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November 9, 2022, 1:25 PM
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| Ian Allison / CoinDesk: |
Source: after looking at FTX's data and loan commitments, Binance is highly likely to scrap its acquisition; FTX was turned down by Coinbase, OKX, and others — Backing out would be one more stunning development in the collapse of Sam Bankman-Fried's crypto empire.
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Tweets: @cz_binance, @tier10k, @rajgokal, @cobie, @deitaone, @asvanevik, @cobie, @salsatekila, @functi0nzer0, @caitlinlong_, @dylanleclair_, @cobie, @mrjasonchoi, @hsakatrades, @can, @can, @mayazi, @wclementeiii, @antoniogm, @thestalwart, @aureliusbtc, @ashcryptoreal, @notalexlin, @cryptokaleo, @bunny14568256, @mikealfred, @traderkoz, @galois_capital, @dondekojo, @adamscochran, @loopifyyy, @ldrogen, @0xsisyphus, @scott_lew_is, @macnbtc, @quintenfrancois, @ashcryptoreal, @fintwit_news, @scruffur, @cryptowendyo, @ellars, @jamespmcleod, @eringriffith, @brantlymillegan, @ryansadams, @pythianism, @simondixontwitt, @algodtrading, @wallstcynic, @mayazi, @smtuffy, @mayazi, @tracyalloway, @mrjasonchoi, @punk6529, @obsoletedogma, @jack_raines, @tradermayne, @byzgeneral, @valueandtime, @trackinflation, @deitaone, @asemota, @dee_bosa, @scottmelker, @darth, and @asemota
| Tanaya Macheel / CNBC: |
Major coins are plummeting: Solana crashes 40%+ to under $17, bitcoin drops 10%+ to ~$17,000, its lowest since November 2020, and ether drops 20%+ to ~$1,150 — FTX token plunges as Binance steps in to buy the crypto exchange's non-U.S. unit: CNBC Crypto World
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Tweets: @sbf_ftx, @cz_binance, @brian_armstrong, @jerallaire, @dylanleclair_, @noahpinion, @jerallaire, @asvanevik, @matt_hougan, @wublockchain, @thestalwart, @bramcohen, @cryptohornhairs, @route2fi, @leadlagreport, @deitaone, @elerianm, @lilmoonlambo, @rovercrc, @rajgokal, @perfiliev, @flureth, @flureth, @ashcryptoreal, @investingcom, and @degenpoet
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: the SEC and CFTC are investigating FTX.com over handling customer funds and its relationship with other parts of Sam Bankman-Fried's empire — US financial regulators are investigating whether beleaguered crypto-exchange FTX.com properly handled customer funds …
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| Joshua Oliver / Financial Times: |
Memo: Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao says FTX's near collapse “severely” shook confidence in the crypto industry, offers some deal details, and halts FTT sales — Changpeng Zhao tells employees that the bailout of its chief rival is ‘not a win’ — The near collapse of FTX has …
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| Tom Maloney / Bloomberg: |
Sam Bankman-Fried's estimated $15.6B fortune has been eviscerated in days by the demise of FTX and Alameda, dropping to ~$1B, the largest one-day collapse ever — Just weeks ago, Sam Bankman-Fried was considered crypto's version of John Pierpont Morgan, willing to throw around his massive fortune to save the industry.| Shaurya Malwa / CoinDesk: |
In the wake of FTX's dramatic fall, Binance, Gate.io, KuCoin, Poloniex, Bitget, Huobi, and OKX pledge to release their Merkle tree reserve certificates — Over seven crypto exchanges will publish proof of their reserve holdings in the next month. — Crypto exchanges are now scrambling …
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PYMNTS.com, The Block, Crypto Daily, Protos, CryptoSlate, and CoinGape
| Meta: |
Mark Zuckerberg says Meta plans to lay off 13% of its staff, or 11,000+ employees, and will cut discretionary spending and extend its hiring freeze through Q1 — Mark Zuckerberg just shared the following with Meta employees: — Today I'm sharing some of the most difficult changes we've made in Meta's history.
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Tweets: @kenyafitdee, @alexleavitt, @juokaz, @willoremus, @sarthakgh, @jeffhorwitz, @gergelyorosz, and @naominixwrites
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
After rolling out Twitter's “Official” label to select high-profile accounts, Elon Musk says he “killed it” in a reply to YouTuber MKBHD — Update: Well, that was fast. The grey checks have begun to disappear following a tweet from Twitter CEO Elon Musk implying …
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Tweets: @elonmusk, @elonmusk, @esthercrawford, @esthercrawford, @esthercrawford, @elonmusk, @maxwelltani, @esthercrawford, @agoldmund, @esthercrawford, @mkbhd, @levie, @mkbhd, @caseynewton, @ditzkoff, @davezatz, @allisonlcarter, @donie, @andyj0seph, @tomcoates, @caseynewton, @malwaretechblog, @carnage4life, @goldman, @richardstaff, @revshark, @imad, @fmanjoo, @mrinaldesai, @eliothiggins, @broderick, @andylevy, @imbadatlife, @nanjala1, and @tapbot_paul
| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: TSMC plans to announce a second chipmaking factory north of Phoenix, Arizona, in the coming months, investing roughly $12B and aiming to make 3nm chips — New facility would produce cutting edge 3-nanometer semiconductors — Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. … | Jem Aswad / Variety: |
YouTube says Music and Premium together have 80M+ paying subscribers, up from 50M in September 2021, and payments to creators and others reached $50B since 2019 — It's a dramatic leap, especially for a platform where so much can be had for free, and would seem to place YouTube … | Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac: |
Apple is working on a Custom Accessibility Mode for iOS 16.2 beta 2, codenamed Clarity, helping make the iPhone's and the iPad's UI more user-friendly — Apple on Tuesday released iOS 16.2 beta 2 to developers as the company gets ready to make the update available to the public in December.| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
IBM announces its Osprey quantum processor with 433 qubits, up from 127 qubits in the 2021 Eagle processor, and plans to hit 4,000 qubits by 2025 — IBM wants to scale up its quantum computers to over 4,000 qubits by 2025 — but we're not quite there yet. For now, we have to make do with …
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| Financial Times: |
Sources: TikTok cut its 2022 revenue target from $12B-$14.5B to ~$10B in September, as some staff complain of overspending on salaries, social events, and more — Fast-growing social platform cuts ambitious goals by 20% as some staff complain of lavish spending
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Tweets: @eric_seufert, @dondekojo, @chairliftcap, and @ramah_nyang
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Google rolls out its Google One VPN to Windows and macOS in 22 countries; the service is available to Premium subscribers with 2TB+ storage — Google is bringing its VPN access to desktop today. Google One subscribers on Premium plans (2TB or higher) can now download VPN apps for Windows and macOS … | Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
An interview with CEO Dylan Field on scaling Figma, selling the company to Adobe, retaining autonomy, WebGL, making VR Figma for the metaverse, AGI, and more — We also talk about AI and VR — but we know why you're here. … Dylan Field is the co-founder and CEO of Figma … | Rebecca Elliott / Wall Street Journal: |
Filings: after taking over Twitter, Elon Musk sold 19.5M Tesla shares, worth almost $4B, between November 4-8; Musk retains a roughly 14% stake in Tesla — The sale of 19.5 million shares this month in the electric-vehicle maker follows sales in April and August
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| Nate Bek / GeekWire: |
Seattle-based Redfin lays off 862 employees, or ~13% of its workforce, and ends its home-flipping program RedfinNow; its stock is down 96%+ since February 2021 — Redfin will wind down its home-flipping program RedfinNow and lay off employees for the second time this year as it cuts expenses in response to a slowing housing market.| Thomas Germain / Gizmodo: |
Research suggests Apple collects data about iPhone usage even when the iPhone Analytics setting to “disable the sharing of Device Analytics altogether” is off — For all of Apple's talk about how private your iPhone is, the company vacuums up a lot of data about you. iPhones … | Dylan Martin / The Register: |
Intel announces a new Xeon CPU family and updated data center GPUs, both part of the Max Series lineup, set to arrive in early 2023 — x86 giant goes all-in with high-bandwidth memory — Intel's latest plan to ward off rivals from high-performance computing workloads involves a CPU …
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| James Batchelor / GamesIndustry.biz: |
Nintendo announces Nintendo Systems, a joint venture with DeNA, which co-developed Nintendo games for mobile like Super Mario Run, set to open in April 2023 — New subsidiary will open in April 2023, focusing on research and development to improve Nintendo's digital business — At a glance| James Vincent / The Verge: |
Q&A with the lawyers “challenging the legality of GitHub Copilot” through a proposed class action suit, which could have a huge impact on generative AI models — Microsoft, its subsidiary GitHub, and its business partner OpenAI have been targeted in a proposed class action lawsuit alleging …
Tweets: @jjvincent
| Ashley Capoot / CNBC: |
Roblox reports Q3 revenue up 2% YoY to $517.7M, bookings up 10% YoY to $701.7M, and DAUs up 24% YoY to 58.8M; stock drops 15%+ on a larger-than-expected loss — - Shares of Roblox fell more than 17% in premarket trading Wednesday after the company reported a third-quarter loss but beat analyst estimates for revenue.
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