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Insiders say crypto firms are struggling to access banking services and facing lengthy application procedures amid bank collapses and regulatory scrutiny (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg: Insiders say crypto firms are struggling to access banking services and facing lengthy application procedures amid bank collapses and regulatory scrutiny  —  US banks, already hesitant to work with crypto customers, are now even warier of providing services to the industry after a string …

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Japan plans to restrict exports of 23 types of chip manufacturing equipment starting July 2023, amid the US push to curb China’s ability to make advanced chips (Reuters)

Reuters: Japan plans to restrict exports of 23 types of chip manufacturing equipment starting July 2023, amid the US push to curb China’s ability to make advanced chips  —  Japan’s government on Friday said it plans to restrict exports of 23 types of semiconductor manufacturing equipment …

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env0, which develops Infrastructure as Code workflow automation and management software, raised $18.1M led by Venture Guides, bringing Series A total to $35.1M (Meir Orbach/CTech)

Meir Orbach / CTech: env0, which develops Infrastructure as Code workflow automation and management software, raised $18.1M led by Venture Guides, bringing Series A total to $35.1M  —  The env0 platform enables users and teams to collaborate and provide self-service cloud deployments

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South Korea passes the K-Chips Act to boost the country’s semiconductor industry by increasing tax credits for companies investing in manufacturing facilities (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg: South Korea passes the K-Chips Act to boost the country’s semiconductor industry by increasing tax credits for companies investing in manufacturing facilities  —  South Korea’s parliament easily approved a bill Thursday to boost the country’s powerhouse semiconductor industry by giving firms tax breaks to spur investments.

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South Korea passes the K-Chips Act to boost the country’s semiconductor industry by increasing tax credits for companies investing in manufacturing facilities (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg: South Korea passes the K-Chips Act to boost the country’s semiconductor industry by increasing tax credits for companies investing in manufacturing facilities  —  South Korea’s parliament easily approved a bill Thursday to boost the country’s powerhouse semiconductor industry by giving firms tax breaks to spur investments.

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I never went to E3, but I’ll miss it anyways

It was inevitable that E3 would end this way. Even before the pandemic put a pause on in-person gatherings, the Electronic Entertainment Expo was already on life-support as the larger developers had already put distance between themselves and the event to focus on their own presentations on their own time. And though E3’s eventual cancellation

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Memo: Block says 44M of its 51M+ Cash App MAUs were verified via its IDV program as of December 2022, after Hindenburg claimed Block overstated user numbers (Manya Saini/Reuters)

Manya Saini / Reuters: Memo: Block says 44M of its 51M+ Cash App MAUs were verified via its IDV program as of December 2022, after Hindenburg claimed Block overstated user numbers  —  Block Inc (SQ.N) said on Thursday 44 million of its more 51 million monthly active customers on Cash App were verified through its

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Foldable PCB Becomes Tiny Rover

Typically, when you’re putting electronics in a robot, you install the various controller PCBs into the robot’s chassis. But what if the PCB itself was the chassis? [Carl Bugeja’s] latest design explores just that idea. Yes, [Carl] decided to build a tiny robotic rover out of a foldable PCB. This choice was made as using

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ESA cancels E3 2023, after Microsoft, Nintendo, Sony, and Ubisoft announced they would not attend the event originally scheduled for June 13 to June 16 (Rebekah Valentine/IGN)

Rebekah Valentine / IGN: ESA cancels E3 2023, after Microsoft, Nintendo, Sony, and Ubisoft announced they would not attend the event originally scheduled for June 13 to June 16  —  The show “did not garner the sustained interest necessary”  —  Almost a year after announcing its return, the Entertainment Software …

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Microsoft fixed an Azure vulnerability after researchers found that the flaw could have let anyone alter Bing search results and access users’ Office 365 data (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)

Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: Microsoft fixed an Azure vulnerability after researchers found that the flaw could have let anyone alter Bing search results and access users’ Office 365 data  —  A dangerous vulnerability was detected in Microsoft’s Bing search engine earlier this year that allowed users to alter search results …

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