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Sources: US prosecutors are investigating whether Sam Bankman-Fried manipulated TerraUSD and LUNA markets, leading to the cryptocurrencies' collapse in May 2022 — Federal prosecutors are investigating whether Sam Bankman-Fried and his hedge fund orchestrated trades in a way that led to the collapse of two cryptocurrencies in May.
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| Kollen Post / The Block: |
The US Senate Banking Committee calls on SBF to testify on December 14, a day after a similar House hearing; House lawmakers also threatened him with a subpoena — - The Senate committee wants Sam Bankman-Fried to testify the day after he's been told to testify in the House of Representatives …
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| Erin Woo / The Information: |
Source: Twitter plans to change Twitter Blue's $8 per month price to $11 per month on iOS, likely due to Apple's 30% App Store cut, and $7 per month on the web — Twitter has informed some employees that it plans to change the pricing of its Twitter Blue subscription product to $7 if users pay …
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| Tatum Hunter / Washington Post: |
A look at Prisma Labs' Stable Diffusion-based portrait generation app Lensa, which launched in 2018 for $36 per year and took off after adding “magic avatars” — Social media is celebrating. Artists are protesting. What's the real cost of an AI-generated portrait?
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| Yueqi Yang / Bloomberg: |
Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong expects the crypto exchange's 2022 revenue to be half “or less” of the ~$7B the company generated in 2021, as coin prices fall — Coinbase Global Inc. Chief Executive Officer Brian Armstrong said the cryptocurrency exchange's revenue is set to be cut …
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| Mike Masnick / Techdirt: |
Debunking claims on Twitter's handling of the Hunter Biden laptop story, including that Twitter engaged in election interference or violated the First Amendment — Hello! Someone has referred you to this post because you've said something quite wrong about Twitter and how it handled something to do with Hunter Biden's laptop.
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Wired UK. Tweets: @ronfilipkowski, @robpegoraro, @simonowens, @cwarzel, @theplumlinegs, @mmasnick, @bgrueskin, and @tacticalfiend
| Sami Fathi / MacRumors: |
A look at the reaction to Apple's E2EE news: the FBI is “deeply concerned” and says the change “hinders” its work while the EFF and others applaud the feature — Apple yesterday announced that end-to-end encryption is coming to even more sensitive types of iCloud data …
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Metacurity, Washington Post, Electronic Frontier Foundation, 9to5Mac, AppleInsider, S.T.O.P., iThinkDifferent, Wired, and Apple World Today
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| Kris Holt / Engadget: |
Epic launches Cabined Accounts for kids under 13 or a country's age of digital consent, asking parents for permission in Fortnite, Rocket League, and Fall Guys — It says ‘cabined accounts’ offer a ‘new way for kids to join the metaverse.’ — Epic Games is rolling out a new type of account …
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Sources: a letter by Foxconn founder Terry Gou to China's leadership, sent over a month ago during unrest in Zhengzhou, helped dismantle zero COVID-19 policies — Foxconn Technology Group founder Terry Gou warned that the government's strict policies would threaten its position in global supply chains
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| Wall Street Journal: |
How tensions grew between Salesforce co-CEOs Marc Benioff and Bret Taylor for months; sources: Benioff became frustrated about how Taylor was spending his time — Exit of Bret Taylor from role he has shared for about a year wasn't long planned — The Tech Sector Is Taking a Beating. Here's Why.
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| Elizabeth Lopatto / The Verge: |
A look at CoinDesk's blockbuster Alameda scoop that led to FTX's collapse and bankruptcy, adding to CoinDesk parent company Digital Currency Group's woes — What happens when a story has impact? … Depending on how you look at it, this is either a cautionary tale about how small and entwined …
Tweets: @annkur, @anecdotal, @charlieshrem, and @mslopatto
| Ezra Reguerra / Cointelegraph: |
Some NFTs minted on FTX now show blank images instead of the original art as the metadata points to an FTX.US domain used for a bankruptcy restructuring website — NFTs hosted on FTX platform were affected by the firm's collapse, showing blank images instead of the original art. — 191 Total views| Miles Kruppa / Wall Street Journal: |
Google plans to merge Waze's 500+ employees into its Maps group starting on December 9; Waze will remain a standalone service but CEO Neha Parikh plans to leave — Search giant to keep navigation apps separate, says no layoffs are planned — How Google Remapped the World: The Tech Behind
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| Andrew Liszewski / Gizmodo: |
Dyson announces the $949 Dyson Zone headphones, offering active noise cancellation and filters to block unwanted airborne particles, for preorder in March 2023 — The company's first audio product promises to eliminate both unwanted noise and unwanted air particles. — Alerts
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ZDNet, HotHardware, The Verge, PCMag, Tech Advisor, Engadget, Trusted Reviews, Pricebaba.com Daily, Inverse, TechSpot, T3, Gizchina, Pandaily, and Bloomberg
Tweets: @tomgara and @mikeelgan
| Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch: |
Cameo launches Cameo Kids, offering personalized videos from animated characters like Thomas the Tank Engine, Blippi, CoComelon's Nina, and Santa for $25 to $30 — Cameo today launched Cameo Kids, its new video messaging service that features personalized videos from popular animated characters …
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| Sebastian Herrera / Wall Street Journal: |
Amazon rolls out Inspire, a TikTok-like feed in its app that lets customers “like” and buy products, to select customers in the US — The tech giant joins Facebook, Google in seeking to capitalize on popularity of short-form video format — Why Amazon Sometimes Unveils Products You Can't Actually Buy| Jamshed Avari / Gadgets 360: |
Q&A with Intel EVP Raja Koduri on bringing Arc GPUs to India, Arc's roadmap and development constraints, GPU design cycles, PC form factors, and more — Having recently launched Intel's first discrete GPU lineup for gamers, Raja Koduri was in India to chat about PC gaming, AI, and future plans.| Jeremy Hill / Bloomberg: |
A US bankruptcy judge orders Celsius to return $50M of crypto deposits in non-interest bearing custody accounts, pending a decision on interest-bearing accounts — US Bankruptcy Judge Martin Glenn ordered Celsius Network LLC to return cryptocurrency that never touched the lender's interest-bearing accounts to its customers.
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Tweets: @lex_node, @mayazi, and @johnedeaton1
| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
The Pentagon awards Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and Oracle cloud contracts with a shared ceiling of $9B through 2028 under the Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability — - Of the four companies receiving cloud-computing contracts from the Pentagon, all of them had received requests for bids from the U.S. federal agency last year.| Vincent Manancourt / Politico: |
The Court of Justice of the EU rules Google must delete search results about claimants who can prove the information in the content is “manifestly inaccurate” — Claimants have to prove the information about them is ‘manifestly inaccurate.’ — People in Europe can get Google …
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Reuters, Engadget, Silicon Republic, Associated Press, CoinGape, and Bloomberg
Tweets: @dominictsz and @johnrobb
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Dutch officials plan new controls on exports of chipmaking equipment to China as soon as January, potentially impacting ASML, aligning with US efforts — Dutch officials are planning new controls on exports of chipmaking equipment to China, according to people familiar with the matter …
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Neowin, Firstpost Tech, and Fortis Novum Mundum
Tweets: @remkorteweg, @fbermingham, @bonnieglaser, @pstasiatech, and @jendeben
| Inbar Preiss / The Block: |
The European Commission proposes requiring that digital asset providers report transactions of EU-based clients to tax authorities starting on January 1, 2026 — - Companies offering EU residents crypto services will need to report on transactions to tax authorities.
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Sources: in January 2018, Alameda got a $110M loan from Skype co-founder Jaan Tallinn and a $6M loan from philanthropist Luke Ding, who back Effective Altruism — The big money behind Alameda Research, the sister trading firm of crypto exchange FTX, came from two influential backers …
Tweets: @lizrhoffman, @mikekoob, @timnitgebru, @woodhull, @timnitgebru, @lizrhoffman, @stevekrak, @timnitgebru, @timnitgebru, @billhobson1, @gully1965, @xriskology, @larskraegeling, @reedalbergotti, @blmckean, @lmatsakis, @whet, @kifleswing, @semaforben, @cryptonator1337, @reedalbergotti, @reedalbergotti, @semafor, and @prashantrao
| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
The EU sets a December 28, 2024, deadline for new smartphones, tablets, headphones, handheld game consoles, and other devices to use USB-C for wired charging — We finally have a final official deadline for when new phones sold in the European Union — including future iPhones …
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MacRumors, Engadget, AppleInsider, European Union, MobileSyrup, and Apple World Today
Tweets: @ep_singlemarket, @profschrepel, @tomwarren, and @ariannesikken
| Elisa Braun / Politico: |
A look at cybersurveillance startup Altrnativ, started by Eric Leandri, disgraced Qwant search co-founder, who was lauded as France's digital privacy defender — This story is part of the series Leaked: The Altrnativ world of cybersurveillance. Read the rest.
Tweets: @laukaya, @antoanetaroussi, and @sophieintveld
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