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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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Wall Street Journal, Insider, Bloomberg, Associated Press, Forbes, The Economic Times, The Guardian, Engadget, Financial Times, City A.M., Variety, Deadline, Insider, and 9to5Mac
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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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Uniswap Protocol, ConsenSys, Decrypt, Cointelegraph, Ethereum World News, Cryptonews, crypto.news, Blockworks, The Block, Decrypt, CoinDesk, CryptoSlate, and Coinpedia Fintech News
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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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| 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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| 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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Cointelegraph, Bitcoin News, 2nd Smartest Guy in the World, crypto.news, Cryptonews, Crypto Daily, CoinGape, and Forkast
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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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| James Vincent / The Verge: |
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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.| Josh Sisco / Politico: |
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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Forbes, Game Developer, HotHardware, Polygon, Windows Central, WinBuzzer, GamesIndustry.biz, PCMag, iPhone in Canada Blog, Pure Xbox, Pocket Gamer.biz, Pocket-lint, MSPoweruser, Coinspeaker, TrueAchievements, TechSpot, Rock, Paper, Shotgun, GamingBolt, Engadget, Video Games Chronicle, Gameranx, Kotaku, Appuals.com, TheGamer, PC Games Insider, The Jacob Wolf Report, Businesskorea, Game Rant, GameSpot, Wccftech, Ars Technica, The Verge, Reuters, IGN, Windows Central, Daring Fireball, and BGR
| 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 … | 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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BBC, Europol, Mynewsdesk, TechCrunch, Tech Monitor, The Block, ZDNet, Candid.Technology, Infosecurity, City A.M., The Guardian, Press Association, Telegraph, Daily Mail, and Bloomberg
Tweets: @alexmartin, @metpoliceuk, and @metpoliceuk
| 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, Pocket-lint, Electrek, Bloomberg, Coinspeaker, Neowin, TechCrunch, Redmond Pie, Notebookcheck.net, Mashable, and Reuters
Tweets: @elonmusk, @ketanj0, and @frank_thelen
| 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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Protos, Bloomberg, Newser, CoinGape, Coinpedia Fintech News, and Insider
Tweets: @epsilontheory, @mikeburgersburg, @jbarro, @ericliptonnyt, @trengriffin, @blmckean, @mcelarier, @hhunter_us, @nytimes, @iankar_, and @mayazi
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