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Sources: Amazon plans to spend $1B+ per year to produce and release movies for theaters, starting with a few releases in 2023, and eventually 12 to 15 annually — Amazon.com Inc. plans to spend more than $1 billion a year to produce movies that it will release in theaters … | David Dayen / American Prospect: |
A look at a letter from March by four GOP and four Democratic House members discouraging the SEC from probing crypto firms; five had donations from FTX staff — The Securities and Exchange Commission was seeking information from collapsed cryptocurrency exchange FTX earlier this year …
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| Josh Sisco / Politico: |
Sources: the FTC is likely to file an antitrust lawsuit to block Microsoft's $69B Activision Blizzard deal; FTC staff are skeptical of the companies' arguments — The Federal Trade Commission is likely to file an antitrust lawsuit to block Microsoft's $69 billion takeover …
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| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
Microsoft says hackers used vulnerabilities in Boa web server, discontinued in 2005 but pervasive across IoT devices, to target the Indian power sector — Microsoft said today that security vulnerabilities found to impact a web server discontinued since 2005 have been used to target and compromise organizations in the energy sector.| Bloomberg: |
Sources: hundreds of Foxconn workers at the iPhone plant in Zhengzhou clashed with security guards as protests erupted over unpaid wages and COVID-19 fears — Hundreds of workers at Apple Inc.'s main iPhone-making plant in China clashed with security personnel, as tensions boiled over after almost …
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| Stuart A. Thompson / New York Times: |
Analysis: of the estimated 140,000 accounts paying for Twitter Blue, many are far-right influencers, the average has 560 followers, some are spoofs, and more — When Elon Musk bought Twitter last month, he made Twitter Blue, an existing subscription service, the backbone of his strategy to increase revenue.
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| Taylor Lorenz / Washington Post: |
An interview with @dril on Elon Musk's Twitter, which he says is “a work in progress”, like Hyperloop, and will be a “beautiful thing at the end of the day” — The ‘patron saint of the internet’ tells The Post he'll never pay for verification but will learn to code if Musk offers him a job
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| AJ Vicens / CyberScoop: |
In its Q3 Adversarial Threat Report, Meta attributes a pro-US campaign to US military-run phony Facebook accounts, Pages, Groups, and Instagram accounts — People associated with the U.S. military were behind dozens of phony Facebook accounts, more than a dozen pages, a pair of groups …
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| Will Jarrett / Mission Local: |
A San Francisco Police Department draft policy allowing police to apply lethal force using robots faces criticism from advocates opposing police militarization — “This is not normal. No legal professional or ordinary resident should carry on as if it is normal.”
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Mark Cuban's interactive streaming app Fireside acquires streaming platform Stremium and plans to launch on smart TVs, Amazon Fire TV, Roku, and other devices — Mark Cuban-backed streaming app Fireside, which today offers podcasters and other creators a way to host interactive …
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| Patricia Nilsson / Financial Times: |
Omdia: in 2022, Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, and Apple are on pace to take 68% of ~$500B in online ad revenue made by non-China companies, driven by video campaigns — TV and film companies are racing to capture some of the marketing cash pouring into the likes of YouTube
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Omdia and Forbes
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| Ax Sharma / BleepingComputer: |
Google blocklisted two Chrome “SearchBlox” extensions with 200K+ installs, after discovery of a backdoor that can be used to steal Roblox credentials and assets — Chrome browser extension ‘SearchBlox’ installed by more than 200,000 users has been discovered to contain a backdoor … | Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: |
SBF claims FTX had ~$60B in collateral in spring 2022, before a credit squeeze, market selloff, and “run on the bank” reduced it to $9B and led to bankruptcy — The former FTX CEO did not address concerns about customer funds being misappropriated or other recent revelations about the company.
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