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Axios:One-click checkout service Bolt is no longer buying crypto payments service Wyre; the deal was worth about $1.5B  —  One-click checkout company Bolt is no longer acquiring Wyre, the crypto payments company that it had agreed to buy for about $1.5 billion back in April.

A small and modestly specified PC with huge potential.

Blockchain analysis keeps getting better. Expect more seizures to come.

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Two inhaled covid vaccines have been approved—but we don’t know yet how good they are The covid-19 pandemic is still not over. And while injected vaccines provide good […]

Carly Page / TechCrunch:Cisco Talos: the Lazarus group exploited Log4j to compromise VMware Horizon and target energy providers in the US, Canada, and Japan from February to July 2022  —  Security researchers have linked a new cyber espionage campaign targeting U.S., Canadian and Japanese energy providers …

The Fujifilm X-H2 is the world’s first 40MP APS-C camera, marking it out as a new contender for landscape and portrait shooters. But does it live up it its impressive specs sheet?

Researchers from Google and IBM see unprecedented blurring of lines.

As more business, shopping, and banking is done online and from, well, anywhere, customers increasingly expect high-quality digital-first services that remove the need to go into a physical store or bank. “People were working from home, shopping from home, banking from home, and are more tech and digital savvy than […]

Peter Kafka / Vox:Former Disney CEO Bob Iger says the company found that “a substantial portion” of Twitter’s users were “not real”, when Disney considered buying Twitter in 2016  —  Bots were fine.  Nastiness wasn’t.  —  Elon Musk wanted to buy Twitter.  Then he decided he didn’t.

With no notch, the intriguing Dynamic Island and eye-popping camera technology, Apple’s iPhone 14 Pro is about the future.