CNBC:
Coinbase erroneously sent “Your 2-step verification settings have been changed” messages to 125,000 customers, prompting confusion and alarm among investors  —  – Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase acknowledged that it…

Mark Scott / Politico:
Facebook says it accidentally removed thousands of posts around the Jan. 6 riots from Crowdtangle, blaming a now fixed error that has existed since at least May  —  The social media company said it was a technic…

Bloomberg:
Sources: Intuit is in talks to buy Mailchimp for more than $10B; Mailchimp has also considered offering a minority stake and another buyer could still emerge  —  Intuit Inc., the software company that owns TurboTax, is in t…

Vildana Hajric / Bloomberg:
FTX acquires US-regulated crypto derivatives exchange LedgerX for an undisclosed sum, to expand its futures and options products in the US  —  – Strategy is to offer array of assets in regulated markets&nb…

Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:
135+ subreddits have gone private in protest of Reddit’s refusal to ban communities that spread misinformation about the COVID pandemic and vaccines  —  PokemonGo, Futurology among big subreddits going priv…

Ash Parrish / The Verge:
Streamers organize #ADayOffTwitch walkout to bring awareness to the recent increase of “hate raids”, and say Twitch isn’t taking the issue seriously enough  —  On Wednesday, September 1st, a number…

Dan Primack / Axios:
Syndicate, a decentralized investing platform that wants to make it easier for users to create DAOs, raises $20M Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz  —  Syndicate, a decentralized investing platform, raised $20 mi…

Bloomberg:
Source: Apple’s upcoming Watch is suffering production snags as manufacturers adjust to a new design, likely leading to supply restraints or shipment delays  —  – Revamped device has a larger screen and other new features&…

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Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch:
Alpaca, which offers APIs for fintech apps to connect and trade in US stocks, raises $50M Series B led by Tribe Capital and says it is expanding into crypto  —  Alpaca said this morning that it has closed a …