Google updates its built-in password manager for Chrome and Android with the option to manually add passwords across all platforms, a unified design, and more theverge.com · 3 days ago
Meta says it is rolling out NFT support on Facebook, allowing select US creators to display NFTs on their profiles, after adding the feature to Instagram in May techcrunch.com · 3 days ago
Internal memo: Chief Product Officer Chris Cox says Meta is bracing for a leaner H2 and "teams should not expect vast influxes of new engineers and budgets" reuters.com · 3 days ago
CFTC charges South Africa-based bitcoin pool operator Mirror Trading International with $1.7B fraud, in its largest ever fraud case involving bitcoin coindesk.com · 3 days ago
OpenSea tells customers that an employee at email vendor Customer.io downloaded and sent email details to an external party, impacting almost all users techcrunch.com · 3 days ago
Apple says South Korean app developers can now use external payment methods from KCP, Inicis, Toss, and NICE by submitting a new version, reducing fees by 4% 9to5mac.com · 3 days ago
Bitcoin is on track for its worst quarter since Q3 2011, dropping 56%, after falling as much as 4.4% to just above $19K on Thursday bloomberg.com · 3 days ago
An investigation details an operation by Chinese hacking group APT40 to lure graduates into spying and translating stolen documents using a front company t.co · 3 days ago
Amazon documents show it will restrict items and search results related to LGBTQ people and issues in the UAE, after the Emirati government threatened penalties nytimes.com · 3 days ago
An in-depth look at the 2016 Bitfinex hack and US government's case against Ilya Lichtenstein and Heather Morgan, aka Razzlekhan, over alleged money laundering bloomberg.com · 3 days ago
London-based Shop Circle, which offers merchants a one-stop shop for e-commerce software, emerges from stealth with $65M in funding led by NFX and QED Investors techcrunch.com · 3 days ago
A Taiwanese minister and TSMC board member urges US Congress to pass the Chips Act, saying the pace of building TSMC's Arizona chip factory depends on subsidies washingtonpost.com · 3 days ago
Unity is laying off over 200 people, or 4% of its workforce, two weeks after the CEO said at an all-hands meeting that there won't be any layoffs kotaku.com · 3 days ago
India-based GetVantage, which uses AI to offer revenue-based capital of between $10K to $500K to startups, has raised $36M, bringing its total funding to $40M techcrunch.com · 3 days ago
Experts say using period tracker apps does not necessarily put women at additional risk of prosecutions in the wake of SCOTUS overturning Roe v. Wade medium.com · 3 days ago
Google Workspace head Javier Soltero, who managed Google's productivity and collaboration tools including Gmail and Meet, is leaving the company on July 15 protocol.com · 3 days ago
Tel Aviv-based Cyolo, maker of zero trust security tech enabling secure connection to workplaces, has raised a $60M Series B, bringing its total raised to $85M calcalistech.com · 3 days ago
Samsung begins mass production of 3nm chips touting a 45% reduction in power usage, a 16% smaller surface area, and 23% better performance compared to 5nm chips reuters.com · 3 days ago
South Korea's chip stockpile has jumped 53.4% YoY in May, the most in more than four years, suggesting a slowdown in demand for memory chips bloomberg.com · 3 days ago
Officials in Zhengzhou, China used the smartphone location tracking-based health code system to stop 1,000+ depositors from protesting over failing rural banks t.co · 3 days ago
Sources: Byju's has laid off 1,500+ staff from Toppr and WhiteHat Jr, two companies it acquired in the past two years, and ~1,000 from its core operations teams moneycontrol.com · 3 days ago
Grayscale Investments sues the US SEC after the agency rejected its application on Wednesday to convert its flagship Grayscale Bitcoin Trust product to an ETF coindesk.com · 3 days ago
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 bloomberg.com · 3 days ago
Docs: Coinbase is selling features of its intelligence-gathering tool Coinbase Tracer to ICE, letting ICE track crypto transactions including bitcoin and ether theintercept.com · 3 days ago
EU lawmakers provisionally agree on anti-laundering rules for crypto, requiring verified customer identities for transfers between regulated digital wallets bloomberg.com · 3 days ago
Researchers say some businesses are exaggerating AI's capabilities, brewing misunderstanding and distorting policymakers' views of AI's power and fallibility wsj.com · 3 days ago
Sources: digital asset trading firm Genesis is potentially facing "hundreds of millions" of dollars in losses, partly through exposure to 3AC and Babel Finance coindesk.com · 3 days ago
EU lawmakers agree on anti-money laundering rules for crypto, requiring a verified customer identity for transfers between regulated digital wallet providers coindesk.com · 4 days ago
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 bloomberg.com · 4 days ago
A look at YouTube "media critics", who use humor to dissect the output of more popular YouTubers, discuss the absurdities of influencers, and more nytimes.com · 4 days ago
Firefox now offers a way to strip URLs of certain tracking parameters, like from HubSpot, Marketo, and Meta, following similar functionality in Brave Browser bleepingcomputer.com · 4 days ago
Research details sophisticated malware targeting a wide range of routers then taking over Windows, Linux, and Mac devices, in N. America and Europe for ~2 years arstechnica.com · 4 days ago
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 wsj.com · 4 days ago
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 forbes.com · 4 days ago
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 tech.eu · 4 days ago
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 nytimes.com · 4 days ago
Carl Pei says Nothing phone will use the mid-range Snapdragon 778G+, not the high-end 8 Gen 1, citing a balance of cost, performance, and power consumption inputmag.com · 4 days ago
Snap launches Snapchat+, offering exclusive, experimental, and pre-release Snapchat features for $3.99 per month, starting in nine countries theverge.com · 4 days ago
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 techcrunch.com · 4 days ago
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 coindesk.com · 4 days ago
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 forbes.com · 4 days ago
As crypto enters another winter, Jimmy Fallon, Serena Williams, Reese Witherspoon, Meek Mill, and other celebrities quietly remove their NFT profile pictures news.artnet.com · 4 days ago
Experts express concerns over hackers commandeering ship controls, including automated steering and propulsion systems, despite efforts to address the issues bloomberg.com · 4 days ago
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 bloomberg.com · 4 days ago
Experts say the crypto crash has wiped out millions of dollars stolen by North Korean hackers, threatening a key source of funding for its weapons programs reuters.com · 4 days ago
London-based Entrepreneur First, which invests in nascent startups, connects co-founders, and offers other support, has raised a $158M Series C techcrunch.com · 4 days ago
Sources: Tesla lays off ~200 Autopilot workers, most of them hourly and focused on labeling data, and closes its San Mateo office, as part of broader reductions bloomberg.com · 4 days ago
FCC's Brendan Carr writes to Apple and Google demanding they remove TikTok from app stores over China-related security concerns or provide statements by July 8 cnbc.com · 4 days ago
Deliveroo plans to expand ads on its app and website in July, including on the order-tracker page, as the company seeks profitability bloomberg.com · 4 days ago
A federal judge rules former Uber CSO Joe Sullivan must face wire fraud charges over his alleged role in covering up a 2016 hack that exposed data on 57 million reuters.com · 4 days ago