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Sources: Alameda invested $1.1B in bitcoin miner Genesis Digital, including $500M to buy co-founders’ shares; Genesis is among FTX’s largest bankruptcy assets (Wall Street Journal)

Wall Street Journal: Sources: Alameda invested $1.1B in bitcoin miner Genesis Digital, including $500M to buy co-founders’ shares; Genesis is among FTX’s largest bankruptcy assets  —  Genesis Digital is one of the largest assets in the FTX-Alameda wreckage.  Extracting value from it could prove difficult.

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How to mute people on Instagram

Illustration by Samar Haddad / The Verge Tired of comparing your behind-the-scenes with everyone else’s highlight reel on Instagram? (To quote Steven Furtick.) The social network has its charms, but for many, it can be a place that’s littered with envy-inducing photos and videos of everybody else’s “perfect” lives. If you’re not careful, it can

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US police app SweepWizard, built by ODIN, leaked data, including location and names, on officers, 5,770 suspects, and others due to a simple misconfiguration (Dhruv Mehrotra/Wired)

Dhruv Mehrotra / Wired: US police app SweepWizard, built by ODIN, leaked data, including location and names, on officers, 5,770 suspects, and others due to a simple misconfiguration  —  SweepWizard, an app that law enforcement used to coordinate raids, left sensitive information about hundreds of police operations publicly accessible.

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Apple launches Business Connect, letting US businesses update and manage information across Maps and other services, something Google Maps has had since 2005 (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Apple launches Business Connect, letting US businesses update and manage information across Maps and other services, something Google Maps has had since 2005  —  Apple Maps today is gaining a new tool that will allow the decade-plus-old service to better compete with Google …

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How Tinder changed everything

The Verge When Tinder launched in 2012, its creators didn’t think much of it. “We put together what would eventually become Tinder in about six to eight weeks and launched it,” says Jonathan Badeen, one of Tinder’s co-founders and inventor of the swipe. The swipe was kind of like Tinder’s secret weapon — it seems

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Netflix plans to stream the SAG Awards globally starting in 2024, as part of a multi-year deal; the 2023 ceremony will stream on Netflix’s YouTube channel (Tyler Coates/The Hollywood Reporter)

Tyler Coates / The Hollywood Reporter: Netflix plans to stream the SAG Awards globally starting in 2024, as part of a multi-year deal; the 2023 ceremony will stream on Netflix’s YouTube channel  —  The company will also livestream the 2023 ceremony on its YouTube page ahead of its multi-year partnership with the Screen Actors Guild.

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A bankruptcy attorney says FTX has recovered $5B+ in cash, crypto, and securities, not including $425M held by the Bahamas or “illiquid cryptocurrency tokens” (Nikhilesh De/CoinDesk)

Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: A bankruptcy attorney says FTX has recovered $5B+ in cash, crypto, and securities, not including $425M held by the Bahamas or “illiquid cryptocurrency tokens”  —  The announcement substantially raises the total FTX has recovered since filing for bankruptcy last year.

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