Responding to the “Twitter Files”, Jack Dorsey criticizes attacks on Twitter staff, advocates for an open social media protocol, and commits $1M/year to Signal
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Tesla rolls out an update, adding support for Steam on 2022 Model S and X vehicles or newer with 16GB RAM, Apple Music, 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.
Memo: Changpeng Zhao tells Binance staff to expect a “bumpy” several months but the exchange “will survive any crypto winter”, following massive withdrawals
Binance Holdings Ltd. Chief Executive Officer Changpeng Zhao warned his colleagues to expect tough months ahead …
Sources: Twitter stopped paying rent on offices and is considering not paying severance packages to cut costs, as its top lawyer Alex Spiro leaves the company
Twitter has stopped paying rent on offices and is considering not paying severance packages to former employees, among other measures.
Sources: Apple plans to allow third-party app stores on iOS 17 and iPadOS 17 in the EU, due to EU requirements in 2024, including letting users change defaults
Apple Inc. is preparing to allow alternative app stores on its iPhones and iPads, part of a sweeping overhaul aimed at complying …
Sources: Twitter is considering forcing all users to opt in to personalized ads and share their location data but may let Blue users opt out of personalized ads
Agree to personalize your ads — or else — A month ago, when Elon Musk's Twitter first set out to revamp the Twitter Blue subscription …
Citing Sam Bankman-Fried's flight risk, a Bahamas magistrate judge denies him bail and says he should be remanded to Bahamian custody until February 8, 2023
who is asking his client be let out on bail. Sarah Emerson / @sarahnemerson : NEW: SBF + his counsel have been in Bahamian court all day fighting extradition. Prosecutors argued he poses a flight risk...
SBF's “carelessness” fraud defense, after misrepresenting risk management and funneling customer money to Alameda, is a confession the SEC sees straight through
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 , @eliotwb , @bruno_j_navarro , @ma...
Twitter suspends @ElonJet, a popular bot that tracked Elon Musk's private jet, days after its creator accused Twitter of shadowbanning the account
Days after @ElonJet accused Twitter of shadowbanning, it's been suspended. Musk had said he wouldn't ban the account even though it was a “safety” risk for him.
Sources: Alibaba will not be able to buy Arm's high-performance Neoverse V chips, after Arm concludes that the US and UK would not approve its export to China
Alibaba among groups unable to purchase top designs — Alibaba, the Chinese tech giant, cannot buy some of the most advanced chip designs …
As Tesla's stock drops 54%+ 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
The son of a murdered Ethiopian professor files a lawsuit against Meta in Kenya, alleging Meta's algorithms promote hateful and violent content for engagement
Lawsuit alleges the social media giant is fueling violence and hate across Eastern and Southern Africa.
The DOJ charged SBF with violating campaign finance laws, creating a showdown over what could be the biggest recent illegal infusion of money in US politics
Sam Bankman-Fried, the second biggest Democratic donor in the 2022 election cycle, is charged with violating campaign finance laws …
The SEC charges Sam Bankman-Fried with defrauding investors and concealing diverting FTX customer funds to Alameda while raising $1.8B+ since at least May 2019
Sources: the US commerce department plans to put Chinese memory chip maker YMTC on its “entity list” as early as this week, limiting its ability to get US tech
Financial Times :
Interviews with dozens of Elon Musk's former employees and partners describe a Shakespearean psychodrama since acquiring Twitter, leading to myriad disasters
It was Day 5 of Elon Musk's riveting, rambunctious takeover of Twitter Inc. The owner and self-proclaimed Chief Twit had spent …
The SEC charges eight influencers with securities fraud, alleging they used Twitter and Discord to manipulate stocks from January 2020 as part of a $100M scheme
The Securities and Exchange Commission has charged eight influencers with securities fraud, the agency said Wednesday.
US lawmakers introduce legislation that aims to ban TikTok or any social media company in, or under the influence of, China, Russia, and other US adversaries
- A new bill from a bipartisan group of lawmakers would ban TikTok in the U.S. — The bill comes after years of broad concern across …
Binance CEO addresses major USDC outflows, saying users can “withdraw any other stablecoin”; Nansen: users withdrew ~$1.6B on the Ethereum network in 24 hours
Sources: some US banks that lent Elon Musk $13B to buy Twitter are preparing to book losses on the loans this quarter, as investors shy away from risky debt
Reuters : Tweets: @astaniscia86 , @marxculture , @helvetius66 , and @underoak Tweets: Giulio S. / @astaniscia86 : $10 billion worth of loans secured by Twitter's assets might have to be written down ...
An investigation details the global supply chain that continues to offer Russia access to Western components and electronics, including from Intel and AMD
In March this year, a new firm appeared in Turkey's corporate registry. Azu International Ltd Sti described itself as a wholesale trader …
Tether plans to stop using loans denominated in its tether stablecoin throughout 2023, following a report 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.
When a female reporter tried Lensa, many of her 100 avatars were “pornified”, with 16 topless; her male peers got avatars of astronauts, warriors, and the like
When I tried the new viral AI avatar app Lensa, I was hoping to get results similar to some of my colleagues at MIT Technology Review.Tweets:@melissahei,@originalspin, and@tariqkrimTweets:@melissahei:...
Apple rolls out iOS 16.2, iPadOS 16.2, and macOS 13.1, with improved iCloud data encryption, AirDrop limitations, Freeform, and an Apple Music karaoke feature
A profile of Helen Fisher, Match.com's chief scientific adviser, who was instrumental in making the case for online dating and bringing science to the space
Almost 20 years ago, Helen Fisher helped revolutionize dating. She has no regrets. — The anthropologist and famed love expert … Tweets: @codinghorror and @johntierneynyc Tweets: Jeff Atwood / @codi...
Verizon partners with Netflix to give some customers who subscribe to another service via its new +play marketplace a free one-year Netflix premium subscription
but There's a Catch See also Mediagazer
Microsoft partners with Viasat to expand its Airband Initiative satellite internet program to Africa, prioritizing the DRC, Nigeria, Egypt, Senegal, and more
Alan Boyle / GeekWire :
Q&A with Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg on closing the Tumblr deal, profitability, content moderation, Apple's rules, Twitter, lessons for Elon Musk, and more
What can Elon learn from Tumblr? — We have to talk about Twitter, right? Elon Musk bought it. Tweets: @decoderpod , @yoda , @harrymccracken , and @zeldman See also Mediagazer Tweets: @decoderpod : ...
Senators Elizabeth Warren (D) and Roger Marshall (R) introduce the Digital Asset Anti-Money Laundering Act, including KYC requirements for wallets and miners
Jamie Crawley / CoinDesk :
Apple confirms iOS 16.1.2, released on November 30, fixed a WebKit zero-day flaw, found and reported by Google, that allowed RCE and was actively exploited
Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch :
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: @accountable_us , @dinabass , and @wbenjaminson Tweets: @accountable_us : E...
A look at Vietnamese supplier Gilimex's lawsuit against Amazon, seeking $280M over investing heavily in manufacturing facilities before Amazon cut its orders
Amazon.com Inc. faces a $280 million lawsuit from a Vietnamese manufacturer of warehouse storage systems that alleges …
Hackers are selling a database of the FBI's threat information sharing program InfraGard, containing its 80K+ members' contact details, posted on December 10
Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security :
Illinois-based Nerdio, which helps deploy and manage Azure virtual desktops, raised a $117M Series B led by Updata Partners, bringing its total funding to $125M
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch :
YouTube expands its tools to curtail toxic comments, sending users a notification when their comment is removed and temporarily banning them from commenting
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch :
Microsoft says some drivers certified by its Windows Hardware Developer Program were used to sign malware but that the company has not detected a network breach
Dan Goodin / Ars Technica :
TikTok is testing a new horizontal full screen mode with select users globally, available via a “full screen” button on square or rectangle videos in their feed
Aisha Malik / TechCrunch :
Stockholm-based Sana Labs, which offers AI tools for managing work information and e-learning resources, raised a $34M Series B at a $180M post-money valuation
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch :
Some Chinese students are using remote access apps to cheat on TOEFL, GRE, GMAT, LSAT, and other US entry exams, fueled by the introduction of at-home testing
Viola Zhou / Rest of World : Tweets: @scholars_stage , @violazhouyi , @violazhouyi , and @baldingsworld Tweets: T. Greer / @scholars_stage : The stories I could tell https://restofworld.org/... Viola...
At a recent all-hands, Google AI Chief Jeff Dean said the company is moving “more conservatively than a small startup” on AI chatbots due to reputational risk
Is ChatGPT going to disrupt Google? I invite you to participate in a poll on this here. Tweets: Dr. Marie Haynes / @marie_haynes : Here's why Google does not have plans to compete with ChatGPT. “The ...
Meta plans to release Hasher Matcher Actioner, a moderation tool to help platforms identify terrorist or human trafficking content, for free and as open source
John Ray III tells the US House that FTX's bankruptcy is “paperless” due to an “unprecedented” lack of documentation, FTX and Alameda are not distinct, and more
Quanergy Systems, which makes lidar sensors and related software, files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, after going public via a $175M SPAC merger in February 2022
Jeremy Hill / Bloomberg :
Activists, publishers, and social media users criticize Indonesia's broad new criminal code, set to take full effect in 2025, and its impact on online speech
Johanes Hutabarat / Rest of World : Tweets: @restofworld Tweets: @restofworld : “Anyone can be criminalized” Critics fear Indonesia's wide-ranging new criminal code, which could penalize everything f...
Brazil's central bank plans to launch its digital currency in 2024 after a closed pilot program with financial institutions in 2023; the IMF approved the model
Paytm plans to buy back up to 10.5M shares, worth ~$103M, at a 50%+ premium to December 13's closing price, to show investors a path to cash flow profitability
Chloe Cornish / Financial Times :
The US Supreme Court asks the Biden administration to weigh in on lyrics website Genius' attempt to revive a lawsuit over Google's alleged theft of its work
Blake Brittain / Reuters : See also Mediagazer
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
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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.