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Five agency executives say Netflix is delivering ~80% of the expected viewers for its ad-supported tier and structured its ad deals to release any unspent money — For as quickly as Netflix brought its ad-supported tier to market, the streamer's advertising business is off to a slow start.| Dave Lee / Financial Times: |
Filing: Elon Musk sells 22M Tesla shares, worth almost $3.6B, his fourth sale since his Twitter takeover bid and third since tweeting “no further TSLA sales” — Billionaire has sold $23bn of stock in EV group since announcing Twitter takeover — Elon Musk has offloaded another tranche … | Simon Sharwood / The Register: |
Microsoft quietly updates its TOS to prohibit crypto mining on Azure and other services without “prior written approval”, citing “disruption or even impairment” — Windows giant fears coin crafting may upend its servers — UPDATED Microsoft has quietly banned cryptocurrency mining … | Mia Sato / The Verge: |
Instagram launches a tool for getting help recovering a hacked account, accessing an account after forgetting the password, and reporting impersonation accounts — Instagram users who are victims of hacking now have a new way to try to claw back their account.
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Instagram, CNET, TechCrunch, Meta, Social Media Today, Neowin, Engadget, KnowTechie, BGR, PetaPixel, and PetaPixel
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| Bloomberg: |
Internal FTX documentation: a GitHub account bearing the name of former 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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The Block, Ethereum World News, Micky, and CryptoPotato
Tweets: @adamscochran, @hoffmang, @fredwalton216, @eking0x, @carnage4life, @eking0x, @unusual_whales, @thestalwart, @bennetttomlin, and @gilliantan
| Financial Times: |
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| David Klepper / Associated Press: |
CCDH: when researchers liked self-harm and eating disorder videos on TikTok in the US, the UK, Canada, and Australia, the app recommended more similar content — TikTok's algorithms are promoting videos about self-harm and eating disorders to vulnerable teens, according to a report published Wednesday …
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The Guardian, Center for Countering …, CNN, CBS News, New York Times, iPhone in Canada Blog, Fast Company, City A.M., VICE, Firstpost Tech, and The i Paper
Tweets: @ccdhate, @mattnavarra, @ccdhate, and @daithaigilbert
| Chainalysis: |
An analysis of weekly realized gains and losses of personal crypto wallets in 2022: UST caused $20.5B in losses, Celsius and 3AC caused $33B, and FTX caused $9B — Allow us to state the obvious: There's been a lot of doom and gloom in conversations around cryptocurrency over the last month.
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CryptoSlate, crypto.news, Crypto Daily, and The Block
Tweets: @chainalysis, @chainalysis, and @dgwbirch
| Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge: |
Google finishes rolling out the Matter smart home standard to Android and Nest, following Apple and Samsung; Amazon plans to support Matter by the end of 2022 — Google announced today that it has completed the initial rollout of Matter to its Google Nest products and Android OS.
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The Keyword, Android Police, Ars Technica, CNET, Digital Trends, Android Central, Thurrott, 9to5Google, Gizmodo, Tom's Guide, Android Headlines, MUO, ZDNet, 9to5Google, Pocket-lint, TechHive, Engadget, SlashGear, Phone Scoop, and The Ambient. Tweets: @madebygoogle
| Kellen Browning / New York Times: |
Amazon Games plans to publish Crystal Dynamics' next Tomb Raider, marking Amazon's first major, single-player game, currently in early development — The title will be the first major single-player game for Amazon. It is a coup for the retail giant, which has struggled to gain traction with its video game business.
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Amazon Games, VentureBeat, PCMag, Windows Central, Eurogamer.net, Engadget, Game Developer, The Hollywood Reporter, Thurrott, PC Gamer, TechSpot, Android Headlines, Game Informer, Appuals.com, Twinfinite, GamesIndustry.biz, IGN, GeekWire, Push Square, The Verge, Rock, Paper, Shotgun, Bloomberg, Video Games Chronicle, Axios, Kotaku Australia, KitGuru, TrueAchievements, Gameranx, Wccftech, Destructoid, Game Rant, OnMSFT.com, Polygon, Digital Trends, GamingBolt, TheGamer, Gamereactor UK, and GameSpot
Tweets: @tombraider, @kenbimbo, @henereyg, @discussingfilm, @wario64, @wario64, @stephentotilo, and @amzngamestudios
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft adds full Teams integration to HoloLens 2 headsets, letting users view calendars and more, the first major update since co-creator Alex Kipman left — Microsoft has long supported real-time video calls using Microsoft Teams on HoloLens 2 headsets, but now the company …
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| Al Weaver / The Hill: |
The US Senate unanimously passes the No TikTok on Government Devices Act over security concerns about China-based ByteDance, after 13 states set similar bans — The Senate on Wednesday unanimously approved legislation that would ban the use of TikTok on government phones and devices as part …
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Tweets: @adam_k_levin, @seanspicer, @holmesjosh, @sentomcotton, @juliezebrak, and @brendancarrfcc
| 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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TechCrunch, The Linux Foundation, Gizmodo, SiliconANGLE, Oculus Blog, TomTom, Thurrott, and TomTom International B.V.
Tweets: @bgurley, @linuxfoundation, @realivansanchez, @tomtom, @philogb, @psawers, and @luis_in_brief
| Zack Beauchamp / Vox: |
A look at The Managerial Revolution, a book from 1941 predicting the “managerial class” supplanting capitalists, which could 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: @greenplusane, @lemieuxlgm, @paulblu, @davidastinwalsh, @davidastinwalsh, @czedwards, and @pt
| CNBC: |
After being named in an FTX lawsuit along with Tom Brady, Steph Curry, and Larry David, Shaquille O'Neal says he was “just a paid spokesperson for a commercial” — Shaquille O'Neal wants to make one thing clear: He doesn't believe in crypto, if he ever did.
Tweets: @quinnypig, @jadescipioni, @jadescipioni, @c_albertdeitch, and @nycjim
| Bloomberg: |
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| Ryan Mac / New York Times: |
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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BuzzFeed News, VICE, BBC, Financial Times, Washington Post, Slate, The Register, Ars Technica, Insider, Social Media Today, The Verge, WRAL TechWire, Bloomberg, Gizmodo, The Free Press, MUO, The Shortcut, The Hill, and Fossbytes
Tweets: @elonmusk, @elonmusk, @twittersafety, @elonmusk, @elonmusk, @twittersafety, @mattbinder, @keithedwards, @twittersafety, @jonrosenberg, @moltisantithots, @vickerysec, @joshuaphilll, @mikeisaac, @daphnehk, @radishharmers, @timfullerton, @drewharwell, @wholemarsblog, @willoremus, @jsrailton, @silvermanjacob, @olivermathenge, @chrislhayes, @levinejonathan, @ryangrim, @oliverdarcy, @mehdirhasan, @owillis, @mattbinder, @atrupar, and @juddlegum
| Jacquelyn Melinek / TechCrunch: |
London-based Aztec Network, which is building an encrypted version of Ethereum, raised a $100M Series B led by a16z and plans a testnet launch within 12 months — Aztec Network, a privacy layer for web3, has raised $100 million in a Series B round led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) …
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a16z crypto, Cointelegraph, The Block, and Andreessen Horowitz
| Sebastian Moss / DCD: |
Sources: Meta reviews some of its 11 in-development data center projects globally and lays off a Danish contractor, as part of a design change for AI workloads — As it plans radical shift to AI data centers — Meta is reviewing a number of under-construction data center projects around …
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| Alexander Martin / The Record: |
Meta reports taking down 200+ coordinated inauthentic behavior operations since 2016, spread across over 100 countries, most focused on their domestic audience — Six years on from the shock discovery of Russian interference during the 2016 presidential election — and in the face …
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Meta, Meta, The Guardian, CyberScoop, Social Media Today, Meta, SiliconANGLE, and Wired
Tweets: @guyro, @ngleicher, @benimmo, @lutzguellner, @metanewsroom, and @ari_ben_am
| Keith Zhai / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: aiming for 5%+ economic growth in 2023, Chinese officials reassess their tech policies and plan to close lengthy investigations into 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| Financial Times: |
The US Commerce Department puts 36 Chinese companies on its entity list, including chipmaker Yangtze Memory Technologies and AI chipmaker Cambricon — ‘Entity list’ changes are focused on limiting development of advanced chips in China — The US has placed three dozen Chinese companies …
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New York Times, Reuters, Semafor, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Nikkei Asia, Semafor, TechSpot, and Bloomberg
Tweets: @dimi, @michaelsobolik, @chadbown, @joshuasteinman, and @dimi
| Bloomberg: |
About 200 companies in China and Hong Kong, including Alibaba and JD.com, no longer face the threat of a US delisting after US inspectors reviewed their audits — About 200 companies based in China and Hong Kong are no longer facing an acute threat of being booted off American stock exchanges, sending shares surging.
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| Sarah McBride / Bloomberg: |
Brain-computer interface developer Synchron raised $75M from ARCH Venture, Bezos Expeditions, Gates Frontier, and others, bringing its total funding to $145M — Last March, brain-computing interface expert Tom Oxley sat down to dinner with Amazon.com Inc. founder Jeff Bezos to talk … | MK Manoylov / The Block: |
Binance's 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. …
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Gizmodo. Tweets: @prhillmann, @cz_binance, @bitfinexed, @prhillmann, @prhillmann, @wublockchain, @silvermanjacob, @wublockchain, and @silvermanjacob
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