LastPass says hackers stole a backup copy of users' encrypted and unencrypted vault data using cloud storage keys stolen from a LastPass employee in August 2022
Password manager giant LastPass has confirmed that cybercriminals stole its customers' encrypted password vaults …
Sam Bankman-Fried appears in NY federal court charged with wire fraud and other crimes; a judge grants a $250M bail confining him to his parents' Palo Alto home
Sam Bankman-Fried will be released on a $250 million bond package while he awaits trial on fraud charges related to the collapse …
ByteDance fired four employees after finding that they had accessed data on US TikTok users, including reporters, while trying to learn the sources of a story
ByteDance confirmed it used TikTok to monitor journalists' physical location using their IP addresses, as first reported by Forbes in October.
Microsoft files a rebuttal to the FTC's lawsuit to block its Activision deal, saying the deal won't hurt competition and that it isn't the top game developer
Software giant files documents opposing claims that transaction would harm competition in videogame industry
A look at Microsoft's “nice guy” strategy to close its Activision deal; sources: Microsoft hopes to win over EU regulators, which could force the US to settle
Federal regulators have sued to block the $69 billion acquisition, but the company has settled on a path forward and is preparing to force the issue.
Filing: Meta agrees to pay $725M to settle a class-action lawsuit accusing the company of letting third parties, including Cambridge Analytica, access user data
Facebook owner Meta Platforms Inc (META.O) has agreed to pay $725 million to resolve a class-action lawsuit accusing …
The SDNY says ex-Alameda CEO Caroline Ellison and ex-FTX CTO Gary Wang pleaded guilty to federal charges, both are cooperating, and releases them on $250K bonds
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Twitter begins rolling out publicly visible tweet view counts, expanding on private analytics; Elon Musk says view counts will help show how “alive Twitter is”
Twitter is rolling out a feature that shows how many people view your tweets, similar to features on platforms …
Sources: TSMC is in advanced talks with key suppliers about setting up its first European plant in Dresden, Germany; construction could begin in early 2024
Company to send senior executives to Dresden early next year to discuss potential factory project in Germany
The SEC's complaint against Caroline Ellison and Gary Wang classifies FTX's FTT token as a security since it was “offered and sold as an investment contract”
A look at challenges facing Apple's semiconductor group; sources: Apple cut a next-gen GPU with ray tracing from iPhone 14 Pro due to battery and thermal issues
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Crypto exchange Bullish, backed by Peter Thiel, and Far Peak, a SPAC led by ex-NYSE President Thomas Farley, call off their planned $9B merger announced in 2021
Cryptocurrency exchange Bullish and special-purpose acquisition company Far Peak Acquisition Corp. have called off their planned merger.
YouTube buys NFL Sunday Ticket's residential rights for seven years, sources say for ~$2B/year; DirecTV paid $1.5B/year for residential and commercial rights
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Research: tens of thousands of Twitter poll bot votes can cost less than $100, potentially undermining Elon Musk's move to rely on polls for company decisions
New Twitter Inc. owner Elon Musk has outsourced several controversial decisions — like whether to reinstate former US President …
Twitter will now let Blue subscribers upload 60-minute, 1080p videos up to 2GB on the web; iOS and Android users are still limited to 10-minute, 512MB videos
After taking over Twitter, Elon Musk had long promised that the company is working toward making the platform more appealing to video creators.
President Jair Bolsonaro signs into law Brazil's first crypto framework, which defines digital assets and provides ground rules for crypto brokerages
For today's MexicaNFTimes, we've got some great articles and news: Tweets: @cz_binance : New law sets guidelines for how crypto exchanges operate in Brazil. This is a major step towards strengthening ...
Jack Sweeney brings back @ElonJet as @ElonJetNextDay, tracking Elon Musk's jet with a 24-hour delay, after Twitter banned sharing others' real-time location
The college student who ran the now-banned @ElonJet Twitter account that used public information to track Elon Musk's private jet …
Twitter improves its $Cashtags to include stock, ETF, and crypto price charts sourced from TradingView within its search results, plus a View on Robinhood link
Brayden Lindrea / Cointelegraph : Tweets: @twitterbusiness , @stckfb , and @anthony Tweets: @twitterbusiness : $Cashtags, now with data 📈 👀 $SPY 👇 https://twitter.com/... @stckfb : this is funny as h...
Flipkart no longer owns a stake in PhonePe, the two companies say; source: PhonePe is in talks to raise $1.5B at a pre-money valuation of $12B
Manish Singh / TechCrunch :
San Jose-based Tredence, which offers data analytics services for retail, healthcare, and other industries, raised a $175M Series B led by Advent International
Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE :
Internal documents detail Google's new performance review process, estimating 6% of full-time employees will get low ratings starting in 2023, versus 2% before
Jennifer Elias / CNBC :
Investigation: Eric Schmidt helps fund the salaries of over 24 Biden administration officials through the Federation of American Scientists and Schmidt Futures
Alex Thompson / Politico : Tweets: @ttp_updates , @techwontsaveus , @alexbward , and @j_timmer Tweets: @ttp_updates : New piece featuring our research from @AlexThomp which quotes TTP Director Katie ...
The Privacy Act, passed in 1974, prevents sharing citizens' data between US agencies, forcing the government to use data brokers and pay them millions per year
Alfred Ng / Politico :
Pathmatics: ~70% of Twitter's top 100 ad spenders before Elon Musk's takeover weren't spending as of the week ending December 18; 89% of 2021 revenue was ads
The US Copyright Office rules that a comic book made using AI art is ineligible for copyright protection, revoking its copyright granted in September 2022
Google open sources privacy-enhancing tech that blurs objects in a video and that lets developers work on encrypted data without accessing personal information
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