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| Joshua Oliver / Financial Times: |
FTX plans to recoup political donations by Sam Bankman-Fried and his associates, estimated at $70M+ in the 2021-2022 election cycle, to help repay creditors — Crypto group's new management says if funds are not returned voluntarily it will pursue recipients in court
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| Washington Post: |
Source: Sam Bankman-Fried agrees voluntarily to be extradited to the US, where he faces criminal and civil charges like conspiracy, fraud, and money laundering — Former crypto CEO's decision could expedite the criminal and civil cases against him — NASSAU, Bahamas …
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| Tracy Wang / CoinDesk: |
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| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Twitter pilots Blue for Business with select businesses, helping companies identify employees via an additional badge, but doesn't share other perks and pricing — Twitter launched “Blue for Business” last week alongside relaunching Twitter Blue. At that time, the social network had assigned a gold checkmark to businesses.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
As US lawmakers considered adding antitrust bills to the omnibus spending package, tech trade group CCIA, Meta, Amazon, and more ramped up opposition to them — Industry has spent more than $100 million to fight antitrust measures and other bills in Congress — How Apple's iPhone and Apps Trap You in a Walled Garden
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| Vlad Savov / Bloomberg: |
Replying to a tweet suggesting voting on Twitter policy decisions should be restricted to Blue subscribers, Elon Musk says “Twitter will make that change” — Elon Musk is actively searching for a new chief executive officer for Twitter Inc., CNBC's David Faber reported …
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| Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: |
Over 100 BTC claimed to be inaccessible was moved out of cold wallets tied to QuadrigaCX, the exchange that went bankrupt in 2019 after its CEO allegedly died — More than 100 BTC tied to QuadrigaCX moved out of cold storage wallets over the weekend. Quadriga's bankruptcy trustee …
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| Sam Schechner / Wall Street Journal: |
Amazon agrees to settle two EU antitrust cases related to third-party sellers on its platform, won't pay a fine, and will adhere to commitments for seven years — Amazon.com Inc. has agreed to settle two European Union antitrust cases related to allegations about its treatment of third-party sellers …
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| Thomas Brewster / Forbes: |
The DEA finds a Mexico-based methamphetamine and cocaine gang operating across the US, Mexico, Europe, and Australia used Binance to launder $15M to $40M — A methamphetamine and cocaine gang operating across the U.S., Mexico, Europe and Australia used the world's biggest cryptocurrency exchange Binance … | Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
TikTok begins telling users why a video was recommended in the For You feed, such as previous interactions or followed accounts — TikTok is launching a new feature that allows users to see why a particular video was recommended to them in their For You feed, the company announced on Tuesday.| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
Apple fixes a macOS vulnerability, reported by Microsoft, that let attackers bypass Gatekeeper, a feature that checks if apps are notarized and developer-signed — Apple has fixed a vulnerability attackers could leverage to deploy malware on vulnerable macOS devices via untrusted applications capable … | Norman Harsono / Bloomberg: |
Changpeng Zhao confirms Binance acquired the remaining 49% stake in Indonesian crypto exchange Tokocrypto; the unit will cut 58% of jobs and replace its CEO — Binance Holdings Ltd.'s Indonesian unit is cutting jobs and replacing its top executive after the parent company took nearly full control over it.
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CoinDesk, Inside Bitcoins, Livemint, The Block, Tech in Asia, CryptoPotato, Cointelegraph, and DealStreetAsia. Tweets: @cz_binance
| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Mastodon CEO Eugen Rochko says the social network reached 2.5M MAUs in November, up from around 300,000 in October, as Twitter users flee the service — Mastodon, a decentralized social media platform that many are turning to as a Twitter alternative, saw its userbase skyrocket …
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Official Mastodon Blog, PCMag, MUO, KnowTechie, and Neowin
Tweets: @mattcassinelli, @mr_james_c, @mr_james_c, @parismarx, @sandofsky, and @werty
| Rolfe Winkler / Wall Street Journal: |
BetterHelp, Cerebral, and other digital mental health companies are failing to offer quality care due to unprofessional therapists, a pressure to grow, and more — Heavy advertising and other strategies from Silicon Valley's playbook boost providers' growth but not the quality of care| New York Times: |
An analysis shows how Chinese-language bots on Twitter drowned out tweets about protests over China's zero-COVID-19 policy, as people sought to evade censors — Twitter and its new owner, Elon Musk, have recently vowed to crack down on bots. But the flood of spam for Chinese users …
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Stanford Internet Observatory and SpyTalk
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| Cheng Ting-Fang / Nikkei Asia: |
Sources: in a first, Apple plans to move some MacBook production to Vietnam in 2023, asking Foxconn to begin as early as May, to further diversify from China — iPhone maker aims to have ‘out of China’ production alternatives for key products — TAIPEI — Apple plans to move …
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MacRumors, 9to5Mac, BGR India, CNBC, Wccftech, Appuals.com, AppleInsider, iMore, Pandaily, Apple Must, WRAL TechWire, and Silicon UK
Tweets: @dancollins2011, @jeff4malaysia, and @kentaro_iwamoto
| Tabby Kinder / Financial Times: |
A drop in VC deals and a slow IPO market are pushing tech startups to debt-based options; Preqin shows new VC deals fell 42% YoY to $286B in January to November — Tech founders seek creative financing solutions to sustain their businesses as venture capital dries up
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| Jeff Kauflin / Forbes: |
A profile of London-based crypto trading firm Wintermute in the aftermath of UST and FTX's implosion and a $160M hack, as revenues dramatically decline in 2022 — By deftly navigating crypto's frontier markets and winning big on the collapse of Terra's stable coin, Wintermute has grown …
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The Block. Tweets: @lsukernik, @jeffkauflin, @jeffkauflin, @blockanalia, @avi_eisen, @jeffkauflin, @jeffkauflin, and @avi_eisen
| Stacey Higginbotham / Stacey on IoT: |
Amazon rolls out the Matter smart home standard over Wi-Fi to 17 Echo devices, including Echo Dot (5th Gen) and Echo (4th Gen), for users with Android phones — Amazon says it has started supporting the Matter smart home interoperability protocol over Wi-Fi on many of its Echo devices effective Monday.
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