oakland-based Mayvenn, which offers an e-commerce tool and a marketplace for salon services, has raised a M Series C led by Cleveland Ave (FinSMEs)
- The 2022 "crypto winter" differs from previous crashes, in part due to the macro environment, the TerraUSD collapse, excess leverage, and contagion via 3AC (CNBC)
- India escalates its crackdown on Oppo, Vivo, and Xiaomi, which control ~60% of its smartphone market, with claims of tax evasion and unlawful remittances (Financial Times)
- Online scam centers in Southeast Asia have perfected "pig butchering", a romance-meets-investment fraud, to lure victims into bogus investment schemes (Alastair McCready/VICE)
- New Gab accounts appear to be automatically following the GOP nominee for PA governor Doug Mastriano, after he paid Gab K in April for "campaign consulting" (Christopher Mathias/HuffPost)
- Interview with MetaMask founders who say "we can't stop people from making Ponzis on blockchains" and "putting your money in cryptocurrencies is gambling" (Maxwell Strachan/VICE)
- Report: in emails sent to three creators, Coinbase says it is "temporarily shutting down" its US affiliate program on July 19 and plans to relaunch it in 2023 (Moneycontrol)
- Many rapid delivery startups, which surged during the pandemic, have either retreated or shut down after struggling to make the economics work (Arielle Pardes/Wired)
- Peloton Will Stop Making Its Own Bikes and Treadmills
- ‘Blood Washing’ Is the Latest Dubious—and Pricey—Long-Covid Trend
- Experts say a ruling against Twitter in its lawsuit against content removal orders in India could let the government censor a wide swath of platforms and sites (Vittoria Elliott/Wired)
- The Dangerous Chemicals Lurking Inside Shipping Containers
- The 17 Best Accessories for Your PlayStation 5
- The New MacBook Air Fits Some Upgrades in a Sleeker Package
- How to Take a Screenshot on Any Phone or Laptop
- As China builds up its vast surveillance and security apparatus, it is running up against growing public unease about data security and privacy in the country (New York Times)
- Experts say archiving content from TikTok is challenging and urge the platform to preserve and provide access to content for war crime investigations in Ukraine (Madhumita Murgia/Financial Times)
- Study: as the war persists, Meta has responded fairly effectively to Russian propaganda flagged by Ukrainian officials, while YouTube, Twitter, and LinkedIn lag (Will Oremus/Washington Post)
- Russian President Vladimir Putin signed into law a national ban on using digital assets for payments, but allows investing in digital assets like bitcoin (Mat Di Salvo/Decrypt)
- Sources: Microsoft moves to a three-year release cycle for major versions of Windows, with new features to the current version shipping up to four times a year (Zac Bowden/Windows Central)
- Boston-based Robin, which makes office reservation software, has raised a M Series C led by Tola Capital, bringing its total funding to more than M (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)
- TikTok says its global CSO Roland Cloutier will step down in September to take an advisory role, and that the move is not related to security concerns in the US (Ryan Tracy/Wall Street Journal)
- SEC filing: Twitter's board invites shareholders to a special meeting to vote on Elon Musk's acquisition and unanimously recommends they approve the deal (Jonathan Vanian/CNBC)
- Filing: Elon Musk's lawyers say Twitter is unfairly pushing for a "warp speed" four-day trial in September and ask for a court date in February 2023 or later (Jef Feeley/Bloomberg)
- A look at DARPA's SocialCyber, a project that combines sociology with AI to protect open-source communities and the code they create from malicious campaigns (Patrick Howell O'Neill/MIT Technology ...)
- FCC Chair Jessica Rosenworcel proposes a US broadband standard of 100Mbps down and 20Mbps up; the proposal requires a vote in the currently deadlocked FCC (Jon Brodkin/Ars Technica)
- Disney plans to raise ESPN+'s monthly subscription from .99 to .99 and its annual price from .99 to .99, 43% increases, starting on August 23, 2022 (Brian Steinberg/Variety)
- The Agony and Ecstasy of Playing Out Your School Years in Games
- Investment in VC-backed crypto companies fell to .3B in H1 2022, down from a record .5B invested during H1 2021; deal flow increased from 456 to 534 (Chris Metinko/Crunchbase News)
- SmartBank, which offers a prepaid card and finance app in Japan, has raised a M Series A, bringing its total funding to M (Kate Park/TechCrunch)
- The Loneliness of Richard Matheson’s Sci-Fi
- How crypto broker Voyager, which generated interest on deposits by loaning crypto assets, collapsed after its largest borrower Three Arrows Capital defaulted (CoinDesk)
- Okendo, which provides customer review tools to e-commerce brands, has raised a M Series A led by Base10 Partners, bringing its total funding to .5M (Christine Hall/TechCrunch)
- Celsius CEO said in a court filing that his company was owed 9M by a "private lending platform" that sources say is specialist finance company EquitiesFirst (Kadhim Shubber/Financial Times)
- The Emmy Nominations Prove No One Knows How to Watch TV Anymore
- The Best Sleep Gadgets and Apps
- Even Twitter Thinks Elon Musk's Tweets Are Out of Control
- Twitter is testing custom timelines built by developers that merge content around specific themes, starting with one about The Bachelorette in the US and Canada (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
- Texas’ Precarious Power Grid Exposes a Nasty Feedback Loop
- Celsius' Chapter 11 filing shows that its biggest creditor, to which it owes M, is little known fund Pharos, which has staff with links to Sam Bankman-Fried (Bloomberg)
- Amazon plans to create 4K+ jobs in the UK in 2022, including in software development and engineering, bringing its permanent workforce in the UK to 75K+ (Ryan Browne/CNBC)
- How Heat Waves Are Messing Up Your Sleep
- The Speedy Downfall of Rapid Delivery Startups
- Have Pollsters Cleaned Up Their Act in Time for the Midterms?
- Nothing Phone 1 review: a good midrange phone with snappy performance but the glyph notification system is mostly gimmicky and battery performance is not great (Allison Johnson/The Verge)
- Nothing's New Phone Is Everything a Phone Should Be
- Chainalysis: crypto flowing into mixer services hit a 30-day moving average of .8M in April, a record high; Russia's Hydra Market accounted for 50% of funds (Dan Goodin/Ars Technica)
- Meta unveils Make-A-Scene, an exploratory AI research project that turns a user's sketches and text descriptions into 2,048 x 2,048-pixel images (Andrew Tarantola/Engadget)
- Sources: Amazon has started reducing its white label products and mulled exiting the business altogether, amid poor sales and mounting regulatory pressure (Dana Mattioli/Wall Street Journal)
- Bishop Fox, which offers tools for dynamic application security testing, has raised a M Series B led by Carrick Capital Partners (Tim Keary/VentureBeat)
- Hang, which aims to help brands create and manage Web3-powered membership and loyalty programs that leverage NFTs, raised a M Series A led by Paradigm (Lucas Matney/TechCrunch)
- The alumni of Colombian last-mile delivery unicorn Rappi have founded 100+ startups in under seven years, outpacing even the PayPal Mafia in startup creation (Rest of World)
- CoinFlex will let users withdraw up to 10% of their balances, excluding its flexUSD stablecoin, on July 15, after pausing withdrawals last month (Immanual John Milton/Bloomberg)
- Regulators should crack down on crypto, after it gained an illusion of respectability through association with high-status institutions and individuals (Paul Krugman/New York Times)
- Sensor Tower: consumer spending in non-game apps hit ~.4B in Q2 on the US App Store, surpassing spending in mobile games, which hit ~.3B, for the first time (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
- Adobe: US online sales during Amazon's Prime Day jumped 8.5% YoY to nearly B; Prime members bought 300M+ items, or 100K products per minute (Uday Sampath/Reuters)
- Filing: Celsius has a .19B deficit on its balance sheet, ~.3B in assets, and .5B in liabilities; it lost 35K ether tokens due to the misplacement of keys (Yueqi Yang/Bloomberg)
- You.com, an AI-powered search engine that offers built-in apps, like search tools for Twitter, raised a M Series A, bringing its total funding to M (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)
- Circle releases a detailed, but unaudited, breakdown of its reserve assets for USDC, showing .1B in short-term US government bonds and .6B in cash (Krisztian Sandor/CoinDesk)
- Pulley, which offers cap table management software, raised a M Series B led by Founders Fund at a valuation between 0M and 0M (Lucinda Shen/Axios)
- NFT marketplace OpenSea CEO Devin Finzer says it laid off roughly 20% of employees; OpenSea has 769 employees according to its LinkedIn profile (Michael McSweeney/The Block)
- Sources: the DOJ is likely to reject concessions offered by Google and file an antitrust lawsuit in the coming weeks over its dominance of the online ad market (Leah Nylen/Bloomberg)
- Merkle Manufactory, which is developing a decentralized social network protocol called Farcaster, has raised M led by a16z (Lucy Harley-McKeown/The Block)
- Prime Day Has Ended, but These 66 Great Deals Are Going Strong
- Google releases Chrome OS Flex, a Chrome OS version for businesses and schools to run on more than 400 old models of PCs and Macs (Tom Warren/The Verge)
- UnCaged Studios, a web3-focused gaming studio, has raised a M Series A, following a M token presale for its Solana-focused game MonkeyLeague (Jacquelyn Melinek/TechCrunch)
- Twitter went down for around 40 minutes on Thursday morning, the first major Twitter outage since a series of problems for the social network in February (Tom Warren/The Verge)
- Light Your Photos and Videos Properly With This Camera Gear
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- The inaugural report by the DHS Cyber Safety Review Board finds that Log4j has become an "endemic vulnerability" that will persist at least for the next decade (Martin Matishak/The Record)
- What Happens Next for Vaping
- Can Reengineered Aluminum Help Fill the Demand for Copper?
- The ‘Shamanification’ of the Tech CEO
- Former staff and internal documents detail Celsius' implosion; its own compliance unit warned of poor oversight and misrepresentation of financial information (Financial Times)
- The Pandemic Fueled a Superbug Surge. Can Medicine Recover?
- Is It a Bird? Is It a Plane? No, It’s a Flying Ferry
- Kakao says it will remove an external payment link from its KakaoTalk messaging app on Play Store, after Google blocked it from issuing updates on July 6 (Kate Park/TechCrunch)
- JPMorgan: bitcoin's production cost dropped from ~K at the start of June to ~K now, as miners seek profitability by deploying more efficient mining rigs (Joanna Ossinger/Bloomberg)
- Samsung says it has developed a new GDDR6 DRAM with a 24Gbps data transfer rate, 30% faster than its 18Gbps predecessor, built on its 10nm process using EUV (Cho Mu-Hyun/ZDNet)
- TSMC beats Q2 estimates with a net profit of .94B, up 76.4% YoY, and total revenue of .16B, up 36.6% YoY (Reuters)
- A look at pro-Russian hacktivist group Killnet, which has launched DDoS attacks against websites in countries supporting Ukraine, including Germany and the US (Matt Burgess/Wired)
- Google Cloud announces a preview of Tau T2A, its first line of Arm-based VMs powered by Ampere Altra, with up to 48 vCPUs, each with up to 4GB of memory (Frederic Lardinois/TechCrunch)
- Amazon gave police Ring camera footage 11 times in 2022 without a warrant or permission from Ring owners, saying it sometimes makes a "good-faith determination" (Sam Biddle/The Intercept)
- UK's Online Safety Bill is expected to be dropped from parliamentary schedule next week, halting the bill's progress until the fall, amid Johnson's resignation (Annabelle Dickson/Politico)
- A woman wrote 206 interconnected Wikipedia articles in Chinese since 2019 with false accounts of Russian medieval history, one of the largest hoaxes on the site (Rachel Cheung/VICE)
- China's crackdown and economic downturn have led to massive layoffs in its tech sector, but some workers are relieved to quit the industry's "996" work culture (Viola Zhou/Rest of World)
- SEC filing: Twitter isn't planning big layoffs but will continue to restructure; it sought Musk's consent for two employee retention programs in June (Chavi Mehta/Reuters)
- Celsius files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in New York, declaring assets and liabilities between B and B, plus 7M in cash on hand for operations (CNBC)
- Twitter is testing a feature that will remind users to add image descriptions, currently live to 10% of users across Android, iOS, and web (Amanda Silberling/TechCrunch)
- Celsius has repaid more than 0M in debt to DeFi platforms while leaving customers in the lurch, raising a legal debate on who should be paid first (Bloomberg)
- Seattle-based Uplevel, which uses data from software tools to help engineering teams analyze their effectiveness, has raised M led by Cota Capital (Taylor Soper/GeekWire)
- Netflix announces Microsoft as its "global advertising technology and sales partner" for its upcoming ad-supported streaming tier (The Verge)
- Barracuda survey: 94% of 800 senior IT and security officers of industrial IoT or OT systems faced some form of attack on their systems in the past 12 months (Shweta Sharma/CSO)
- PitchBook: crypto startups received .76B in VC funding in Q2 2022, down 31% from a record .85B in Q1 2022 (Hannah Miller/Bloomberg)
- New Oriental, one of China's largest private-tutoring companies, became a livestream grocery shopping service on Douyin, after China's regulatory crackdown (Shen Lu/Wall Street Journal)
- Reddit partners with Giphy to bring GIF comments to new subreddits and existing subreddits if moderators opt in to the feature (Jasmine Hicks/The Verge)
- An in-depth look at the rise and fall of crypto hedge fund Three Arrows Capital, whose founders Su Zhu and Kyle Davies bet everything on prices only going up (Bloomberg)
- Unity to merge with app monetization service Ironsource, valued at .4B in the all-stock deal; Silver Lake, Sequoia will invest B in Unity after the merger (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)
- Sources: Unity to merge with app monetization service Ironsource, valued at B in the merger after going public in 2021 via a SPAC merger at a .7B valuation (Golan Hazani/CTech)
- Twitter says roughly 1.5B tweets about gaming were made on its site in H1 2022, up 36% YoY; Genshin Impact and Wordle were the most tweeted-about games (Erron Kelly/VentureBeat)
- Match Group expands its partnership with Garbo to offer background checks to users on its Match and Stir dating apps, after offering it to Tinder users in March (Jessica Bursztynsky/CNBC)
- Atlanta-based SingleOps, which makes business management software for the green industry, has raised M led by FTV Management Company (Zach Armstrong/Atlanta Business Journal)
- Sources: Snap is exploring plans to let NFT artists showcase their designs as augmented reality filters on Snapchat; the test will start at the end of August (Hannah Murphy/Financial Times)
- SVP Prabhakar Raghavan says Google's studies show younger users often use apps like Instagram and TikTok instead of Google Search or Maps for discovery purposes (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
- Vermont's Department of Financial Regulation joins a multistate investigation into Celsius and says it believes the crypto lender is "deeply insolvent" (Shivani Tanna/Reuters)
- China approves publishing licenses for 67 more online game titles, its third batch in 2022, but Tencent and NetEase games again failed to make the list (Zheping Huang/Bloomberg)
- A critique of Ev Williams' 10-year tenure at Medium and how it got caught in the middle between Substack and well-funded publishers like BuzzFeed and Vice (Casey Newton/Platformer)
- Lightspeed Ventures raised .6B across three US funds and 0M for an India and Southeast Asia fund, as it debuts a dedicated team to back blockchain founders (Fortune)
- Sundar Pichai told staff Google will slow hiring for the rest of 2022 and will have to work with "greater urgency, sharper focus, and more hunger" (The Verge)
- IBM's Red Hat names Matt Hicks, head of products and technologies, as president and chief executive officer, replacing Paul Cormier, who will serve as chairman (Brody Ford/Bloomberg)
- The Magic Leap 2 mixed reality device will debut on September 30 for ,299K, ~K more than the Magic Leap 1, with a lighter and smaller design and a wider FoV (Adi Robertson/The Verge)
- Sources: Apple ends its consulting agreement with Jony Ive that made Apple his firm's primary client and limited Ive from taking on work Apple found competitive (Tripp Mickle/New York Times)
- Twitter sues Elon Musk to force the completion of his acquisition of Twitter in the Chancery Court in Delaware (New York Times)
- Airlift, a top startup in Pakistan that delivered goods in 30 minutes, is shutting down following a funding crunch, after raising an M Series B in Aug. 2021 (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)
- In Germany, South Korea, and other countries, BMW starts selling subscriptions or charging one-time fees to unlock heated seats, engine sound options, and more (James Vincent/The Verge)
- Google says YouTube TV has 5M+ subscribers including free trial users, making it the US' biggest internet pay-TV provider and fifth-largest TV distributor (Todd Spangler/Variety)
- Solana-based STEPN reports 2.5M in Q2 profits, after earning M in Q1; 5% of the profits will go toward a buyback and burn program of its native GMT token (Shaurya Malwa/CoinDesk)
- Animoca Brands says it has completed a .32M raise, which was the second tranche of its January raise, pushing its valuation from .5B up to .9B (Jamie Crawley/CoinDesk)
- Filing: Amazon is developing "personalized" cancer vaccines in partnership with the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center and is part of an FDA-approved clinical trial (Annie Palmer/CNBC)
- Digital asset management service Gnosis Safe rebrands as Safe after its community voted to split from Ethereum infrastructure builder Gnosis, and raised 0M (Jamie Crawley/CoinDesk)
- Smart home company Hive stops selling home security devices to focus on thermostats and smart lighting; existing devices will stop working starting in 2023 (Jon Porter/The Verge)
- After scrutiny, TikTok will pause a privacy update in Europe, due for July 13, whereby it would stop asking users for consent to be tracked to receive ads (Natasha Lomas/TechCrunch)
- XPeng Robotics, an affiliate of Chinese electric carmaker XPeng, raised 0M led by IDG, as it aims to commercialize household robotics in the next two years (Arjun Kharpal/CNBC)
- The FTC says it will crack down on tech companies' illegal use and sharing of highly sensitive data and false claims about data-anonymization (Michael Kan/PCMag)
- Twitter employees say it's a "shit show internally", exasperated by weak leadership and lack of support amid targeted harassment from outside the company (Wired)
- Wefox, a Berlin-based digital insurer focused on personal insurance products, raised a 0M Series D at a post-money valuation of .5B, up from B in 2021 (Paul Sawers/TechCrunch)
- Google countersues Match, accusing it of bad faith dealings and breach of contract, after Match sued Google in May over alleged monopolistic billing policies (Joe Schneider/Bloomberg)
- Liquidators say they can't find the founders of 3AC and seek to subpoena Kyle Davies, Zhu Su, and others to prevent the dissipation of the fund's assets (Jeremy Hill/Bloomberg)
- A look at the dispute between satellite internet operators like SpaceX and 5G operators like Dish, with each party lobbying the FCC over the 12 GHz band rules (Wall Street Journal)
- Edge, which lets gamers clip their own shareable gameplay moments and turn them into standalone playable units called Playables, has raised a M Series A (Rachel Kaser/VentureBeat)
- In an internal post, Meta's Head of Remote Presence and Engineering Maher Saba instructed engineering managers to identify and "move to exit" low performers (Sylvia Varnham O'Regan/The Information)
- Sources: Mysten Labs, a blockchain startup founded by ex-Meta crypto execs, is in talks to raise a 0M+ Series B led by FTX Ventures, seeking a B valuation (Aidan Ryan/The Information)
- Thomas Krause, Broadcom's software president, will leave on July 15 and become CEO of combined Citrix and Tibco; CEO Hock Tan will assume his responsibilities (Dean Seal/Wall Street Journal)
- SEC filing: Twitter's lawyers call Elon Musk's deal termination "invalid and wrongful" and say Twitter "breached none of its obligations under the agreement" (Kurt Wagner/Bloomberg)
- GameStop launches its NFT marketplace in beta, letting users connect digital asset wallets, including the recently debuted GameStop Wallet, to buy and sell NFTs (CNBC)
- WhatsApp rolls about the ability for users to react to messages with any emoji, not just its chosen six (Jon Porter/The Verge)
- Apple debuts iOS 16's first public beta with lock screen widgets, iMessage edit and undo, Pay Later, and more, alongside macOS, watchOS, and iPadOS public betas (Kris Holt/Engadget)
- Meta launches Sphere, an open-source AI knowledge tool based on 134M public webpages; Wikipedia, Sphere's first user, is using it to verify articles' citations (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)
- A look at Twitter's options as Musk tries to back out, such as suing for "expectation damages", which may be capped at B, or suing for "specific performance" (Matt Levine/Bloomberg)
- Reports of hijacked accounts and analysis of Experian's authentication flow reveal poor security at the credit bureau, after PIN reset flaws were found in 2021 (Brian Krebs/Krebs on Security)
- Mark MacGann, who led Uber's lobbying in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa, comes forward as the leaker of 124K+ files, says Uber flouted laws and sold a lie (The Guardian)
- Live events startup Hopin, valued at .75B in August 2021, is laying off 242 employees, 29% of its staff, after cutting 12% of its staff in February 2022 (Callum Burroughs/Insider)
- Klarna confirms it raised 0M at a .7B valuation, down from B in June 2021 (Siddharth Venkataramakrishnan/Financial ...)
- Byju's says Sumeru and Oxshott have yet to finance 0M they committed as part of its 0M funding it announced in March 2022, citing macroeconomic reasons (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)
- How to Install the Google Play Store on an Amazon Fire Tablet
- Germany-based Kadmos, a salary payments service for migrant workers, raises a €29M Series A led by Blossom Capital, after an €8.5M seed round in March (Paul Sawers/TechCrunch)
- Humans Have Always Been Wrong About Humans
- How North Korean spies infiltrate US crypto firms, posing as remote workers; UN says the country has stolen billions of dollars' worth of crypto from exchanges (Sean Lyngaas/CNN)
- Qiming Venture Partners, an early Xiaomi backer, raised .2B across two funds, bringing its total managed to .4B across 18 funds (Jane Zhang/Bloomberg)
- Sources: Tiger Global plans to slow startup investments for two quarters and is on track to raise a new fund later this year (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)
- Sources: Myanmar's junta rolls out Chinese surveillance cameras with facial recognition tech in five more cities and plans to add them to every state in Myanmar (Fanny Potkin/Reuters)
- Sources: defense contractor L3Harris scuttled plans to buy NSO Group, despite alleged US intel officials' support, after outrage from Biden admin over the talks (New York Times)
- VC funding in Latin America, which hit a record .8B in 2021 according to PitchBook, has slowed down in 2022 amid a downturn as some investors pull back (Biz Carson/Protocol)
- Massive trove of internal Uber documents from 2013 to 2017 reveal management discussions and lobbying efforts during the company's rapid international expansion (The Guardian)
- Interview with Chip Morningstar, a developer behind Lucasfilm's MMORPG forerunner Habitat, on lessons learned building the game, metaverse, blockchain, and more (Dean Takahashi/VentureBeat)
- The Best Noise-Canceling Headphones to Escape Reality
- How the Conti ransomware group, whose attacks crippled Costa Rica's digital infrastructure for months, fell apart after it was betrayed by one of its insiders (Financial Times)
- Everything You Need to Work From Home Like a Pro
- The Brain Has a ‘Low-Power Mode’ That Blunts Our Senses
- How to Earn More Than in Amazon Credits Ahead of Prime Day
- ‘Clean Slate’ Justice Laws Offer a Second Chance—Only to Some
- Travel Back in Time With Street View and Map Archives
- The war in Ukraine has prompted militaries to invest more money into AI; NATO has announced a ~B fund to invest in startups developing "priority" tech like AI (Melissa Heikkilä/MIT Technology Review)
- As mobile ad targeting becomes less effective, the "super app" idea could become more appealing in the West with companies scrambling to keep people inside apps (Christopher Mims/Wall Street Journal)
- Despite many of CJEU's rulings saying mass surveillance is banned in the EU, member states have been exploiting loopholes in them to collect and keep the data (Vincent Manancourt/Politico)
- Elon Musk's offer to buy Twitter likely was a joke, since he previously pretended he would take Tesla private, but he may not be able to get out of the deal (Matt Levine/Bloomberg)
- A look at the game GeoGuessr, in which the best players can pinpoint in seconds where a Google Street View image has been taken (Kellen Browning/New York Times)
- Leaks Give a Peek at Upcoming Apple and Samsung Watches
- Chinese Police Exposed 1B People's Data in Unprecedented Leak
- How Africa-based Chinese influencers who post racist videos about Africans on apps like Douyin are making fortunes from China's livestream e-commerce industry (Viola Zhou/Rest of World)
- 'The Quarry' and 'Evil Dead: The Game' Lure You Into a Scary Movie
- A Long-Lost Rare Crayfish Resurfaces in an Alabama Cave
- 9 Great Early Prime Day Deals on Tremendous TVs
- The Biggest Drawback of 'Thor: Love and Thunder'? It's Just for Fans
- CIRP: the number of Amazon Prime members in the US remained at 172M as of June 30, the same as six months earlier, after Amazon raised prices in February 2022 (Spencer Soper/Bloomberg)
- Interview with NIST's Dustin Moody on the agency's recently selected encryption algorithms and why they're designed to withstand future quantum hacking threats (Lucas Ropek/Gizmodo)
- As tech stocks fall, Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia, GGV, and other VC firms are buying publicly traded stocks of companies whose prospects they deem to be strong (Kate Clark/The Information)
- In an internal memo, Twitter's general counsel says staffers should "refrain from tweeting, Slacking, or sharing any commentary about the merger agreement" (The Verge)
- Sources: the US called on Japan to urge the country's crypto miners in Siberia and some licensed crypto exchanges still in Russia to sever ties with Russia (Financial Times)
- Twitter board chairman Bret Taylor says it plans to pursue legal action to enforce the deal and is committed to closing it on the price and terms agreed upon (Axios)
- SEC filing: Elon Musk notifies Twitter he wants to end the deal to buy the company (CNBC)
- Joe Biden issues an EO calling on FTC and other agencies to examine and reinforce protections for reproductive health and other sensitive health-related data (Devin Coldewey/TechCrunch)
- Source: Oracle considered cost reductions of up to B that could result in thousands of layoffs as soon as August, mostly impacting staff in the US and Europe (The Information)
- Brazil-based Creditas, which operates an online consumer loans service, raises 0M, bringing its total funding to 0M, and buys a Brazilian banking license (Tatiana Bautzer/Reuters)
- 9 Early Amazon Prime Day Deals on Google Hardware
- The US DOJ indicts a Florida man for allegedly importing B worth of counterfeit Cisco equipment from China and selling it on Amazon and eBay (Michael Kan/PCMag)
- Tether says it liquidated a loan to Celsius without incurring any losses; the bitcoin-denominated loan to Celsius was overcollateralized about 130% (Osato Avan-Nomayo/The Block)
- Atlas Coffee Club's Prime Day Deal Cuts the Price In Half
- 23 Best Early Amazon Prime Day Deals
- Congress demands info from period tracking apps and data brokers, including policies on geofencing, as part of an investigation into reproductive health data (VICE)
- Sources: Google has proposed splitting parts of its ad-tech business into a separate entity under Alphabet, to head off a possible US antitrust lawsuit (Wall Street Journal)
- A New York state law passed last week will require concealed carry gun permit applicants to submit a list of social media accounts from the previous three years (Associated Press)
- ‘Arvies’ Imagines a World Ruled by Fetuses
- DEUNA, which lets merchants in Latin America offer one-click checkout, has raised a M Series A led by Activant Capital, bringing its total funding to M (Christine Hall/TechCrunch)
- Will These Algorithms Save You From Quantum Threats?
- Canadian telecom Rogers is experiencing a major outage, affecting 911 calls and internet access in parts of the country (Tom Warren/The Verge)
- 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 (Hannah Murphy/Financial Times)
- How Hemingway Gradually—Then Suddenly—Defined the Zeitgeist
- An ISP Scam Targeted Low-Income People Seeking Government Aid
- 'Westworld' Has Entered the New, Better Frontier of Sci-Fi
- Coalition, which provides insurance against cyber threats and a real-time risk assessment tool, has raised a 0M Series F at a B valuation (Tim Keary/VentureBeat)
- Amazon’s ‘Safe’ New Robot Won’t Fix its Worker Injury Problem
- Speedway's Mini 4 Pro Is a Great City-Friendly Electric Scooter
- Is There Good News for Monarch Butterflies? Scientists Disagree
- It’s Time for Fans to Watch Superheroes Like They Read Them
- Cruise’s Robot Car Outages Are Jamming Up San Francisco
- Could Your Old Poop Cure You of Future Diseases?
- Secret Service Director James Murray steps down and will join Snap as chief security officer, reporting directly to Evan Spiegel (Matt Berg/Politico)
- Europe's Big Tech Law Is Approved. Now Comes the Hard Part
- Tech companies' offer to help employees sidestep abortion bans does not cover gig workers, temporary workers, and subcontractors, deepening the workplace divide (Caitlin Harrington/Wired)
- A former investment manager at Celsius Network sues the company, saying it defrauded his company KeyFi into providing services and refusing to pay (Jonathan Stempel/Reuters)
- Microsoft says it's rolling back its decision to block VBA macro scripts by default in Excel, PowerPoint, Access, Visio, and Word, based on the "feedback" (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer)
- SpaceX debuts Starlink Maritime, a yacht-focused satellite internet service with speeds up to 350 Mbps, for K/month and a K one-time hardware fee (Andrew Mendez/TechCrunch)
- CertiK: Web3 projects lost B+ to hacks and exploits in H1 2022, more than all of 2021 combined; 8M was lost across 27 flash loan attacks in Q2 2022 (Corin Faife/The Verge)
- Glassnode: bitcoin blockchain activity has dropped 13% from November 2021 to July 2022; balances at exchanges are down 20%+ from a January 20 peak (Immanual John Milton/Bloomberg)
- GameStop fires CFO Mike Recupero, a source says chairman Ryan Cohen pushed him out; the company is also laying off staff across departments (CNBC)
- Netflix rolls out spatial audio to all devices and to all subscribers, currently available for season four of Stranger Things, The Witcher, and more (Lauren Forristal/TechCrunch)
- Twitter lays off 30% of its talent acquisition team, affecting fewer than 100 people, as it faces increasing business pressures and Musk's potential takeover (Salvador Rodriguez/Wall Street Journal)
- 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 (Washington Post)
- The US Treasury Department publishes a framework for international crypto regulation, the first publication to result from Biden's EO on digital assets (Nikhilesh De/CoinDesk)
- EU antitrust regulators are probing the video licensing policy of the AOM, whose members include Google, Amazon, Apple, and Meta, over its AV1 video format (Reuters)
- Traba, a jobs board for workers to find shifts at fulfillment centers and event venues, has raised a M Series A led by Khosla at a 0M post-money valuation (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)
- Six-Word Sci-Fi: Stories Written by You
- India's anti-money laundering agency seizes ~M in bank accounts, cash, and gold bars belonging to Chinese phone maker Vivo's local unit and related companies (Sankalp Phartiyal/Bloomberg)
- A change to the proposed UK Online Safety Bill would stop platforms like YouTube and Facebook from taking down news content before letting the publisher appeal (Dan Milmo/The Guardian)
- Twitter says it removes 1M+ spam accounts each day, reiterating that such accounts are well under 5% of users and a calculation can't be performed externally (Reuters)
- Meta plans to stop requiring Facebook IDs to log into Quest devices starting in August 2022 and will roll out "Meta accounts" for new and existing Quest users (Adi Robertson/The Verge)
- Tebra, formed through the merger of healthcare software providers Kareo and PatientPop in 2021, raises M in equity and debt funding at a B+ valuation (Catherine Shu/TechCrunch)
- Twitter starts testing a new CoTweets feature that lets two accounts co-author a tweet, with both accounts tagged in a single tweet (Tom Warren/The Verge)
- TrendForce: contract prices for DRAM dropped 10.6% YoY in Q2 2022, the first such decline in two years, a sign the demand boom is likely over (Jiyoung Sohn/Wall Street Journal)
- It's Not Too Late to Save the Metaverse
- That Weird Smell in Your House Might Be Mold. Here's How to Check
- Reddit launches an NFT-based avatar marketplace with 90 profile pictures available for purchase at a fixed rate, expanding on support for Ethereum-based NFTs (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
- FaZe Clan Is Going Public—Just as the Creator Economy Shifts
- Abortion Pills May Force States and the FDA Into a Standoff
- After 'Thor: Love and Thunder,' Read These 5 Comics
- Lenovo's Latest AMD-Powered ThinkBook 13S Is on Sale Right Now
- Tech Companies Will Cover Abortion Travel—but Not for All Workers
- A look at Amazon's plans to crack livestream shopping, including hosting four events to attract influencers, offering generous bonuses, and more (Dave Lee/Financial Times)
- Tech companies are too slow at preventing users from spreading videos and images that analyze and celebrate shooters, potentially inspiring future attacks (Bloomberg)
- London-based YuLife, which helps 500+ businesses offer employees gamified life insurance, raised a 0M Series C at an 0M valuation, up from 6M in 2021 (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)
- In a joint advisory, the FBI, CISA, and Treasury Department warn North Korea-backed hackers are using Maui ransomware against healthcare organizations (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer)
- Q&A with tech YouTuber Marques Brownlee on staying relevant for 10 years, monetizing videos, embracing TikTok, why Google Glass deserves a redemption, and more (Amanda Silberling/TechCrunch)
- The FBI and MI5 issued a rare joint statement warning tech companies of China's large-scale state-sponsored hacking and a global network of agents to steal IP (Max Colchester/Wall Street Journal)