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Sam Bankman-Fried publishes a Substack post offering his account of how FTX collapsed, sticking to his claims of innocence, even as ex-executives plead guilty — Disgraced FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried on Thursday published his account of how the crypto company collapsed.
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| Tim Reynolds / Associated Press: |
A federal judge terminates FTX's 19-year, $135M naming rights deal with Miami-Dade County's Heat arena, a massive undertaking involving the roof and more — The naming rights deal between FTX and Miami-Dade County was terminated Wednesday by a federal bankruptcy court …
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New York Post, WPLG-TV, Wall Street Journal, Miami Herald, The Block, Axios, crypto.news, The Daily Beast, and Crypto Daily
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| Forbes: |
JPMorgan Chase is suing the founder of Frank, a student loan software startup acquired for $175M, over allegedly lying about scale by creating 4M+ fake users — The financial giant is suing the founder of a Mark Rowan-backed startup it acquired, claiming the fintech, Frank, had sold the financial giant on a “lie.”
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| Bloomberg: |
Bulgarian police say London-based crypto lender Nexo's office in Sofia was raided on Thursday, seeking information on suspected money laundering and tax crimes — Crypto lender Nexo's office in Sofia was raided by Bulgarian police on Thursday as part of an investigation into suspected money laundering and tax crimes.| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple is working on Macs with a touchscreen; the first model may be a MacBook Pro with an OLED display supporting gestures, set to be released in 2025 — Apple Inc. is working on adding touch screens to its Mac computers, a move that would defy long-held company orthodoxy and embrace …
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9to5Mac, Philip Elmer‑DeWitt, Softpedia News, HotHardware, Thurrott, XDA Developers, Macworld, WinBuzzer, Redmond Pie, ZDNet, KnowTechie, Tedium, Neowin, CNET, TechRadar, Coinspeaker, TechSpot, Gizchina, iClarified, TechCircle, and Ed Bott's READ ME
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| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
Canalys, IDC, and Gartner report global PC shipments fell for the fourth consecutive quarter in Q4 2022, by 28%-29% YoY to 65.3M-67.2M units; Dell fell ~37% YoY — When you look at fourth quarter worldwide PC sales data from Canalys, IDC and Gartner, it's fair to say that the news was not great …
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| Kali Hays / Insider: |
Sources: Twitter is leaving at least 12 international offices due to closures or not paying rent, including in Hong Kong, Mexico, Ghana, Australia, and India — - Twitter is leaving at least a dozen international offices due to closures or not paying rent. — Hubs in Europe and even Twitter's headquarters in Asia are shuttered.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft plans to update all Xbox Series X and S consoles to an energy-saving Shutdown mode by default and is working on a smarter Sleep mode for active hours — Microsoft is planning to switch Xbox Series X and S owners over to an energy-saving power mode in a bid for sustainability and cost savings.
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| Nikou Asgari / Financial Times: |
Sources: crypto broker Genesis owes creditors more than $3B, leading DCG to explore selling venture assets, estimated to be worth ~$500M, to raise cash — Barry Silbert's conglomerate weighs offloading venture assets to help wholly owned digital asset lender
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Protos, Blockworks, Decrypt, Reuters, CoinDesk, CNBC, CryptoSlate, CoinGape, Ethereum World News, and Cointelegraph
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| Reuters: |
TSMC reports Q4 revenue up 26.7% YoY to $19.93B and net income up 78% YoY to $9.72B, beating estimates of ~$9.5B, even as the chip industry downturn continues — Taiwanese chipmaker TSMC (2330.TW) reported a forecast-beating 78% rise in quarterly profit on Thursday, as strong sales … | David Shepardson / Reuters: |
A look at the FAA's struggles to modernize air traffic control, including improving safety notices to pilots and ending use of paper strips to track aircrafts — The breakdown of a key computer system, which resulted in the suspension of U.S. flight departures on Wednesday … | Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times: |
Paris-based Ubisoft's stock drops ~14% after the company slashes its forecasts, reports “markedly and surprisingly slower” holiday sales, and delays a game — Shares shed 19% after Paris-based games group predicts net bookings will fall by a tenth
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| Bloomberg: |
A filing details Adobe's $20B Figma acquisition: multiple attempts in 2020 and 2021 before co-founder Dylan Field accepted, interest from Microsoft, and more — Adobe Inc. tried to acquire design firm Figma Inc. for years before co-founder Dylan Field and the startup finally accepted … | Gavin Bonshor / AnandTech: |
Intel announces its Core i9-13900KS CPU, clocked at 6GHz out of the box, with eight performance and 16 efficiency cores, available now for $699 — Initially mentioned during their Innovation 2022 opening keynote by Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger, Intel has unveiled its highly anticipated 6 GHz out-of-the-box processor, the Core i9-13900KS.
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| Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
Kuo: mass shipments of second-generation AirPods Max and AirPods with a $99 price target will likely begin in the second half of 2024 or the first half of 2025 — Mass shipments of second-generation AirPods Max and more affordable AirPods will likely begin in the second half of 2024 …
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Softpedia News, 9to5Mac, Forbes, Macworld, BGR, Tom's Guide, iPhone Hacks, iThinkDifferent, and Engadget
Tweets: @mingchikuo, @mingchikuo, @rsgnl, @mingchikuo, and @vadimyuryev
| Anthony Capaccio / Bloomberg: |
Congress rejects the US Army's request for $400M to buy as many as 6,900 Microsoft HoloLens goggles this fiscal year but approves $40M to develop a new model — Microsoft Corp. won't be getting more orders for its combat goggles anytime soon after Congress rejected the US Army's request … | Jacquelyn Melinek / TechCrunch: |
Amazon partners with Ava Labs, which develops the Avalanche blockchain, to support Avalanche's infrastructure and dApp ecosystem through its AWS marketplace — Amazon Web Services (AWS) has partnered with Ava Labs, the company building out layer-1 blockchain Avalanche …
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Avalanche, Blockworks, ZyCrypto, Decrypt, CryptoSlate, Amazon Web Services, Coinspeaker, crypto.news, and Inside Bitcoins
Tweets: @jordannovet, @lunarcrush, @0xboond, @wublockchain, @bmgentile, and @_patricksutton
| Andrew Romero / 9to5Google: |
A set of allegedly official Samsung Galaxy S23 marketing images leak, showing four colors, a refined design, and more; S23 Ultra's camera is rumored to be 200MP — The Galaxy S23 from Samsung is set to be announced on the first day of February. Even though that's a given …
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Android Authority, MobileSyrup, TalkAndroid.com, gHacks Technology News, ExtremeTech, Laptop Mag, SamMobile, Fossbytes, The Verge, and Tom's Guide
Tweets: @rquandt and @mkeallison
| Gary Marcus / The Road to AI We Can Trust: |
Source: OpenAI will get all of the equity back once $92B in profit plus $13B in initial investment are paid to Microsoft and once other investors earn $150B — I don't usually write about business deals, much less about rumors about business deals, but this one has me scratching my head …
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Fortune. Tweets: @terronk, @mgonto, @amir, @filippie509, @asmartbear, @greglinden, and @joe_anandarajah
| Frank Landymore / Futurism: |
CNET has been using an “AI engine” to write financial explainers under a CNET Money byline since November 2022, reviewed, fact-checked, and edited by a human — Next time you're on your favorite news site, you might want to double check the byline to see if it was written by an actual human.
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The Register, Search Engine Land, SISTRIX, and Gizmodo
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| Rosie Perper / CoinDesk: |
Yuga Labs announces a skill-based game, Dookey Dash, accessed via a free mint for BAYC holders called Sewer Passes, running between January 18 and February 15 — The gamified expansion of its Bored Ape Yacht Club ecosystem involves minting a free Sewer Pass to play a game called Dookey Dash.
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Cointelegraph, NFT Evening, crypto.news, and nft now
Tweets: @boredapeyc, @boredapeyc, @swombat, @cloutedmind, and @boredapeyc
| 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.
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Weekly Social Newsletter, MobileSyrup, Digital Trends, Firstpost Tech, and Appuals.com
Tweets: @amir, @thetweetofjohn, @brosandprose, @scalzi, and @kylebaker
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