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Elon Musk says Twitter may start manually authenticating accounts on December 2, with blue check marks for people, gold for companies, and gray for governments — Elon Musk says that Twitter's check mark program could return on Friday, December 2nd, with a new procedure to verify individual identities …
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| Taylor Lorenz / Washington Post: |
Twitter plans to restore next week suspended accounts that haven't “broken the law or engaged in egregious spam”, after 72.4% of 3M+ voted yes in Musk's poll — The Twitter chief says he will reinstate accounts suspended for harassment, abuse and misinformation beginning next week.
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| Tim Copeland / The Block: |
Binance releases its proof-of-reserves system, starting with BTC, claiming it has 582,485 BTC and 575,742 BTC user balance, a reserve ratio of 101% for users — - Binance has put out its proof-of-reserves system, in light of FTX's meltdown. — It shows a reserve ratio of 101% for its users' bitcoin balances.
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| Todd Shields / Bloomberg: |
The FCC imposes a ban on equipment from Huawei and ZTE, camera providers Hikvision and Dahua, and radio maker Hytera, citing “a risk to national security” — US regulators imposed a ban on electronic equipment from Huawei Technologies Co. and ZTE Corp., continuing a years-long effort …
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Tweets: @brendancarrfcc, @jrosenworcelfcc, @fcc, and @brendancarrfcc
| Christiana Loureiro / The Block: |
Report: several US states are investigating Genesis Global as part of an inquiry into interconnectedness of crypto firms, securities laws violations, and more — - States including Alabama are looking into crypto firms and whether they violated securities laws.
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| Michelle Toh / CNN: |
The UK government asks its departments to stop installing Chinese surveillance cameras at sensitive sites, after calls to ban devices from Hikvision and Dahua — Hong Kong CNN Business — Hikvision, a leading Chinese surveillance company, has denied suggestions that it poses a threat …
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BBC, Reuters, Politico, Security Affairs, Trak.in, Financial Times, WinBuzzer, The Record, Forbes, South China Morning Post, Neowin, The Register, and Tech Xplore. Tweets: @yuanfenyang
| South China Morning Post: |
Inside Zhengzhou's “iPhone City” lockdown, where China's zero COVID-19 policy, related propaganda and fears, and Foxconn's missteps led to the worker riots — In a widely cited anecdote about the power of the Chinese workforce, a manager at an iPhone factory was once able …
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Tweets: @biancoresearch, @carnage4life, @royprice, and @aadilbrar
| Alex Hern / The Guardian: |
The UK government says its Online Safety Bill will return to the parliament in December and will be expanded to criminalize nonconsensual “deepfake” pornography — Nonconsensual explicit images to be tackled in bill returning to parliament next month
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Tweets: @derickr, @seatradelaw, @charleskriel, @webdevlaw, @katebevan, @mariamilleruk, @mattnavarra, @v21, @alexhern, @asi, @asi, @bigbrotherwatch, @asi, and @bigbrotherwatch
| Zoë Schiffer / @zoeschiffer: |
Source: Twitter abruptly fired around 50 engineers and warned dozens more on the evening before Thanksgiving; some were told their “code is not satisfactory” — Hearing that roughly 50 Twitter engineers were abruptly fired last night and dozens more received warnings: https://twitter.com/...
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Tweets: @alexeheath, @gergelyorosz, @caseynewton, @gergelyorosz, @gergelyorosz, @kirachats, @mnateshyamalan, @somiskeen, @sarah_edo, @rvawonk, @mattbinder, @gergelyorosz, @film_girl, @dreamweasel, @fawfulfan, @akivamcohen, @photomatt, @carnage4life, @nberlat, @carnage4life, @gailalfaratx, @db, @lolgop, @iamkierrad, @treblaw, @jilliancyork, @brianmfloyd, @justinbaragona, @benjamingjw, @thocpodcast, @th3j35t3r, @gergelyorosz, @gergelyorosz, and @alexeheath
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| Jonathan Burgos / Forbes: |
Hong Kong-based XanPool, a cross-border payments infrastructure provider for both crypto and fiat currencies, raised $41M in Q2 2022 at a $400M valuation — XanPool—a cross-border payments infrastructure provider—is accelerating expansion plans across Europe, Middle East …
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XanPool Blog, DealStreetAsia, and Tech in Asia
| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Amazon will shut down its food delivery business in India on December 29, after launching it in May 2020 in Bengaluru, as part of a broader restructuring — Amazon will shut down its food delivery business in India by the end of the year, the retailer said Friday, retreating from a vertical it entered less than three years ago.
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The Economic Times, Moneycontrol, Trak.in, Inc42 Media, Reuters, and International Business Times. Tweets: @mugdha_variyar
| Nilesh Christopher / Rest of World: |
Experts and employees detail Uber's struggles in Pakistan as it discontinues service in five cities, cuts spending, and faces increased competition from inDrive — Fierce local competition in the ride-hailing sector and economic uncertainty have forced Uber to scale back its presence in South Asia.
Tweets: @nixxin, @restofworld, @restofworld, and @nilchristopher
| Ira Dugal / Reuters: |
Reserve Bank of India declines a payment aggregator license for Paytm parent One 97, asking it to comply with foreign direct investment guidelines and reapply — India's banking regulator has declined a payment aggregator licence for the One 97 Communications Ltd (PAYT.NS) …
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