Elon Musk says he plans to resign as CEO when he finds someone “foolish enough to take the job”, after which he plans to run the “software and servers teams”
I will resign as CEO as soon as I find someone foolish enough to take the job! After that, I will just run the software & servers teams.
Kuo: Apple plans to cancel or postpone iPhone SE 4 mass production, set for 2024, due to lower than expected shipments of its middle- and lower-tier iPhones
Apple will cancel or postpone mass production for the planned 2024 iPhone SE 4, Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo said today in a series of tweets.
Sam Bankman-Fried agrees voluntarily to be extradited to the US, where he faces criminal and civil charges including conspiracy, fraud, and money laundering
- Sam Bankman-Fried is set to fly to the U.S., where he faces multiple criminal charges tied to the collapse of his crypto exchange FTX.
Sources: Sam Bankman-Fried's legal team is discussing a post-extradition deal with the DOJ to let him be released on bail, subject to approval from a judge
New York Times :
Sources: the NFL is in advanced talks to give YouTube exclusive Sunday Ticket rights; a deal could be reached as early as December 21 after an NFL owner meeting
DirecTV currently pays for rights to subscription package that allows football fans to watch most Sunday afternoon games
SEC deposition: Mark Zuckerberg considered disclosing in 2017 that Facebook was investigating “organizations like Cambridge Analytica”, but advisers said not to
Brian Fung / CNN :
George Hotz, aka geohot, who joined Twitter on November 18 after Elon Musk's “extremely hardcore” pledge, resigned, saying he could not make “any real impact”
George Hotz, known for being the first person to carrier-unlock an iPhone and jailbreaking the PS3 …
US-based crypto miner Core Scientific files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in Texas, estimating its liabilities and assets at $1B-$10B and creditors at 1,000-5,000
The publicly traded miner expects support from some of the holders of its convertible notes in a restructuring deal.
Mark Zuckerberg testified in US federal court about Meta's acquisition of Within, as the FTC seeks an injunction to stop the deal, in a highly unusual challenge
Meta's chief executive made a rare court appearance as the Federal Trade Commission tries to block his company's purchase of the virtual reality start-up Within.
Internal documents: from at least 2017, Twitter helped the Pentagon in its covert online foreign propaganda campaigns including by whitelisting CENTCOM accounts
Twitter executives have claimed for years that the company makes concerted efforts to detect and thwart government-backed covert propaganda campaigns on its platform.
The UK's Intellectual Property Office says sharing passwords for online streaming services such as Netflix breaks civil and criminal law
Sharing passwords for online streaming services such as Netflix is against the law, according to a government agency.
Okta tells customers its GitHub repositories were hacked this month and its source code was stolen, but says hackers did not access service or customer data
Okta, a leading provider of authentication services and Identity and Access Management (IAM) solutions, says that its private GitHub …
Donie O'Sullivan, Drew Harwell, and other journalists remain locked out of their Twitter accounts despite lifted suspensions, until they delete a specific tweet
I've been writing critically about billionaire Elon Musk since he took over Twitter — particularly about his “free speech” … Mastodon: @ErrataRob@infosec.exchange , @parismarx@mastodon.online , @ali_g...
In a Twitter Space, Elon Musk says he expects Twitter to “be okay” next year after cost cutting, claiming the company was on course to spend ~$5B in 2023
Social network's owner offers snapshot of dire finances to explain huge lay-offs since $44bn takeover
Elon Musk amplifies false claims that the FBI “paid Twitter millions” to “censor info from the public”; law enforcement reimburses companies for data requests
telecoms, banks, whatever—request reimbursement from the FBI and other agencies for time spent processing law enforcement's legal requests. This email is saying that Twitter had not collected that rei...
Anker admits its eufy security cameras' live view feature on its web portal “has a security flaw”, but fails to address why anyone can view unencrypted streams
On the last episode of “Will Anker ever tell us what's actually going on with its security cameras rather than lying …
Raspberry Pi CEO Eben Upton says 2023 will be a “recovery year” for the company and customers should not expect the Pi 5, due to ongoing supply chain issues
To avoid cannibalizing supply for other Pi products, the next model must wait. — Few who have tried to buy …
Twitter says Community Notes will require contributors to achieve a “Rating Impact” of 5+ by rating enough notes before they can write notes themselves
Twitter has announced that its recently released Community Notes feature will now require all contributors to rate …
Intel splits AXG graphics unit into two groups under gaming and data center units; AXG's EVP Raja Koduri returns to his previous role as Intel Chief Architect
Intel splits gaming and data center GPUs into two groups. — Intel announced today that it will split its AXG graphics group …
US prosecutors say two men conspired with Russian hackers to tamper with JFK airport's taxi queuing software, allegedly letting drivers cut the line for a fee
James Reddick / The Record :
Democrats and Republicans included a provision to bar TikTok from government devices in the US government's $1.7T omnibus spending bill due for a vote this week
Washington Post :
Tata Digital-owned Bengaluru-based e-grocer BigBasket raised $200M from Tata and others at a $3.2B valuation, up from $2.7B in a March 2022 secondary share sale
The Economic Times :
OpenAI open sources Point-E, a machine learning system that generates and displays a 3D object from a text prompt in one to two minutes on an Nvidia V100 GPU
TikTok begins telling users why a video was in their For You feed, such as content watched, likes, shares, comments, searches, followed accounts, or region
Aisha Malik / TechCrunch :
Dealroom: the UK's tech sector hit a combined $1T market valuation in 2022, doubling since 2019, compared to Germany's $467.2B and France's $307.5B
Daniel Lanyon / AltFi :
ProPublica plans to return the $1.6M the outlet received from SBF's family foundation, setting aside the money until authorities decide where it should be sent
New IRS rules requiring small businesses and resellers using apps like Venmo to report transactions of $600 or more cause pushback from business groups, others
Users of digital wallets and e-commerce platforms must start reporting small transactions, sowing fears among small-business owners. Tweets: @ajlamesa and @arappeport Tweets: Anthony LaMesa / @ajlames...
Bengaluru-based BetterPlace, which offers a SaaS for blue-collar workforce management, raised a $40M Series C extension, bringing its total funding to $90M+
Vibhuti Sharma / DealStreetAsia :
Palantir signs a three-year, £75M deal with the UK's defense ministry, providing software to prompt real-time military actions and predict potential results
Jeffrey Dastin / Reuters :
Insider Intelligence: Google will capture 28.8% of US digital ad revenue in 2022 and Meta will grab 19.6%, for a combined 48.4%, down from a 54.7% peak in 2017
Sara Fischer / Axios :
Ukrainian Vice PM Mykhailo Fedorov says 10K+ more Starlink terminals will arrive in the coming months and “as of now all financial issues have been resolved”
Bloomberg :
A look at the Australian Securities Exchange's blockchain project, abandoned in November 2022, to replace its combined trading, clearing, and settlement system
Byron Kaye / Reuters : Tweets: @katebevan , @johnreedstark , @byronkaye , and @smdiehl Tweets: Kate Bevan / @katebevan : Modernisation is hard, yo, and maybe don't plump for a controversial technolog...
Amazon agrees to settle two EU antitrust cases related to third-party sellers on its platform, won't pay a fine, and will make commitments for up to seven years
Sam Schechner / Wall Street Journal :
The EU opens a probe into Broadcom's proposed $61B VMware acquisition, which regulators warned could lead to “higher prices, lower quality, and less innovation”
Bloomberg :
Senator Warren's Digital Asset Anti-Money Laundering Act would be a disaster for privacy and civil liberties by effectively surveilling all blockchain users
Marta Belcher / CoinDesk :
China sets new data guidelines, imposing a strict review of data processing, cross-border data transfers, and M&A involving foreign capital
Xinmei Shen / South China Morning Post :
Twitter pilots Blue for Business with select accounts, helping companies identify brands and key employees via badges, but doesn't share other perks and pricing
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch :
Sources: Foxconn workers in Zhengzhou say they got COVID-19 in December 2022 and some were asked to keep working; one supervisor advised workers against testing
Android and Google Chrome will soon stop trusting TrustCor certificates, following Firefox and Edge, over alleged ties to US defense contractor Packet Forensics
Mishaal Rahman / Esper Blog : Thanks: @mishaalrahman
South Korean financial super app Toss raised a $405M Series G at a 9.1T won valuation, or ~$7B, after an 8.5T won valuation in June 2021; Toss Bank has 5M users
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