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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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BBC, Financial Times, VICE, The Register, Insider, The Verge, WRAL TechWire, The Shortcut, Bloomberg, Gizmodo, The Free Press, MUO, Fossbytes, and The Week
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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, Ars Technica, Insider, Fortune, Boing Boing, The Hill, New York Post, @JxckS@mastodon.social, and Reclaim The Net
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| Bloomberg: |
Internal FTX documentation: a GitHub account bearing the name of former 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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The Block, Ethereum World News, and CryptoPotato
Tweets: @adamscochran, @hoffmang, @fredwalton216, @eking0x, @carnage4life, @eking0x, @gilliantan, @unusual_whales, @thestalwart, and @bennetttomlin
| Financial Times: |
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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 … | Dave Lee / Financial Times: |
Filing: Elon Musk sells 22M Tesla shares, worth almost $3.6B, his fourth sale since his Twitter takeover bid and third since tweeting “no further TSLA sales” — Billionaire has sold $23bn of stock in EV group since announcing Twitter takeover — Elon Musk has offloaded another tranche … | Tim Peterson / Digiday: |
Five agency executives say Netflix is delivering ~80% of the expected viewers for its ad-supported tier and structured its ad deals to release any unspent money — 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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Barron's Online, Neowin, Android Headlines, IndieWire, Yahoo Entertainment, The Streamable, and Tom's Guide
Tweets: @annehummert, @annehummert, @ccinephilia, @acfou, @anthony, @klendathucap, and @ahbseaborn
| Mia Sato / The Verge: |
Instagram launches a tool for getting help recovering a hacked account, accessing an account after forgetting the password, and reporting impersonation accounts — Instagram users who are victims of hacking now have a new way to try to claw back their account.
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| 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: @henereyg, @amzngamestudios, @tombraider, @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
| Chainalysis: |
An analysis of weekly realized gains and losses of personal crypto wallets in 2022: UST caused $20.5B in losses, Celsius and 3AC caused $33B, and FTX caused $9B — Allow us to state the obvious: There's been a lot of doom and gloom in conversations around cryptocurrency over the last month.| Keith Zhai / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: aiming for 5%+ economic growth in 2023, Chinese officials reassess their tech policies and plan to close lengthy investigations into 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| 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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TechCrunch, The Linux Foundation, SiliconANGLE, Thurrott, and TomTom International B.V.
Tweets: @bgurley, @linuxfoundation, @realivansanchez, @tomtom, @philogb, @psawers, and @luis_in_brief
| CNBC: |
After being named in an FTX lawsuit along with Tom Brady, Steph Curry, and Larry David, Shaquille O'Neal says he was “just a paid spokesperson for a commercial” — Shaquille O'Neal wants to make one thing clear: He doesn't believe in crypto, if he ever did.
Tweets: @quinnypig, @nycjim, @jadescipioni, @c_albertdeitch, and @jadescipioni
| Bloomberg: |
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The Block, The Block, CoinDesk, Cointelegraph, and Ethereum World News
Tweets: @adamscochran, @hsakatrades, @nagaavannomayo, @emilyjnicolle, and @nagaavannomayo
| 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, Android Police, Thurrott, 9to5Google, The Ambient, Phone Scoop, ZDNet, TechHive, SlashGear, MUO, Engadget, Tom's Guide, Gizmodo, 9to5Google, Android Headlines, and Pocket-lint
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft adds full Teams integration to HoloLens 2 headsets, letting users view calendars and more, the first major update since co-creator Alex Kipman left — Microsoft has long supported real-time video calls using Microsoft Teams on HoloLens 2 headsets, but now the company … | 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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U.S. Department of Justice, Gizmodo, Federal Bureau …, Security Affairs, PYMNTS.com, PCMag, National Crime Agency, TechCrunch, The Hacker News, Telecoms Tech News, Tech Monitor, SecurityWeek, ZDNet, HackRead, ComputerWeekly.com, Infosecurity, and TechRadar
Tweets: @briankrebs, @marckohlbrugge, @usao_losangeles, and @fbianchorage
| David Klepper / Associated Press: |
CCDH: when researchers liked self-harm and eating disorder videos on TikTok in the US, the UK, Canada, and Australia, the app recommended more similar content — TikTok's algorithms are promoting videos about self-harm and eating disorders to vulnerable teens, according to a report published Wednesday …
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The Guardian, CBS News, Center for Countering …, New York Times, City A.M., Fast Company, VICE, The i Paper, and Firstpost Tech
Tweets: @ccdhate, @mattnavarra, @ccdhate, and @daithaigilbert
| 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.
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EU Policy Blog, Computerworld, The Register, Petri IT Knowledgebase, Neowin, BigTechWire, Towards Data Science, Thurrott, TechCrunch, Business Upturn, and Light Reading. Tweets: @juliesbrill
| 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, @bitfinexed, @prhillmann, @silvermanjacob, @wublockchain, @prhillmann, @wublockchain, and @silvermanjacob
| 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, MediaNama, AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, and iMore
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