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Researchers: China seems to be flooding Twitter with porn tweets mentioning places where people are protesting, overwhelming Twitter's reduced moderation team — For hours, links to adult content overwhelmed other posts from cities where dramatic rallies escalated
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Elon Musk claims “all-time high” Twitter signups, averaging 2M+/day in the seven days to November 16, up 66% YoY, and user active minutes of ~8B/day, up 30% YoY — Nov 27 (Reuters) - Twitter Inc Chief Executive Elon Musk has said that new user signups to the social media platform are at an … | Vlad Savov / Bloomberg: |
Source: turmoil at Foxconn's Zhengzhou hub is likely to lower iPhone 14 Pro production by close to 6M units in 2022, potentially worsening if lockdowns continue — Turmoil at Apple Inc.'s key manufacturing hub of Zhengzhou is likely to result in a production shortfall of close …
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EU lawmakers claim the Markets in Crypto Assets rules, expected to be approved in 2023, would prevent an FTX-like crash, but some say the proposal needs updates — The cryptocurrency world is reeling after the collapse of crypto exchange FTX — but EU policymakers are patting themselves on the back.| Bloomberg: |
Coinbase names four executives, covering Ireland, Germany, the UK, and EMEA, to lead its expansion in Europe — Coinbase Global Inc. has strengthened its European senior ranks to help lead its expansion plans in the region even as conditions for cryptocurrency exchanges continue to toughen globally.| Charley Adams / BBC: |
The UK plans to criminalize self-harm content in the updated Online Safety Bill, in line with suicide content, after the death of teenager Molly Russell in 2017 — The encouragement of self-harm will be criminalised in an update to the Online Safety Bill, the government has said.
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New Zealand says Twitter failed to detect or remove clips from the 2019 Christchurch terror attack until the government alerted the company — Footage was taken down only after the New Zealand government alerted Twitter, which had failed to pick up the content as harmful
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Yahoo takes a ~25% stake in Taboola and plans to use Taboola's ad tech as part of a 30-year exclusive deal expected to generate $1B+ in annual revenue — Yahoo's chief executive sees the deal as a long-term bet on digital advertising. The companies estimate that their ad partnership will generate $1 billion annually.| Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: |
WhatsApp begins rolling out a Message Yourself feature, letting users send notes, reminders, and shopping lists to themselves — WhatsApp has started rolling out a feature to let you chat with yourself. Sending messages to your own account can be a way to keep a piece of information easily accessible …
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A look at OpenAI's Minecraft bot, which has learned to complete complex tasks in Minecraft after being trained on 70K hours of video of people playing the game — Online videos are a vast and untapped source of training data—and OpenAI says it has a new way to use it.| Ben Bartenstein / Bloomberg: |
Sources: the fall of FTX, one of the first companies to receive a license in Dubai, prompts concerns from UAE officials over embracing crypto too quickly — On Oct. 26, days before the collapse of his crypto exchange FTX, Sam Bankman-Fried sat for lunch at an upscale Dubai restaurant …
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| Eliza Gkritsi / CoinDesk: |
Paris-based Kiln, an Ethereum “staking-as-a-service” startup, raised a €17M Series A from Consensys and more; Kiln has $500M+ of staked assets under management — The Paris-based startup is betting on the growth of staking services after Ethereum's Merge.
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The UK government asks its departments to stop installing Chinese surveillance cameras at sensitive sites, after calls to ban devices from Hikvision and Dahua — Hong Kong CNN Business — Hikvision, a leading Chinese surveillance company, has denied suggestions that it poses a threat … | Todd Shields / Bloomberg: |
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