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Sources: Elon Musk disbands Twitter's Brussels team, sparking compliance concern among EU officials after policy executives departed the small but vital office — Digital policy executives' departure elicits unease over adherence to EU rules on disinformation and hate speech
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| Zoë Schiffer / @zoeschiffer: |
Source: Twitter abruptly fired around 50 engineers and warned dozens more on the evening before Thanksgiving; some were told their “code is not satisfactory” — Hearing that roughly 50 Twitter engineers were abruptly fired last night and dozens more received warnings: https://twitter.com/...
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Foxconn offers ~$1,400 payouts to newly recruited Chinese workers who opt to leave its iPhone factory, aiming to quell unrest after violent clashes with police — Apple supplier apologises for ‘technical error’ after violent clashes between workers and police
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| Parikshit Mishra / CoinDesk: |
ConsenSys says it collects user data related to its on-chain wallet service MetaMask, following a similar announcement by decentralized exchange Uniswap — The firm said when using Infura as an RPC on MetaMask, a user's IP address and wallet address information would also be collected.
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| Bill Cusick / Stability.Ai: |
Stability AI releases Stable Diffusion 2.0, which can generate images with 512x512 and 768x768 default resolutions and upscale images to 2048x2048 — It is our pleasure to announce the open-source release of Stable Diffusion Version 2. — The original Stable Diffusion V1 led by CompVis changed …
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| James Vincent / The Verge: |
Stable Diffusion 2.0 makes it harder to mimic some artists' styles or generate NSFW output; Stability AI says NSFW images were removed from its training data — Users of AI image generator Stable Diffusion are angry about an update to the software that “nerfs” its ability to generate NSFW output …
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| Josh Sisco / Politico: |
Sources: the FTC plans to file an antitrust lawsuit to block Microsoft's $69B Activision Blizzard deal, as FTC staff are skeptical of the companies' arguments — The Federal Trade Commission is likely to file an antitrust lawsuit to block Microsoft's $69 billion takeover …
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Game Developer, HotHardware, Windows Central, Forbes, PCMag, GamesIndustry.biz, WinBuzzer, Pure Xbox, Coinspeaker, Pocket Gamer.biz, Video Games Chronicle, Kotaku, Engadget, iPhone in Canada Blog, Gameranx, Pocket-lint, MSPoweruser, TrueAchievements, TechSpot, Rock, Paper, Shotgun, GamingBolt, TheGamer, Appuals.com, The Jacob Wolf Report, Businesskorea, Game Rant, GameSpot, Wccftech, PC Games Insider, Ars Technica, The Verge, Reuters, IGN, Windows Central, Daring Fireball, BGR, Reuters, and Gamereactor UK
| Carly Wanna / Bloomberg: |
Sam Bankman-Fried plans to speak at The New York Times' annual DealBook Summit on November 30; Andrew Ross Sorkin says “nothing is off limits” — In the weeks since crypto exchange FTX collapsed, questions have swirled about everything from the risk management practices …
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Cointelegraph, Crypto Daily, 2nd Smartest Guy in the World, crypto.news, Cryptonews, CoinGape, Forkast, Tech News, and Coinpedia Fintech News
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| Bloomberg: |
Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao says the exchange aims for a ~$1B fund to buy distressed assets and plans to make another bid for bankrupt lender Voyager Digital — Binance Holdings Ltd. is aiming for a roughly $1 billion fund for the potential purchase of distressed assets in the digital-asset sector … | Luke Plunkett / Kotaku: |
Mercedes plans to charge $1,200 per year for “Acceleration Increase” in its EVs; Volkswagen, Toyota, and GM have all trialed similar subscription-based features — Mercedes are charging $1200 a year for an “Acceleration Increase” — For a few years now some car companies …
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Tweets: @jachilli, @mkbhd, @adetolaov, @starrburymike, @tmartn, @ennolenze, @dougdemuro, @davenewworld_2, @carnage4life, and @karlbode
| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
Elon Musk says Tesla's Full Self-Driving Beta is now available on request to anyone in North America who has paid for the $15,000 feature — Tesla's “Full Self-Driving” Beta, which has been gradually rolling out over the past couple of years, is now available to anyone who's paid for the feature …
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Engadget, TESLARATI, MobileSyrup, CNBC, Pocket-lint, Redmond Pie, Reuters, Bloomberg, Neowin, Electrek, Coinspeaker, TechCrunch, and Mashable
Tweets: @elonmusk, @ketanj0, and @frank_thelen
| Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: |
UK police, Europol, Dutch police, and others dismantle online phone number spoofing service iSpoof and arrest 146 people, including the suspected mastermind — The ‘iSpoof’ online spoofing service has been dismantled following an international law enforcement investigation that also led …
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Europol, Mynewsdesk, BBC, The Block, ZDNet, TechCrunch, The Guardian, Press Association, Telegraph, Daily Mail, Candid.Technology, Infosecurity, City A.M., and Bloomberg
| Stephen Gandel / New York Times: |
FTX sister firm Alameda paid $11.5M for control of a small WA-based US-licensed bank, raising questions about why federal regulators approved the deal — Through a subsidiary, FTX invested $11.5 million in the parent company of Farmington State Bank, which has a single branch and, until this year, just three employees.
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Protos, Coinpedia Fintech News, CoinGape, and Insider
Tweets: @epsilontheory, @mikeburgersburg, @jbarro, @mayazi, @iankar_, @ericliptonnyt, @trengriffin, @blmckean, @mcelarier, @hhunter_us, and @nytimes
| Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: |
Tweets: @lizrhoffman, @lizrhoffman, @layahheilpern, @nic__carter, @lucasbagnocv, @jamespoulos, @chuckrossdc, @mhonkasalo, @jordanschachtel, @saifedean, @batsoupyum, @coffeebreak_yt, @melt_dem, @parikpatelcfa, @ericbalchunas, @adamscochran, @canteringclark, @caspiancey, @davidsacks, @lizrhoffman, @topshotfund, @davidzmorris, @johnedeaton1, @lizrhoffman, @crypto_bitlord7, @amasad, @johnnyp135dfs, @milessuter, @futurenomics, @satsdart, @investmentshulk, @neiljacobs, and @ldrogen
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