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• Amazon's new reality show Ring Nation featuring footage from its Ring home security cameras is the company's latest effort to normalize its surveillance network (Edward Ongweso Jr/VICE), 4 hours ago
• Dutch authorities arrest a Tornado Cash developer suspected of financial crimes through the crypto mixer, two days after the US sanctioned the service (Yogita Khatri/The Block), 9 hours ago
• Sources: YouTube plans to launch a "channel store" for streaming services as early as this fall and is talking with partners about subscription revenue splits (Wall Street Journal), 12 hours ago
• Hands-on with iOS 16's Lockdown Mode, which aims to protect against highly targeted attacks by disabling link previews in messages, limiting FaceTime, and more (Zack Whittaker/TechCrunch), 13 hours ago
• Meta and DoorDash are testing delivering Facebook Marketplace purchases; sources: the service delivers items that fit in a car trunk and are up to 15 miles away (Wall Street Journal), 15 hours ago
• The decentralization of crypto services like Tornado Cash leaves authorities without an enforcement target, making them difficult if not impossible to shut down (Wall Street Journal), 15 hours ago
• Sources detail Meta's challenges in building encrypted messaging products, including users' apathy toward encryption, which could change due to Roe's reversal (Casey Newton/Platformer), 17 hours ago
• Sources: before iOS privacy changes, Apple and Facebook discussed ways to share revenue, like an ad-free, paid version of Facebook and IAP for "boosted posts" (Salvador Rodriguez/Wall Street Journal), 18 hours ago
• US federal prosecutors charge a former Qualcomm VP and three others over allegedly duping the company into paying $150M to acquire tech it putatively owned (Mike Freeman/Los Angeles Times), 20 hours ago
• India seizes assets worth $46.4M from the local entity of crypto exchange Vauld for allegedly facilitating "crime-derived" proceeds from predatory lending firms (Manish Singh/TechCrunch), 20 hours ago
• Memo: meditation app Calm lays of 20% of its staff; sources say Calm employed ~400 people and approximately 90 were laid off; Calm was valued at $2B in 2020 (Patrick Coffee/Wall Street Journal), 22 hours ago
• Singapore-based Merkle Science, a predictive crypto intelligence service with threat detection, risk mitigation, and compliance tools, raised a $24M+ Series A (Brandy Betz/CoinDesk), 23 hours ago
• Huawei reports H1 revenue dropped 5.9% YoY to ~$44.73B and net profit dropped to ~$2.2B, down from ~$4.7B in H1 2021, as smartphone and laptop sales weaken (David Kirton/Reuters), 23 hours ago