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As the European Central Bank prepares to pilot a digital euro in October, consumers, financiers, and politicians are questioning the project’s aims and benefits (Financial Times)

Financial Times: As the European Central Bank prepares to pilot a digital euro in October, consumers, financiers, and politicians are questioning the project’s aims and benefits  —  Europe’s central bank is pushing ahead with the development of electronic currency even as politicians question its purpose

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Baidu reports Q1 revenue up 10% YoY to ~$4.5B and ~$834M net income, both above analyst estimates, driven by its ad and cloud businesses (Zheping Huang/Bloomberg)

Zheping Huang / Bloomberg: Baidu reports Q1 revenue up 10% YoY to ~$4.5B and ~$834M net income, both above analyst estimates, driven by its ad and cloud businesses  —  Baidu Inc.’s revenue rose a stronger-than-expected 10% after its advertising and cloud businesses benefited from China’s post-pandemic reopening.

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Q&A with Michael Lewis on his FTX book, “Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon”, slated for October 3, visiting SBF, the forthcoming trial, and more (Alexandra Alter/New York Times)

Alexandra Alter / New York Times: Q&A with Michael Lewis on his FTX book, “Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon”, slated for October 3, visiting SBF, the forthcoming trial, and more  —  About a year after the author Michael Lewis began to shadow Bankman-Fried, the founder of the crypto exchange FTX,

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After decades of slumber, Japan’s tech industry, which has produced just 10 unicorns, finally shows some signs of life as its startups raised ~$6.4B in 2022 (Roland Kelts/Rest of World)

Roland Kelts / Rest of World: After decades of slumber, Japan’s tech industry, which has produced just 10 unicorns, finally shows some signs of life as its startups raised ~$6.4B in 2022  —  After decades of slumber, the country that brought us bullet trains and Nintendo has mustered some momentum.

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An interview with Kevin Systrom on Artifact’s new writer features, serving writers as a key to the news app’s growth, matching consumers with writers, and more (Darrell Etherington/TechCrunch)

Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: An interview with Kevin Systrom on Artifact’s new writer features, serving writers as a key to the news app’s growth, matching consumers with writers, and more  —  Artifact aims to unlock new, cross-platform audience relationships for people who write for a living

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The MOS CIA Lives On, In 74HCT

It’s always pleasing to see a project we covered in its early stages reach maturity, so were very happy to bring you an update on [Daniel Molina]’s 74HCT6526. It’s a long-running effort to produce in 74 logic a faithful replica of the MOS Technologies CIA, the integrated I/O and timer chip found in so many

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MTN plans to build a $320M East2West inland fiber cable connecting ten African countries in Q4 2023, following its subsea cable that landed in Cape Town in 2022 (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg: MTN plans to build a $320M East2West inland fiber cable connecting ten African countries in Q4 2023, following its subsea cable that landed in Cape Town in 2022  —  MTN Group Ltd., Africa’s biggest mobile-phone operator, plans to build a $320 million inland fiber cable to connect ten countries …

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Q1 2023 filings: Berkshire Hathaway sold its TSMC shares after cutting its position by 86% in Q4 2022, while Tiger Global and Coatue added to their TSMC stakes (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg: Q1 2023 filings: Berkshire Hathaway sold its TSMC shares after cutting its position by 86% in Q4 2022, while Tiger Global and Coatue added to their TSMC stakes  —  Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. drew mixed bets from top investors in the first quarter, as Warren Buffett closed …

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In its response to a US federal court, the SEC says Coinbase has no right to compel the agency to issue guidelines for crypto companies “on a specific timeline” (Casey Wagner/Blockworks)

Casey Wagner / Blockworks: In its response to a US federal court, the SEC says Coinbase has no right to compel the agency to issue guidelines for crypto companies “on a specific timeline”  —  The Securities and Exchange Commission has issued a response to Coinbase’s complaint requesting the agency to establish regulatory clarity for the

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A Paste Extruder For Normal Printers

In the bright sunshine of a warm spring afternoon at Delft Maker Faire, were a row of 3D printers converted with paste extruders. They were the work of [Nedji Yusufova], and though while were being shown printing with biodegradable pastes made from waste materials, we were also interested in their potential to print using edible

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Irish Council for Civil Liberties: 75% of the Irish DPC’s GDPR decisions in EU-level cases since 2018 have been overruled by the European Data Protection Board (Ciara O’Brien/The Irish Times)

Ciara O’Brien / The Irish Times: Irish Council for Civil Liberties: 75% of the Irish DPC’s GDPR decisions in EU-level cases since 2018 have been overruled by the European Data Protection Board  —  Meta, Google, Airbnb, Yahoo!, Twitter, Microsoft, Apple and Tinder account for 87^% of cross-border GDPR complaints to Ireland’s DPC

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Source: Twitter buys recruiting startup Laskie for “tens of millions” in cash and stock, its first deal of the Elon Musk era; PitchBook: Laskie had raised $6M (Kia Kokalitcheva/Axios)

Kia Kokalitcheva / Axios: Source: Twitter buys recruiting startup Laskie for “tens of millions” in cash and stock, its first deal of the Elon Musk era; PitchBook: Laskie had raised $6M  —  Twitter appears to have made its first deal of the Elon Musk era: Buying a job-matching tech startup called Laskie, Axios has learned.

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Court filings show Jump Trading secretly purchased tens of millions of dollars worth of TerraUSD and made ~$1B in profit a year before the coin’s collapse (Alexander Osipovich/Wall Street Journal)

Alexander Osipovich / Wall Street Journal: Court filings show Jump Trading secretly purchased tens of millions of dollars worth of TerraUSD and made ~$1B in profit a year before the coin’s collapse  —  Chicago firm made about $1 billion through dealings with crypto mogul Do Kwon’s company, according to the agency

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In its response to a US federal court, the SEC says Coinbase has no right to compel the agency to issue guidelines for crypto companies “on a specific timeline” (Casey Wagner/Blockworks)

Casey Wagner / Blockworks: In its response to a US federal court, the SEC says Coinbase has no right to compel the agency to issue guidelines for crypto companies “on a specific timeline”  —  The Securities and Exchange Commission has issued a response to Coinbase’s complaint requesting the agency to establish regulatory clarity for the

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WhatsApp debuts Chat Lock, letting users put chats in a password/biometric-protected folder and get notifications that don’t show the sender or message content (Jay Peters/The Verge)

Jay Peters / The Verge: WhatsApp debuts Chat Lock, letting users put chats in a password/biometric-protected folder and get notifications that don’t show the sender or message content  —  WhatsApp is getting a new “Chat Lock” feature intended to make it easier to keep conversations more private.

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