Robinhood explains why it placed restrictions on certain securities over the past week, says its clearinghouse-mandated deposit for equities increased tenfold (Under the Hood)

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Filing: Xiaomi has sued US Defense and Treasury departments, after the DOD blacklisted the company thereby blocking US investors from buying Xiaomi's securities (Bloomberg)

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Reddit's uncommon qualities as a community platform, inspiring nihilism and humor, may explain why r/WallStreetBets' growth feels reminiscent of r/The_Donald (John Herrman/New York Times)

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Clearsky researchers say Hezbollah's cyber unit Lebanese Cedar hacked 250+ unpatched Atlassian and Oracle servers at telecoms and ISPs in US, UK, Israel, more (Catalin Cimpanu/ZDNet)

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Robinhood has placed trade restrictions on more than 50 stocks as of Friday and limited the purchase of some stocks, like GameStop, to a single share (Mitchell Clark/The Verge)

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Physna, a Cincinnati-based startup developing an AI-powered 3D modeling platform for industrial engineering, raises $20M Series B led by Sequoia (Kyle Wiggers/VentureBeat)

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Satellite boom attracts technology giants Tech giants promise faster, wider access to data thanks to cheaper satellite launches. January 29, 2021 at 05:43AM

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