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Twitter suspends ~30 accounts sharing private jets' locations via public data, including @ElonJet, which Elon Musk had said he wouldn't ban for tracking his jet — Twitter Inc. has suspended multiple accounts that track the locations of private jets using publicly available flight data …
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Twitter updates its private information and media policy with new rules, including suspending accounts “dedicated to sharing someone else's live location” — The suspended accounts include one that followed the private plane of Elon Musk, Twitter's owner.
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| Dave Lee / Financial Times: |
Filing: Elon Musk sells 22M Tesla shares, worth ~$3.6B, the fourth sale since announcing his Twitter takeover and third since declaring “no further TSLA sales” — Billionaire has sold $23bn of stock in EV group since announcing Twitter takeover
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| Financial Times: |
Court filing: FTX Digital Markets co-CEO Ryan Salame told The Bahamas' securities commission on November 9 that customer funds were used to cover Alameda losses — FTX executive told securities regulator crypto exchange was likely funnelling cash to Alameda trading firm
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The US DOJ seized 48 websites and charged six people for allegedly running “booter” DDoS-for-hire services used to launch millions of attacks globally — The US seized dozens of internet domains and charged six people in a sting intended to bring down a network of cyberattack-for-hire services … | Jamie Crawley / CoinDesk: |
US Senators Elizabeth Warren (D) and Roger Marshall (R) introduce the Digital Asset Anti-Money Laundering Act, including KYC requirements for wallets and miners — The proposal will bring know-your-customer rules to crypto participants such as wallet providers and miners.| Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez / Fortune: |
PayPal launches an integration with the MetaMask Web3 wallet that lets users purchase and transfer ether, rolling out to all US customers in the coming weeks — Users of the popular MetaMask Web3 wallet will soon be able to buy the second-most-popular cryptocurrency, Ether, via PayPal.
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| Kat Tenbarge / NBC News: |
The SEC charges eight influencers with securities fraud, allegedly using Twitter and Discord to manipulate stocks since at least January 2020 in a ~$100M scheme — The Securities and Exchange Commission has charged eight influencers with securities fraud, the agency said Wednesday.
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| Igor Bonifacic / Engadget: |
Twitter plans to shut down its newsletter platform Revue and delete all related data on January 18, 2023, after acquiring the company in January 2021 — One day after Jack Dorsey took to Revue to share his thoughts on the Twitter Files, the company announced it would shut down the newsletter platform early next year.
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Newzoo predicts mobile games revenue will fall 6.4% to $92.2B in 2022, the first drop in a decade, compared to 7.3% growth in 2021 and 25.6% growth in 2020 — Once fast-growing $100bn industry hit by post-pandemic changes in player behaviour and drop in consumer spending
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The US sentences former Twitter employee Ahmad Abouammo to 3.5 years, after he was found guilty of spying for Saudi Arabia by sharing user data in August 2022 — A former Twitter Inc manager convicted of spying for Saudi Arabia was sentenced to 3-1/2 years in U.S. prison, prosecutors said on Wednesday.
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The US Senate unanimously passed the No TikTok on Government Devices Act over security concerns related to the app, after 13 states imposed similar bans — The Senate on Wednesday unanimously approved legislation that would ban the use of TikTok on government phones and devices as part …
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A look at the Safetipin app, which lets users map safe and unsafe areas in 65 cities across 16 countries and is helping New Delhi carry out improvement work — First rolled out in India, Safetipin is mapping safe and unsafe areas in 65 cities across 16 countries
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