Twitter suspends several journalists, including the NYT's Ryan Mac and CNN's Donie O'Sullivan; Elon Musk says the “same doxxing rules apply to journalists”
Twitter suspended several high-profile journalists Thursday evening who have been covering the company and Elon Musk.
Elon Musk briefly showed up to a Twitter Space hosted by a BuzzFeed News reporter discussing the latest bans, but left after reporters asked him questions
The embattled Twitter CEO briefly appeared in the Twitter Space hosted by BuzzFeed News tech reporter Katie Notopoulos.
Twitter suspends Mastodon's account and prevents links to Mastodon servers from being tweeted or added to profile bios, calling them “harmful” and “malware”
A day after Twitter crafted a new policy to explain its decision to ban an account that tracks Elon Musk's private jet, the fallout continues.
Twitter disables Spaces, after Elon Musk abruptly left a group conversation with suspended journalists; Musk says Twitter is fixing a “legacy bug”
Twitter has apparently pulled its Spaces group audio feature, at least temporarily, after Elon Musk joined a group conversation …
Binance says Mazars, the auditing firm that worked on proof-of-reserves reports for Binance, Crypto.com, and others, has paused work for all crypto clients
Mazars has deleted Binance's proof-of-reserves assessment, which found its bitcoin reserves were overcollateralized.
Singapore-based crypto trading and lending service Amber Group raised a $300M Series C led by Fenbushi, at less than its $3B valuation from February 2022
Embattled crypto firm Amber Group has raised $300 million mainly for customers who lost money on the platform's products due to FTX's implosion …
After being named in an FTX lawsuit along with Tom Brady, Steph Curry, and Larry David, Shaquille O'Neal says he was “just a paid spokesperson for a commercial”
Shaquille O'Neal wants to make one thing clear: He doesn't believe in crypto, if he ever did.
Sources: TikTok's efforts to cut ties with Beijing-based ByteDance have stumbled over hiring and retaining talent, as some key staff remain based in China
Short-video app is trying to reduce ties with ByteDance but is still hiring staff in China for key functions
Twitter's head of trust and safety Ella Irwin says the company manually reviewed “any and all accounts” that violated its new policy by posting links to ElonJet
Twitter Inc's head of trust and safety told Reuters the company manually reviewed “any and all accounts” …
US lawmakers press top game companies about how they assess and mitigate risks of extremist behavior, citing an ADL study on rising extremism in online gaming
- “We are writing to better understand the processes you have in place to handle player reports of harassment and extremism encounters …
Former product head of Twitter's developer platform details the plans, like custom timelines, that Twitter abandoned post-acquisition, eroding developer trust
Twitter is where the world shares its opinions and aspirations; it's where brands, celebrities, and politicians interact with people, live and in the open.
Instagram launches a tool for getting help recovering a hacked account, accessing an account after forgetting the password, and reporting impersonation accounts
Mia Sato / The Verge :
Private equity firm Advent plans to acquire Maxar, which operates 90 satellites that collect images used by Google Maps and others, for $6.4B including debt
Including debt, the transaction is worth $6.4 billion — Advent International agreed to buy Maxar Technologies Inc. MAXR 122.47%increase …
Tech industry groups representing Meta and Google ask SCOTUS to overturn the Texas social media content moderation law, arguing it violates the First Amendment
arguing that a Texas law banning “censorship” of viewpoints is unconstitutional. https://www.politico.com/... @netchoice : NEW: Today, NetChoice and co-plaintiff @ccianet asked the U.S. Supreme Court ...
The US Commerce Department puts 36 Chinese companies on its entity list, including chipmaker Yangtze Memory Technologies and AI chipmaker Cambricon
Financial Times :
Filing: the DOJ's US Trustee unit names nine creditors to FTX's bankruptcy committee that could shape payout plans, including units from Genesis and Wintermute
Microsoft adds full Teams integration to HoloLens 2 headsets, letting users view calendars and more, the first major update since co-creator Alex Kipman left
Tom Warren / The Verge :
Amazon Web Services, Meta, Microsoft, TomTom, and the Linux Foundation launch the Overture Maps Foundation, aiming to build interoperable, open-source map data
Taryn Plumb / VentureBeat :
[Thread] Meta plans to shut down Super, a Cameo rival that let people pay creators or celebrities to interact with them in a live stream, on February 15, 2023
Hello Superstars, We are sad to say that Super is shutting down … Aisha Malik / TechCrunch : Meta is shutting down its Cameo-like ‘Super’ app in February Tweets: Josh Constine / @joshconstine : Facebo...
Adobe reports Q4 revenue up 10% YoY to $4.53B, Digital Media revenue up 10% YoY to $3.3B, and Digital Experience revenue up 14% YoY to $1.15B
Jordan Novet / CNBC :
SafeAI, which retrofits heavy-equipment vehicles like dump trucks and bulldozers with autonomous systems, raised a $38M Series B from Builders VC and others
A company that specializes in converting heavy construction and mining equipment from driver-operated to self-driving has landed millions …
Salt Lake City-based MasterControl, which makes software for developing life science products, raised a $150M Series A led by Sixth Street at a $1.3B valuation
Keerthi Vedantam / Crunchbase News :
NYC-based Sweep, a no-code toolkit for building sales playbooks in Salesforce, raised $28M across a seed and a Series A led by Bessemer and Insight respectively
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch :
London-based Aztec Network, which is building an encrypted version of Ethereum, raised a $100M Series B led by a16z and plans a testnet launch within 12 months
About 200 companies in China and Hong Kong, including Alibaba and JD.com, no longer face the threat of a US delisting after US inspectors reviewed their audits
Bloomberg : Tweets: @sofiahcbbg Tweets: Sofia Horta e Costa / @sofiahcbbg : A breakthrough. US accounting inspectors say Chinese companies have given them complete access to audit documents. The news...
Amazon Games plans to publish Crystal Dynamics' next Tomb Raider, marking Amazon's first major, single-player game, currently in early development
Sources: Meta reviews some of its 11 in-development data center projects globally and lays off a Danish contractor, as part of a design change for AI workloads
Sebastian Moss / DCD :
Roblox reports November bookings up 5%-7% to $222M-$225M, far below 22% to 25% company estimates, and average bookings per DAU down 7%-9%; the stock drops 16%+
Filing: Elon Musk sells 22M Tesla shares, worth almost $3.6B, his fourth sale since his Twitter takeover bid and third since tweeting “no further TSLA sales”
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
Five agency executives say Netflix is delivering ~80% of the expected viewers for its ad-supported tier and structured its ad deals to release any unspent money
Brain-computer interface developer Synchron raised $75M from ARCH Venture, Bezos Expeditions, Gates Frontier, and others, bringing its total funding to $145M
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
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