Elon Musk's poll, asking “Should I step down as head of Twitter?”, ends with 57.5% voting yes, after Musk said Twitter polls will decide “major policy changes”
After a new policy prompted backlash, Twitter CEO Elon Musk said future policies would be determined by polls
Twitter backtracks and Elon Musk apologizes after saying the service would remove tweets and accounts promoting their presence on Facebook, Mastodon, and others
Twitter will no longer allow users to promote their presence on certain social platforms, including Facebook, Instagram, Mastodon, Truth Social, Tribel, Nostr, and Post.
After Elon Musk said polls will decide major new policies, @TwitterSafety posts a poll on whether accounts primarily promoting other platforms should be allowed
Should we have a policy preventing the creation of or use of existing accounts for the main purpose of advertising other social media platforms?
Sources: Apple is working on a Mac Pro with an M2 Ultra but cancelled the M2 “Extreme” with double the compute power; the Mac Pro could be produced 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.
Binance.US agrees to acquire Voyager Digital's assets out of bankruptcy in a deal worth $1.022B, subject to approval at a hearing on January 5
Binance.US will buy Voyager Digital's assets out of bankruptcy in a deal worth $1.022 billion. — Voyager selected Binance.US as the highest …
Analysis: Binance's filings in 14 jurisdictions show its operations are mostly opaque, do not disclose where Binance.com is based, offer little data, and more
The world's biggest crypto exchange, Binance, is battling to shore up confidence after a surge in customer withdrawals and a steep drop in the value of its digital token.
Binance's BNB token dropped 9% over the past month, even as bitcoin remains steady, after record outflows; BNB has jumped over 1,600% in the past three years
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Epic Games agrees to pay the FTC $520M to resolve two complaints over allegedly breaking kids' online privacy rules and tricking users into unintended purchases
The agency alleged that the company invaded children's privacy and tricked players of all ages into making unintended purchases
Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth says the company plans to devote ~20% of its overall costs and expenses to Reality Labs in 2023, up from 18% in Q3 2022
Facebook parent company Meta Platforms Inc. will continue to devote about 20% of its overall costs and expenses to Reality Labs in 2023 …
Yuga Labs names former Activision Blizzard president and COO Daniel Alegre as CEO, starting in H1 2023 and replacing Nicole Muniz; Yuga develops the BAYC NFTs
The Bored Ape parent company said Alegre's previous gaming experience will help advance the brand's Otherside metaverse and propel …
Twitter deletes @TwitterSupport's thread and a policy webpage detailing its new policy to prevent accounts from promoting other social media platforms
Twitter deleted its controversial new policy on Sunday evening that had banned links to certain other social media platforms …
The European Commission sends Meta a statement of objection for possible antitrust breaches over tying Marketplace to Facebook and imposing unfair trading terms
Meta Platforms Inc. was hit with a complaint from European Union antitrust watchdogs over concerns it's unfairly squeezing …
Investor letter: Grayscale CEO Michael Sonnenshein details options if the Grayscale Bitcoin Trust's ETF plans fail, including a tender for outstanding shares
Michael Sonnenshein attempts to assuage fears of Grayscale Bitcoin Trust investors after collapse of FTX
Binance says Deloitte, E&Y, KPMG, and PwC are “currently unwilling” to conduct audits on private crypto companies, after Mazars stopped providing such audits
known to be Deloitte, Ernst & Young, KPMG and PricewaterhouseCoopers — are “currently unwilling” to sell yellow banana clown shoes with jingle bells, a Binance spokesperson told Blockworks. https://tw...
Sources: some Twitter investors were told Elon Musk would step down after three to six months and are divided on his decisions; a new CEO would report to Musk
Dan Primack / Axios :
The DOJ says Karl Sebastian Greenwood, who co-founded the $4B+ fraudulent OneCoin scheme, has pleaded guilty to wire fraud and other charges
A co-founder of the fraudulent cryptocurrency OneCoin, a pyramid scheme that conned billions of dollars from investors worldwide …
A deep dive into the race to develop a quantum computer, which could help address climate change and food scarcity, break current encryption protocols, and more
Stephen Witt / New Yorker :
The Metropolitan Opera restarts processing ticket orders, nine days after a suspected ransomware attack took its website offline and paralyzed its box office
Dan Bilefsky / New York Times :
A profile of OpenAI, which raised $1B from Microsoft after Sam Altman demoed an AI model to Satya Nadella in 2019, as some remain skeptical about its revenue
Behind ChatGPT and other AI breakthroughs was Sam Altman's fundraising—but skeptics remain — ChatGPT, the artificial-intelligence …
Horizon Worlds' Notorious B.I.G. concert achieved remarkable realism with the help of VFX studio Hyperreal, but raises ethical questions about VR resurrection
Tanya Basu / MIT Technology Review :
YouTube announces Courses in India, letting teachers post videos and reading materials for free or for a fee in several regional languages, rolling out “soon”
Manish Singh / TechCrunch :
YouTube removes Pornhub's official account, which gained nearly 900,000 subscribers over eight years, after Instagram permanently banned Pornhub in September
Todd Spangler / Variety :
Crypto.com's 2022 World Cup sponsorship, a symbol of how aggressively crypto companies spent on ads to gain users, was largely overshadowed by FTX's collapse
Carly Wanna / Bloomberg :
A profile of ex-FTX Digital Markets co-CEO Ryan Salame, a big GOP donor who emerged as a central player in the FTX scandal after flagging fraud to regulators
only to put them, their employees and the local economy in jeopardy once FTX collapsed. https://www.nytimes.com/... Kenneth P. Vogel / @kenvogel : RYAN SALAME's girlfriend, @michellebond111, ran a cry...
A look at Performance Max, Google's black box ad product for all its owned media that can't break down by price, ad format, media channel, or creative elements
James Hercher / AdExchanger : Tweets: @myles_younger and @percival Tweets: Myles Younger / @myles_younger : You want to know what the #ChatGPT version of a DSP is? it's Google Performance Max. If you...
Sources and analysis: Twitter's Community Notes does not address divisive lies; over 30K, or ~96%, of notes contributed by the community are invisible to users
Bloomberg : Tweets: @daveyalba , @silviakillings , @sarahfrier , @kegill , and @daveyalba Tweets: Davey Alba / @daveyalba : “Abortion is never medically necessary to save the life of a mother,” reads...
Q&A with Coinbase Ventures' head Shan Aggarwal on the impact of FTX's collapse on his VC firm's 400+ company portfolio, ramifications for the industry, and more
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Douyin has become China's fourth biggest e-commerce company by GMV, as short videos prove ideal bait for long ads by delivering higher purchase conversion rates
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