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India's central bank releases guidelines for digital lending, which is projected to reach $350B in India by 2023, after complaints over harsh recovery tactics (Malavika Kaur Makol/Bloomberg)

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Hong Kong-based Insilico, which uses machine learning to identify potential drug targets, raised $35M from Prosperity7, bringing its total Series D to $95M (Rita Liao/TechCrunch)

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Google Search will stop telling you when Snoopy assassinated Abe Lincoln

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Sources: Elon Musk's lawyers have asked the judge to compel Twitter to hand over the names of employees responsible for counting spam and bot accounts (Bloomberg)

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Disney lowers its forecast for Disney+ subscribers and separates Disney+ Hotstar subscriptions in guidance, after losing Indian Premier League streaming rights (Erik Hayden/The Hollywood Reporter)

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Coinbase disclosed in its latest quarterly report that the SEC is investigating its token listing processes, staking programs, and yield-generating products (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

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Beijing-based Geek+, a warehouse robotics and automation company, has raised a $100M Series E1 from Intel Capital, Vertex Growth, and others at a $2B+ valuation (Chris Metinko/Crunchbase News)

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Nebraska-based Pinata, which provides NFT media infrastructure and support for crypto projects, raised a $18M Series A, bringing its total raised to $21.5M (Jacquelyn Melinek/TechCrunch)

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South Korea-based StradVision, a developer of AI-powered perception processing software for autonomous vehicles, has raised an $88M Series C led by ZF and Aptiv (Brianna Wessling/The Robot Report)

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City Council LGBTQ Caucus Bills on Monkeypox Want Action From Health Dept. With

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Cisco confirms a breach by the Yanluowang ransomware group in May 2022; Yanluowang claims 2.75GB of data consisting of ~3.1K files, including NDAs, was stolen (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer)

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Landmark Rockaway Courthouse Sold for $50,000 Could Get New Life as Coworking Space

THE CITY - All

Don’t quit your cybersecurity job

Protocol — The people, power and politics of tech

Elliptic: cross-chain bridge RenBridge has been used to launder $540M in crime-related crypto cash since 2020; Conti ransomware group used it to launder $53M+ (MacKenzie Sigalos/CNBC)

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Trump Takes the Fifth

Daring Fireball

Watch: Pirates infielder slides into third, iPhone slides out of his pocket

Cult of Mac

Bumble reports Q2 revenue up 18% YoY to $220.5M, vs. $219.4 est., a net loss of $6.4M, vs. $2.6M est., and a Q3 guidance below estimates; shares fall 10%+ (Denny Jacob/Wall Street Journal)

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Disney+ Grows to 152 Million Subscribers

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Tower of Fantasy’s character creator is perfect for making Genshin Impact characters

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It's True. Deshaun Watson Will Play Football This Saturday

The Root