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SVB Financial files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the SDNY Bankruptcy Court and “believes it has approximately $2.2B of liquidity” — One week after trading was halted for SVB Financial and regulators took control of the holding company for Silicon Valley Bank and other subsidiaries …
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YouTube lifts its restrictions on Donald Trump's channel, imposed after the January 6 insurrection, after evaluating the “continued risk of real-world violence” — YouTube will lift its restrictions on former President Trump's channel Friday, a spokesperson confirmed to Axios.
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Meta debuts Verified in the US for $12/month on the web or $15/month on Android/iOS, with a blue badge, proactive impersonation protection, and customer support — Meta's paid verification program is available in the US starting today, CEO Mark Zuckerberg wrote on his Instagram channel.
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Google's Project Zero finds 18 zero-day vulnerabilities, including four top-severity flaws, affecting some Samsung phones and other devices with Exynos chipsets — Google's security research unit is sounding the alarm on a set of vulnerabilities it found in certain Samsung chips included …
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Sources: Twitter explored licensing music rights from three major labels but negotiations stalled after Elon Musk's takeover and were abandoned due to costs — Twitter didn't move forward with the music licensing deals because of costs, people with knowledge of the matter said.
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The FCC is requiring carriers to block SMS messages from “invalid, unallocated, or unused numbers”, targeting the increasing scam robotexts sent to consumers — First robotext rule requires blocking of texts from invalid and unused numbers. — The Federal Communications …
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Sources: Coinbase is exploring setting up a crypto trading platform overseas for institutional clients outside of the US, amid increased US scrutiny of crypto — Institutional clients of Coinbase Global Inc. have been contacted by the firm about plans to potentially set … | Alexander Martin / The Record: |
Q&A with two Meta security experts about the company's Online Operations Kill Chain, a framework for responding to threats like election influence operations — Next year will feature some of the most geopolitically significant elections of our times. Voters will be heading …
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A shortage of skilled workers is impeding Micron's goal of a chip manufacturing campus in Syracuse, NY, where it plans to invest $100B and hire 9K employees — Micron plans to hire 9,000 employees at a new suburban Syracuse campus amid shortage of skilled workers
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FTC finalized a $245M fine for Epic Games on Tuesday over tricking users into making unintended purchases in Fortnite and banned Epic from using dark patterns — Epic Games faces over half a billion dollars in fines from the FTC — The United States Federal Trade Commission (FTC) …
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Around 20 investors and founders say some individual investors and small firms actively helped startups during the SVB crisis while many big firms disappointed — Covering venture capital, cloud and startups — When founders scrambled to make payroll after the closure of SVB …
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Amazon stops selling newspaper and magazine subscriptions for Kindle and in print, and plans to shut down its Kindle Newsstand subscription on September 4, 2023 — Amazon has announced they are abandoning the Kindle for Periodicals or the Kindle Newsstand, which will completely shutter on September 2023.
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| Jonathan Vanian / CNBC: |
In a presentation about the new Copilot features, Microsoft acknowledges AI's tendency to produce inaccurate responses but says the tech can be “usefully wrong” — - Microsoft debuted ChatGPT-like features dubbed Copilot that will eventually come to its business apps like Word and Excel.
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