Sunday, June 19, 2022

Solend Labs, a "decentralized" borrowing and lending protocol on Solana, votes to take over an account that deposited 5.7M SOL, over 95% of the pool's deposits (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Danny Nelson / CoinDesk:
Solend Labs, a “decentralized” borrowing and lending protocol on Solana, votes to take over an account that deposited 5.7M SOL, over 95% of the pool's deposits  —  Solend users voted to “grant emergency power to Solend Labs to temporarily take over the whale's account.”



Microsoft's Surface Duo 2 is finally a compelling dual-screen phone, after many software updates and a $500 price cut, but it works best as a secondary device (Dan Seifert/The Verge)

Dan Seifert / The Verge:
Microsoft's Surface Duo 2 is finally a compelling dual-screen phone, after many software updates and a $500 price cut, but it works best as a secondary device  —  It's exceedingly rare that a product actually gets better months after it was released.  But Microsoft's oft-forgotten Surface Duo 2 …



Telegram surpasses 700M MAUs and unveils Telegram Premium, which will let users follow up to 1,000 channels, send files up to 4GB, and more for ~$5/month (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)

Manish Singh / TechCrunch:
Telegram surpasses 700M MAUs and unveils Telegram Premium, which will let users follow up to 1,000 channels, send files up to 4GB, and more for ~$5/month  —  Telegram has amassed 700 million monthly active users and is rolling out a premium tier with additional features as the instant messaging platform makes …



Interviews with the members of Peter Thiel's inner circle describe how he came to the decision to leave Facebook's board (Elizabeth Dwoskin/Washington Post)

Elizabeth Dwoskin / Washington Post:
Interviews with the members of Peter Thiel's inner circle describe how he came to the decision to leave Facebook's board  —  Inside the billionaire investor's journey from Facebook board member to an architect of the new American right  —  On a summer morning in 2019 …



UK accountancy regulator FRC says auditors can't blame AI for audit failures, after it published what it called the world's first guidance on auditor AI usage (Ellesheva Kissin/Financial Times)

Ellesheva Kissin / Financial Times : UK accountancy regulator FRC says auditors can't blame AI for audit failures, after it published...