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Nelson Rauda Zablah / New York Times: How El Salvador President Nayib Bukele weaponized bitcoin to whitewash his government’s growing authoritarianism on the world stage and spread local propaganda  —  SAN SALVADOR — Bitcoiners — enthusiasts of the world’s most popular cryptocurrency — aren’t supposed to trust government.

Ionut Ilascu / BleepingComputer: HackerOne says an employee stole vulnerability reports submitted through its bug bounty platform and disclosed them to seven companies for financial rewards  —  A HackerOne employee stole vulnerability reports submitted through the bug bounty platform and disclosed them to affected customers to claim financial rewards.

Plus: Indian hacker-for-hire groups, Chinese student espionage efforts, and more.

Plus: Insta-delete your Instagram account, TikTok is eyeing your wallet, and Google makes it easier to switch from iOS.

It’s spendy, but this portable board folds up compact enough to fit in (relatively) small spaces.

Yiwen Lu / Washington Post: RadioShack, purchased by private equity firm REV in 2020, reintroduces itself as a crypto exchange trying to attract users with a stream of often profane tweets  —  Gen Z may not be familiar with the RadioShack of their grandparents, but they’re getting to know its replacement.

Independence Day is here, and so are the savings. We’ve rounded up plenty of sales on air purifiers, smart speakers, massage guns, and more.

Arthur Hayes / Entrepreneur’s Handbook: After 3AC’s collapse, centralized lenders with 3AC exposure had failed, while their decentralized counterparts liquidated collateral and continued operating  —  This current crypto nuclear bear market marks my third brush with generalised market carnage.  And while they can sometimes feel like reruns …

By studying the so-called mean temperature of restaurant seafood, scientists have shown how the species that fill our plates have changed with time.

Whether you’re on a train, in the mountains, or at home when your wifi cuts out, you can still get a lot done. All it takes is a little preparation.

Cameron Thompson / CoinDesk: PolySign, which provides blockchain-enabled digital asset infrastructure for institutional investors, has raised a $53M Series C from Cowen Digital and others  —  The funding round follows the firm’s acquisition of fund administrator MG Stover in April.  —  Blockchain fintech firm PolySign …

Kevin McLaughlin / The Information: Sources: at least 24 Azure data centers are operating with limited server capacity amid the global chip shortage that has made it harder to get new hardware  —  In March 2020, Microsoft’s Azure cloud buckled under the strain of companies around the world shifting to remote work …

The Economic Times: IDC: global shipments for VR headsets jumped 241.6% during Q1 2022, with Meta capturing 90% of market share thanks to its Quest 2 headset  —  Meta (formerly Facebook) which has 90% share in the virtual reality (VR) headset market is set for some tough challenge and all eyes will be on Apple […]

Jeremy Hill / Bloomberg: Three Arrows Capital files for Chapter 15 bankruptcy, a move that protects its US assets while a liquidation is carried out in the British Virgin Islands  —  Crypto hedge fund Three Arrows Capital has filed for Chapter 15 bankruptcy, a move that protects its US assets while a liquidation is carried […]

Olga Kharif / Bloomberg: Meta will shut down Novi, its digital wallet pilot, on September 1; users will no longer be able to add money to their accounts starting July 21  —  The remainder of the cryptocurrency project that Meta Platforms Inc.’s Founder Mark Zuckerberg took a beating over from Congress is officially shutting down.

Deck out your new phone with wallet cases, kickstands, wireless chargers, and charging adapters.

As they warm up, quantum computers can slow down or stop working altogether. A new kind made with specially engineered diamonds cools as it calculates

A chip-sized biocomputer uses molecules moving through a network of channels to solve problems. It uses much less energy per calculation than a traditional computer

Employees are renegotiating their social contracts with work. Here’s what employers need to do to honor their end of the bargain.

Silence doesn’t necessarily mean rejection.

Abortion access groups and activists say they have been dealing with algorithmic censorship for years.

Scientists are getting closer to understanding the neurology behind the memory problems and cognitive fuzziness that an infection can trigger.

The era of removable SIM cards will come to an end. It’s time to get acquainted with its next, tinier evolution.

Che Pan / South China Morning Post: Over 10 Chinese entities establish open-source code community, “openKylin”, to develop a homegrown desktop OS amid efforts to cut reliance on Windows and macOS  —  The city has matured considerably despite being new to governing itself following the handover in 1997.

Dan Milmo / The Guardian: EU agrees on new crypto rules, including measures guarding against market abuse and requiring crypto firms to disclose environmental impact of their assets  —  MiCA law contains measures to guard against market abuse and manipulation  —  The EU has moved to rein in the “wild west” …

Katie Adams / MedCity News: New York-based Tomorrow Health, whose data-driven marketplace matches patients with home-based care suppliers, has raised a $60M Series B led by BOND  —  Tomorrow Health — a platform that makes it easier for patients, providers and payers to coordinate home-based care …

Researchers analyzed pay data for Massachusetts bus and train operators — who work at union-negotiated rates — and found women still took home 11% less than men.

The court’s decision in West Virginia v. EPA doesn’t go as far as some climate activists feared it might. But it’s a road map for future challenges.

Manya Saini / Reuters: Short-form video app Triller confidentially files for a US IPO, after ending its $5B merger with video ad software provider SeaChange on June 14  —  Short video app Triller Inc has confidentially filed paperwork for an initial public offering of its class A common stock with the U.S. Securities …

A new European Union law will set rules for what the technology can and can’t do to people, like whether it’s OK to deploy lie detectors at borders.

Researchers say the remote-access Trojan ZuoRAT is likely the work of a nation-state and has infected at least 80 different targets.

Prarthana Prakash / Bloomberg: Uber received 3,824 reports of sexual assault and misconduct in 2019 and 2020, down 38% from 2017 and 2018, but the rate of fatal physical assaults rose 18%  —  Uber Technologies Inc. said it received 3,824 reports of sexual assault and misconduct on its ride-hailing app in 2019 and 2020 …

Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times: As avatars for metaverse applications grow in popularity, a look at Understanding Comics, a 30-year-old illustrated lecture considered an avatar design bible  —  First published 30 years ago, Scott McCloud’s Understanding Comics is the definitive comic book about comic books.

An artificial intelligence that scours crime data can predict the location of crimes in the coming week with up to 90 per cent accuracy, but there are concerns how systems like this can perpetuate bias

Cooperation is a core part of life for many organisms, ranging from microbes to complex multicellular life. It emerges when individuals share resources or partition a task in such a way that each derives a greater benefit when acting together than they could on their own. For example, birds and fish flock to evade predators, […]

Access to reproductive health care isn’t just a political stance — it’s a critical workplace issue that companies need to address.

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It’s hard to call yourself a green company if your cash assets are underwriting global warming.

Wired: Section 230 is the last line of defense for online abortion speech, without which platforms could face legal liability for distributing abortion information  —  Dobbs should be a wake-up call for anyone seeking to undercut the immunity protections afforded by Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act.

Raffaele Huang / Wall Street Journal: Sources: Tencent, ByteDance, and others plan layoffs impacting thousands, after Chinese internet companies cut tens of thousands during regulatory crackdowns  —  Latest round of job cuts at Chinese tech giants comes even as Beijing signals easing of its regulatory campaign against the sector

Bloomberg: MarkSight: as crypto tumbles, the average price of Nvidia’s GeForce 3080 on eBay dropped from $1,140 on April 30 to $710 on June 27  —  The turmoil in the cryptocurrency industry has ravaged portfolios and left large and small investors struggling to adapt.

A buoy powered by the movement of waves could be used to sense water levels for early flood warning systems or to check long-term water quality

This July 4 marks 10 years since the discovery of the Higgs boson, the long-sought particle that imparts mass to all elementary particles. The elusive particle was the last missing piece in the Standard Model of particle physics, which is our most complete model of the universe. In early summer of 2012, signs of the […]

Explanation methods that help users understand and trust machine-learning models often describe how much certain features used in the model contribute to its prediction. For example, if a model predicts a patient’s risk of developing cardiac disease, a physician might want to know how strongly the patient’s heart rate data influences that prediction. But if […]

As investment capital becomes less abundant and debt more expensive, companies need to reevaluate their plans.

We’ve spent several years riding and testing extra-large ebikes for hauling little ones and getting around town.

CoinDesk: Sources: digital asset trading firm Genesis is potentially facing “hundreds of millions” of dollars in losses, partly through exposure to 3AC and Babel Finance  —  The DCG-owned trading colossus is said to have suffered nine-figure losses partly through exposure to Three Arrows Capital and Babel Finance.

Dobbs should be a wake-up call for anyone seeking to undercut the immunity protections afforded by Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act.

The US Supreme Court’s privacy rulings chart an old battle and could inform life after Roe.

Unusual punctuation in headlines makes people more likely to share news stories on Facebook, but phrases like “this will blow your mind” are a turn-off, finds a study