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| Jonathan Stempel / Reuters: |
Filings: the US arrested and charged a man with commodities fraud and manipulation for trying to steal ~$110M in October by rigging DeFi platform Mango Markets — U.S. prosecutors have filed criminal charges of commodities fraud and manipulation against a man accused of trying to steal …
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| Eli Tan / CoinDesk: |
Top Solana-based NFT projects DeGods and Y00ts plan to leave the Solana network for Ethereum and Polygon, respectively; DeGods had asked for $5M to stay on SOL — DeGods will bridge over to Ethereum while its sister project Y00ts will move to Polygon with a grant from the layer 2's partnership fund.
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| Financial Times: |
BAYC, Cool Cats, Pudgy Penguins, Doodles, and other NFT projects are diversifying into real-world assets like toys, albums, and books to generate new revenue — Creators of best-selling internet collectibles have responded to a crash in the value of crypto and digital assets by seeking new revenues …
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| Wladimir Palant / Almost Secure: |
LastPass' breach update was full of lies, omitted damning info, tried to present the August 2022 incident and the data leak as two separate events, and more — Right before the holiday season, LastPass published an update on their breach. As people have speculated, this timing was likely …
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Tweets: @0xfoobar, @0xfoobar, @woonomic, and @j0hnnyxm4s
| Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
Kuo: Apple plans to ship an updated iPad mini in late 2023 or H1 2024 with a new chip as its main selling point; a foldable iPad is unlikely to replace the mini — Apple is working on a new version of the iPad mini, with mass shipments expected to start towards the end of 2023 or in the first half of 2024 …
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Tweets: @mingchikuo, @mingchikuo, @natisho, @vadimyuryev, and @saranbyte
| Ava Benny-Morrison / Bloomberg: |
Source: the DOJ launched a criminal investigation into the alleged $370M+ in assets stolen as FTX declared bankruptcy, separate from its fraud case against SBF — Federal prosecutors are investigating an alleged cybercrime that drained more than $370 million out of FTX just hours …
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PYMNTS.com, CoinDesk, CNET, SiliconANGLE, Watcher Guru, Reuters, DataBreachToday.com, Cryptopolitan, Ethereum World News, Cointelegraph, crypto.news, CryptoSlate, and CryptoPotato. Tweets: @avabmorrison
| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Q&A with YouTube Chief Product Officer Neal Mohan on buying NFL residential rights, giving creators game footage, no 4K broadcast plans, multiscreen, and more — YouTube won the big bidding war for NFL Sunday Ticket yesterday, beating out Apple, Amazon, and ESPN with a deal worth a reported $2 billion a year.
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| K Oanh Ha / Bloomberg: |
Investigation: Amazon blue-and-white plastic shipping envelopes that US and Canadian consumers discard for recycling end up being burned in Muzaffarnagar, India — Muzaffarnagar, a city about 80 miles north of New Delhi, is famous in India for two things: colonial-era freedom fighters …
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| Asa Fitch / Wall Street Journal: |
After shortages, chip inventories are swelling, mirroring the wider economy as consumers buy fewer gadgets; Susquehanna: lead times have fallen in recent months — Semiconductor companies slash production plans amid weak demand — The world is now awash in chips.| Geoffrey A. Fowler / Washington Post: |
Shadowbanning is real and social media sites should be more transparent about it; survey: nearly 1 in 10 US social media users think they've been shadowbanned — Elon Musk is right: Social media should tell you when you're shadowbanned — Art teacher Jennifer Bloomer has used Instagram … | Sujeet Indap / Financial Times: |
Lawyers working on crypto bankruptcies, such as FTX and Celsius, are charging $1,800+ per hour, leading some creditors to criticize the costs and slow progress — Advisers in Celsius case bill $52mn for four months' work — The investment bank B Riley is so determined to persuade …
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Wall Street Journal and Los Angeles Times
Tweets: @ghose77, @i_aldasoro, @frances_coppola, @chrisjbakke, and @ibd_pseitz
| New York Times: |
German researchers bought a US military device, last used in Afghanistan in 2012, with fingerprints, iris scans, and other data on 2,632 people, for $68 on eBay — German security researchers studying biometric capture devices popular with the U.S. military got more than they expected for $68 on eBay.
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