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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: |
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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, CryptoPotato, Ethereum World News, and Livemint
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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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| 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: |
Filing: the DOJ's US Trustee unit names nine creditors to FTX's bankruptcy committee that could shape payout plans, including units from Genesis and Wintermute — A unit of digital asset firm Genesis won a spot on an official creditors committee in the FTX bankruptcy, a panel …
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Tweets: @adamscochran, @hsakatrades, @nagaavannomayo, @emilyjnicolle, and @nagaavannomayo
| 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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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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Tweets: @mattnavarra and @mattnavarra
| 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.| 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, @tombraider, @amzngamestudios, @discussingfilm, @wario64, @wario64, and @stephentotilo
| 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
| 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
| 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| 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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| 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 … | 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
| 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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Tweets: @ccdhate, @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, BigTechWire, Thurrott, Neowin, Towards Data Science, TechCrunch, Light Reading, and Business Upturn. Tweets: @juliesbrill
| 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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