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.
Twitter suspends ~30 accounts sharing private jets' locations via public data, including @ElonJet, which Elon Musk had said he wouldn't ban for tracking his jet
Twitter Inc. has suspended multiple accounts that track the locations of private jets using publicly available flight data …
Court filing: FTX Digital Markets co-CEO Ryan Salame told The Bahamas' securities commission on November 9 that customer funds were used to cover Alameda losses
FTX executive told securities regulator crypto exchange was likely funnelling cash to Alameda trading firm
Filing: Elon Musk sells 22M Tesla shares, worth ~$3.6B, the fourth sale since announcing his Twitter takeover and third since declaring “no further TSLA sales”
Billionaire has sold $23bn of stock in EV group since announcing Twitter takeover
Internal FTX documentation shows a GitHub account bearing the name of 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 …
The US DOJ seized 48 websites and charged six people for allegedly running “booter” DDoS-for-hire services used to launch millions of attacks globally
The US seized dozens of internet domains and charged six people in a sting intended to bring down a network of cyberattack-for-hire services …
Instagram launches a tool to help users recover hacked accounts, report impersonation accounts, and get help when they have forgotten their passwords
Instagram users who are victims of hacking now have a new way to try to claw back their account. The company announced Instagram.com/hacked today …
Analysis of weekly realized gains and losses of all personal crypto wallets in 2022: UST's collapse caused $20.5B in losses, Celsius and 3AC $33B, and FTX $9B
Allow us to state the obvious: There's been a lot of doom and gloom in conversations around cryptocurrency over the last month.
Despite SBF claiming he stepped away from running Alameda, shifting blame to CEO Caroline Ellison, the US government argues that SBF was still calling the shots
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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 …
Foxconn begins easing most restrictions at its Zhengzhou plant, including those on workers' daily movements, as China rolls back its COVID-19 rules
Debby Wu / Bloomberg :
The US Senate unanimously passed the No TikTok on Government Devices Act over security concerns related to the app, after 13 states imposed similar bans
The Senate on Wednesday unanimously approved legislation that would ban the use of TikTok on government phones and devices as part …
An attempt to understand how much real-world money was lost by SBF and FTX, a key question for the SEC, suggests only a fraction of crypto's peak $3T value
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Five agency executives say Netflix is delivering ~80% of the expected audience for its ad-supported tier and releasing unspent ad money; stock drops 6%+
For as quickly as Netflix brought its ad-supported tier to market, the streamer's advertising business is off to a slow start.
Sources: hoping to boost the economy, Chinese officials begin reassessing tech policies and plan to close long-running investigations against 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
Amazon plans to publish Crystal Dynamics' next Tomb Raider game, which is early in development, the first major, single-player game published by Amazon Games
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.
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 …
Microsoft plans to roll out its “EU data boundary”, letting EU cloud customers process and store data in the region, starting with customer data, from January 1
Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) said on Thursday its European Union cloud customers will be able to process and store parts of their data in the region from Jan. 1.
Interviews with dozens of Elon Musk's former employees and partners portray his Twitter as a Shakespearean psychodrama, resulting in something close to disaster
A look at The Managerial Revolution, a 1941 book that predicted the rise of the “managerial class” over capitalists and may 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: @pt , @greenplusane , @lemieuxlgm , @paulblu , @davidastinwalsh , @davidas...
Filing: the DOJ's US Trustee unit names nine creditors to FTX's bankruptcy committee, which could oversee payouts, including units from Genesis and Wintermute
Bloomberg :
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.
Binance 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. …
After being named in an FTX lawsuit, Shaquille O'Neal says he was “just a paid spokesperson for a commercial”; Tom Brady, Steph Curry, and more were also named
Shaquille O'Neal wants to make one thing clear: He doesn't believe in crypto, if he ever did.
Australia's e-Safety Commissioner says Apple and Microsoft are not doing enough to stop CSAM on their services, calling the companies' responses “alarming”
An Australian regulator, after using new powers to make the tech giants share information about their methods …
ChatGPT and other generative ML systems represent a step change in AI use cases, prompting questions on content for pattern generation and tolerances for error
A decade or so ago, systems based on something called ‘machine learning’ started producing really good results in Imagenet, a contest for computer vision researchers. Tweets: @benedictevans , @damianb...
US Senators Elizabeth Warren (D) and Roger Marshall (R) introduce the Digital Asset Anti-Money Laundering Act, including KYC requirements for wallets and miners
Twitter plans to shut down its newsletter platform Revue and delete all related data on January 18, 2023, after acquiring the company in January 2021
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 pushes harmful content promoting eating disorders and self-harm into young users' feeds Elizabeth Germino / CBS News : TikTok pushes potentially harmful content to users as often as every 39 se...
Meta reports taking down 200+ coordinated inauthentic behavior operations since 2016, spread across over 100 countries, most focused on their domestic audience
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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 UNHCR, the UN's refugee agency, launches an aid program to distribute USDC on the Stellar blockchain to internally displaced Ukrainians via Vibrant wallets
Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez / Fortune :
The US sentences ex-Twitter employee Ahmad Abouammo to 3.5 years in prison after he was convicted in August 2022 of spying for Saudi Arabia by sharing user data
Paresh Dave / Reuters :
PayPal launches an integration with the MetaMask Web3 wallet that lets users purchase and transfer ether, rolling out to all US customers in the coming weeks
Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez / Fortune :
Tesla rolls out an update, adding support for Steam on 2022 Model S and Model X vehicles or newer with 16GB of RAM, Apple Music, upgraded Light Show, and more
The US Commerce Department puts 36 Chinese companies on its entity list, including chipmaker Yangtze Memory Technologies and AI chipmaker Cambricon
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A tech industry group that includes Google and Meta sues to block California's Age-Appropriate Design Code, saying it would result in content “over-moderation”
Aztec Network, which is developing an “encrypted version of Ethereum”, raised a $100M Series B led by a16z and plans a testnet within 12 months
Jacquelyn Melinek / TechCrunch :
Roblox's stock drops 16% after reporting November bookings up 5%-7% to $222M-$225M, far below 22% to 25% company estimates; average bookings per DAU drop 7%-9%
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A look at the face off between the Khoisan, an ancient southern African tribe, and Amazon, which plans to build a regional HQ on sacred land in South Africa
Loni Prinsloo / Bloomberg : Tweets: @loniprinsloo1 , @quicktake , and @atbwebb Tweets: Loni Prinsloo / @loniprinsloo1 : Drone and video footage of the site where Amazon is building its new African he...
A look at Spotter and Jellysmack, two companies offering YouTubers cash in exchange for up to five year of ad sales generated by licensing their old videos
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London-based Mews, which offers cloud-based hotel property management tools for reservations and more, raised a $185M Series C at an $865M post-money valuation
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch :
Memo: Grab is cutting more costs, including by pausing most hiring, freezing senior managers' salaries, and cutting travel and expense budgets, to stem losses
Anshuman Daga / Reuters :
Despite pledges, FEC filings show AT&T, Amazon, Intel, Comcast, and others quietly restarted donations to Republican election deniers ahead of the 2022 midterms
Sources: OpenAI told investors the company expects $200M revenue in 2023 and $1B by 2024; source: OpenAI was recently valued at $20B in a secondary share sale
how much revenue will your parent company @OpenAI generate? And we've got some pretty ambitious numbers from the company's pitch deck to investors. w/@JLDastin @peard33 https://www.reuters.com/...
A look at Safetipin, an app that lets users map safe and unsafe areas in 65 cities across 16 countries and is helping New Delhi make urban safety improvements
Steffie Banatvala / Financial Times : Tweets: @darrendodd Tweets: @darrendodd : An app developed in India is helping people travel safely in a growing number of urban communities. Here's the latest i...
Hamburg-based Fashion Cloud, whose B2B data and content exchange portal is used by ~20K fashion retailers, raised €25M led by Verdane
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Newzoo predicts mobile games revenue will fall 6.4% to $92.2B in 2022, the first drop in a decade, compared to 7.3% growth in 2021 and 25.6% growth in 2020
Financial Times : Tweets: @ballmatthew , @guyhardinglc , and @astaniscia86 Tweets: Matthew Ball / @ballmatthew : US gaming spend finally grows in 2022. Nov +3% YoY YTD still -7% and Nov *content* sal...
UK-based Pragmatic, a semiconductor startup that produces flexible integrated circuits, raised a $35M Series C extension, bringing the round's total to $125M
EnCharge AI, which offers hardware and software to accelerate AI processing at the edge, emerges from stealth with a $21.7M Series A led by Anzu Partners
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.
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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.