A video and live blog of Sam Bankman-Fried being interviewed by Andrew Ross Sorkin at the New York Times' DealBook Summit, covering FTX, Alameda, and more
FTX, the crypto exchange Mr. Bankman-Fried founded, declared bankruptcy this month in a failure that wiped out billions of investor dollars.
In his NYT interview, SBF gave few straight answers while admitting to gross errors, denying claims of fraud, and claiming he “didn't knowingly commingle funds”
Mystery continues to shroud the missing billions at bankrupt crypto exchange FTX after its disgraced founder Sam …
Elon Musk says he met with Tim Cook at Apple's HQ on Wednesday, and that Cook was clear that Apple “never considered” removing Twitter from the App Store
Twitter CEO Elon Musk today met with Apple CEO Tim Cook at the Apple Park campus in Cupertino, California, according to a tweet shared by Musk this afternoon.
OpenAI releases a demo of ChatGPT, a chatbot version of GPT-3 that answers follow-up questions, admits its mistakes, challenges incorrect premises, and more
A chatbot version of GPT-3 that admits its mistakes is more transparent than the original. But it's still not perfect.
LastPass says customer data was accessed after hackers breached its third-party cloud storage, shared with parent GoTo, using info stolen in an August 2022 hack
LastPass says unknown attackers breached its cloud storage using information stolen during a previous security incident from August 2022.
Elon Musk says Neuralink expects human trials to begin in about six months pending FDA approval, and details work on implants to treat paralysis and vision
Elon Musk's Neuralink Corp. aims to start putting its coin-sized computing brain implant into human patients within six months …
Sources: TSMC plans to make 4nm chips in its ~$12B Arizona plant, set to open in 2024, an upgrade from prior 5nm claims, at the urging of Apple, AMD, and others
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. will offer advanced 4-nanometer chips when its new $12 billion plant in Arizona opens in 2024 …
Pathmatics: Apple's Twitter ad purchases grew from $989K in October to $1M+ in November; on November 28, Elon Musk said Apple “mostly stopped” Twitter ads
Thomas Germain / Gizmodo :
As FTX collapsed, mainstream news organizations often failed to give a straightforward assessment of exactly what happened and potential crimes involved
and the media cover-up. (via @EllisItems) “[W]hat happened at the FTX crypto exchange ...[was] a conscious and intentional fraud intended to steal money from both users and investors.” https://www.coi...
Despite genuine concerns, generative AI seems unlikely to replace workers, instead complementing and empowering them by taking over mundane, repetitive tasks
and how this shows that humans won't be replaced. A co-authored blog post by @tszzl and me! https://noahpinion.substack.com/ ... Paul Graham / @paulg : For me one of the biggest surprises about curren...
Salesforce says Bret Taylor will step down as vice chair and co-CEO on January 31, 2023, and Marc Benioff will stay on as chair and CEO
- Observers viewed Bret Taylor as a possible successor for Marc Benioff, Salesforce's iconic co-founder. — It's the second time in less than three years …
Mark Zuckerberg says Apple's policies that let the company unilaterally control which apps can be installed are not sustainable and cause a conflict of interest
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Wednesday added to the growing chorus of concerns about Apple, arguing that it's …
YouTube releases its 2022 recap for the US, highlighting the most-watched videos, top creators, breakout stars, top songs, and global top ads
Following the Music Recap earlier this week, YouTube is revealing the top trending videos of 2022 and other lists that more or less serve as a stand in for Rewind.
Source: despite Zhengzhou lifting its COVID-19 lockdown, Foxconn plans to keep its closed-loop system, restricting staff movements to dorms or the factory floor
Apple Inc.'s most important iPhone assembly plant remains in a closed-loop operation that curtails workers' movement on campus …
Disney unveils FRAN, an AI tool that helps TV or film producers make an actor look older or younger without the need for complex and expensive visual effects
With just a few clicks, actors can look younger or older without the need for expensive visual effects. — Alerts
Sources: Netflix plans to expand its pre-release content screening program, the Netflix Preview Club, from 2,000+ users to tens of thousands in early 2023
Streaming giant plans global expansion of program that helped make 'Don't Look Up' less serious — Netflix's Turbulent Year: How It Reversed Subscriber Losses
A look at online and smartphone gambling in the UK, legalized in 2005, as bettors lost £14B+ in four of the past five years and concerns about addiction rise
On an August morning in 2016, Stewart Kenny, the co-founder of Paddy Power, was struggling to keep his emotions in check …
Tether's reports show increasing loans denominated and payable in its own stablecoin, reaching $6.1B as of September 30, a potential risk in a crisis
Tether reports hadn't disclosed that loans it issues are denominated and payable in the token — The SEC's Strategy for Enforcing Regulation on Crypto, Explained Tweets: @patio11 , @anthony , @bitboy...
Twitter plans to expand recommended tweets to all users, including those who may not have seen them in the past
Twitter is now pushing more tweets from accounts users don't already follow into their timelines. The company revealed that it's now surfacing recommendations to all its users …
Twitter alternative Hive temporarily shuts down after researchers found vulnerabilities that would have let hackers access DMs and edit others' Hive posts
The team at the newly popular Twitter alternative Hive is in over their head. The company has now taken the fairly radical step …
The UK government plans to test SpaceX's Starlink in remote locations, including Snowdonia National Park, choosing the service over British rival OneWeb
Anna Gross / Financial Times :
Salesforce reports Q3 revenue up 14% YoY to $7.84B, vs. $7.82B est., and operating cash flow down 23% YoY to $313M; stock drops 6%+
Kif Leswing / CNBC :
How Twitter users in China have been circumventing the nation's Great Firewall and fighting spam to get footage of protests out to the rest of the world
Chinese users employ VPNs to get videos and images out of the country, while fighting spam — Why Tesla's China Ties Could Be a Problem for Twitter
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy says the company does not plan to stop selling “Hebrews to Negroes: Wake Up Black America”, an antisemitic film promoted by Kyrie Irving
Associated Press :
[Thread] Coinbase says Apple “blocked our last” Wallet iOS app release until the exchange disabled sending NFTs, claiming Apple wanted a 30% cut from gas fees
You might have noticed you can't send NFTs on Coinbase Wallet iOS anymore. This is because Apple blocked our last app release until we disabled the feature. 🧵 Tweets: @coinbasewallet , @film_girl , @d...
Google says Barcelona-based spyware vendor Variston planted spyware by exploiting zero-day flaws in Chrome, Firefox, and Windows between 2018 and 2022
Carly Page / TechCrunch :
Medibank's hackers post what appears to be the remaining data of 9.7M customers on the dark web, claiming “case closed”, as Medibank continues its investigation
Josh Taylor / The Guardian :
US crypto exchange Kraken plans to lay off 1,100 people, or 30% of its workforce, citing a need to “adapt to current market conditions”
Danny Nelson / CoinDesk :
Uniswap Labs launches an NFT marketplace aggregator with listings from OpenSea, LooksRare, NFTX, and others, after acquiring the aggregator Genie in June
gm. — today begins December. and that means it's … Hassan Maishera / CoinJournal : Will UNI rally higher after Uniswap launches NFTs on its network? Tweets: @uniswap : 1/ NFTs are officially live on...
Mozilla acquires Pulse, which made an automated status updater for Slack before shuttering, and plans to use its ML tech to improve personalization in Pocket
Firefox developer Mozilla is making a rare foray into the world of mergers and acquisitions, with news that it has snapped …
Sources: on Tuesday, China's internet regulator told Tencent, ByteDance, and others to grow censorship teams, focus on protest content, and censor info on VPNs
Liza Lin / Wall Street Journal :
Frore Systems, which develops the AirJet system to better cool processors, raised $100M led by Qualcomm Ventures, bringing its total funding to $116M
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch :
Memo: DoorDash plans to lay off around 1,250 employees, aiming to curb expenses; sources say that represents around 6% of its workforce
Fleek, which is developing tools for Web3 companies, including for storage, billing, and hosting, raised a $25M Series A led by Polychain Capital
Jacquelyn Melinek / TechCrunch :
Twitch unveils Shield Mode, which lets streamers and mods activate customizable safety measures with one click, mass ban chatters using specific terms, and more
Jon Fingas / Engadget :
Box reports Q3 revenue of $250M, up 12% YoY, and billings of $258.2M, up 12% YoY, and forecasts Q4 revenue between $255M and $257M, vs. $259.3M est.
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Sources: Amazon begins layoffs in its Alexa, Kindle, and Halo hardware teams, as part of the planned ~10K cuts, as investors anticipate a broader downsizing
Dave Lee / Financial Times :
Telegram CEO Pavel Durov says the messaging app plans to build a decentralized crypto exchange and noncustodial wallets
Danny Nelson / CoinDesk :
ICA Miami and other museums continue to collect and display NFTs even as the market sinks, arguing digital art has a long history and valuations are unimportant
Farah Nayeri / New York Times :
Mozilla's Firefox and Microsoft's Edge plan to stop trusting new certificates from TrustCor, after a report revealed TrustCor's ties to a US defense contractor
Joseph Menn / Washington Post : Tweets: @reedmideke Tweets: Reed Mideke / @reedmideke : After providing wildly evasive answers to the people who decide whether the whole internet should trust them, @...
Airbnb launches a program to help renters find an apartment in 25 US markets and then list a spare room or occasionally the whole apartment on the platform
Snowflake reports Q3 revenue up 67% YoY to $557M, vs. $539M est., and anticipates Q4 product revenue between $535M and $540M, vs. $553M est.; stock drops 5%+
In a rare interview, TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew explains how US data will be kept out of China through “Project Texas”, discusses “booktok”, algorithms, and more
Nilay Patel / The Verge :
As inflation grows in Argentina, locals use Mercado Pago and other digital wallets to protect their pesos but must deal with crypto's scam and theft issues
NYC-based Teampay, a low-code service to help enterprises automate software purchasing, raised a $47M Series B, comprising $35.25M equity and $11.75M debt
Shopify's new AI commerce stack
Their VP of Product digs into just-launched products to help entrepreneurs and developers build with the latest AI.
Email fatigue is real: Here's how smart email tools help you regain control
Picture this: It's Monday morning. You walk into the office feeling energized and ready to take on the week.
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data
Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Box data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.