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A rundown of Twitter whistleblower Peiter “Mudge” Zatko's testimony before US Senate Judiciary Committee lawmakers — Twitter shareholders voted Tuesday to approve Elon Musk's $44 billion offer to take over the company, a formal step in finalizing the disputed deal that is headed to court in October.
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| David McCabe / New York Times: |
In his Senate testimony, ex-head of Twitter security and whistleblower Peiter Zatko says the company was told of “at least one [Chinese] agent” on its payroll — At a congressional hearing, Peiter Zatko, Twitter's former head of security, told lawmakers that the company lied about its data practices.
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| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Mudge details Twitter's lack of logging, hackers' ongoing and ignored efforts to access its systems, that it could “grade its own homework” to appease FTC, more — A ticking bomb of security vulnerabilities. Covering up security failures. Duping regulators and misleading lawmakers.| Ronan Farrow / New Yorker: |
A look at the efforts by at least six research groups to find dirt on Twitter whistleblower Peiter Zatko, including offers to pay his former colleagues for info — Many of Peiter (Mudge) Zatko's former colleagues have received offers of payment for information about him.
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| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
Alongside iOS 16, Apple releases iOS and iPadOS 15.7, macOS Monterey 12.6, and macOS Big Sur 11.7 to fix 2022's eighth actively exploited iOS and macOS zero-day — Apple has released security updates to address the eighth zero-day vulnerability used in attacks against iPhones and Macs since the start of the year.
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| David Pierce / The Verge: |
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| Maria Gracia Santillana Linares / Forbes: |
Doodles, an NFT profile picture maker, raised $54M at a $704M valuation from Alexis Ohanian's 776, FTX, and others, and plans to expand to music and gaming NFTs — Amid generally somber conditions in the non-fungible token (NFT) market, colorful-profile-picture maker Doodles raised $54 million …
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| Andrew Liszewski / Gizmodo: |
Amazon updates its entry-level Kindle with USB-C, 16GB of storage as standard, a blue color option, and an improved 300ppi display, available for $100 with ads — Amazon's most basic Kindle still squeaks in at under $100, with some compromises. — Alerts| Igor Bonifacic / Engadget: |
Twitter begins rolling out its redesigned Spaces tab to Twitter Blue subscribers on iOS, including access to popular podcasts and themed audio stations — Twitter has begun rolling out its redesigned Spaces tab. Starting today, Twitter Blue members on iOS can check out the new interface element through …
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| CNN: |
Internal Twitter memo: extreme heat in California takes its Sacramento data center region offline; losing other centers could result in downtime for all users — Extreme heat in California has left Twitter without one of its key data centers, and a company executive warned in an internal memo obtained …
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| Paul Sawers / TechCrunch: |
Linux Foundation plans to form the OpenWallet Foundation, developing open-source interoperability for digital wallets, supported by Okta, Accenture, and more — The Linux Foundation has announced plans for a new collaborative initiative designed to support interoperability across digital wallets, built on an open source bedrock.
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Linux Foundation, The Block, SiliconANGLE, CoinDesk, Decrypt, and Telecoms.com. Tweets: @quinnypig
| Luc Cohen / Reuters: |
Nikhil Wahi, the brother of Coinbase PM Ishan Wahi, pleaded guilty to a wire fraud charge in an ongoing insider trading case, the first of its kind in crypto — The brother of a former Coinbase Global Inc (COIN.O) product manager pleaded guilty on Monday to a wire fraud conspiracy charge …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Bob Iger, CEO of Walt Disney from 2005 to 2020, joins VC firm Thrive Capital, founded by Joshua Kushner, as a venture partner — As a venture partner, Iger will identify new investments and mentor founders in day-to-day role — Netflix Hit a Subscriber Peak, Here's How It Plans to Keep Growing
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Intel appears to accidentally confirm specs for its 13th Gen Raptor Lake CPUs on its Canadian website, including the i9 13900K with 24 cores and 32 threads — Intel's website matches leaked specs — Intel has accidentally published the specifications for its 13th Gen Raptor Lake processors.
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| Reuters: |
An investigation details Twitter's business in China: local governments and state media buying ads, a growing non-US revenue stream, internal tensions, and more — Even as China bars 1.4 billion citizens from Twitter, its local authorities are splurging on global advertising on the site …
Tweets: @mattnavarra, @780thc, @olivertheyoung, @niubi, @aparanjape, @aparanjape, and @aparanjape
| Dade Hayes / Deadline: |
HBO and HBO Max won 37 awards at the 74th Emmy Awards, while Netflix won 26, Hulu eight, Apple TV+ seven, NBC seven, Disney+ six, and Amazon Prime Video six — The combined HBO and HBO Max surged past rival Netflix in this year's overall Emmys tally, winning a dozen prizes tonight for a total …
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Tweets: @loudmouthjulia, @ap, @lucas_shaw, @scottbudman, and @xpangler
| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Twitter says that shareholders have voted to approve Elon Musk's proposed $44B buyout — I'm convinced Tears of the Kingdom is going to feature time travel in a big way.The new trailer for the game is the second to seemingly show Link reversing an object through time. The game's logo is an ouroboros.| The Verge: |
Sources: Google canceled the next version of its Pixelbook laptop slated for 2023 and dissolved the team building it, as part of recent cost-cutting measures — Google is getting out of the laptop game — Google has canceled the next version of its Pixelbook laptop and dissolved the team responsible for building it.
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| Miriam Gottfried / Wall Street Journal: |
KKR partners with Securitize to tokenize an interest in a KKR health care fund on Avalanche, expanding individual investors' access to investment vehicles — Move will broaden opportunity for individuals to invest in fund — KKR & Co. is making a slice of one of its private-equity funds available …
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Tweets: @mayazi, @securitize, and @mayazi
| Jem Aswad / Variety: |
YouTube says it paid over $6B to the music industry between July 2021 and June 2022, up $2B YoY, and that user generated content drove more than 30% of payouts — YouTube, the world's largest streaming platform for music, announced that it has paid more than $6 billion to the music industry … | Bloomberg: |
Seeking to combat the FTC's 2020 antitrust lawsuit, Meta subpoenas 132+ companies, including Snap, ByteDance, and Clubhouse, drawing rebukes over sensitive data — To defend itself against the federal government, Meta Platforms Inc. says it needs its rivals to divulge some of their most closely held secrets.| Eva Szalay / Bloomberg: |
As typical crypto lending rates fall below US Treasury yields, DeFiLlama data shows DeFi platforms' total value locked is $60B, down from $182B in Dec. 2021 — Cryptocurrencies are facing a new threat: the lure of Treasuries offering a similar payout for a whole lot less risk.
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| Michael Tobin / Bloomberg: |
Grindr appoints George Arison as CEO, starting October 19, ahead of its planned SPAC merger; Arison was previously CEO at auto e-commerce marketplace Shift — Grindr LLC, the dating app that specializes in connections for the LGBTQ+ community, has named George Arison its new chief executive officer …
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Fortune, SPACInsider, Financial Times, and Grindr
| Kanishka Singh / Reuters: |
The US SEC charges VMware with misleading investors by obscuring financial performance; VMware will pay $8M to settle without denying or admitting the findings — The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission said on Monday it has charged cloud computing company VMware Inc (VMW.N) …
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Tweets: @quinnypig and @secgov
| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
Memo: Meta plans to merge its business integrity unit, which moderates ads, and central integrity team, which moderates posts; the team will have ~3,000 people — Meta is merging its business integrity unit, the team that moderates ad content, with its central integrity team …
Tweets: @sarafischer, @blackamazon, @manan, @axios, and @mattnavarra
| TechCrunch: |
Indian conglomerate Vedanta and Foxconn sign a $20B deal to build a semiconductor unit in the coastal Gujarat state, home to Prime Minister Narendra Modi — Indian oil-to-metals conglomerate Vedanta and global manufacturing giant Foxconn have signed a memorandum of understanding …
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