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
Talks with investors have cooled in recent weeks and Musk's camp believes it can't confirm Twitter's claims about spam accounts
Microsoft rolls back blocking VBA macro scripts by default in Excel, PowerPoint, Access, Visio, and Word, “based on feedback” and “to make improvements”
While Microsoft announced earlier this year that it would block VBA macros on downloaded documents by default …
A former investment manager sues Celsius for fraud, saying the crypto lender ran a Ponzi scheme by using customer deposits to rig the price of its crypto token
A former investment manager at Celsius Network sued the crypto lender on Thursday, saying it used customer deposits to rig …
SpaceX debuts Starlink Maritime, a yacht-focused satellite internet service with speeds up to 350 Mbps, priced at $5K per month and $10K for the dual terminals
Having conquered orbit, SpaceX's next venue seems to be the high seas, through a special yacht-focused sub-brand of its satellite internet service called Starlink Maritime.
Glassnode: Bitcoin blockchain activity has dropped 13% from November 2021 highs to early July 2022; balances at exchanges are down 20%+ from a January 20 peak
As the crypto winter deepens, only the staunchest Bitcoin investors are still holding onto their tokens — but not on the exchanges.
Rogers is experiencing a major outage, affecting internet and phone services, including 911 calls, in parts of Canada, and is “working hard to restore services”
Rogers confirmed the outage but has no ETA for a fix — Rogers has acknowledged a major outage affecting …
Twitter says it removes 1M+ spam accounts daily, that the accounts are well under 5% of users who are served ads, and an external calculation can't be performed
Secret Service Director James Murray steps down and will join Snap as chief security officer, reporting directly to Evan Spiegel
Twitter lays off 30% of its talent acquisition team, or fewer than 100 people, as the company faces increasing business pressures and Musk's potential takeover
Company faces increasing business pressures and potential takeover from Elon Musk — Twitter Inc. TWTR 1.52%▲ …
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
and that's a win-win for Zuck Lucas Matney / TechCrunch : Meta is dumping Facebook logins as its metaverse ID system Nick Statt / Protocol : Why Meta is killing Facebook logins for VR Tech Advisor : B...
GameStop fires CFO Mike Recupero, who joined about a year ago, and is laying off staff across departments; a source says chairman Ryan Cohen pushed out Recupero
The FBI and MI5 issue a rare joint statement warning tech companies of China's large-scale state-sponsored hacking and a global network of agents to steal IP
Hello, sorry I'm late. Christopher Wray / F.B.I. : Director's Remarks to Business Leaders in London Gordon Corera / BBC : China: MI5 and FBI heads warn of ‘immense’ threat MI5 : Joint address by MI5 a...
The US Treasury Department publishes an international crypto regulation framework, the first publication coming from Biden's executive order on digital assets
The document is the first publication to result from U.S. President Joe Biden's executive order on digital assets. Source: U.S. Department … .
Netflix rolls out spatial audio to all devices and to all subscribers, currently available for Stranger Things season four, The Witcher, Red Notice, and more
Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch :
Reddit launches an NFT-based avatar marketplace with 90 profile pictures available for purchase at a fixed price, expanding on support for Ethereum-based NFTs
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
The $44bn takeover of Twitter has been punctuated by public clashes between two executives with wildly differing styles … Tweets: @tomgara , @sarthakgh , and @rafat Tweets: Tom Gara / @tomgara : There...
DEUNA, which lets merchants in Latin America offer one-click checkout, has raised a $30M Series A led by Activant Capital, bringing its total funding to $37M
DEUNA, a Mexico-based one-click checkout commerce startup, is officially joining Latin America's nearly $100 billion e-commerce sector …
The US Office of Government Ethics issues a legal advisory barring federal workers who own crypto from working on cryptocurrency-related policy and regulation
for now — allowed to hold and trade cryptocurrencies regardless of the work they do. About that: https://www.businessinsider.com/ ... https://twitter.com/... Will Diamond / @wdiamond_econ : In order t...
A change to the UK's Online Safety Bill would stop platforms like YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter from removing news content before letting the publisher appeal
Dan Milmo / The Guardian :
Hidden Road, a global credit network for institutional investors providing real-time risk management, raised a $50M Series A led by Castle Island Ventures
- Castle Island Ventures led the $50 million raise which included a host of well known names such as Citadel Securities, FTX Ventures, Wintermute and more.
In a shareholder letter, CEO Peter Smith says Blockchain.com could lose ~$270M in loans to Three Arrows Capital, but that the exchange “remains liquid, solvent”
Blockchain.com “remains liquid, solvent and our customers will not be impacted,” wrote CEO Peter Smith in a letter to shareholders.
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
CertiK: Web3 projects lost $2B+ to hacks and exploits in H1 2022, more than in all of 2021 combined; $308M was lost across 27 flash loan attacks in Q2 2022
Corin Faife / The Verge :
Tech companies' offer to help employees sidestep abortion bans does not cover gig workers, temporary workers, and subcontractors, deepening the workforce divide
Caitlin Harrington / Wired : Tweets: @carnage4life , @datascibae , @caitharr , and @hypervisible Tweets: Dare Obasanjo / @carnage4life : The other shoe drops. Tech companies will cover abortion trave...
India's anti-money laundering agency seizes ~$59M in bank accounts, cash, and gold bars belonging to Chinese phone maker Vivo's local unit and related companies
Coalition, which offers cyber threat insurance and a real-time risk assessment tool, raised a $250M Series F at a $5B valuation, up from $3.5B in September 2021
Tim Keary / VentureBeat :
Miami-based Traba, a jobs board for worker shifts at fulfillment centers and event venues, raised a $20M Series A led by Khosla at a $120M post-money valuation
in an actual office — that never stops working. there will always be opportunity for serious companies. https://techcrunch.com/... @julianweisser : Traba is building something important: making opport...
Nine ex-Wish staffers detail how deceptive experiments and low product standards drove customers away, as MAUs fell from 101M in Q1 2021 to 27M in Q1 2022
Tebra, formed through the merger of health care software providers Kareo and PatientPop in November 2021, raised $72M+ in equity and debt at a $1B+ valuation
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