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| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
Elon Musk says Twitter may start manually authenticating accounts on December 2, with blue check marks for people, gold for companies, and gray for governments — Elon Musk says that Twitter's check mark program could return on Friday, December 2nd, with a new procedure to verify individual identities …
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| Taylor Lorenz / Washington Post: |
Twitter plans to restore next week suspended accounts that haven't “broken the law or engaged in egregious spam”, after 72.4% of 3M+ voted yes in Musk's poll — The Twitter chief says he will reinstate accounts suspended for harassment, abuse and misinformation beginning next week.
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| Tim Copeland / The Block: |
Binance releases its proof-of-reserves system, starting with BTC, claiming it has 582,485 BTC and 575,742 BTC user balance, a reserve ratio of 101% for users — - Binance has put out its proof-of-reserves system, in light of FTX's meltdown. — It shows a reserve ratio of 101% for its users' bitcoin balances.
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| Christiana Loureiro / The Block: |
Report: several US states are investigating Genesis Global as part of an inquiry into interconnectedness of crypto firms, securities laws violations, and more — - States including Alabama are looking into crypto firms and whether they violated securities laws.
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| Michelle Toh / CNN: |
The UK government asks its departments to stop installing Chinese surveillance cameras at sensitive sites, after calls to ban devices from Hikvision and Dahua — Hong Kong CNN Business — Hikvision, a leading Chinese surveillance company, has denied suggestions that it poses a threat …
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| Todd Shields / Bloomberg: |
The FCC imposes a ban on equipment from Huawei and ZTE, camera providers Hikvision and Dahua, and radio maker Hytera, citing “a risk to national security” — US regulators imposed a ban on electronic equipment from Huawei Technologies Co. and ZTE Corp., continuing a years-long effort …
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| Alex Hern / The Guardian: |
The UK government says its Online Safety Bill will return to the parliament in December and will be expanded to criminalize nonconsensual “deepfake” pornography — Nonconsensual explicit images to be tackled in bill returning to parliament next month
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| Kris Holt / Engadget: |
Google's Project Zero reported five security flaws in devices with Mali GPUs in the summer, but Samsung, Xiaomi, Google, and others are yet to release patches — Google has disclosed several security flaws for phones that have Mali GPUs, such as those with Exynos chipsets.
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| 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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| 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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| Reuters: |
How crypto helped users buy horrific child abuse images on Dark Scandals, whose founder was sentenced to 10 years by a Dutch court, often aided by exchanges — As websites selling horrific child-abuse images have proliferated on the “darknet,” a new breed of company has boosted their criminal business: cryptocurrency exchanges.
Tweets: @aaberwick, @to_discussion, @reuters, @reutersbiz, @reuters, and @reuters
| 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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Tweets: @alexmartin, @metpoliceuk, and @metpoliceuk
| 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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