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| Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: |
SBF claims FTX had ~$60B in collateral in spring 2022, before a credit squeeze, market selloff, and “run on the bank” reduced it to $9B and led to bankruptcy — The former FTX CEO did not address concerns about customer funds being misappropriated or other recent revelations about the company.
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| Berber Jin / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Sequoia apologized to its fund investors for the $150M lost on its FTX bet and details plans to improve its due diligence process on new investments — Venture-capital firm tells fund investors that it will improve due diligence on future investments after $150 million loss on crypto exchange
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| Ken Sweet / Associated Press: |
In a bankruptcy hearing, FTX lawyers say a “substantial amount” of assets have been stolen from accounts; client names and addresses will be redacted for now — Lawyers for FTX disclosed Tuesday that a “substantial amount” of assets has been stolen from the accounts …
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: hundreds of Foxconn workers at the iPhone plant in Zhengzhou clashed with security guards as protests erupted over unpaid wages and COVID-19 fears — Hundreds of workers at Apple Inc.'s main iPhone-making plant in China clashed with security personnel, as tensions boiled over after almost …
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| AJ Vicens / CyberScoop: |
In its Q3 Adversarial Threat Report, Meta attributes a pro-US campaign to US military-run phony Facebook accounts, Pages, Groups, and Instagram accounts — People associated with the U.S. military were behind dozens of phony Facebook accounts, more than a dozen pages, a pair of groups …
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| Jeff Horwitz / Wall Street Journal: |
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| New York Times: |
Since Elon Musk's takeover, sources say Twitter has in some cases chosen not to pay vendors, as it reviews and renegotiates deals to cut expenses — Mr. Musk and his advisers are examining all types of expenses at Twitter. Some of the social media company's vendors have gotten stiffed.| Liz Hoffman / Semafor: |
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| Alex Heath / The Verge: |
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| Washington Post: |
Pathmatics: over a third of Twitter's top 100 clients, including Mars and Jeep, as well as 14 of the top 50, haven't advertised on Twitter in the past two weeks — More than a third of Twitter's top 100 clients have not advertised on the platform in the past two weeks, data shows
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| Cecilia D'Anastasio / Bloomberg: |
Amazon's Twitch makes changes to address child predation concerns, including mandatory phone verification and improving account termination for users under 13 — Twitch, the video game livestreaming site popular with teens and kids, announced changes it's making on the platform to increase safety …
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Genesis Global has $2.8B in outstanding loans, including ~30% of its lending made to related parties like its parent company DCG — The troubled brokerage Genesis Global has $2.8 billion in outstanding loans on its balance sheet, with about 30% of its lending made to related parties including …
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| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
Windows Subsystem for Linux is now generally available for Windows 10 and 11 via the Microsoft Store, as Microsoft makes the Store version of WSL the default — Microsoft announced today that the Store version of Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) is generally available for Windows 10 and 11 customers.
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| Denny Jacob / Wall Street Journal: |
HP plans to lay off 4,000-6,000 employees, or up to ~10% of its workforce, over the next three years, aiming to achieve $1.4B in annualized cost savings — Dell warns of a worsening decline after a 17% drop in third-quarter laptop and desktop sales — HP Inc. HPQ 0.75%increase …
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| Taylor Lorenz / Washington Post: |
An interview with @dril on Elon Musk's Twitter, which he says is “a work in progress”, like Hyperloop, and will be a “beautiful thing at the end of the day” — The ‘patron saint of the internet’ tells The Post he'll never pay for verification but will learn to code if Musk offers him a job
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| New York Times: |
New York becomes the first US state to restrict crypto-mining as Gov. Kathy Hochul signs a bill imposing a two-year moratorium on permits at fossil fuel plants — National cryptocurrency industry groups had lobbied Gov. Kathy Hochul to veto the environmental ban, fearful that other states could follow New York's lead.
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Tweets: @periannedc, @pt, @nytimes, @danielsgoldman, @bradlander, @andrewgiambrone, @sethmpk, @sunjeevbery, and @luisferre
| Julian Mark / Washington Post: |
Digital World Acquisition Corp. says investors voted to extend the deadline to merge with Truth Social to September 2023, pending an investigation by regulators — The move by shareholders of the company that would merge with Trump Media & Technology Group buys time as regulators investigate the proposed deal.| Mark Sweney / The Guardian: |
The UK's National Audit Office says a 2% digital services tax on the gross revenue of Amazon, Apple, and other US giants reaped almost £360M in its first year — Figure raised exceeds what most of the digital businesses have been paying in UK corporation taxSponsor Posts
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