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The Irish DPC fines Meta €390M over GDPR breaches related to its ad and data handling practices, giving the company three months to comply; Meta plans to appeal — 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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Coinbase settles with New York regulators over breaking money-laundering laws for $100M, comprising a $50M fine and $50M for compliance; COIN closes up 12.2% — 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.
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| Thomas Germain / Gizmodo: |
Erroneous facial recognition helped jail a Black man in Georgia for nearly a week after cops got a warrant in Louisiana, a state he says he has never visited — An algorithm sent a Black man to jail in Louisiana, a state he'd never visited, according to his lawyer. Experts say he won't be the last.
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| Nivedita Balu / Reuters: |
Memo: Salesforce plans to lay off ~10% of its staff and close some offices after hiring “too many people” in the pandemic, expecting to incur $1.4B to $2.1B — Salesforce Inc (CRM.N) said on Wednesday it would lay off about 10% of its employees and close some offices as a part …
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| Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: |
Researchers find API security flaws in almost 20 car manufacturers' systems that could let hackers unlock, start, and track cars, plus access customers' data — Almost twenty car manufacturers and services contained API security vulnerabilities that could have allowed hackers to perform malicious activity … | Jack Schickler / CoinDesk: |
US officials say the DOJ seized or is in the process of seizing assets potentially tied to FTX, like ~$450M in Robinhood shares whose ownership is under dispute — Officials may later seek to have Sam Bankman-Fried forfeit the assets, potentially including as much as $450 million in stocks, to avoid benefiting from crimes| Andrew Hayward / Decrypt: |
NFT service Magic Eden, the largest Solana marketplace, blames a hacked image caching service for some users seeing porn and TV stills instead of intended NFTs — The top Solana marketplace says there's no need to panic, and it has not been hacked. — Some users of Magic Eden …
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| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Roku plans to launch its own TVs in spring 2023 across two brands, Roku Select and a higher-end 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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| Adam Morgan McCarthy / The Block: |
CoinShares: inflows to crypto asset funds fell 95% YoY from $9.1B in 2021 to $433M in 2022, the worst year since 2018, when inflows totaled $223M — - Crypto asset funds saw the lowest inflows last year since 2018. — Inflows in 2022 declined to $433 million as bitcoin plummeted over 60%, according to CoinShares data.| Grace Kay / Insider: |
Vimeo lays off 11% of its workforce, citing “an uncertain economic environment”, after cutting 6% in July 2022; the company had 1,200+ workers in December 2021 — - Vimeo is laying off 11% of its workforce, a company spokesperson confirmed. — Vimeo CEO Anjali Sud told staff … | Chris Welch / The Verge: |
A look at Samsung's TV updates in 2023: Neo QLEDs that convert SDR to HDR, futuristic MicroLED displays, 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.| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Sirius XM and Amazon slow podcast dealmaking and Spotify froze its US budget for new podcasts; all three seek to keep 50% of ad revenue vs. 20% before — As the podcasting universe has matured in recent years it has picked up many of the trappings of more established media industries … | Megha Mandavia / Wall Street Journal: |
A look at three pieces of Indian government legislation set to pass 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 … | Joseph Menn / Washington Post: |
Cybersecurity company Rapid7 hires former Twitter security chief and whistleblower Peiter “Mudge” Zatko to advise clients; Twitter fired Zatko in January 2022 — Former Twitter security chief Peiter Zatko, whose whistleblower claim against the company triggered multiple ongoing investigations …
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| Shaurya Malwa / CoinDesk: |
Bonk, a Shiba Inu-themed token issued on Solana on December 25, is up 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.
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| Samuel Agini / Financial Times: |
FTX's collapse has forced the global sports industry to rethink lucrative crypto sponsorship deals, some of which replaced gambling partners because of bans — Future of big-ticket sponsorship deals between top-flight clubs and digital assets industry hangs in the balance
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| Monica Chin / The Verge: |
Asus unveils its Vivobook Pro 16X and ProArt Studiobook 16 laptops with 3.2K, 120Hz glasses-free 3D OLED 16-inch displays — For some companies that sell gaming and creator-oriented laptops, glasses-free 3D has become a bit of a dream. Acer first tried it back in 2021.
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| Matt Levine / Bloomberg: |
The US case against alleged Mango Markets manipulator Avraham Eisenberg highlights traders treating crypto as a dumb game, ignoring 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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| Nelson Wang / CoinDesk: |
The US SEC files a limited objection to Binance.US' $1B bid for bankrupt crypto lender Voyager, citing insufficient details on how Binance can afford the deal — The agency is asking for more details how the crypto exchange can afford the deal. — Join the most important conversation … | Eliza Gkritsi / CoinDesk: |
Bitcoin miner Core Scientific plans to shut down all 37K+ mining rigs tied to Celsius Mining, its largest client, as the companies undergo separate bankruptcies — The two firms have been engaged in litigation over a 2020 hosting contract, which Core Scientific says is costing it $2 million in revenue per month.
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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 … Sponsor Posts
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