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Twitter updates its private information and media policy with new rules, including suspending accounts “dedicated to sharing someone else's live location” — The suspended accounts include one that followed the private plane of Elon Musk, Twitter's owner.
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| Bloomberg: |
Twitter suspends ~30 accounts sharing private jets' locations via public data, including @ElonJet, which Elon Musk had said he wouldn't ban for tracking his jet — Twitter Inc. has suspended multiple accounts that track the locations of private jets using publicly available flight data …
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| Financial Times: |
Court filing: FTX Digital Markets co-CEO Ryan Salame told The Bahamas' securities commission on November 9 that customer funds were used to cover Alameda losses — FTX executive told securities regulator crypto exchange was likely funnelling cash to Alameda trading firm
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| Bloomberg: |
Internal FTX documentation shows a GitHub account bearing the name of engineering director Nishad Singh authored code to hide Alameda's ballooning liabilities — A GitHub account bearing the name of former FTX executive Nishad Singh authored code that hid Alameda Research's ballooning liabilities …
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Tweets: @thestalwart, @fredwalton216, @hoffmang, @unusual_whales, @eking0x, @eking0x, and @gilliantan
| Dave Lee / Financial Times: |
Filing: Elon Musk sells 22M Tesla shares, worth ~$3.6B, the fourth sale since announcing his Twitter takeover and third since declaring “no further TSLA sales” — Billionaire has sold $23bn of stock in EV group since announcing Twitter takeover| Bloomberg: |
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| William Turton / Bloomberg: |
The US DOJ seized 48 websites and charged six people for allegedly running “booter” DDoS-for-hire services used to launch millions of attacks globally — The US seized dozens of internet domains and charged six people in a sting intended to bring down a network of cyberattack-for-hire services … | Keith Zhai / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: hoping to boost the economy, Chinese officials begin reassessing tech policies and plan to close long-running investigations against internet companies — Senior officials are setting a robust GDP growth target of more than 5% for next year as they loosen Covid rules and de-emphasize ideology| Al Weaver / The Hill: |
The US Senate unanimously passed the No TikTok on Government Devices Act over security concerns related to the app, after 13 states imposed similar bans — The Senate on Wednesday unanimously approved legislation that would ban the use of TikTok on government phones and devices as part … | Chainalysis: |
Analysis of weekly realized gains and losses of all personal crypto wallets in 2022: UST's collapse caused $20.5B in losses, Celsius and 3AC $33B, and FTX $9B — Allow us to state the obvious: There's been a lot of doom and gloom in conversations around cryptocurrency over the last month.| Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez / Fortune: |
PayPal launches an integration with the MetaMask Web3 wallet that lets users purchase and transfer ether, rolling out to all US customers in the coming weeks — Users of the popular MetaMask Web3 wallet will soon be able to buy the second-most-popular cryptocurrency, Ether, via PayPal.
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| Jamie Crawley / CoinDesk: |
US Senators Elizabeth Warren (D) and Roger Marshall (R) introduce the Digital Asset Anti-Money Laundering Act, including KYC requirements for wallets and miners — The proposal will bring know-your-customer rules to crypto participants such as wallet providers and miners.| Byron Kaye / Reuters: |
Australia's e-Safety Commissioner says Apple and Microsoft are not doing enough to stop CSAM on their services, calling the companies' responses “alarming” — An Australian regulator, after using new powers to make the tech giants share information about their methods …
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| Paresh Dave / Reuters: |
The US sentences former Twitter employee Ahmad Abouammo to 3.5 years, after he was found guilty of spying for Saudi Arabia by sharing user data in August 2022 — A former Twitter Inc manager convicted of spying for Saudi Arabia was sentenced to 3-1/2 years in U.S. prison, prosecutors said on Wednesday.
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| MK Manoylov / The Block: |
Binance spokesperson Patrick Hillmann claims Changpeng Zhao has traveled to the US without publicizing it, after rumors that he could face legal difficulties — - Binance's Chief Strategy Officer and company spokesperson Patrick Hillmann said that CEO Changpeng “CZ” Zhao has been in the U.S. …
Tweets: @prhillmann, @prhillmann, @prhillmann, @wublockchain, @silvermanjacob, @wublockchain, and @silvermanjacob
| Financial Times: |
Newzoo predicts mobile games revenue will fall 6.4% to $92.2B in 2022, the first drop in a decade, compared to 7.3% growth in 2021 and 25.6% growth in 2020 — Once fast-growing $100bn industry hit by post-pandemic changes in player behaviour and drop in consumer spending
Tweets: @guyhardinglc and @astaniscia86
| Loni Prinsloo / Bloomberg: |
A look at the face off in South Africa between the Khoisan, an ancient southern African tribe, and Amazon, which plans to build a regional HQ on sacred land — On the outskirts of Cape Town, at the base of Table Mountain and set back from a tangle of freeways, the Liesbeek and Black rivers meet in a small stretch of marshland.
Tweets: @loniprinsloo1, @atbwebb, and @quicktake
| Zack Beauchamp / Vox: |
A look at The Managerial Revolution, a 1941 book that predicted the rise of the “managerial class” over capitalists and may help explain Elon Musk's Twitter — The long shadow of James Burnham's The Managerial Revolution. — Since the launch of the so-called “Twitter Files” …
Tweets: @davidastinwalsh, @davidastinwalsh, @greenplusane, @lemieuxlgm, @paulblu, and @czedwards
| Taryn Plumb / VentureBeat: |
Amazon Web Services, Meta, Microsoft, TomTom, and the Linux Foundation launch the Overture Maps Foundation, aiming to build interoperable, open-source map data — Think about it: Maps are fundamental to human evolution, exploration, innovation. — Since the first maps were drawn up in the 5th …
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| Igor Bonifacic / Engadget: |
Twitter plans to shut down its newsletter platform Revue and delete all related data on January 18, 2023, after acquiring the company in January 2021 — One day after Jack Dorsey took to Revue to share his thoughts on the Twitter Files, the company announced it would shut down the newsletter platform early next year.
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