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🔓 NFTs Are a Privacy and Security Nightmare
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🔓 NFTs Are a Privacy and Security Nightmare

Plus: Elon Musk Got a Twitter Board Seat, Block confirms Cash App breach, and more ...
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NFTs Are a Privacy and Security Nightmare. Venmo's baffling decision to turn payments into a social media feed, where public transactions are the default, has rightly been met with criticism. But at the very least, it's always been possible to make Venmo transactions private. Now, imagine a… (Eric Ravenscraft / WIRED)


Elon Musk Got a Twitter Board Seat. Should Twitter have an edit button, letting you edit tweets after you post them? The answer to this question is obviously “no,” but for some reason a lot of Twitter users vocally believe the answer is “yes.” Here I do… (Matt Levine / Bloomberg)


Block confirms Cash App breach after former employee accessed US customer data. Block has confirmed a data breach involving a former employee who downloaded reports from Cash App that contained some U.S. customer information. In a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)… (Carly Page / TechCrunch)


Amazon to Spend Billions on Space Launches as SpaceX Ramps Up Satellite-Internet Service. Amazon.com Inc. is stepping up plans for its proposed fleet of internet satellites that would compete with a service operated by Elon Musk's SpaceX, buying dozens of space launches from three rocket companies. Amazon's Project Kuiper said it… (Micah Maidenberg / Wall Street Journal)


Twitter is adding an edit button. It's a feature that Twitter users have been requesting for so long that it's become a meme, but now the mythical “edit button” is actually becoming a reality. Twitter has announced that it's working to allow users to edit their tweets… (Jon Porter / The Verge)


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