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Twitter updates its private information and media policy with new rules, including suspending accounts “dedicated to sharing someone else's live location” — The suspended accounts include one that followed the private plane of Elon Musk, Twitter's owner.
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| Bloomberg: |
Twitter suspends ~30 accounts sharing private jets' locations via public data, including @ElonJet, which Elon Musk had said he wouldn't ban for tracking his jet — Twitter Inc. has suspended multiple accounts that track the locations of private jets using publicly available flight data …
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| Financial Times: |
Court filing: FTX Digital Markets co-CEO Ryan Salame told The Bahamas' securities commission on November 9 that customer funds were used to cover Alameda losses — FTX executive told securities regulator crypto exchange was likely funnelling cash to Alameda trading firm
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| Bloomberg: |
Internal FTX documentation shows a GitHub account bearing the name of engineering director Nishad Singh authored code to hide Alameda's ballooning liabilities — A GitHub account bearing the name of former FTX executive Nishad Singh authored code that hid Alameda Research's ballooning liabilities …
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Livemint, Ethereum World News, The Block, CryptoPotato, and Micky
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| Dave Lee / Financial Times: |
Filing: Elon Musk sells 22M Tesla shares, worth ~$3.6B, the fourth sale since announcing his Twitter takeover and third since declaring “no further TSLA sales” — Billionaire has sold $23bn of stock in EV group since announcing Twitter takeover
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| Simon Sharwood / The Register: |
Microsoft quietly updates its TOS to prohibit crypto mining on Azure and other services without “prior written approval”, citing “disruption or even impairment” — Windows giant fears coin crafting may upend its servers — UPDATED Microsoft has quietly banned cryptocurrency mining … | Mia Sato / The Verge: |
Instagram launches a tool to help users recover hacked accounts, report impersonation accounts, and get help when they have forgotten their passwords — Instagram users who are victims of hacking now have a new way to try to claw back their account. The company announced Instagram.com/hacked today … | William Turton / Bloomberg: |
The US DOJ seized 48 websites and charged six people for allegedly running “booter” DDoS-for-hire services used to launch millions of attacks globally — The US seized dozens of internet domains and charged six people in a sting intended to bring down a network of cyberattack-for-hire services …
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Tweets: @briankrebs, @usao_losangeles, @fbianchorage, and @marckohlbrugge
| Tim Peterson / Digiday: |
Five agency executives say Netflix is delivering ~80% of the expected audience for its ad-supported tier and releasing unspent ad money; stock drops 6%+ — For as quickly as Netflix brought its ad-supported tier to market, the streamer's advertising business is off to a slow start.
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Tweets: @ahbseaborn and @anthony
| Chainalysis: |
Analysis of weekly realized gains and losses of all personal crypto wallets in 2022: UST's collapse caused $20.5B in losses, Celsius and 3AC $33B, and FTX $9B — Allow us to state the obvious: There's been a lot of doom and gloom in conversations around cryptocurrency over the last month.
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Tweets: @chainalysis, @chainalysis, and @dgwbirch
| Taryn Plumb / VentureBeat: |
Amazon Web Services, Meta, Microsoft, TomTom, and the Linux Foundation launch the Overture Maps Foundation, aiming to build interoperable, open-source map data — Think about it: Maps are fundamental to human evolution, exploration, innovation. — Since the first maps were drawn up in the 5th …
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Tweets: @linuxfoundation, @realivansanchez, @tomtom, @luis_in_brief, @bgurley, @philogb, and @psawers
| CNBC: |
After being named in an FTX lawsuit, Shaquille O'Neal says he was “just a paid spokesperson for a commercial”; Tom Brady, Steph Curry, and more were also named — Shaquille O'Neal wants to make one thing clear: He doesn't believe in crypto, if he ever did.| Bloomberg: |
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Tweets: @adamscochran, @hsakatrades, @nagaavannomayo, @emilyjnicolle, and @nagaavannomayo
| Keith Zhai / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: hoping to boost the economy, Chinese officials begin reassessing tech policies and plan to close long-running investigations against internet companies — Senior officials are setting a robust GDP growth target of more than 5% for next year as they loosen Covid rules and de-emphasize ideology| Reuters: |
Microsoft plans to roll out its “EU data boundary”, letting EU cloud customers process and store data in the region, starting with customer data, from January 1 — Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) said on Thursday its European Union cloud customers will be able to process and store parts of their data in the region from Jan. 1.
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| Zack Beauchamp / Vox: |
A look at The Managerial Revolution, a 1941 book that predicted the rise of the “managerial class” over capitalists and may help explain Elon Musk's Twitter — The long shadow of James Burnham's The Managerial Revolution. — Since the launch of the so-called “Twitter Files” …
Tweets: @pt, @greenplusane, @lemieuxlgm, @paulblu, @davidastinwalsh, @davidastinwalsh, and @czedwards
| Al Weaver / The Hill: |
The US Senate unanimously passed the No TikTok on Government Devices Act over security concerns related to the app, after 13 states imposed similar bans — The Senate on Wednesday unanimously approved legislation that would ban the use of TikTok on government phones and devices as part …
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Tweets: @sentomcotton, @seanspicer, @holmesjosh, @juliezebrak, and @brendancarrfcc
| Byron Kaye / Reuters: |
Australia's e-Safety Commissioner says Apple and Microsoft are not doing enough to stop CSAM on their services, calling the companies' responses “alarming” — An Australian regulator, after using new powers to make the tech giants share information about their methods …
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| MK Manoylov / The Block: |
Binance spokesperson Patrick Hillmann claims Changpeng Zhao has traveled to the US without publicizing it, after rumors that he could face legal difficulties — - Binance's Chief Strategy Officer and company spokesperson Patrick Hillmann said that CEO Changpeng “CZ” Zhao has been in the U.S. …
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| Kellen Browning / New York Times: |
Amazon plans to publish Crystal Dynamics' next Tomb Raider game, which is early in development, the first major, single-player game published by Amazon Games — The title will be the first major single-player game for Amazon. It is a coup for the retail giant, which has struggled to gain traction with its video game business.
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VentureBeat, GamesIndustry.biz, GeekWire, The Verge, Video Games Chronicle, Axios, IGN, KitGuru, Amazon Games, Polygon, and Eurogamer.net
Tweets: @tombraider, @discussingfilm, @wario64, @wario64, and @stephentotilo
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