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Sources: the FTC plans to file an antitrust lawsuit to block Microsoft's $69B Activision Blizzard deal, as FTC staff are skeptical of the companies' arguments — The Federal Trade Commission is likely to file an antitrust lawsuit to block Microsoft's $69 billion takeover …
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| Carly Wanna / Bloomberg: |
Sam Bankman-Fried plans to speak at The New York Times' annual DealBook Summit on November 30; Andrew Ross Sorkin says “nothing is off limits” — In the weeks since crypto exchange FTX collapsed, questions have swirled about everything from the risk management practices …
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| Parikshit Mishra / CoinDesk: |
ConsenSys says it collects user data related to its on-chain wallet service MetaMask, following a similar announcement by decentralized exchange Uniswap — The firm said when using Infura as an RPC on MetaMask, a user's IP address and wallet address information would also be collected.
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| Bloomberg: |
Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao says the exchange aims for a ~$1B fund to buy distressed assets and plans to make another bid for bankrupt lender Voyager Digital — Binance Holdings Ltd. is aiming for a roughly $1 billion fund for the potential purchase of distressed assets in the digital-asset sector …
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| Financial Times: |
Sources: Elon Musk disbands Twitter's Brussels team, sparking compliance concern among EU officials after policy executives departed the small but vital office — Digital policy executives' departure elicits unease over adherence to EU rules on disinformation and hate speech
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| Financial Times: |
Foxconn offers ~$1,400 payouts to newly recruited Chinese workers who opt to leave its iPhone factory, aiming to quell unrest after violent clashes with police — Apple supplier apologises for ‘technical error’ after violent clashes between workers and police| Steve Lohr / New York Times: |
Frederick P. Brooks Jr., a Turing Award recipient who co-led IBM's System/360 and wrote a book cited as gospel by computer scientists, died last week at 91 — He was a lead designer of the computers that cemented IBM's dominance for decades. He later wrote a book on software engineering that became a quirky classic.
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| Bill Cusick / Stability.Ai: |
Stability AI releases Stable Diffusion 2.0, which can generate images with 512x512 and 768x768 default resolutions and upscale images to 2048x2048 — It is our pleasure to announce the open-source release of Stable Diffusion Version 2. — The original Stable Diffusion V1 led by CompVis changed …
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| Stephen Gandel / New York Times: |
FTX sister firm Alameda paid $11.5M for control of a small WA-based US-licensed bank, raising questions about why federal regulators approved the deal — Through a subsidiary, FTX invested $11.5 million in the parent company of Farmington State Bank, which has a single branch and, until this year, just three employees.
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| Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: |
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| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
Elon Musk says Tesla's Full Self-Driving Beta is now available on request to anyone in North America who has paid for the $15,000 feature — Tesla's “Full Self-Driving” Beta, which has been gradually rolling out over the past couple of years, is now available to anyone who's paid for the feature …
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Tweets: @elonmusk, @frank_thelen, and @ketanj0
| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
Microsoft says hackers used vulnerabilities in the Boa web server, discontinued in 2005 but widely used across IoT devices, to target the Indian power sector — Microsoft said today that security vulnerabilities found to impact a web server discontinued since 2005 have been used to target … | Sarah Krouse / Wall Street Journal: |
Bob Iger returns to a more competitive and challenging streaming landscape and should steer Disney+ to profitability without cannibalizing Disney's other units — Incoming CEO championed Disney+, but needs to steer streaming business toward profitability without cannibalizing other Disney units
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