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Sam Bankman-Fried appears in NY federal court charged with wire fraud and other crimes; a judge grants a $250M bail confining him to his parents' Palo Alto home — Sam Bankman-Fried will be released on a $250 million bond package while he awaits trial on fraud charges related to the collapse …
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| Emily Baker-White / Forbes: |
ByteDance fired four employees after finding in a probe they accessed data on US TikTok users, including reporters, while trying to learn the sources of a story — ByteDance confirmed it used TikTok to monitor journalists' physical location using their IP addresses, as first reported by Forbes in October.
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| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
LastPass says a threat actor stole a backup copy of its customers' encrypted vault data using cloud storage keys stolen from a LastPass employee in August 2022 — Password manager giant LastPass has confirmed that cybercriminals stole its customers' encrypted password vaults …
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| Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch: |
Twitter begins rolling out publicly visible tweet view counts, expanding on private analytics; Elon Musk says view counts will help show how “alive Twitter is” — Twitter is rolling out a feature that shows how many people view your tweets, similar to features on platforms … | Brayden Lindrea / Cointelegraph: |
Twitter improves its $Cashtags to include stock, ETF, and crypto price charts sourced from TradingView within its search results, plus a View on Robinhood link — Twitter searches for “$Bitcoin,” “Bitcoin price” and “BTC price” pulls up a price chart, with equivalent searches working for Ethereum too.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
YouTube buys NFL Sunday Ticket's residential rights for seven years, sources say for ~$2B/year; DirecTV paid $1.5B/year for residential and commercial rights — Video streamer to pay annual fee of roughly $2 billion under seven-year deal — Created with sketchtool.
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| Sam Reynolds / CoinDesk: |
The SEC's complaint against Caroline Ellison and Gary Wang classifies FTX's FTT token as a security since it was “offered and sold as an investment contract” — Complaint against Alameda's Caroline Ellison and FTX's Gary Wang contains allegations that FTX's exchange token, FTT, constitutes an investment contract.
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| Joanna Ossinger / Bloomberg: |
Crypto exchange Bullish, backed by Peter Thiel, and Far Peak, a SPAC led by ex-NYSE President Thomas Farley, call off their planned $9B merger announced in 2021 — Cryptocurrency exchange Bullish and special-purpose acquisition company Far Peak Acquisition Corp. have called off their planned merger.
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| Bloomberg: |
President Jair Bolsonaro signs into law Brazil's first crypto framework, which defines digital assets and provides ground rules for crypto brokerages — Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro signed into law the country's first framework for cryptocurrency, with ground rules for brokerages …
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Bitcoin Magazine, crypto.news, Crypto Adventure, and The Daily Hodl
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| Davey Alba / Bloomberg: |
Research: tens of thousands of Twitter poll bot votes can cost less than $100, potentially undermining Elon Musk's move to rely on polls for company decisions — New Twitter Inc. owner Elon Musk has outsourced several controversial decisions — like whether to reinstate former US President … | Alex Thompson / Politico: |
Investigation: Eric Schmidt helps fund the salaries of over 24 Biden administration officials through the Federation of American Scientists and Schmidt Futures — Eric Schmidt, the former CEO of Google who has long sought influence over White House science policy, is helping to fund …
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| Alfred Ng / Politico: |
The Privacy Act, passed in 1974, prevents sharing citizens' data between US agencies, forcing the government to use data brokers and pay them millions per year — How an old privacy law and new security demands force Washington to rely on an industry in the crosshairs.
Tweets: @alfredwkng and @alfredwkng
| Reuters: |
Sources: aiming to appease the US government, TikTok offers to operate more of its business at arm's length and allow more outside scrutiny by Oracle and others — Popular short-video app TikTok is offering to operate more of its business at arm's length and subject it to outside scrutiny … | Alex W. Palmer / New York Times: |
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