Twitter reactivates some journalists' accounts, after 58.7% of participants in Elon Musk's poll voted to lift the suspension “now” compared to 41.3% “in 7 days”
(The journalists did not reveal his real-time location.) Out of the two poll options, “now” …
Source: Sam Bankman-Fried plans to reverse his decision to contest extradition to the US; legal experts say any trial is likely more than a year away
Former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried is expected to appear in court in the Bahamas on Monday to reverse his decision to contest extradition …
Sources: Apple is working on Mac Pro with M2 Ultra, but cancelled the double Ultra capacity “Extreme” chips; new Mac Pro computers could be assembled in Vietnam
The new high-end Mac Pro with Apple silicon is behind schedule, and you can blame changes to the company's chip and manufacturing plans.
Google launches client-side encryption for Gmail in beta and lets Workspace administrators sign up until January 20, coming to Gmail for Android and iOS later
Google has launched a beta of its client-side encryption for Gmail, letting businesses apply to test out the feature meant to make …
On December 16, Twitter reinstated at least 12 far-right accounts including election misinformation celeb Mike Lindell and QAnon supporters like Patrick Byrne
at the Behest of the Far Right Jared Gans / The Hill : MyPillow CEO returns to Twitter: ‘Melt down the electronic voting machines and turn them into prison bars’ Juliana Kim / NPR : Elon Musk reinstat...
Meta Executive Advisor and former Oculus CTO John Carmack leaves the company after more than eight years, saying Meta is operating at “half the effectiveness”
over *years* of effort — to produce little more than... ...legless 1992 quality avatars... viewed through a size 16 boot strapped to your face... https://twitter.com/... Casilli / @antoniocasilli : Me...
Sources: US prosecutors are seeking information from Democrats and Republicans about donations from SBF and ex-FTX executives Ryan Salame and Nishad Singh
Federal prosecutors appear to be focusing on possible wrongdoing by cryptocurrency executives, rather than by Democratic or Republican politicians.
Netflix, HBO Max, and other streaming services scale back on experimental content that caters to smaller audiences, amid rising costs and increased competition
For a few years, there was a boon of content, and we were all wonderfully spoiled. And now that's over. — It's over.
Anker's security cameras brand Eufy quietly removed 10 commitments from its privacy page, including encryption, after questions about keeping those promises
It's been two weeks since we reported that Anker's Eufy lied to us about the security of its security cameras, and we've been pushing the company for answers ever since.
Amazon has invested $75M so far to help Ukraine, including getting 10PB of government data out of the country in suitcase-sized Snowball Edges for AWS uploading
Since Februrary, Amazon has been playing Santa Claus to Ukraine, delivering planeloads of goods, including blankets, hygiene kits …
A profile of iNaturalist, a not-for-profit social network that uses an ML algorithm to help users identify plants and animals, driving cooperation and consensus
A not-for-profit initiative of the California Academy of Sciences and the National Geographic Society, iNaturalist says it aims … Tweets: @berkeleyischool , @kingjen , @amy_harmon , @ucdavisccs , @nyt...
A look at Backstage, Spotify's open-source developer platform used at Netflix, LinkedIn, Epic, Roku, Box, and 200+ others, which the company seeks to monetize
Backstage is used by developers at Netflix, American Airlines and hundreds of other companies — With nearly a third … Tweets: @panosjee and @rseroter See also Mediagazer Tweets: Panos Papadopoulos /...
Douyin has become China's fourth biggest e-commerce company by GMV, as short videos prove ideal as bait for long ads by giving higher purchase conversion rates
Understanding the appeal of adverts for adverts — Once again, very serious people are talking very seriously about the geopolitical threat posed by dance skits.
A Q&A with CA Rep. Ro Khanna about Elon Musk, being mentioned in the “Twitter Files”, passing antitrust and privacy laws, cryptocurrencies, FTX, and more
A longtime creature of the tech world, it's perhaps not surprising that Rep. Ro Khanna makes an appearance in the latest Silicon Valley scandal.
Report: Huawei accounts for 59% of Germany's 5G radio access network equipment compared to 57% in 4G networks, despite intense diplomatic pressure from the US
Sarah Marsh / Reuters : Tweets: @kenweinstein , @richardgrenell , @thinking_panda , @doener , and @joshuasteinman Tweets: Kenneth Weinstein / @kenweinstein : “There are indications that 🇩🇪 has not ta...
Dutch crypto exchange Bitvavo says the company can't access €280M at Digital Currency Group; a DCG spokesperson says Bitvavo works with Genesis Capital, not DCG
RT Watson / The Block :
Binance says the crypto exchange saw ~$6B in net withdrawals between December 12 and December 14, which the company fulfilled “without breaking stride”
Financial Times :
Accounting firm BDO, whose Italian member firm BDO Italia recently signed off on Tether reserves reports, says it is reconsidering its work for crypto companies
Wall Street Journal :
Dropbox acquires FormSwift, a cloud-based service for helping businesses build, edit, approve, share, and print custom personalized documents, for $95M in cash
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch :
An employee who worked as one of ~60 fallbacks for a real estate AI chatbot for $25/hour details the experience of pretending to be a bot pretending to be human
Links are at the end. Click some; your life will be enriched. Tweets: Ross Dawson / @rossdawson : Lovely story about what it's like being backup support for a chat bot - a real-time human pretending ...
Analysis: several major Russian cities appear to have faced widespread GPS disruption in the past week, experts say to evade Ukraine's long-range drone attacks
Matt Burgess / Wired : Tweets: @martinsfp , @capoglou , and @warinthefuture Tweets: @martinsfp : 21st century blackout curtains. https://twitter.com/... Angeliki Kapoglou / @capoglou : Multiple major...
Sources: TuSimple plans to cut at least half of its workforce next week, or ~700 employees, as the company scales back on building and testing autonomous trucks
Heather Somerville / Wall Street Journal :
Marc Benioff told staff in a Slack message that Salesforce's new hires are “facing much lower productivity”, asking “is this a reflection of our office policy?”
Jordan Novet / CNBC :
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