An unidentified hacker on a forum is selling 23TB+ of allegedly stolen data on up to 1B Chinese residents for 10 BTC, after breaching a Shanghai police database
Good morning, and welcome to Tuesday's Asia Links Sead Fadilpašić / TechRadar : Mystery hacker claims to have conducted one of the largest data heists in history Adam Robertson / crypto.news : Hacker ...
EU lawmakers pass the Digital Services Act and the Digital Markets Act, seeking to regulate US tech giants, but limited resources could hamstring enforcement
EU lawmakers gave the thumbs up on Tuesday to landmark rules to rein in the power of tech giants such as Alphabet (GOOGL.O) …
Source: Twitter is seeking to overturn some Indian government content takedown orders through a judicial review, alleging abuse of power by officials
Twitter is seeking to overturn some Indian government orders to take down content, a source familiar with the matter said …
Google updates Chrome for Windows to address a high-severity zero-day vulnerability exploited by attackers in the wild, its fourth Chrome zero-day patch in 2022
Google has released Chrome 103..5060.114 for Windows users to address a high-severity zero-day vulnerability exploited by attackers …
FIFA will introduce semi-automated offside technology at the 2022 World Cup, using 12 cameras and a custom soccer ball to track players and make offside calls
- Sensor in ball will send out location data 500 times per second — Fifa claim average decision time will fall from 70sec to 25sec
Sources: TikTok abandons plans to expand its TikTok Shop live e-commerce program to Europe and the US, after internal problems and a lack of traction in the UK
Chinese-owned social media platform's foray into livestream shopping in the UK has struggled to gain traction
Sources: Sequoia Capital China is about to raise $9B for four new funds, above its $8B+ target, the largest amount raised by a single China tech-focused VC firm
Sequoia Capital's Chinese affiliate is about to close $9 billion in fresh capital for four new funds, higher than its original target …
The British Army is investigating “a breach” of its Twitter and YouTube accounts, which on July 3 shared crypto scams and misinformation before being restored
Tuesday, July 05, 2022 // (IG): BB //Weekly Sponsor: Zanes Hand Made (leather works) Marco Lancaster / Gizchina : British Army's Twitter and YouTube accounts have been hacked Waivly : UK Army's Twitte...
Netflix, Amazon, Warner Bros., and others are cutting costs and scrapping TV shows at record rates; 559 scripted shows were released in 2021, up by 200+ on 2013
The sudden decline in Netflix's share price and the growing fear of a recession have forced Hollywood into a new period of fiscal austerity. Tweets: @ampressman , @trengriffin , @lucas_shaw , @carnage...
China is rapidly censoring news of the alleged Shanghai police database breach exposing 1B+ people's data; WeChat and Weibo appear to be blocking the topic
Purported leak of personal information of more than 1bn people offered for sale for $200,000 — China is rapidly censoring news …
Xiaomi debuts the 12S Ultra smartphone with a 6.73" OLED screen and three rear cameras, including a 50MP main camera with a one-inch sensor, starting at ~$900
but there's a big problem GSMArena.com : Watch the Xiaomi 12S Series launch live Kadir Can Akıncı / xiaomiui : Xiaomi 12S and Xiaomi 12S Pro launched in China with Leica powered cameras! Rik Henderson...
Survey: 25% of Black American investors owned crypto at the start of 2022, compared to 15% of white investors, leaving them vulnerable during the downturn
Higher exposure to digital assets leaves owners vulnerable to downturn — The widespread losses caused by the cryptocurrency crash are even broader among black investors. Tweets: @davidcrespo , @patb...
Crypto lender and exchange Vauld pauses withdrawals, trading, and deposits and says it's exploring a restructuring, after users withdrew $197.7M+ since June 12
The Vauld management wishes to inform that we are facing financial challenges despite our best efforts.
Danish startup Onomondo, which offers an interoperable network for IoT devices in more than 180 countries, raised a $21M Series A led by Verdane
The Danish platform offers interoperable cross-border connectivity and performance management without operator constraints
Tencent, Baidu, JD.com, and other Chinese tech giants agree to a “self-discipline initiative” for NFTs, including ID checks and avoiding secondary marketplaces
In a new ‘self-discipline initiative’, China's biggest tech firms agreed to enforce real-name authentication …
Source: Celsius laid off 150 employees, around a quarter of its staff, after pausing withdrawals; Celsius is exploring “a restructuring of our liabilities”
Good morning! An IT head, data scientist, and AI product manager walk into a bar. Tweets: Wu Blockchain / @wublockchain : Lending platform Celsius has laid off about 150 employees, including those in...
Research: Indian startups received $6.9B in VC funding in Q2 2022, down from $11B in Q1; VC investments in H1 were $17.9B, up 36% YoY
Bengaluru: Venture capital funding into Indian startups dipped 37% in the second quarter of this year to $6.9 billion, data sourced from research firm Venture Intelligence showed.
Synergy Research: Amazon, Microsoft, and Google accounted for 65% of the $53B in global cloud spending in Q1 2022, up from 52% in 2018
Three companies account for about two-thirds of cloud spending and are using their size to maintain their hold on rapidly growing market Tweets: @jeffnolan Tweets: Jeff Nolan / @jeffnolan : makes sens...
Dubai-based digital bank YAP has raised $41M as part of a Series A, and says it plans to expand into Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Pakistan, and Ghana
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Chevrolet's first NFT auction, of an original artwork with a unique green 2023 Corvette Z06, had zero bids, as ETH's price fluctuated between $1,160 and $1,225
UK-based Oxford Quantum Circuits, which offers quantum-computing-as-a-service using its eight-qubit system, has raised a £38M Series A
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch :
A look at the EU Listing Act, expected in H2 2022, which aims to ease IPO rules for deep tech startups, help founders keep control after going public, and more
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French music streamer Deezer goes public via SPAC on the Euronext stock exchange, opening at €8.50/share before dropping ~27% to around €6.50
CoinGecko: the daily trading volumes at Indian crypto exchanges ZebPay, WazirX, and CoinDCX fell 60%-87% after the 1% transaction tax took effect on July 1
Sidhartha Shukla / Bloomberg :
Digital ad and linear TV ad spending by the top crypto advertisers in the US plummeted in the last few months amid a sharp decline in crypto markets
Seb Joseph / Digiday : Tweets: @samro , @ahcastor , @existentialenso , and @davidgerard Tweets: @samro : “Between February 2022 and May 2022, there was a 64% decline in total linear ad impressions ac...
The megadrought gripping the US West is increasing the scrutiny of water use by hyperscale data centers
Lisa Martine Jenkins / Protocol : Tweets: @hypervisible and @protocol Tweets: @hypervisible : “Roughly one-fifth of the data center servers in the U.S. source water directly from moderately to highly...
Chinese photo editing app Meitu reports a $45.6M crypto impairment in H1 2022; the stock drops 10%+ after Meitu projects crypto impairments tripling from 2021
After a pandemic frenzy to buy laptops and other gadgets, Intel, Nvidia, Micron, and others suggest crypto mining, PC gaming, and smartphone demand is weakening
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Shopify's new AI commerce stack
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Protecting your Cloud Applications Data
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