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November 30, 2022, 4:35 AM

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Sara Dorn / Forbes:
Republicans Ron DeSantis, Ken Buck, Mike Lee, Marsha Blackburn, and others mention legislative action to curb Apple's app market power after Elon Musk's tweets  —  Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) on Tuesday joined a growing chorus of Republicans criticizing Apple after Twitter owner Elon Musk claimed …
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Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez / Fortune:
In an interview, SBF claims he donated about the same amount to both parties this year, but the millions he gave to Republicans were “dark” money donations  —  Sam Bankman-Fried's donations to Democrats are well documented.  In an interview released Tuesday …
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Brian Heater / TechCrunch:
Amazon unveils AWS SimSpace Weaver, a spatial computing service for developers to run real-time city-sized simulations across multiple instances  —  At this morning's re:Invent keynote in Las Vegas, Amazon unveiled AWS SimSpace Weaver, a computing service that allows developers to run city-sized simulations at scale in the cloud.
Christiana Loureiro / The Block:
IBM and Maersk plan to shutter their blockchain supply chain service TradeLens, launched in 2018, in Q1 2023; Maersk blames a lack of industry collaboration  —  - The companies made a viable platform but couldn't get a global collaboration going.  —  Danish shipping company Maersk and IBM …
Nicholas Sutrich / Android Central:
A security researcher says Anker's Eufy security cameras sent images to the cloud without user consent and could be accessed without authentication  —  Allegedly, Eufy cameras aren't as secure as they claim.  —  What you need to know  — Security researcher Paul Moore has discovered several security flaws in Eufy's cameras.
Alex Barinka / Bloomberg:
South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem signs an EO banning TikTok for state agencies, employees, and contractors using state devices over China's “security threat”  —  TikTok is now banned on government employee devices in South Dakota because the governor believes the social media app's ownership …
Donie O'Sullivan / CNN:
Twitter stopped enforcing its longstanding COVID-19 “harmful misinformation” policy on November 23; more than 11,000 accounts were suspended under the rules  —  New York (CNN Business)Twitter said it will no longer enforce its longstanding Covid misinformation policy …
Chance Miller / 9to5Mac:
Kuo estimates iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max shipments in Q4 to be 70M-75M, vs. the 80M-85M consensus, and thinks demand may “disappear” due to a recession  —  The supply and production issues plaguing the iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max are no secret at this point.
The Intercept:
Some prominent antifascist organizers and journalists have had Twitter accounts suspended in the past week, after right-wing operatives appealed to Elon Musk  —  Elon Musk claims to be “fighting for free speech in America” but the social network's new owner appears to be overseeing a purge of left-wing activists from the platform.
Bloomberg:
Sources: LedgerX, known as FTX US Derivatives, plans to make $175M available for FTX's bankruptcy, part of a $250M fund reserved for a CFTC application  —  LedgerX — one of the few corners of Sam Bankman-Fried's crumbled crypto empire that remain solvent — is preparing to make available $175 million …
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