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| Financial Times: |
Inside FTX's final hours, described by employees, chat logs, and Sam Bankman-Fried: panic selling assets, trying to raise funds, SBF's silence, and bankruptcy — In January, I walked up the front steps of a single-storey, grey-shingled house in a neighbourhood on the fringe of Stanford University.| Dietrich Knauth / Reuters: |
A judge grants FTX approval to subpoena Sam Bankman-Fried, his parents, brother, former FTX CTO Garry Wang, COO Constance Wang, and Alameda CEO Caroline Ellison — Failed crypto firm FTX received court approval on Wednesday to issue subpoenas to its founder Sam Bankman-Fried and members …
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| Bloomberg: |
Brian Armstrong says Coinbase has heard “rumors” the SEC wants to “get rid of” crypto staking for retail investors, which “would be a terrible path for the US” — Coinbase Global Inc.'s head Brian Armstrong escalated his war of words with the Securities …
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| Joey Roulette / Reuters: |
SpaceX COO Gwynne Shotwell says the company limited Ukraine's military from using Starlink to control drones as its service was “never meant to be weaponized” — SpaceX has taken steps to prevent Ukraine's military from using the company's Starlink satellite internet service …
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| @twitterdev: |
Twitter's free APIs will work until February 13, when the company will launch a low-usage $100/month plan and a limited free plan and deprecates its Premium API — We have been busy with some updates to the Twitter API so you can continue to build and innovate with us. We're excited to announce an extension of the current free Twitter API access through February 13. Here's what we're shipping then 🧵
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| @twitterblue: |
Twitter lets US Blue subscribers tweet up to 4,000 characters; in timelines, longer tweets will be capped at 280 characters and have an option to “Show more” — need more than 280 characters to express yourself? we know that lots of you do... and while we love a good thread, sometimes you just want to Tweet everything all at once. we get that. so we're introducing longer Tweets! you're gonna want to check this out. tap this 👉
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| Alexander Martin / The Record: |
The US and the UK sanction seven people, all based in Russia, connected to the Conti and Ryuk ransomware gangs and the Trickbot banking trojan — The United Kingdom and United States on Thursday sanctioned seven people connected to what officials have told The Record is a single network behind … | Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Q&A with Satya Nadella on Microsoft's partnership with OpenAI, using AI to improve search as a product, competition with Google, the Prometheus model, and more — I'm coming to you from Microsoft's campus in Redmond, where just a few hours ago, Microsoft announced that the next version …
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| Yogita Khatri / The Block: |
Tether claims $700M in Q4 profit, in addition to its reserves, and $67.04B in total assets and $66.08B in liabilities; Tether-secured loans were down by $300M — - Tether issued its latest attestation report, saying its assets exceeded its liabilities as of December 2022.
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| Bloomberg: |
Nintendo's upcoming Zelda sequel will cost $70, up $10 over previous new titles, matching Sony and Microsoft and opening the door for more expensive video games — Nintendo Co.'s upcoming Zelda sequel will be pricier than the company's other Switch games, clearing the way for more game makers to also lift their prices.
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| Forbes: |
Google's fraught history with AI ethics, a backlash after Duplex's unveiling, and a talent drain has left the company playing catch up with OpenAI and Microsoft — With Bard, its newly launched “experimental conversational AI service,” Google is scrambling to ship AI products.
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| Jason Schreier / Bloomberg: |
After a decade of waiting for a quality Harry Potter video game, some fans struggle to reconcile enjoying Hogwarts Legacy with JK Rowling's transphobic comments — Harry Potter fans have been waiting more than a decade for a video game worthy of the blockbuster entertainment franchise's dedicated following.
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| Jonathan Greig / The Record: |
The CISA publishes a recovery script for the ESXiArgs ransomware that encrypted files at 3,800+ organizations across the US, France, Italy, and other countries — The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has published a process for recovering files for organizations affected …
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| David Friend / Canadian Press: |
Netflix rolls out its long-anticipated password sharing rules in Canada, New Zealand, Portugal, and Spain; other countries will be added in the next few months — Under new rules, premium and standard account holders will be given option to add extra members for $7.99 per month
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| Justinas Baltrusaitis / Finbold: |
Apple's Services revenue hit $79.4B in 2022, more than Intel's $63.1B in revenue and the combined revenues of McDonald's and Nike — Apple Services business has now grown to become one of its most lucrative segments, with revenue surpassing that of major corporations.
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| The Guardian: |
Investigation: AI tools rate photos of women as more sexually suggestive than photos of men, especially if nipples, pregnant bellies, or exercise are involved — Guardian exclusive: AI tools rate photos of women as more sexually suggestive than those of men, especially if nipples, pregnant bellies or exercise is involved
Tweets: @womenreadwomen, @nyuniversity, @random_walker, @msmarymcgill, and @mmitchell_ai
| Michael Potuck / 9to5Mac: |
Many Twitter users reported issues on February 8, from outages to not being able to tweet except by scheduling or via an API; the issues seem to be mostly fixed — Shortly after Twitter launched its huge increase in max character count to 4,000 today, many users aren't able to tweet this afternoon.
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| Dan Primack / Axios: |
Nextracker, which sells solar trackers and licenses energy management software to solar project developers, raised $638M in its Nasdaq IPO at a $3.4B+ valuation — Nextracker, a Fremont, Calif.-based developer of solar tracker systems, raised $638 million in its IPO.
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| New York Times: |
Researchers say ChatGPT can produce clean, convincing text that repeats conspiracy theories and misleading narratives but can sometimes debunk falsehoods too — Researchers used ChatGPT to produce clean, convincing text that repeated conspiracy theories and misleading narratives.
Mastodon: @alexcc@mstdn.science. Tweets: @caulfieldtim, @egavactip, @bigmeaninternet, @peterbakernyt, @nytimestech, @ldrogen, and @newsguardrating
| Mike Masnick / Techdirt: |
The Federation data: active users on decentralized social networks grew from ~600K to ~2.6M in a few months, challenging claims that the “fediverse” is failing — from the lies,-damn-lies,-and-statistics dept — There's been this weird series of articles lately … | Kyle Bradshaw / 9to5Google: |
UK CMA's cloud gaming market share data for 2022: Xbox had 60%-70%, Nvidia GeForce had 10%-20%, PlayStation 10%-20%, Google Stadia 0%-5%, and Amazon Luna 0%-5% — In new statistics shared by the UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), we've learned that Google Stadia … | Manya Saini / Reuters: |
Robinhood reports Q4 revenue up 5% YoY to $380M, net loss down 61% YoY to $166M, MAUs down by 0.8M QoQ to 11.4M, and full-year revenue down 25% YoY to $1.36B — Robinhood Markets Inc (HOOD.O) reported a 5% rise in fourth-quarter revenue on Wednesday, as interest income surged at the online brokerage …
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