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A Bitcoin user seems to have accidentally paid a record $3M fee for a $5M transaction and sent $2M; in September, Paxos paid $500K, now returned, to send $2,000 (Mat Di Salvo/Decrypt)

Mat Di Salvo / Decrypt: A Bitcoin user seems to have accidentally paid a record $3M fee for a $5M transaction and sent $2M; in September, Paxos paid $500K, now returned, to send $2,000  —  Someone accidentally paid over $3 million in fees to send $2 million in BTC.  —  A luckless Bitcoin sender seemingly

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A profile of Binance CEO Richard Teng, who faces the tough task of transforming the company’s culture amid spiraling compliance costs and an ongoing SEC lawsuit (Reuters)

Reuters: A profile of Binance CEO Richard Teng, who faces the tough task of transforming the company’s culture amid spiraling compliance costs and an ongoing SEC lawsuit  —  Spiralling compliance costs, ongoing legal headaches and a shrinking share of the market: Binance’s new chief Richard Teng faces …

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Adobe: US online Black Friday sales hit $9.8B, up 7.5% YoY; Salesforce, which uses different metrics, says online sales hit $16.4B in the US and $70.9B globally (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Adobe: US online Black Friday sales hit $9.8B, up 7.5% YoY; Salesforce, which uses different metrics, says online sales hit $16.4B in the US and $70.9B globally  —  A rush of deep discounts and the growth of flexible payment options were the drivers behind $9.8 billion in online sales …

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Unsealed docs in a lawsuit by 30+ state AGs: Meta received 1.1M+ reports of under-13s on Instagram since early 2019 yet it “disabled only a fraction” of those (Natasha Singer/New York Times)

Natasha Singer / New York Times: Unsealed docs in a lawsuit by 30+ state AGs: Meta received 1.1M+ reports of under-13s on Instagram since early 2019 yet it “disabled only a fraction” of those  —  Meta “routinely documented” children under 13 on Instagram and “unlawfully” collected their data, according to a newly unsealed complaint.

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Dutch media: Chimera, a China-linked hacker group, infiltrated Dutch semiconductor giant NXP’s network between 2017 and 2020 and stole chip designs and more (Anton Shilov/Tom’s Hardware)

Anton Shilov / Tom’s Hardware: Dutch media: Chimera, a China-linked hacker group, infiltrated Dutch semiconductor giant NXP’s network between 2017 and 2020 and stole chip designs and more  —  The full extent of the security breach is unknown.  —  Chimera, a Chinese-linked hacker group, has infiltrated the network …

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