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A video and live blog of Sam Bankman-Fried being interviewed by Andrew Ross Sorkin at the New York Times' DealBook Summit, covering FTX, Alameda, and more — FTX, the crypto exchange Mr. Bankman-Fried founded, declared bankruptcy this month in a failure that wiped out billions of investor dollars.
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| Bloomberg: |
In his NYT interview, SBF gave few straight answers while admitting to gross errors, denying claims of fraud, and claiming he “didn't knowingly commingle funds” — Mystery continues to shroud the missing billions at bankrupt crypto exchange FTX after its disgraced founder Sam …
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| David Z. Morris / CoinDesk: |
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Protos, New York Times, and Inside Bitcoins
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Elon Musk says he met with Tim Cook at Apple's HQ on Wednesday, and that Cook was clear that Apple “never considered” removing Twitter from the App Store — Twitter CEO Elon Musk today met with Apple CEO Tim Cook at the Apple Park campus in Cupertino, California, according to a tweet shared by Musk this afternoon.
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| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
LastPass says customer data was accessed after hackers breached its third-party cloud storage, shared with parent GoTo, using info stolen in an August 2022 hack — LastPass says unknown attackers breached its cloud storage using information stolen during a previous security incident from August 2022.
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The LastPass Blog, BleepingComputer, Forbes, AppleInsider, Digital Trends, TechSpot, The Hacker News, SecurityWeek, Infosecurity, Engadget, TechCrunch, Help Net Security, Neowin, Gizmodo Australia, gHacks Technology News, and Fossbytes
Tweets: @hackingdave, @db, and @mdudas
| CNBC: |
Salesforce says Bret Taylor will step down as vice chair and co-CEO on January 31, 2023, and Marc Benioff will stay on as chair and CEO — - Observers viewed Bret Taylor as a possible successor for Marc Benioff, Salesforce's iconic co-founder. — It's the second time in less than three years …
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Insider, Salesforce, diginomica, Reuters, and Insider
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| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
Mark Zuckerberg says Apple's policies that let the company unilaterally control which apps can be installed are not sustainable and cause a conflict of interest — Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Wednesday added to the growing chorus of concerns about Apple, arguing that it's …
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New York Times, CoinDesk, CNBC, Vox, New York Times, Neowin, and Fortune
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| Will Douglas Heaven / MIT Technology Review: |
OpenAI releases a demo of ChatGPT, a chatbot version of GPT-3 that answers follow-up questions, admits its mistakes, challenges incorrect premises, and more — A chatbot version of GPT-3 that admits its mistakes is more transparent than the original. But it's still not perfect.
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OpenAI, Music Ally, and ScaleAI
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| Ashlee Vance / Bloomberg: |
Elon Musk says Neuralink expects human trials to begin in about six months pending FDA approval, and details work on implants to treat paralysis and vision — Elon Musk's Neuralink Corp. aims to start putting its coin-sized computing brain implant into human patients within six months … | Bloomberg: |
Sources: TSMC will make advanced 4nm chips when its ~$12B Arizona plant opens in 2024, an upgrade to prior 5nm claims, at the urging of Apple, AMD, and others — Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. will offer advanced 4-nanometer chips when its new $12 billion plant in Arizona opens in 2024 …
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Tweets: @pelstrom, @noahpinion, and @markgurman
| Debby Wu / Bloomberg: |
Source: despite Zhengzhou lifting its COVID-19 lockdown, Foxconn plans to keep its closed-loop system, restricting staff movements to dorms or the factory floor — Apple Inc.'s most important iPhone assembly plant remains in a closed-loop operation that curtails workers' movement on campus … | Wall Street Journal: |
How Twitter users in China have been circumventing the nation's Great Firewall and fighting spam to get footage of protests out to the rest of the world — Chinese users employ VPNs to get videos and images out of the country, while fighting spam — Why Tesla's China Ties Could Be a Problem for Twitter| Thomas Germain / Gizmodo: |
Pathmatics: Apple's Twitter ad purchases grew from $989K in October to $1M+ in November; on November 28, Elon Musk said Apple “mostly stopped” Twitter ads — Musk tweeted that Apple had all but stopped buying ads on Twitter. The iPhone maker's ad purchases had actually increased, according to an ad analytics firm.| Joseph Menn / Washington Post: |
Mozilla's Firefox and Microsoft's Edge plan to stop trusting new certificates from TrustCor, after a report revealed TrustCor's ties to a US defense contractor — TrustCor Systems is what's known as a root certifcate authority, a key position in the internet infrastructure that guarantees a website is genuine
Tweets: @reedmideke and @designative
| Carly Page / TechCrunch: |
Google says Barcelona-based spyware vendor Variston planted spyware by exploiting zero-day flaws in Chrome, Firefox, and Windows between 2018 and 2022 — A Barcelona-based company that bills itself as a custom security solutions provider exploited several zero-day vulnerabilities in Windows …
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The Keyword, Ars Technica, Decipher, Security Affairs, ZDNet, Wired, TechCircle, TechSpot, BleepingComputer, and SecurityWeek
Tweets: @jsrailton and @rondeibert
| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
YouTube releases its 2022 recap for the US, highlighting the most-watched videos, top creators, breakout stars, top songs, and global top ads — Following the Music Recap earlier this week, YouTube is revealing the top trending videos of 2022 and other lists that more or less serve as a stand in for Rewind.
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| Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
Twitch unveils Shield Mode, which lets streamers and mods activate customizable safety measures with one click, mass ban chatters using specific terms, and more — Twitch has steadily added to its streamer safety measures, but they can still be a pain to use if a hate raid or dedicated harasser makes life miserable.| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Netflix plans to expand its pre-release content screening program, the Netflix Preview Club, from 2,000+ users to tens of thousands in early 2023 — Streaming giant plans global expansion of program that helped make 'Don't Look Up' less serious — Netflix's Turbulent Year: How It Reversed Subscriber Losses| Karissa Bell / Engadget: |
Twitter plans to expand recommended tweets to all users, including those who may not have seen them in the past — Twitter is now pushing more tweets from accounts users don't already follow into their timelines. The company revealed that it's now surfacing recommendations to all its users … | Associated Press: |
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy says the company does not plan to stop selling “Hebrews to Negroes: Wake Up Black America”, an antisemitic film promoted by Kyrie Irving — Amazon CEO Andy Jassy said Wednesday the company does not have plans to stop selling the antisemitic film … | Bloomberg: |
A look at online and smartphone gambling in the UK, legalized in 2005, as bettors lost £14B+ in four of the past five years and concerns about addiction rise — On an August morning in 2016, Stewart Kenny, the co-founder of Paddy Power, was struggling to keep his emotions in check … | Dave Lee / Financial Times: |
Sources: Amazon begins layoffs in its Alexa, Kindle, and Halo hardware teams, as part of the planned ~10K cuts, as investors anticipate a broader downsizing — Staff working on Alexa, Kindle and Halo are the first to go, but investors want further cuts — Soon after Andy Jassy announced the …
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| Josh Taylor / The Guardian: |
Medibank's hackers post what appears to be the remaining data of 9.7M customers on the dark web, claiming “case closed”, as Medibank continues its investigation — Medibank confirms it may be the full trove of hundreds of thousands of customers' private records that were stolen from the health insurerSponsor Posts
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