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December 15, 2022, 1:00 PM

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Ryan Mac / New York Times:
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.
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 …
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 …
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
Dave Lee / Financial Times:
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 …
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 …
Kellen Browning / New York Times:
Amazon Games plans to publish Crystal Dynamics' next Tomb Raider, marking Amazon's first major, single-player game, currently in early development  —  The title will be the first major single-player game for Amazon.  It is a coup for the retail giant, which has struggled to gain traction with its video game business.
Al Weaver / The Hill:
The US Senate unanimously passes the No TikTok on Government Devices Act over security concerns about China-based ByteDance, after 13 states set similar bans  —  The Senate on Wednesday unanimously approved legislation that would ban the use of TikTok on government phones and devices as part …
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 …
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.
Paul J. Davies / Bloomberg:
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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 …
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
Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge:
Google finishes rolling out the Matter smart home standard to Android and Nest, following Apple and Samsung; Amazon plans to support Matter by the end of 2022  —  Google announced today that it has completed the initial rollout of Matter to its Google Nest products and Android OS.
Zack Beauchamp / Vox:
A look at The Managerial Revolution, a book from 1941 predicting the “managerial class” supplanting capitalists, which could 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” …
MK Manoylov / The Block:
Binance's 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. …
Sofia Pitt / CNBC:
Roblox's stock drops 16% after reporting November bookings up 5%-7% to $222M-$225M, far below 22% to 25% company estimates; average bookings per DAU drop 7%-9%  —  - Roblox revenue, which it calls booking growth, declined year-over-year due to the strength of the U.S. dollar.
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