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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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| Bloomberg: |
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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| 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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| Bloomberg: |
Internal FTX documentation shows a GitHub account bearing the name of engineering director Nishad Singh authored code to hide Alameda's ballooning liabilities — A GitHub account bearing the name of former FTX executive Nishad Singh authored code that hid Alameda Research's ballooning liabilities …
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Livemint, The Block, Ethereum World News, CryptoPotato, and Micky
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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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| Simon Sharwood / The Register: |
Microsoft quietly updates its TOS to prohibit crypto mining on Azure and other services without “prior written approval”, citing “disruption or even impairment” — Windows giant fears coin crafting may upend its servers — UPDATED Microsoft has quietly banned cryptocurrency mining …
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| William Turton / Bloomberg: |
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 …
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| Chainalysis: |
Analysis of weekly realized gains and losses of all personal crypto wallets in 2022: UST's collapse caused $20.5B in losses, Celsius and 3AC $33B, and FTX $9B — Allow us to state the obvious: There's been a lot of doom and gloom in conversations around cryptocurrency over the last month.
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| Taryn Plumb / VentureBeat: |
Amazon Web Services, Meta, Microsoft, TomTom, and the Linux Foundation launch the Overture Maps Foundation, aiming to build interoperable, open-source map data — Think about it: Maps are fundamental to human evolution, exploration, innovation. — Since the first maps were drawn up in the 5th …
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| Tim Peterson / Digiday: |
Five agency executives say Netflix is delivering ~80% of the expected audience for its ad-supported tier and releasing unspent ad money; stock drops 6%+ — For as quickly as Netflix brought its ad-supported tier to market, the streamer's advertising business is off to a slow start.| Mia Sato / The Verge: |
Instagram launches a tool to help users recover hacked accounts, report impersonation accounts, and get help when they have forgotten their passwords — Instagram users who are victims of hacking now have a new way to try to claw back their account. The company announced Instagram.com/hacked today … | Reuters: |
Microsoft plans to roll out its “EU data boundary”, letting EU cloud customers process and store data in the region, starting with customer data, from January 1 — Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) said on Thursday its European Union cloud customers will be able to process and store parts of their data in the region from Jan. 1.
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| Keith Zhai / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: hoping to boost the economy, Chinese officials begin reassessing tech policies and plan to close long-running investigations against internet companies — Senior officials are setting a robust GDP growth target of more than 5% for next year as they loosen Covid rules and de-emphasize ideology| Zack Beauchamp / Vox: |
A look at The Managerial Revolution, a 1941 book that predicted the rise of the “managerial class” over capitalists and may help explain Elon Musk's Twitter — The long shadow of James Burnham's The Managerial Revolution. — Since the launch of the so-called “Twitter Files” …
Tweets: @pt, @greenplusane, @lemieuxlgm, @paulblu, @davidastinwalsh, @davidastinwalsh, and @czedwards
| Al Weaver / The Hill: |
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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| Byron Kaye / Reuters: |
Australia's e-Safety Commissioner says Apple and Microsoft are not doing enough to stop CSAM on their services, calling the companies' responses “alarming” — An Australian regulator, after using new powers to make the tech giants share information about their methods …
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| MK Manoylov / The Block: |
Binance spokesperson Patrick Hillmann claims Changpeng Zhao has traveled to the US without publicizing it, after rumors that he could face legal difficulties — - Binance's Chief Strategy Officer and company spokesperson Patrick Hillmann said that CEO Changpeng “CZ” Zhao has been in the U.S. …
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| Financial Times: |
The US Commerce Department puts 36 Chinese companies on its entity list, including chipmaker Yangtze Memory Technologies and AI chipmaker Cambricon — ‘Entity list’ changes are focused on limiting development of advanced chips in China — The US has placed three dozen Chinese companies …
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New York Times, Reuters, Washington Post, Bloomberg, TechSpot, Semafor, Reuters, and SiliconANGLE. Tweets: @chadbown
| Alexander Martin / The Record: |
Meta reports taking down 200+ coordinated inauthentic behavior operations since 2016, spread across over 100 countries, most focused on their domestic audience — Six years on from the shock discovery of Russian interference during the 2016 presidential election — and in the face … | Benedict Evans: |
ChatGPT and other generative ML systems represent a step change in AI use cases, prompting questions on content for pattern generation and tolerances for error — A decade or so ago, systems based on something called ‘machine learning’ started producing really good results in Imagenet, a contest for computer vision researchers.
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