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| Andrew Rummer / The Block: |
FTX's Sam Bankman-Fried insists the exchange is “fine” after Binance begins selling FTX's FTT; a recently leaked Alameda balance sheet showed $8B in liabilities — - FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried insisted his crypto exchange is “fine” after rival Binance announced it would start selling its holdings of FTX's FTT token.
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Tweets: @carolinecapital, @sbf_ftx, @sbf_ftx, @ftx_official, @sbf_ftx, @sbf_ftx, @sbf_ftx, @ki_young_ju, @milesdeutscher, @sbf_ftx, @sbf_ftx, @carolinecapital, @timccopeland, @ftx_official, @wublockchain, @versusbtc, @byzgeneral, @patio11, @wublockchain, @bennetttomlin, @bitcoinissaving, @alistairmilne, @blockchainchick, @kurtwuckertjr, @sassal0x, @patio11, @goingparabolic, @bennetttomlin, @themooncarl, @tree_of_alpha, @mikeburgersburg, @cryptoworldjosh, @aarondbennett, @satoshiflipper, @bardstocks, @imnotthewolf, @iamdcinvestor, and @iamdcinvestor
| CoinDesk: |
Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao plans to sell the remaining FTT tokens received from exiting FTX equity in 2021; FTX-linked Alameda offers to buy them for $22 each — Alameda's CEO offered to buy Binance's FTT token holdings for $22 apiece. — Binance's CEO, responding to a CoinDesk scoop …
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| Oliver Knight / CoinDesk: |
The US DOJ seized 50,676 bitcoins in 2021, now worth ~$1B, from James Zhong, who pled guilty to wire fraud for taking the coins from the Silk Road in 2012 — The bitcoins, obtained in in 2012, were valued at $3.36 billion when discovered in November; now they're worth $1.04 billion.
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| Allison Pohle / Wall Street Journal: |
Airbnb plans to show the total cost of stays including cleaning fees in its search results starting in December 2022, after announcing a fee review in May 2021 — The travel company also says it will make predeparture cleaning requirements easier for customers to find earlier in their search
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| David Pierce / The Verge: |
An interview with YouTube Shorts Director of Product Management Todd Sherman on UI challenges as YouTube rolls out the TikTok competitor to its TV apps — YouTube Shorts is working. That much Todd Sherman knows for sure. Sherman, the product manager behind YouTube's endless-scrolling …
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YouTube Official Blog, MIT Technology Review, Thurrott, Engadget, TechCrunch, 9to5Google, Deadline, Android Central, Tubefilter, Pocket-lint, Redmond Pie, and Variety
Tweets: @mattnavarra, @nealmohan, and @dcseifert
| Richard Lawler / The Verge: |
Elon Musk says Twitter handles “engaging in impersonation without clearly specifying ‘parody’ will be permanently suspended” and there will be no more warnings — Elon Musk's Twitter has a new rule for everyone with an account on Twitter to follow …
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Tweets: @elonmusk, @elonmusk, @davidsacks, @elonmusk, @elonmusk, @elonmusk, @elonmusk, @jack, @kenklippenstein, @exclamate_, @oneunderscore__, @drmistercody, @revhowardarson, @mattxiv, @jfrankensteiner, @pwnallthethings, @jack, @davidsacks, @angryblacklady, @verybadllama, @dellcam, @jacobrubashkin, @oneunderscore__, @chadloder, @daveleeft, @scottnover, @elonmusk, @goldman, @jmooallem, @nycsouthpaw, @chaser, @chadloder, @respectablelaw, @mmasnick, @willoremus, @samlymatters, @agoldmund, @jsrailton, @speterdavis, @zackbornstein, @pleasebegneiss, @oneunderscore__, @the_law_boy, @drericding, @maryltrump, @olivialilymarks, @gabejamesgames, @emilygorcenski, @rstephens, @joshtpm, @stephengraves, @brennansouhrada, @lindseyboylan, @nickstatt, @wallstreetbets, @zackvoell, and @popehat
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple expects to produce at least 3M fewer iPhone 14 units than originally anticipated in 2022, aiming to make 87M or fewer mainly due to softer demand — Apple Inc. expects to produce at least 3 million fewer iPhone 14 handsets than originally anticipated this year, according to people familiar with its plans.
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MarketWatch, Focus Taiwan, iPhone in Canada Blog, Philip Elmer‑DeWitt, iMore, Coinspeaker, MobileSyrup, Financial Times, and BGR
Tweets: @6d6f636869, @pelstrom, @antonio, @shiraovide, @carnage4life, and @debbywuintaipei
| Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
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Tweets: @samifathi_, @carnage4life, and @newsynick
| Steven Lee Myers / New York Times: |
Research: Russia reactivated its trolls and bots on Gab, Parler, Getter, and other platforms, seeking to influence the US midterms and erode support for Ukraine — Researchers have identified a series of Russian information operations to influence American elections and, perhaps, erode support for Ukraine.
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Tweets: @michaeldweiss, @ap, @ap, @holland4kansas, @samagreene, @samagreene, @sanhotree, and @samagreene
| Andrew Hayward / Decrypt: |
Some NFT marketplaces stop honoring NFT royalties, usually a ~5-10% fee set by the creator and paid by sellers on secondary market sales, rocking the community — Creators sound the alarm after the marketplace reveals its plans, which include blacklisting rivals and potentially optional royalties.
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OpenSea Blog, CoinDesk, The Information, crypto.news, CoinGape, Metaverse Post, and Cryptopolitan. Tweets: @kylebrussell
| Billy Perrigo / TIME: |
Q&A with Mastodon founder and lead developer Eugen Rochko on how decentralized social media servers mitigate hateful speech, why he built the service, and more — As Twitter changed hands at the end of October, another very similar social media site was experiencing something of an influx.
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| Washington Post: |
Sources: Donald Trump told allies that he can't leave Truth Social for Twitter because he's propping his social network up and doesn't want the site to collapse — The former president has told his allies that he can't leave his Twitter clone because he's propping it up …
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Gizmodo, Insider, and iPhone in Canada Blog
Tweets: @dandrezner, @jdawsey1, @niubi, @drvolts, @drewharwell, and @paul__armstrong
| Sankalp Phartiyal / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Elon Musk fired 90%+ of Twitter's 200+ staff in India over the weekend, including ~70% of the product and engineering team, leaving about a dozen staff — Twitter Inc. fired more than 90% of its staff in India over the weekend — part of global reductions by new owner Elon Musk …
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Business Standard, Protocol, Space Explored, The Irish Times, CNN, MobileSyrup, and The Economic Times
Tweets: @manishm, @aulia, @martinsfp, @mattnavarra, and @faseehmangi
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