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January 11, 2023, 4:15 PM

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CoinDesk:
Bankruptcy hearing: FTX has recovered $5B+, not including $425M held by the Bahamas or “illiquid cryptocurrency tokens”; FTX had a $65B Alameda line of credit  —  The announcement substantially raises the total FTX has recovered since filing for bankruptcy last year but it's still short of what customers are owed in total.
Financial Times:
Court documents: Sam Bankman-Fried invested $20M in Paradigm's $2.5B Paradigm One fund in late 2021, and then the fund invested in his FTX and FTX US exchanges  —  Court documents shed light on Sam Bankman-Fried's circular transactions  —  Sam Bankman-Fried invested $20mn in a large venture capital fund …
New York Times:
Sources: in December, Twitter started considering auctioning off usernames to generate revenue; Elon Musk had said he wants to free up 1.5B inactive usernames  —  The company has discussed selling some user names through online auctions, people with knowledge of the plans said.
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Apple launches Apple Business Connect, letting US business owners update and manage their information for Apple Maps, a feature Google Maps has had since 2005  —  Apple Maps today is gaining a new tool that will allow the decade-plus-old service to better compete with Google …
Reuters:
The FAA says US air traffic is “resuming gradually” after its Notice to Air Missions system failed; FlightAware: 7,300+ flights were delayed and 1,100 canceled  —  U.S. flights were slowly beginning to resume departures and a ground stop was lifted after the Federal Aviation Administration …
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple plans to design and develop its own displays for mobile devices, starting with microLED screens for the Apple Watch Ultra by the end of 2024  —  Apple Inc. is planning to start using its own custom displays in mobile devices as early as 2024, an effort to reduce its reliance …
Bloomberg:
Binance admits to flaws in maintaining its Paxos-issued BUSD stablecoin backing at 1:1; ChainArgos says BUSD was undercollateralized by $1B+ in 2020 and 2021  —  Binance Holdings Ltd., the biggest cryptocurrency exchange, acknowledged past flaws in the management of its stablecoin's reserves …
Natasha Mascarenhas / TechCrunch:
Equity management service Carta cuts 10% of its staff, impacting up to ~200 employees, and sues its former CTO; the company was valued at $7.4B in August 2021  —  Carta, an equity management platform that was last privately valued at $7.4 billion, has cut 10% of its staff …
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Tom Warren / The Verge:
Microsoft announces 365 Basic for $1.99 per month, replacing the 100GB OneDrive storage option, rolling out globally on January 30 with ad-free Outlook and more  —  Microsoft is introducing a new consumer tier to its Microsoft 365 subscription offerings.  Priced at just $1.99 per month …
Mitchell Clark / The Verge:
Twitter renames Latest Tweets to Following and Home to For You, making the algorithmic feed the default with no option to change it, rolling out on iOS first  —  Twitter is changing how you move between the algorithmically-driven timeline and the reverse chronological one and making the algorithmic feed the default.
Riley de León / CNBC:
Supply chain software startup Flexport lays off 20% of its global workforce, or ~640 employees; the company raised $935M at an $8B valuation in February 2022  —  - Supply chain software startup Flexport is laying off 20% of its global workforce, or roughly 640 employees, according to a memo from co-CEOs Ryan Petersen and Dave Clark.
Angus Loten / Wall Street Journal:
Analysts say Salesforce's customers don't appear to be swayed by Slack; the messaging service's revenue growth declined from 11.7% in Q1 2022 to 6.9% in Q3 2022  —  Carhartt's CIO says the addition of the messaging app hasn't made Salesforce's products more appealing
Olga Kharif / Bloomberg:
Cameron Winklevoss demands that DCG's board remove CEO Barry Silbert and alleges he and Genesis lied publicly, after his January 8 resolution deadline passed  —  Gemini crypto exchange co-founder Cameron Winklevoss called for the board of Digital Currency Group to remove Barry Silbert …
Jai Vijayan / Dark Reading:
Microsoft releases 98 security fixes, patching 11 critical vulnerabilities and an actively exploited privilege escalation zero-day flaw in Windows ALPC  —  Microsoft's January 2023 Patch Tuesday security update contains fixes for bugs in multiple products.  Here's what you need to patch now.
Richard Waters / Financial Times:
After Chinese researchers claimed today's quantum computers could break RSA encryption, Western experts caution that any commercial benefits are years away  —  China claims to have made a major breakthrough but western experts say any commercial benefits are still years away

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