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US financial regulators are rapidly closing crypto's key routes to the banking system, accelerating since FTX collapsed, pushing the industry to the fringes — Crypto's free pass is getting yanked as the most powerful US financial regulators rapidly close key doors to the country's banking system.
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| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Some Twitter users, even those who do not follow Elon Musk, say their For You feed was full of his tweets and replies after changes made over the weekend — For many of us, Twitter's “For You” is full of tweets and replies to tweets from Elon Musk. Not everyone is getting the Elon-first feed …
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9to5Mac, Gizmodo, MobileSyrup, Insider, gHacks Technology News, Thurrott, Engadget, Pocket-lint, The Overspill, CNET, Mashable, and Neowin
Mastodon: @JAllen@mstdn.social, @caseynewton@mastodon.social, @howelloneill@infosec.exchange, @irwin@saturation.social, @danilo@hachyderm.io, and @drewharwell@mastodon.social
Tweets: @oneunderscore__, @elonmusk, @wongmjane, @chai_coffee_etc, @taylorlorenz, @randfish, @rjcc, @anothercohen, @ashishmohta, @bruce_arthur, @lulumeservey, @althistoryhub, @volksverpetzer, @deanmillson, @tittertakeover, @elonmusk, @mehdirhasan, @byjasonng, @noah_l, @sassal0x, @helenkennedy, @followtheh, @fchollet, @anthony, @intelwire, and @cameronwilson
| Wesley Hilliard / AppleInsider: |
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| Varsha Bansal / Wired: |
A look at the Modi administration's attempts to strengthen government control over the internet in India and its battle with Big Tech, which keeps giving in — The Modi administration keeps giving itself new powers, and Big Tech keeps giving in. — Akash Banerjee isn't sure whether he's allowed …
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The Guardian, Washington Post, Livemint, Financial Times, Reuters, and Quartz
Tweets: @sunny_hundal, @peterguest, @shailjapatel, @ahmermkhan, @iamcouncil, @peterguest, and @kkomaitis
| Financial Times: |
Sources: Apple's India expansion has been slow due to logistics, tariffs, infrastructure, suppliers and officials lacking a “sense of urgency”, and other issues — Apple is hitting stumbling blocks in its effort to increase production in India, as the US tech giant faces pressure to cut its manufacturing reliance on China.
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MacRumors, 9to5Mac, AppleInsider, Reuters, MacDailyNews, Philip Elmer‑DeWitt, BGR, The Economic Times, iMore, iThinkDifferent, and Patently Apple
Tweets: @chassnews, @jimpethokoukis, @churumuri, @patrickmcgee_, @johnreedwrites, @preddy85, @wholemarsblog, @noahbarkin, and @chadbown
| New York Times: |
Over 30 prominent Chinese dissidents and activists report problems with their Twitter accounts, including disappearing from search or unexplained suspensions — As the Elon Musk-owned social media service encounters interruptions and bugs, Chinese dissidents and activists said they feared they were being muzzled.
Tweets: @alexanderburns, @shiraovide, @paulmozur, and @isaacstonefish
| Dave Lee / Financial Times: |
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy says the company plans to “go big” on physical retail stores in 2023, blaming a lack of “normalcy” during the pandemic for its stumbles — Andy Jassy says ecommerce giant will double down on grocery despite recent stumbles
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Tweets: @patrickmoorhead, @jeffnolan, @neilretail, and @jimpethokoukis
| Aaron Mok / Insider: |
Report: TikTok is planning to let creators charge $1 or more for videos and is working on the Creator Fund 2.0, which could pay creators with 100K+ followers — - TikTok creators could soon start charging fans to watch their videos, per The Information. — The company hopes a paywall …
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Tweets: @realadamrose, @nickcicero, and @mattnavarra
| Dmitri Brereton / DKB Blog: |
At Microsoft's demo last week, the “new Bing” incorrectly summarized Gap's Q3 2022 earnings and provided wrong info on a pet vacuum and Mexico City nightlife — Microsoft knowingly released a broken product for short-term hype — Bing AI got some answers completely wrong during their demo.
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Tweets: @movingtothesun, @vladquant, @jeffjarvis, @pkafka, @chafkin, @tomgara, @danshipper, @tomgara, @harrymccracken, @firstadopter, @robleathern, @robleathern, @jamespoulos, @sonnybunch, @benedictevans, @danshipper, @benedictevans, @edzitron, @jeffgerstmann, @macwbishop, @lordravenscraft, @marceloplima, @fchollet, @zacharynado, @noupside, @tomgara, @protoninspector, @transscribe, @rachelmetz, @withinrafael, @zidansports, @ted_underwood, @mcwm, @fchollet, @dlind, @noahpinion, @tedgioia, @bentossell, @maxwinebach, and @rustybrick
| Edward Ludlow / Bloomberg: |
Amazon's Zoox says its fully autonomous vehicle carried staff between its two main buildings in Foster City, California on public roads for the first time — Zoox Inc., the self-driving startup owned by Amazon.com Inc., carried passengers in its fully autonomous vehicle on public roads for the first time.
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| Sarah Nassauer / Wall Street Journal: |
Memo: Walmart plans to close its Austin, Portland, and Carlsbad, California tech hubs, telling staff to move and be in the office twice a week to stay employed — Retail giant is closing offices in Austin, Portland and Carlsbad and telling hundreds of staff they must relocate to keep their jobs
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Insider, Forbes, Reuters, Fortune, GeekWire, and Bloomberg
Tweets: @carnage4life, @patrickmoorhead, and @newley
| Will Knight / Wired: |
A look at Eric Schmidt-backed startup Ishtari, which uses machine learning to virtually assemble and test war machines from computer models of each component — The former Google CEO is on a mission to rewire the US military with cutting-edge artificial intelligence to take on China.
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Insider. Tweets: @ieet, @hkanji, @joebotxyz, @richzeoli, @mhbergen, @aphysicist, and @mideastxmidwest
| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
Cloudflare mitigated dozens of hyper-volumetric DDoS attacks on its customers last weekend; the largest exceeded 71M rps, 35%+ higher than the previous record — This weekend, Cloudflare blocked what it describes as the largest volumetric distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack to date.
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The Cloudflare Blog, DCD, Security Affairs, The Record, TechRadar, The Hacker News, SecurityWeek, Infosecurity, and SiliconANGLE
Tweets: @brianleejackson and @eastdakota
| Ernesto Van der Sar / TorrentFreak: |
E-book pirate site Z-Library relaunches with unique domain names for each user, after the US DOJ seized 200+ domain names connected to the site in November 2022 — By providing free access to millions of books, Z-Library became the go-to site for many readers in recent years.| Wesley Hilliard / AppleInsider: |
Google's Photos iOS app is crashing at launch for users with iOS 16.3.1, the latest version; the only known workaround is not to update iOS — iOS 16.3.1 causing Google Photos to crash — A bug introduced in iOS 16.3.1 is causing Google Photos to crash at launch, so users that rely … | Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
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| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Otter.ai announces OtterPilot, an AI assistant that summarizes meetings, captures images of slides, and more, rolling out to all users in the coming days — AI-powered voice transcription service Otter.ai is launching a new AI meeting assistant called OtterPilot, the company announced on Tuesday.| Alexander Burns / Politico: |
During Nancy Pelosi's controversial Taiwan trip, TSMC founder Morris Chang criticized the $52B CHIPS Act, saying more will be needed for chip self-sufficiency — Nancy Pelosi arrived in Taiwan like a juggernaut. She defied threats from the Chinese regime in order to visit the island …
Tweets: @jmart, @alexanderburns, @zhigangsuo, @neysunm, and @phelimkine
| Ian Hamilton / UploadVR: |
Bigscreen unveils Bigscreen Beyond, a $999 PC-powered wired VR headset with two OLED 2560×2560 displays, a 127g visor, and SteamVR Tracking, shipping in Q3 2023 — Darshan Shankar, the founder of VR's leading Internet-powered platform for watching movies together …
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Bigscreen on YouTube, PC Gamer, TechRadar, Pocket-lint, VRScout, TechPowerUp, TechCrunch, Metaverse Post, Engadget, and The Verge
Tweets: @dzierler, @dshankar, @isaiahheitzman, @dshankar, @vrjsy, @_lucasrizzotto, @cesarberardini, @dshankar, @id_aa_carmack, and @id_aa_carmack
| Rosie Perper / CoinDesk: |
NFT marketplace Magic Eden partners with payments service MoonPay to let users buy digital collectibles using credit or debit cards, Apple Pay, or Google Pay — MoonPay has a similar partnership in place with NFT marketplace LooksRare. — Join the most important conversation in crypto …
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Blockworks, Metaverse Post, The Block, Magic Eden Blog, TechCrunch, crypto.news, Cryptopolitan, Coinspeaker, CryptoPotato, CoinJournal, and Decrypt
Tweets: @0xleoinrio, @cryptojohnlocke, and @t_h_nft
| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources detail tensions during the US-TikTok negotiations over the Chinese government's role and influence, including a possible veto over a future deal — ByteDance is under pressure from the U.S. to silo—or divest—TikTok's American operations, but the company also has to navigate Beijing's druthersSponsor Posts
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