LSEG: US bitcoin ETFs saw $4.6B worth of shares traded on January 11, their first day of trading; Grayscale, BlackRock, and Fidelity dominated trading volumes
U.S.-listed bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) saw $4.6 billion worth of shares trade hands as of Thursday afternoon …
Tesla plans to update Autopilot in 2M+ vehicles after the NHTSA issued a recall and called its safety measures inadequate and open to misuse, after a long probe
- US regulator finds system doesn't do enough to prevent misuse — Agency will keep defect investigation open, monitor remedies
Filing: UK chip designer Graphcore needs funds to keep operating as a “going concern”, after 2022 revenue fell 46% YoY and pretax losses grew 11% YoY to $204.6M
Google DeepMind unveils its AlphaMissense AI tool, which predicts if mutations in human genes are likely to be harmful, an example of AI accelerating diagnosis
Google DeepMind details its new AlphaMissense AI, which predicts if mutations in human genes are likely to be harmful, an example of AI accelerating diagnosis
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In a challenge to TikTok, YouTube releases new Shorts creation tools for remixing, adding effects, going live, as well as an interactive Q&A sticker, and more
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A mid-2023 crypto crime update: inflows to illicit entities drop 65% YoY, scammers net ~$3.3B less than H1 2022, and ransomware took $175.8M more than H1 2022
2023 so far has been a year of recovery for cryptocurrency after a chaotic 2022, with prices of digital assets like Bitcoin up over 80% on the year as of June 30.
Bluesky, which has 55K+ users, feels absolutely wild, with the CEO asking users to stop calling posts “skeets”, a struggle to establish norms, and lots of nudes
and hundreds—of thousands for invites to Bluesky is that a comprehensive report about it from someone who has spent time there has not yet been issued. That changes right now. @samthenightowl : a fun ...
Mark Zuckerberg announces Instagram now lets users add up to five links to their account bios, challenging Linktree, Beacons, and other “link in bio” services
I am delighted for you that for the moment Meta has given you the ability to put up to to 5 links in your bios. How long they will allow that will be interesting to see. Maybe it will stay. … Tweets...
Q&A with Signature Bank board member Barney Frank on the bank's downfall, the impact on crypto, weakening Dodd-Frank in 2018, tougher regulation, and more
pushes back at DFS' assertion that Signature wasn't closed due to an anti-crypto animus... whole thing worth reading @jenwieczner 👏👏 https://nymag.com/... Jake Chervinsky / @jchervinsky : 13/ Frank wo...
YouTube, Facebook, and Instagram helped Monu Manesar, an Indian cow vigilante wanted in connection to two murders, thrive despite violent and Islamophobic posts
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Q&A with Sonos CEO Patrick Spence and producer Giles Martin on the new Era 300 and 100 speakers, spatial audio, Atmos, sustainability, Google lawsuit, and more
They join The Vergecast to discuss Sonos' new Era 300 and 100 speakers, the ins and outs of spatial audio, and why this is the time to get behind it.
Mandiant: Russian cyberespionage group Turla piggybacked on other hackers' decade-old malware that spread via USB drives to stealthily access victim networks
The infamous, FSB-connected Turla group took over other hackers' servers, exploiting their USB drive malware for targeted espionage.
Debunking claims on Twitter's handling of the Hunter Biden laptop story, including that Twitter engaged in election interference or violated the First Amendment
Hello! Someone has referred you to this post because you've said something quite wrong about Twitter and how it handled something to do with Hunter Biden's laptop.
A review of misinformation labels: Twitter and Facebook have done little to refute inaccurate election claims by at least 26 US midterms candidates since April
Ahead of the US midterms, researchers say YouTube, which often flies under the radar, has misinformation blind spots that allow false narratives to slip through
The video platform said it had limited the spread of misinformation ahead of Election Day, but new research showed that false narratives continued to slip through.
Elon Musk takes over Twitter and fires several top executives, including CEO Parag Agrawal, CFO Ned Segal, and policy head Vijaya Gadde
Musk's $44 billion deal to acquire the social media company closed on Thursday night — Elon Musk became Twitter's owner late Thursday …
Google now lets users disable targeted ads without breaking useful features by having to turn off settings like Web & App Activity and YouTube History
Online advertising doesn't need to be confusing or out of your control. Sofia Wyciślik-Wilson / BetaNews : Google launches My Ad Center to give you more control over the ads you see Chris Stokel-Walke...
A look at Botometer, which claims to identify the likelihood that a Twitter account is a bot and has been cited by Elon Musk's lawyers in the Twitter lawsuit
In the battle over Twitter's future, the number of bots on the platform is a key issue. Problem is, nobody knows how to count them.
Doreen Bogdan-Martin, the US candidate for secretary general of the UN's International Telecommunications Union, beats Russia's candidate by 139 to 25 votes
BUCHAREST — A top U.S. official won a massive majority to lead the United Nations agency that sets global standards for telecoms and tech infrastructure.