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| Taylor Lorenz / Washington Post: |
Twitter will offer a “general amnesty” next week to suspended accounts that “have not broken the law or engaged in egregious spam” after 72% vote yes in a poll — The Twitter chief says he will reinstate accounts suspended for harassment, abuse and misinformation beginning next week.
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| Zoë Schiffer / @zoeschiffer: |
Source: Twitter abruptly fired around 50 engineers and warned dozens more on the evening before Thanksgiving; some were told their “code is not satisfactory” — Hearing that roughly 50 Twitter engineers were abruptly fired last night and dozens more received warnings: https://twitter.com/...
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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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| Luke Plunkett / Kotaku: |
Mercedes plans to charge $1,200 per year for “Acceleration Increase” in its EVs; Volkswagen, Toyota, and GM have all trialed similar subscription-based features — Mercedes are charging $1200 a year for an “Acceleration Increase” — For a few years now some car companies …
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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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| 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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| 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
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| James Vincent / The Verge: |
Stable Diffusion 2.0 makes it harder to mimic some artists' styles or generate NSFW output; Stability AI says NSFW images were removed from its training data — Users of AI image generator Stable Diffusion are angry about an update to the software that “nerfs” its ability to generate NSFW output …
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| Bill Cusick / Stability.Ai: |
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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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| Kris Holt / Engadget: |
Google's Project Zero reported five security flaws in devices with Mali GPUs in the summer, but Samsung, Xiaomi, Google, and others are yet to release patches — Google has disclosed several security flaws for phones that have Mali GPUs, such as those with Exynos chipsets.| Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: |
UK police, Europol, Dutch police, and others dismantle online phone number spoofing service iSpoof and arrest 146 people, including the suspected mastermind — The ‘iSpoof’ online spoofing service has been dismantled following an international law enforcement investigation that also led …
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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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Engadget, TESLARATI, CNBC, MobileSyrup, Electrek, Bloomberg, Pocket-lint, Neowin, Coinspeaker, Redmond Pie, TechCrunch, Mashable, and Reuters
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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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