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| Ryan Mac / New York Times: |
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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BuzzFeed News, Washington Post, The Hill, Insider, New York Post, Boing Boing, Reclaim The Net, @JxckS@mastodon.social, CNN, CNBC, and Semafor
Tweets: @jxcksweeney, @jason, @jxcksweeney, @rmac18, @jxcksweeney, @jxcksweeney, @jxcksweeney, @donie, @donie, @jhall, @mikeisaac, @donie, @anthony, @kenklippenstein, @growing_daniel, @sofakissen, @leo_puglisi6, @schwarz, @donie, @nickywoolf, @armystrang, @mark_dow, @pmarca, @fuckyouiquit, @faizsays, @mattbc, @ashleyfeinberg, @joshtpm, @peterbcampbell, @tweetermeyer, @pmarca, @mattnavarra, @goldengateblond, @juliusgoat, @intelcrab, @noupside, @tree_of_alpha, @tszzl, @aravosis, @mehdirhasan, @goldman, @dcwoodruff, @cubanjet, @samfbiddle, @mehdirhasan, @michaeldweiss, @nicoleperlroth, @r0wdy_, @andylevy, @bobbybigwheel, @gergelyorosz, @rmac18, @willoremus, @thedailybanter, @shannonpareil, @samfbiddle, @rschooley, @mollyjongfast, @snazzyq, @georgehahn, @nikkimcr, @justinbaragona, @oalexanderdk, @moskov, and @pwnallthethings
| 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, The Block, CryptoPotato, Ethereum World News, and Micky
Tweets: @adamscochran, @hoffmang, @fredwalton216, @eking0x, @carnage4life, @eking0x, @gilliantan, @unusual_whales, @thestalwart, and @bennetttomlin
| 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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| 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 … | 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
| 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 …
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Tweets: @mattnavarra and @mattnavarra
| Kellen Browning / New York Times: |
Amazon Games plans to publish Crystal Dynamics' next Tomb Raider, marking Amazon's first major, single-player game, currently in early development — 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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Tweets: @tombraider, @henereyg, @amzngamestudios, @discussingfilm, @wario64, @wario64, and @stephentotilo
| Al Weaver / The Hill: |
The US Senate unanimously passes the No TikTok on Government Devices Act over security concerns about China-based ByteDance, after 13 states set 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: @seanspicer, @holmesjosh, @sentomcotton, @juliezebrak, and @brendancarrfcc
| 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
| 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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crypto.news, The Block, Crypto Daily, and Cointelegraph
Tweets: @chainalysis, @chainalysis, and @dgwbirch
| 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
| 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
| 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 from January 1, starting with customer data — 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.| Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge: |
Google finishes rolling out the Matter smart home standard to Android and Nest, following Apple and Samsung; Amazon plans to support Matter by the end of 2022 — Google announced today that it has completed the initial rollout of Matter to its Google Nest products and Android OS.
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The Keyword, Thurrott, 9to5Google, Android Police, ZDNet, TechHive, Engadget, Gizmodo, 9to5Google, The Ambient, MUO, Pocket-lint, Tom's Guide, and Android Headlines
| Byron Kaye / Reuters: |
Australia's e-Safety Commissioner says Apple and Microsoft are not doing enough to stop CSAM on their storage services, calling their responses “alarming” — An Australian regulator, after using new powers to make the tech giants share information about their methods …
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eSafety Commissioner, Bloomberg, MacDailyNews, 9to5Mac, AppleInsider, eSafety Commissioner, MediaNama, and iMore
| Zack Beauchamp / Vox: |
A look at The Managerial Revolution, a book from 1941 predicting the “managerial class” supplanting capitalists, which could 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: @greenplusane, @lemieuxlgm, @paulblu, @davidastinwalsh, @davidastinwalsh, @czedwards, and @pt
| MK Manoylov / The Block: |
Binance's 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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Gizmodo. Tweets: @prhillmann, @cz_binance, @prhillmann, @silvermanjacob, @wublockchain, @prhillmann, @silvermanjacob, and @wublockchain
| Sofia Pitt / CNBC: |
Roblox's stock drops 16% after reporting November bookings up 5%-7% to $222M-$225M, far below 22% to 25% company estimates; average bookings per DAU drop 7%-9% — - Roblox revenue, which it calls booking growth, declined year-over-year due to the strength of the U.S. dollar.
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