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Anthony Faiola / Washington Post: A look at the rise of VPNs in Russia following its war in Ukraine; Apptopia: daily downloads of the top ten…
Sam Reynolds / Blockworks: Banking Committee chair Sen. Sherrod Brown probes Coinbase, Binance.US, Tether, and others over stablecoin consumer risks, and seeks a response by December…
Nancy Tartaglione / Deadline: Sony reports Q2 revenue rose 13% YoY to $21B and operating income rose 1% YoY to $2.8B; PS5 sales were 3.3M as…
K.G Orphanides / Wired UK: Review of Raspberry Pi’s new $15 Zero 2 W, featuring a 64-bit CPU, 512MB RAM, and WiFi 4: surprisingly powerful and…
Todd Spangler / Variety: Apple wins its first Oscar as CODA gets the Best Picture award, making Apple TV+ the first streaming service to win the…
Gizmodo: Gizmodo says it will begin responsibly publishing the Facebook Papers with help from partners including NYU, Marquette, and the ACLU in redacting sensitive info …
Ryan Weeks / The Block: Warsaw- and London-based Ramp, a non-custodial crypto payments infrastructure startup, raises a $52.7M Series A led by Balderton Capital — Quick…
Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: Autonomous delivery startup Nuro raises a $600M Series D led by Tiger Global, sources say at a valuation of $8.6B, up from…
Yogita Khatri / The Block: Crypto analytics service Dune Analytics raises a $69.420M Series B at a $1B valuation led by Coatue, bringing its total funding…
Sarah E. Needleman / Wall Street Journal: Roblox will invest $10M in nonprofits, including Boston’s Museum of Science, to build three games for middle school, high…
