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The Irish DPC fines Meta €390M over behavioral ad data violations, giving Meta three months to resolve the issues, a significant blow to Meta's EU ad business — Meta faces €390 million in fines and must find a new legal route to targeted ads, while the Irish regulator is suing …
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| New York Times: |
Coinbase agrees a $100M settlement with NY regulators over breaking anti-money-laundering laws, comprising a $50M fine and $50M for compliance; COIN jumps 9%+ — The U.S. crypto exchange will pay a $50 million fine for letting customers open accounts with few background checks and spend $50 million to improve compliance.| Aaron Holmes / The Information: |
Sources: Microsoft plans to release a version of Bing that uses OpenAI's ChatGPT tech to answer some search queries, possibly launching as soon as Q1 2023 — Microsoft could soon get a return on its $1 billion investment in OpenAI, creator of the ChatGPT chatbot, which gives humanlike text answers to questions.
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| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
A look at Samsung's TV updates in 2023: Neo QLEDs converting SDR to HDR, futuristic MicroLED TVs, improvements to The Frame, and software and AI updates — Last year, Samsung radically shook up the TV market with the introduction of its first OLED model in many years.| Nivedita Balu / Reuters: |
Memo: Salesforce plans to lay off around 10% of its staff and close some offices, expecting to incur $1.4B to $2.1B in charges for the restructuring — Salesforce Inc (CRM.N) said on Wednesday it would lay off about 10% of its employees and close some offices as a part of its restructuring plan …
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| Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica: |
Android's director of engineering said Google wants RISC-V as a “tier-1” Android architecture and shared a years-long roadmap at December 2022's RISC-V summit — Google's keynote at the RISC-V Summit promises official, polished support. — Over the holiday break …
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| Kate Conger / New York Times: |
Twitter plans to relax its longstanding ban on cause-based ads in the US and will expand the political advertising the company permits in the coming weeks — Elon Musk's social media service said it would begin to permit cause-based advertising to “facilitate public conversation around important topics.”
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| Casey Newton / Platformer: |
Twitter Product Engineering Lead Behnam Rezaei and Senior Director of HR Business Partner Katie Marcotte both resign; Marcotte was at Twitter for 10 years — ByteDance thought it had a deal with the government in August. Then came the bans — and a spying scandal
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| Shaurya Malwa / CoinDesk: |
Bonk, a Shiba Inu-themed coin on Solana issued on December 25, has risen 2,220% in the past week and 150% in the past 24 hours, offsetting some of SOL's decline — The memecoin is up over 150% in the past 24 hours and have recorded some of the highest trading volumes on Solana-based decentralized exchanges.| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Roku plans to launch its own TVs in spring 2023 across two brands, Roku Select and Roku Plus, ranging from 24-inches for $119 to 75-inches for $999 — Roku is making big news at CES 2023: the company long known for its streaming players and easy-to-use software plans to release its own lineup of TVs this year.
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| Paul Kiernan / Wall Street Journal: |
The US Federal Reserve, FDIC, and OCC warn banks that issuing or holding crypto “is highly likely to be inconsistent with safe and sound banking practices” — Regulators say holding cryptocurrencies is likely inconsistent with safe banking practices — Crypto's Crash Has Been Swift but Largely Self-Contained.
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| Matt Levine / Bloomberg: |
The US case against alleged Mango Markets manipulator Avraham Eisenberg highlights traders treating crypto as a game, forgetting the real-world consequences — Mango — So here's a trade. — You open two accounts on a commodity futures exchange, Account A and Account B.
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| Zachariah Kelly / Gizmodo Australia: |
Twitter appears to have resolved an issue in Australia and New Zealand that caused downtime for over 12 hours, starting around 6:40am AEST on January 4 — It seems to be every day now that we're writing a story on Twitter, and today's no exception. Twitter appears to be down or poorly functioning … | Tom Warren / BuzzFeed News: |
Sam Bankman-Fried pleads not guilty to all eight criminal charges, including wire fraud and money laundering; if convicted, he faces up to 115 years in prison — If convicted on all counts, he faces up to 115 years in prison. — Sam Bankman-Fried, the founder and former CEO …
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CNBC, Reuters, Bitcoin News, The Guardian, The Block, WRAL TechWire, and Crypto Daily
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: China is pausing massive investments and costly subsidies for its chip industry amid a COVID-19 wave, seeking alternatives to help homegrown chipmakers — China is pausing massive investments aimed at building a chip industry to compete with the US, as a nationwide Covid resurgence strains …
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| Megha Mandavia / Wall Street Journal: |
A look at three pieces of Indian government legislation planned in 2023 to regulate US tech giants, mixing EU antitrust rules with China-style surveillance — American tech firms will face hard choices in India this year — The standoff between India and U.S. tech giants will intensify … | Axios: |
Sources: crypto payments startup Wyre told staff that it is shutting down; Bolt planned to acquire Wyre for ~$1.5B but canceled the deal in September 2022 — Wyre, a crypto payments company founded in 2013, has told employees that it is shutting down amid layoffs, Axios has learned.
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| Joseph Menn / Washington Post: |
Cybersecurity company Rapid7 hires Peiter “Mudge” Zatko, the former Twitter security chief and whistleblower, to advise consulting clients — Former Twitter security chief Peiter Zatko, whose whistleblower claim against the company triggered multiple ongoing investigations … | Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: |
Nvidia upgrades its $19.99 per month GeForce Now plan, renamed Ultimate, to support 240 fps streaming, ultrawide monitors, and more by using RTX 4080 GPUs — Nvidia announced some new features for its cloud gaming service during its virtual CES press conference.
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