Binance CEO CZ says CFTC's complaint contains “incomplete recitation of facts” and Binance does not agree with “characterization of many of the issues alleged”
Today, the CFTC filed an unexpected and disappointing civil complaint, despite our working cooperatively with the CFTC for over two years.
Elon Musk says only verified accounts will be recommended in Twitter's For You tab and be able to vote in polls to address “AI bot swarms”, starting April 15
Twitter users will need a “verified account” to get recommended on the platform's For You page starting on April 15th …
Documents: Twitter closely monitors and boosts ~35 accounts, including AOC, President Biden, Ben Shapiro, Marc Andreessen, Elon Musk, @catturd2, and MrBeast
Congratulations to Ben Shapiro, AOC, and ... LeBron? — Last week, Twitter began notifying users who were verified under …
Sources: Disney eliminates its metaverse unit, cutting ~50 jobs, and ceases work on an Amazon Prime-like program integrating Disney+ and other Disney platforms
The unit, once seen as developing a new form of storytelling, had about 50 employees — Mickey Mouse has left the metaverse.
Sam Bankman-Fried's lawyers and prosecutors agree on new bail terms, including giving SBF a phone without internet and a monitored laptop with limited functions
Lawyers for Sam Bankman-Fried said they reached an agreement with U.S. prosecutors on Monday on revised bail conditions …
The CFTC sues Binance, CEO CZ, and a former chief compliance officer, calling the company's compliance efforts “a sham” and its structure “intentionally opaque”
US prosecutors file a new indictment against SBF, accusing him of directing the transfer of $40M+ of cryptocurrency in bribes to Chinese government officials
U.S. prosecutors on Tuesday unveiled a new indictment against Sam Bankman-Fried, charging the founder of now-bankrupt FTX cryptocurrency exchange …
The CFTC's case vs. Binance is mainly about US clients, like high-frequency trading firms in NYC and Chicago, using an unregistered crypto derivatives exchange
Matt Levine / Bloomberg :
Alibaba plans to reorganize its businesses into six independent entities and devolve operational decisions to each unit's CEO, in its biggest restructuring ever
Alibaba Group Holding will overhaul its sprawling operations, as China's largest technology conglomerate undertakes …
Apple begins a multi-month roll out of its Apple Pay Later service in the US, for online and in-app purchases on iOS 16.4 and iPadOS 16.4
Apple is finally launching Apple Pay Later, the company's take on the buy now, pay later (BNPL) business. The company has announced that users can use …
Japan's FTC says it does not expect the Microsoft-Activision Blizzard deal to stifle competition and closes its review without issuing a cease and desist order
Japan's antitrust watchdog said on Tuesday it did not expect a merger between Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) and Activision Blizzard …
Amazon opens Sidewalk to developers, providing SDKs and hardware development kits, and claims over 90% of the US population can now access the public network
It turns out that I have a low-power, low-bandwidth, long-range IoT network all around me, ready and waiting for my smart gadgets to jump on.
Europol details how LLMs can be exploited to fuel fraud, cybercrime, and terrorism, and claims people are already using ChatGPT to carry out illegal activities
There is no honor among chatbots — Criminals are already using ChatGPT to commit crimes, Europol said in a Monday report …
Sources: Sam Bankman-Fried gave some Genesis executives the chance to invest in presale of FTT and Serum at a discount, before the tokens were issued publicly
Financial Times :
The UK cancels plans to launch an NFT, proposed in 2022 by Rishi Sunak in a bid to make the UK a crypto hub, and says it will keep the proposal “under review”
Plans for a government backed non-fungible token (NFT) produced by the Royal Mint have been dropped, the Treasury has announced.
CryptoQuant: BUSD saw $500M+ in outflows in the 24 hours since CFTC filed a lawsuit against Binance vs. $2B in outflows after SEC's Paxos crackdown in February
In a lawsuit filed today …
Lyft co-founders Logan Green and John Zimmer plan to step down as CEO on April 17 and president on June 30; ex-Amazon executive David Risher is set to be CEO
- Lyft's cofounders, Logan Green and John Zimmer, will step back from their day-to-day roles as CEO and president, respectively.
Source: Microsoft-owned GitHub lays off its entire engineering team in India, eliminating 100+ jobs, as part of a ~10% cut announced in February
GitHub, the popular developer platform, has laid off virtually its entire engineering team in India in an unusual move as the Microsoft-owned firm cuts …
Substack invites its newsletter writers to invest, along with others, aiming to raise $2M; source: the raise is an extension of Substack's $65M Series B in 2021
Substack, the newsletter platform, will open up a community fundraising round on Tuesday, allowing writers on the platform to invest in the company.
Sources: Microsoft plans a major overhaul for “Windows 12” to modernize the OS with AI, faster updates, and better security, to better compete with ChromeOS
Windows “CorePC” is the spiritual successor to Windows “Core OS.” — What you need to know
Microsoft launches Security Copilot, a GPT-4-powered assistant to help security professionals with incident investigations, event summaries, reporting, and more
After announcing an AI-powered Copilot assistant for Office apps, Microsoft is now turning its attention to cybersecurity.
Google asks a US judge to dismiss a DOJ suit alleging it illegally abused its ad dominance, arguing the government had excluded rivals while defining the market
Alphabet Inc.'s Google asked a US judge to dismiss the government's case against its dominance in the digital advertising market.
Memo: Meta plans to reduce the bonus multiplier from 85% to 65% and restricted stock awards for staff who “met most expectations” in the 2023 year-end review
Facebook parent Meta Platforms Inc. META -1.43%decrease; red down pointing triangle plans to lower some bonus payouts …
Apple debuts iOS 16.4 with 21 new emoji, Safari push notifications for web apps on the Home Screen, Voice Isolation for calls, Crash Detection tweaks, and more
5 features that'll raise your eyebrows Peter Wolinski / Tom's Guide : iOS 16.4 has a new feature to make your voice sound better on calls — try it now John-Anthony Disotto / iMore : How to enable cell...
Biden signs an EO limiting US agencies' use of hacking tools from companies that are linked to human rights abuses or are deemed to pose national security risks
Dustin Volz / Wall Street Journal :
Discounting the short-term risks of AI, from phishing to propaganda, simply because artificial superintelligence is not here yet will leave society ill-prepared
Superintelligence may or may not be imminent. But there's a lot to be worried about, either way. — Is AI going to kill us all?
A look at Meta's “spirit of the policy” exception that lets the company break its moderation rules in conflict zones and crises; critics want more transparency
An Oversight Board case from Sri Lanka shows the power of Facebook's “spirit of the policy” exception Tweets: @hkanji , @restofworld , @decka227 , and @mvzelenks Tweets: Hussein Kanji / @hkanji : A li...
Documents and sources: Belgian intelligence puts Huawei's Brussels lobbying office on its watchlist to determine if it has direct ties to China's government
Senior Huawei lobbyists in Brussels are under the microscope of the country's state security. — Belgium's intelligence service …
Microsoft says Teams has 280M MAUs, up from 270M MAUs in January 2022, and the rebuilt Teams rolling out to Windows' Public Preview program is twice as fast
Sources: Microsoft is near a deal with cloud providers OVHcloud, Aruba, Danish Cloud Community to suspend their antitrust complaints to the European Commission
Microsoft Corp. is close to a settlement with a trio of cloud providers to suspend their antitrust complaints to the European Commission …
Zoom partners with OpenAI to expand its Zoom IQ assistant with features to generate whiteboards from text prompts, recap meetings, summarize threads, and more
Citizen Lab: Russia's PROTEI is selling internet censorship software to an Iranian telco, allowing monitoring and interception of all Iranians' communications
Tehran is receiving advanced surveillance software after providing drones for Ukraine battlefield — How We Know Russia Is Using Iranian Drones in Ukraine
With the launch of plugins, ChatGPT has become an aggregator that puts OpenAI on a path to becoming the next major consumer tech platform
Yesterday's episode of Sharp Tech discussed AI risk and the incredibly uncertain environment we are entering. You can listen at the above link …
CWA files NLRB charges alleging that Apple fired five union organizers in Kansas City in retaliation, the first such charges the union has filed against Apple
Lauren Kaori Gurley / Washington Post :
Uber Eats plans to remove 5,000 virtual brands to declutter its app and introduce guidelines to stop restaurants from listing multiple brands with the same menu
Wall Street Journal :
Venti Technologies, which develops autonomous vehicle tech for industrial and logistical hubs, raised a $28.8M Series A led by LG Technology Ventures
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch :
Filing: a federal judge grants the US government's request to temporarily halt Voyager's bankruptcy plan, putting its proposed ~$1B sale to Binance.US on hold
Jeremy Hill / Bloomberg :
Polygon launches the mainnet beta of its zkEVM layer 2 scaling solution for Ethereum, three days after rival Matter Labs released its own zkEVM, zkSync Era
Regulators are choking the crypto industry in the US, but major policy decisions should be made by Congress and state legislatures, not by unelected officials
Katie Haun / Wall Street Journal :
An interview with Roblox Studio Head Stefano Corazza on Roblox's new AI tools, generative AI's impact on AR/VR, building a more contextual moderation, and more
Scott Stein / CNET : Tweets: @cnet Tweets: @cnet : The world's biggest metaverse may, arguably, be Roblox. https://www.cnet.com/...
Graphiant, which provides a networking service to let companies link together their cloud environments, data centers, and other assets, raised a $62M Series B
Maria Deutscher / SiliconANGLE :
Google and ADT debut ADT Self Setup, a SimpliSafe-like security system that ties in with nearly all Nest products and also offers its own sensors, keypad, more
Ben Schoon / 9to5Google : Tweets: @killedbygoogle . Thanks: @nexusben Tweets: @killedbygoogle : Getting this to launch took absolutely for-fucking-ever. https://9to5google.com/... Thanks: @nexusben
Filing: MicroStrategy bought 6,455 BTC for ~$150M from February 16 to March 23 at an average price of $23,238; the company held ~$4.14B worth of BTC on March 23
SEMI forecasts South Korea will increase its spending on advanced chipmaking equipment by 41.5% YoY to $21B in 2024, versus China's 2% YoY increase to $16.6B
Sam Kim / Bloomberg :
Similarweb: Chinese-owned OPay and PalmPay became the Play Store's top two finance apps in Nigeria on March 24 after a central bank edict caused a cash shortage
Sources: Huobi partnered with Dominica and prompts new Chinese users to apply for a Dominican digital citizenship to evade China's crypto trading restrictions
through a digital citizenship program from a tiny Caribbean island. Story with @soonweilun https://www.wsj.com/... Jonathan Cheng / @jchengwsj : “He often uses the title ‘His Excellency,’ or H.E., whe...
Many of the top VPN services and apps, some with 100M+ downloads, have misled users about their practices while disguising their ownership, like ties to China
Joseph Menn / Washington Post :
Snap's head of growth and previously longtime product head Jacob Andreou plans to leave in May 2023 after eight years to join Greylock as a general partner
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch : Tweets: @jacobandreou Tweets: Jacob Andreou / @jacobandreou : This May, after more than 8 years, I'll be leaving @Snap. To the team and Evan, thank you for giving me the ho...
A look at the non-consensual deepfake porn economy, with video sites easily accessible via top Google search results and some accepting Visa and Mastercard
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Germany-based OQmented, which is developing laser beam scanning tech for displays in AR/MR glasses, raised a $20M Series A from Sharp Devices Europe and others
Fiona Alston / Tech.eu :
A fifth defendant plans to plead guilty to the DOJ's charges in 2020 regarding a conspiracy to bribe Amazon staff to give sellers unfair marketplace advantages
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