Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao plans to sell the remaining FTT tokens received from exiting FTX equity in 2021; FTX-linked Alameda offers to buy them for $22 each
Alameda's CEO offered to buy Binance's FTT token holdings for $22 apiece. — Binance's CEO, responding to a CoinDesk scoop …
Apple expects iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max shipments to be lower than anticipated due to COVID-19 restrictions at Foxconn's factory in Zhengzhou, China
Apple today said it expects iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max shipments to be lower than the company previously anticipated due …
Elon Musk says Twitter handles “engaging in impersonation without clearly specifying ‘parody’ will be permanently suspended” and there will be no more warnings
Elon Musk's Twitter has a new rule for everyone with an account on Twitter to follow …
FTX's Sam Bankman-Fried insists the exchange is “fine” after Binance begins selling FTX's FTT; a recently leaked Alameda balance sheet showed $8B in liabilities
- FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried insisted his crypto exchange is “fine” after rival Binance announced it would start selling its holdings of FTX's FTT token.
Sources: after cutting ~3,700 staff, Twitter asks dozens to return upon realizing some are needed to build features Musk wants and others were sacked in error
Twitter Inc., after laying off roughly half the company on Friday following Elon Musk's $44 billion acquisition …
Sources: Meta plans to lay off thousands of employees this week, with an announcement expected as soon as November 9, the first broad staff cuts in its history
Social-media company's planned cuts expected to affect many thousands of its workforce — Meta Platforms Inc. META 2.11%increase …
Sources: Apple expects to produce at least 3M fewer iPhone 14 handsets than anticipated in 2022, aiming to make 87M or fewer, primarily due to softer demand
Apple Inc. expects to produce at least 3 million fewer iPhone 14 handsets than originally anticipated this year, according to people familiar with its plans.
Q&A with Mastodon founder and lead developer Eugen Rochko on how decentralized social media servers mitigate hateful speech, why he built the service, and more
As Twitter changed hands at the end of October, another very similar social media site was experiencing something of an influx.
The US DOJ seizes 50,676 bitcoin, worth around ~$1B, defrauded from the Silk Road in 2012 by James Zhong, who pled guilty to wire fraud
The bitcoins, obtained in in 2012, were valued at $3.36 billion when discovered in November; now they're worth $1.04 billion.
Airbnb plans to show the total cost of stays in search results, including cleaning fees, starting in December, following complaints over opaque pricing
The travel company also says it will make predeparture cleaning requirements easier for customers to find earlier in their search
Ahead of the US midterms, researchers say YouTube, which often flies under the radar, has misinformation blind spots that allow false narratives to slip through
The video platform said it had limited the spread of misinformation ahead of Election Day, but new research showed that false narratives continued to slip through.
Sources: Elon Musk fired over 90% of Twitter's 200+ staff in India over the weekend, including ~70% of the product and engineering teams
Twitter Inc. fired more than 90% of its staff in India over the weekend — part of global reductions by new owner Elon Musk — severely depleting …
Research: Russia reactivates its troll and bot networks on Gab, Parler, and other platforms, seeking to influence the US midterms and erode support for Ukraine
Steven Lee Myers / New York Times :
Sources: Donald Trump tells allies that he can't leave Truth Social for Twitter because he's propping it up and doesn't want the brand to collapse
The former president has told his allies that he can't leave his Twitter clone because he's propping it up, and he doesn't want a site so closely associated with his brand to collapse.
Internal post and sources: Twitter delays rolling out verification checkmarks to Blue subscribers until November 9, the day after the US midterm elections
New York Times :
Unity, which makes the eponymous game engine, merges with adtech company ironSource in a $4.4B all-stock deal; Unity stock is down ~75% YTD and ironSource ~50%
Paul Sawers / TechCrunch :
A review of misinformation labels: Twitter and Facebook have done little to refute inaccurate election claims by at least 26 US midterms candidates since April
Algerian startup Yassir, which offers on-demand ride hailing, banking, and more, raised $150M led by BOND to expand overseas, bringing its funding to $193M
Nicolas Parasie / Bloomberg :
Palantir Q3: revenue of $478M, up 22% YoY, vs. $470M est., US commercial customer count increased 124% YoY and US commercial revenue up 53% YoY; stock down 12%+
Ashley Capoot / CNBC :
The UK's ICO reprimands the Department for Education for giving employment screening company Trustopia access to data on up to 28M children from 2018-2020
Financial Times :
African e-commerce giant Jumia announces co-founders Jeremy Hodara and Sacha Poignonnec have stepped down as co-CEOs, replaced by executive Francis Dufay
Tage Kene-Okafor / TechCrunch :
A profile of Alex Spiro, a celebrity lawyer and central figure in Elon Musk's bid to overhaul Twitter, who has done much of the legal heavy lifting so far
Washington Post :
Hua Hong Semiconductor, China's second-largest chipmaker, receives approval for a ~$2.5B Shanghai IPO and plans to use the funds to build a plant in Wuxi, China
Source: Apple is working on shortening the “Hey Siri” trigger phrase to “Siri” by 2024 and plans to integrate Siri deeper into third-party apps and services
An investigation details India's “hack-for-hire” industry, which helps global corporate intelligence clients target businesses, journalists, and politicians
The Bureau of Investigative Journalism :
Some creators are urging parents not to post videos of their children on social media, arguing that kids can't consent and removing all the content is hard
Morgan Sung / NBC News :
A look at Ethereum's Shanghai update, expected in 2023, and its WARM Coinbase change, which could reduce fees by up to 26x for some major ecosystem participants
Olga Kharif / Bloomberg :
The White House plans to push for antitrust legislation in the post-midterms lame duck session, perhaps a final shot for AICOA, Open App Markets Act, and others
Bills are stalled after $100 million lobbying https://www.bloomberg.com/... // the bills couldn't possibly be stalled because they are a bad idea. Emily Birnbaum / @birnbaum_e : The White House tells ...
Sources: Alibaba, Biren, and other Chinese companies halt advanced chip production and tweak designs, responding to US sanctions that cap processing power
Financial Times :
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