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Twitter suspends ~30 accounts that shared the locations of private jets from public data; @ElonJet, a bot tracking Musk's jet, is back up after a brief ban — Twitter Inc. has suspended multiple accounts that track the locations of private jets using publicly available flight data …
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| Ryan Mac / New York Times: |
Twitter updates its private information and media policy with new rules, including the suspension of accounts “dedicated to sharing someone's live location” — The suspended accounts include one that followed the private plane of Elon Musk, Twitter's owner.
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| Kat Tenbarge / NBC News: |
The SEC charges eight influencers with securities fraud, allegedly using Twitter and Discord to manipulate stocks since at least January 2020 in a ~$100M scheme — The Securities and Exchange Commission has charged eight influencers with securities fraud, the agency said Wednesday.
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Tesla rolls out an update, adding support for Steam on 2022 Model S and Model X vehicles or newer with 16GB of RAM, Apple Music, upgraded Light Show, and more — Tesla's new “Holiday Update” adds a few long-awaited new features, including the ability to play games from Steam in your car and support for Apple Music.
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Tweets: @tesla, @elonmusk, @tesla, @tesla, @tesla, @keffals, @silvermanjacob, @notateslaapp, and @ordinarygamers
| Jamie Crawley / CoinDesk: |
US Senators Elizabeth Warren (D) and Roger Marshall (R) introduce the Digital Asset Anti-Money Laundering Act, including KYC requirements for wallets and miners — The proposal will bring know-your-customer rules to crypto participants such as wallet providers and miners.| Matt Levine / Bloomberg: |
The SEC sees SBF's “carelessness” argument, after misrepresenting risk management and funneling customer money to Alameda, as a confession, not a fraud defense — Oh Sam — I. — Here is how you run a futures exchange: — You offer some bets on some propositions, say, whether Bitcoin will go up or down.
Tweets: @qasimrashid, @bruno_j_navarro, @matt_cassidy, @imagethief, @matt_cassidy, @70sbachchan, @crypto, @rationalwalk, and @eliotwb
| Bloomberg: |
Interviews with dozens of Elon Musk's former employees and partners portray his Twitter as a Shakespearean psychodrama, resulting in something close to disaster — It was Day 5 of Elon Musk's riveting, rambunctious takeover of Twitter Inc. The owner and self-proclaimed Chief Twit had spent …
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Tweets: @ericgeller, @business, @daveyalba, @daveyalba, @carlquintanilla, @daveyalba, and @sarahfrier
| Igor Bonifacic / Engadget: |
Twitter plans to shut down its newsletter platform Revue and delete all related data on January 18, 2023, after acquiring the company in January 2021 — One day after Jack Dorsey took to Revue to share his thoughts on the Twitter Files, the company announced it would shut down the newsletter platform early next year.
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Revue Help Center, CNET, Adweek, BGR, TechCrunch, The Verge, and @caseynewton@mastodon.social
Tweets: @jacobwolf, @jacobwolf, @substackinc, @northmantrader, @ianpinnell, @stephenrobles, @johnonolan, and @martinsfp
| Meghan Bobrowsky / Wall Street Journal: |
As Tesla's stock drops ~60% in 2022, on pace for its worst year on record, investors criticize Elon Musk's involvement in Twitter and his lack of focus on Tesla — Supporters of Tesla and Musk are asking questions about who is running the electric-vehicle maker
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| Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez / Fortune: |
PayPal launches an integration with the MetaMask Web3 wallet that lets users purchase and transfer ether, rolling out to all US customers in the coming weeks — Users of the popular MetaMask Web3 wallet will soon be able to buy the second-most-popular cryptocurrency, Ether, via PayPal.
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ConsenSys, CoinDesk, Blockworks, Metaverse Post, Decrypt, The Block, and ToolsForCrypto's Newsletter
| Bloomberg: |
Memo: Changpeng Zhao warns Binance staff to expect a “bumpy” several months but that the exchange “will survive any crypto winter”, after huge user withdrawals — Binance Holdings Ltd. Chief Executive Officer Changpeng Zhao warned his colleagues to expect tough months ahead …
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Decrypt, Bitcoinist.com, CoinDesk, Bitcoin News, Bloomberg, The Guardian, Crypto Adventure, CNBC, The Information, NewsBTC, Ethereum World News, Crypto Daily, and CryptoGlobe
Tweets: @cz_binance, @spideycyp_155, @bitfinexed, @cz_binance, @cz_binance, @cryptotea_, @cryptomanran, @binance, and @crypto_crib_
| Financial Times: |
Sources: Arm concludes Alibaba and other Chinese companies can't buy its high-performance Neoverse V chip tech as the US and the UK would not approve its export — Alibaba among groups unable to purchase top designs — Alibaba, the Chinese tech giant, cannot buy some of the most advanced chip designs …
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iTnews, Tom's Hardware, Liliputing, WinBuzzer, and The Register
Tweets: @annasophiegross, @mattocko, @byron_wan, @chadbown, @sariarhohavren, @martijnrasser, and @lukolejnik
| Wall Street Journal: |
Tether plans to stop secured loans issued and denominated in its tether stablecoin at some point in 2023, after WSJ reported on the potentially risky practice — The rapid growth of Tether's lending program raised concerns about its ability to meet redemptions in a crisis — Created with sketchtool.
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Tweets: @tether_to, @jp_koning, @wublockchain, @stevenkelly49, and @rudegeair
| Bloomberg: |
Despite pledges, FEC filings show AT&T, Amazon, Intel, Comcast, and others quietly restarted donations to Republican election deniers ahead of the 2022 midterms — Some of the biggest technology and telecom companies jettisoned pledges made in the wake of the US Capitol assault …
Tweets: @birnbaum_e, @wbenjaminson, @accountable_us, @dinabass, @birnbaum_e, and @davidjoachim
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
EnCharge AI, which offers hardware and software to accelerate AI processing at the edge, emerges from stealth with a $21.7M Series A led by Anzu Partners — EnCharge AI, a company building hardware to accelerate AI processing at the edge, today emerged from stealth with $21.7 million in Series …
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SiliconANGLE and Reuters
| Dan Taylor / Tech.eu: |
UK-based Pragmatic, a semiconductor startup that produces flexible integrated circuits, raised a $35M Series C extension, bringing the round's total to $125M — Cambridge-based semiconductor firm Pragmatic is making flexible integrated circuits, all sans silicon. And has caught the investment eye of the CIA.
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SiliconANGLE, Business Live, Pragmatic Semiconductor, The Times, and FinSMEs
| Reuters: |
Sources: some US banks that lent Elon Musk $13B to buy Twitter plan to book losses on the loans this quarter, as investors shy away from buying risky debt — Some of the banks that lent Elon Musk $13 billion to buy Twitter are preparing to book losses on the loans this quarter … | Cat Zakrzewski / Washington Post: |
A tech industry group including Google and Meta sues to block California's Age-Appropriate Design Code Act, saying it would result in content “over-moderation” — It's the latest legal salvo over the future of social media regulation, an issue that has been appealed to the Supreme Court.
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New York Times, CNBC, California Globe, and The Hill
Tweets: @ktdayg, @misterfergusson, @cunning_jordan, @kingjen, @netchoice, and @cat_zakrzewski
| Reuters: |
An investigation outlines the global supply chain that continues to feed Russia with Western components and electronics, including from Intel, AMD, and Infineon — In March this year, a new firm appeared in Turkey's corporate registry. Azu International Ltd Sti described itself …
Tweets: @paulg, @sambendett, @agathedemarais, @mironov_fm, @kofmanmichael, @leonidragozin, and @hoanssolo
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