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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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| David Z. Morris / CoinDesk: |
As FTX collapsed, mainstream news organizations often failed to give a straightforward assessment of exactly what happened and potential crimes involved — Sam Bankman-Fried is a con man and fraudster of historic proportions. But you might not learn that from the New York Times …
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Bloomberg, The Hill, TheStreet, The Guardian, CNBC, Associated Press, Inside Bitcoins, The Verge, Politico, Gizmodo, NBC News, and Blockworks
Tweets: @seyitaylor, @carnage4life, @harper, @bantg, @johnkoetsier, @inkbacker, @crypto_bitlord7, @carnage4life, and @timccopeland
| Gregory Zuckerman / Wall Street Journal: |
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Bloomberg. Tweets: @jgreco, @smbrnsn, @epsilontheory, @bennetttomlin, @joshua_t_white, @gzuckerman, @smtuffy, @trengriffin, @bennetttomlin, @wsj, @charlesforelle, @morganricks1, @smtuffy, @jackfarley96, @hughhewitt, and @dsquareddigest
| Financial Times: |
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Tweets: @nikasgari, @mattgarrahan, @sindap, @fintechfrank, @sarahoconnor_, @antoinegara, @epicureandeal, @nouriel, and @nouriel
| 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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Tweets: @elonmusk, @elonmusk, @bigtechalert, @markgurman, @bradmossesq, @gruber, @bigtechalert, @shaig, @karaswisher, @patrickbetdavid, @neilcybart, @mikeisaac, @pkafka, @pulte, @eggerdc, and @charlesarthur
| 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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The Economic Times, The Information, Salesforce, Reuters, Seattle Business Journal, Fortune, TechCrunch, CNN, and CRN
Tweets: @thekenyeung, @film_girl, @levynews, @danprimack, @benioff, and @barchart
| 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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| 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 breach — 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, PCMag, TechCrunch, Neowin, Gizmodo Australia, CRN, The Verge, and DataBreaches.net
Tweets: @hackingdave, @db, @martinsfp, @chriskeall, and @imhassan
| Danny Nelson / CoinDesk: |
US crypto exchange Kraken plans to lay off 1,100 people, or 30% of its workforce, citing a need to “adapt to current market conditions” — The crypto exchange is laying off 1,100 people, sending its headcount back 12 months. — Crypto exchange Kraken said Wednesday …
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Kraken Blog, TechCrunch, The Verge, CNBC, Bloomberg, Decrypt, PYMNTS.com, Watcher Guru, and Neowin
Tweets: @jeffjohnroberts, @jespow, @fintechfrank, @carlquintanilla, @tier10k, and @dylanleclair_
| 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, ZDNet, Wired, Security Affairs, BleepingComputer, SecurityWeek, The Record, Dark Reading, Search Engine Journal, @GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social, and MUO
Tweets: @jsrailton, @zackwhittaker, @rondeibert, and @jsrailton
| 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, ScaleAI, Datascience Learning Center, and VentureBeat
Tweets: @goodside, @sama, @goodside, @rtombs, @goodside, @talyarkoni, @goodside, @garymarcus, @mtrc, @minimaxir, @minimaxir, @hacker_, @mikko, @amasad, @jdjkelly, @openai, @techreview, @sama, and @amasad
| 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
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New York Times, New York Post, Gizmodo, and Bloomberg
Tweets: @kenroth, @muyixiao, and @jchengwsj
| Taylor Locke / Fortune: |
Uniswap Labs launches an NFT marketplace aggregator with listings from OpenSea, LooksRare, NFTX, and others, after acquiring the aggregator Genie in June — Though sales of nonfungible tokens, or NFTs, have dropped substantially amid the ongoing Crypto Winter, Uniswap Labs remains bullish on the future of the market.| 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.| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
The European Central Bank says that bitcoin is “rarely used for legal transactions” and is on the “road to irrelevance”, without citing any strong data points — European Central Bank officials alleged on Wednesday that bitcoin is “rarely used for legal transactions …
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European Central Bank, FIWORK's Blogs, Gizmodo, PYMNTS.com, and Bitcoin News
| Ashlee Vance / Bloomberg: |
Musk says Neuralink expects human trials to begin in about six months pending FDA approval, and unveils work on implants to treat paralysis and improve vision — Elon Musk's Neuralink Corp. aims to start putting its coin-sized computing brain implant into human patients within six months …
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New York Times, The Verge, TheStreet, Reuters, Engadget, Semafor, SlashGear, Wall Street Journal, Gizmodo, and MIT Technology Review
Tweets: @elonmusk, @mehdirhasan, and @markgongloff
| Juliana Liu / CNN: |
Chinese state media: a five-day COVID lockdown in Zhengzhou, home of Foxconn's “iPhone City”, has been lifted; an analyst says disruptions cost Apple ~$1B/week — Hong Kong CNN Business — The central Chinese city of Zhengzhou, home to the world's largest iPhone factory …
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Bloomberg, Forbes, 9to5Mac, CRN, iMore, Philip Elmer‑DeWitt, and The Register
Tweets: @williamyang120, @jchengwsj, and @divestech
| 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.
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Insider, The Independent, The Information, Mediaite, and Financial Times
| Jackie Davalos / Bloomberg: |
Memo: DoorDash plans to lay off around 1,250 employees, aiming to curb expenses; sources say that represents around 6% of its workforce — DoorDash Inc. is cutting about 1,250 jobs to rein in expenses, acknowledging that a rapid expansion during the pandemic boom has led to mounting losses.| Danny Nelson / CoinDesk: |
Telegram CEO Pavel Durov says the messaging app plans to build a decentralized crypto exchange and noncustodial wallets — The messaging app is pushing ahead with its buildout of crypto infrastructure. — Messaging app Telegram has sold $50 million in usernames in less than a month through … | Yogita Khatri / The Block: |
Binance acquires Japan-based licensed exchange Sakura Exchange BitCoin for an undisclosed sum, marking its re-entry into Japan and first license in East Asia — - Binance has entered Japan by acquiring the locally licensed exchange Sakura Exchange BitCoin (SEBC). — The terms of the deal were not disclosed.| 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, @designative, and @josephmenn
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