Inflation hit 9.1% in June, highest rate in more than 40 years
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Inflation hit 9.1% in June, highest rate in more than 40 years
US markets (July 11 - July 15)
General news
As of June, inflation around the U.S. had jumped 9.1% over the last 12 months, the steepest increase since November of 1981, according to federal labor data. The jump in consumer prices was broad-based, including rent, medical care, and new and used vehicles.
Twitter sues Elon Musk to force him to complete acquisition
Crypto news
$8 million stolen in large-scale Uniswap airdrop phishing attack
Cryptocurrency exchange Blockchain.com stands to lose $270 million from lending to Three Arrows Capital, the over-leveraged hedge fund now the subject to a liquidation order in the British Virgin Islands.
State Regulators Intensify Scrutiny of Voyager: Report. Regulators are digging deeper into past dealings of the embattled crypto exchange
Vauld issues letter to its creditors, disclosing $70 million shortfall
Coinbase's Market Share Tumbles to Less Than 3%: Mizuho The decline likely places Coinbase outside of the top 10 crypto exchanges, based on average dollar volume.
OpenSea Lays Off 20% of Its Staff to Prepare for 'Prolonged Downturn'
AI news
An AI-based deep learning model could help identify cystic hygroma, a type of birth defect, in fetal ultrasound images.
Sen. Ed Markey asked for audio recording on Amazon Ring doorbells—capable of taping conversations well beyond doorsteps—to be turned off by default. Amazon Ring declined.
When machine learning meets surrealist art meets Reddit, you get DALL-E mini (renamed to Craiyon)
Privacy
Amazon’s Ring gave a record amount of doorbell footage to the government in 2021
Selfie scraping Clearview AI hit with another €20M ban order in Europe
Security
Former CIA Engineer Convicted of Leaking 'Vault 7' Hacking Secrets to WikiLeaks
1.9 Million Healthcare Records Breached in Ransomware Attack
Pakistani Hackers Targeting Indian Students in Latest Malware Campaign
State-Sponsored Hackers Targeting Journalists
Educational articles & videos
MEV 2.0: The Rise of MPSVs
Modular Blockchains: A Deep Dive
The Financial Bubble Era Comes Full Circle An unstable encounter with a $50 billion stablecoin
Are blockchains decentralized?
A new Trail of Bits research report examines unintended centralities in distributed ledgers
Cryptocurrency tech is vulnerable to tampering, a DARPA analysis finds
Why Indian states are going Bankrupt like Sri Lanka? : RBI Case study explained
Europe's biggest Crisis is here: How Did This Happen?!
Mathematics: Why is calculus so ... easy ?
Health: You DON'T Have a Slow Metabolism, It's this Instead.
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