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A look at the efforts by at least six research groups to find dirt on Twitter whistleblower Peiter Zatko, including offers to pay his former colleagues for info — Many of Peiter (Mudge) Zatko's former colleagues have received offers of payment for information about him.
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A rundown of Twitter whistleblower Peiter “Mudge” Zatko's testimony before US Senate Judiciary Committee lawmakers — A Twitter whistleblower on Tuesday testified before Congress that the company's failure to secure sensitive data causes “real harm to real people,” …
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| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Mudge details Twitter's lack of logging, ignoring hackers' ongoing efforts to access its systems, how the FTC let the company “grade its own homework”, and more — A ticking bomb of security vulnerabilities. Covering up security failures. Duping regulators and misleading lawmakers.| David McCabe / New York Times: |
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| Brady Dale / Axios: |
The US Treasury clarifies its Tornado Cash guidance and tells users who used the service for lawful transactions can apply for a license to withdraw their funds — New guidance from the U.S. Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control provides a roadmap for people who used Tornado Cash …
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| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
In an email to developers, Apple says that new App Store ad placements will be available for the 2022 holiday season — - Apple is planning to release new ad “placements” as soon as the holiday season of this year. — The new ad units represent a significant expansion in Apple's advertising inventory …
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XDA Developers, 9to5Mac, and AppleInsider
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| Adam Blacker / Apptopia Blog: |
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After surprising CPI data, the Nasdaq closes down 5.16%, Nvidia down 9.47%, Meta down 9.37%, Coinbase down 8.84%, Amazon down 7.06%; BTC fell 9%+ in 24 hours — Stocks fell sharply on Tuesday after a key August inflation report came in hotter than expected, hurting investor optimism …
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MacDailyNews, Coinspeaker, CWS Market Review, and Bloomberg
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| Kris Holt / Engadget: |
EA unveils EA AntiCheat, a kernel-level anti-cheat system for some PC games, coming on September 23 to take on cheat developers building kernel-level exploits — Electronic Arts is determined to keep cheaters at bay. The company has developed a kernel-level anti-cheat system for PC …
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Electronic Arts Inc., The Verge, Gizmodo, Dexerto, Neowin, Eurogamer.net, and Gearrice
Tweets: @bcarr, @doctorow, @quinnypig, @jasonct, @gossithedog, and @laffer1
| Parikshit Mishra / CoinDesk: |
Charles Schwab, Citadel Securities, Fidelity Digital Assets, and others announce cryptocurrency exchange EDX Markets, leveraging tech from US stock market MEMX — The exchange will be led by Jamil Nazarali, a former senior executive at trading giant Citadel Securities.
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| Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch: |
Meta plans to test Discord-like “Community Chats” in Messenger and Facebook Groups, offering categories, audio and video channels, admin-only chats, and more — Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced this morning that “Community Chats” are coming to Messenger and Facebook Groups.
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| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Twitter says that a preliminary count shows that shareholders have voted to approve Elon Musk's proposed $44B buyout — Twitter's shareholders have voted to approve a proposed $44 billion acquisition by Elon Musk. Reports yesterday suggested that a wide margin of approval was expected for the vote …
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| Sabrina Ortiz / ZDNet: |
Google signs a cooperative research and development agreement with the US NIST to develop new nanotechnology and semiconductor devices with open-source designs — Chips used to develop new nanotechnology and semiconductor devices oftentimes have a large price tag, posing a big obstacle for innovation.
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NIST, The Register, Reuters, SiliconANGLE, CRN, Fierce Electronics, FedScoop, and Nextgov
Tweets: @commercegov, @nist, and @research_purdue
| Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: |
Microsoft releases 63 security fixes, including patches for two zero-day flaws, one of which is being actively exploited, and five critical RCE vulnerabilities — Today is Microsoft's September 2022 Patch Tuesday, and with it comes fixes for an actively exploited Windows vulnerability and a total of 63 flaws.| Katherine Doherty / Bloomberg: |
SWIFT tests a blockchain project with crypto startup Symbiont to drive “efficiencies in communicating significant corporate events”, like dividends and mergers — SWIFT, the messaging system used by financial institutions globally to convey instructions on tens of millions … | Benjamin Mullin / New York Times: |
TCG invests $100M in Night Capital, co-founded by Mr. Beast's manager Reed Duchscher, which plans to buy DTC businesses and pair them with influential creators — Reed Duchscher, the manager of the YouTube megastar “Mr. Beast,” is teaming up with the investment firm TCG to bankroll businesses led by online creators.| Leah Nylen / Bloomberg: |
A NY federal judge dismisses the state AGs' claim that Meta and Google colluded via Jedi Blue but rules the ad tech antitrust lawsuit against Google can proceed — An antitrust suit by state attorneys general accusing Alphabet Inc.'s Google of monopolizing the technology underlying online advertising …
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SiliconANGLE, CNET, The Keyword, Reuters, CourtListener, and US District Court New York
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| Giles Turner / Bloomberg: |
UK-based Unlikely AI, founded by William Tunstall-Pedoe who helped develop several key technologies used by Amazon's Alexa, raised a $20M seed — The inventor of several key technologies used by Amazon.com Inc.'s Alexa service raised $20 million to fund a new startup in the UK.
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| Cheng Ting-Fang / Nikkei Asia: |
Sources: Apple plans to use TSMC's next generation N3E 3-nm chipmaking technology for the A17 chips in some of its 2023 iPhones and M3 chips for Macs — Move will mark industry's first adoption of updated production technology — TAIPEI — Apple aims to be the first company to use … | Kevin Collier / NBC News: |
Disinformation campaigns use text messages ahead of the 2022 US midterms; in Kansas, voters got texts falsely saying a “yes” vote would protect abortion access — The biggest election disinformation event of the 2022 midterm primaries was not an elaborate Russian troll scheme that played out on Twitter or Facebook.| Financial Times: |
Sources: Newport Wafer Fab's prior owner is orchestrating a bid to buy back the company, as the UK plans to tell Chinese-owned Nexperia to reduce its stake — Drew Nelson orchestrates bid for company as government plans to curb sale to Chinese-owned Nexperia
Tweets: @editorbtb, @annasophiegross, and @dylanjonesevans
| Reuters: |
GM's Cruise says it has developed four in-house chips for self-driving cars to be deployed by 2025, including an ARM-based computing chip called Horta — General Motors' (GM.N) autonomous driving unit Cruise has developed its own chips for self-driving cars to be deployed by 2025 …
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