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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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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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The US DOJ starts seizing 48 websites and charges 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 …
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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.| 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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The SEC charges eight influencers with securities fraud, allegedly using Twitter and Discord to manipulate stocks since at least January 2020 in a ~$100M scheme — The Securities and Exchange Commission has charged eight influencers with securities fraud, the agency said Wednesday.
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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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| Financial Times: |
Court filing: FTX Digital Markets co-CEO Ryan Salame told Bahamas' securities commission on November 9 that FTX 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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Interviews with dozens of Elon Musk's former employees and partners portray his Twitter as a Shakespearean psychodrama, resulting in something close to disaster — It was Day 5 of Elon Musk's riveting, rambunctious takeover of Twitter Inc. The owner and self-proclaimed Chief Twit had spent …
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Tweets: @daveyalba, @daveyalba, @sarahfrier, @business, @daveyalba, @carlquintanilla, and @ericgeller
| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Tesla rolls out an update, adding support for Steam on 2022 Model S and Model X vehicles or newer with 16GB of RAM, Apple Music, upgraded Light Show, and more — Tesla's new “Holiday Update” adds a few long-awaited new features, including the ability to play games from Steam in your car and support for Apple Music.
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Tweets: @tesla, @elonmusk, @tesla, @tesla, @notateslaapp, @ordinarygamers, @keffals, and @silvermanjacob
| Matt Levine / Bloomberg: |
The SEC sees SBF's “carelessness” argument, after misrepresenting risk management and funneling customer money to Alameda, as a confession, not a fraud defense — Oh Sam — I. — Here is how you run a futures exchange: — You offer some bets on some propositions, say, whether Bitcoin will go up or down.
Tweets: @qasimrashid, @rationalwalk, @eliotwb, @70sbachchan, @matt_cassidy, @matt_cassidy, @bruno_j_navarro, @crypto, and @imagethief
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
EnCharge AI, which offers hardware and software to accelerate AI processing at the edge, emerges from stealth with a $21.7M Series A led by Anzu Partners — EnCharge AI, a company building hardware to accelerate AI processing at the edge, today emerged from stealth with $21.7 million in Series … | Meghan Bobrowsky / Wall Street Journal: |
As Tesla's stock drops ~60% in 2022, on pace for its worst year on record, investors criticize Elon Musk's involvement in Twitter and his lack of focus on Tesla — Supporters of Tesla and Musk are asking questions about who is running the electric-vehicle maker
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| Cat Zakrzewski / Washington Post: |
A tech industry group that includes Google and Meta sues to block California's Age-Appropriate Design Code, saying it would result in content “over-moderation” — It's the latest legal salvo over the future of social media regulation, an issue that has been appealed to the Supreme Court.
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Tweets: @misterfergusson, @cat_zakrzewski, @ktdayg, @netchoice, @cunning_jordan, and @kingjen
| Paresh Dave / Reuters: |
Ex-Twitter employee Ahmad Abouammo is sentenced to 3.5 years in prison, after being found guilty in August 2022 of spying for Saudi Arabia by sharing user data — 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.| Callum Cyrus / Tech.eu: |
Hamburg-based Fashion Cloud, whose B2B data and content exchange portal is used by ~20K fashion retailers, raised €25M led by Verdane — Around 20,000 fashion retailers already use FashionCloud's B2B data exchange to receive timely updates on stock and marketing from wholesale fashion brands and other suppliers.
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FashionUnited, Business Matters, Ecommerce News, and FashionNetwork.com
| Miles Kruppa / Wall Street Journal: |
A look at Spotter and Jellysmack, two companies offering YouTubers cash in exchange for up to five year of ad sales generated by licensing their old videos — Investors bet the back catalogs of top YouTubers will increase in value — TikTok, Instagram Reels or YouTube Shorts: Who Will Win the Short-Video Race?| Wall Street Journal: |
Tether plans to stop secured loans issued and denominated in its tether stablecoin at some point in 2023, after WSJ reported on the potentially risky practice — The rapid growth of Tether's lending program raised concerns about its ability to meet redemptions in a crisis — Created with sketchtool.
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tether.to, Watcher Guru, and Cryptonews
Tweets: @tether_to, @stevenkelly49, @rudegeair, and @jp_koning
| Bloomberg: |
Despite pledges, FEC filings show AT&T, Amazon, Intel, Comcast, and others quietly restarted donations to Republican election deniers ahead of the 2022 midterms — Some of the biggest technology and telecom companies jettisoned pledges made in the wake of the US Capitol assault …
Tweets: @birnbaum_e, @accountable_us, @birnbaum_e, @davidjoachim, @wbenjaminson, and @dinabass
| Dan Taylor / Tech.eu: |
UK-based Pragmatic, a semiconductor startup that produces flexible integrated circuits, raised a $35M Series C extension, bringing the round's total to $125M — Cambridge-based semiconductor firm Pragmatic is making flexible integrated circuits, all sans silicon. And has caught the investment eye of the CIA.
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