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December 15, 2022, 11:35 PM

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Twitter suspends the accounts of several journalists, including NYT's Ryan Mac and CNN's Donie O'Sullivan; Musk says “same doxxing rules apply to journalists”  —  Twitter suspended several high-profile journalists Thursday evening who have been covering the company and Elon Musk.
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Taylor Hatmaker / TechCrunch:
Twitter suspends the account of its rival Mastodon, and many links to some Mastodon servers no longer work on Twitter, which flags them as “potentially harmful”  —  A day after Twitter crafted a new policy to explain its decision to ban an account that tracks Elon Musk's private jet, the fallout continues.
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Tim Peterson / Digiday:
Five agency executives say Netflix is delivering ~80% of the expected viewers for its ad-supported tier and structured its ad deals to release any unspent money  —  For as quickly as Netflix brought its ad-supported tier to market, the streamer's advertising business is off to a slow start.
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.
Jacquelyn Melinek / TechCrunch:
London-based Aztec Network, which is building an encrypted version of Ethereum, raised a $100M Series B led by a16z and plans a testnet launch within 12 months  —  Aztec Network, a privacy layer for web3, has raised $100 million in a Series B round led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) …
David Klepper / Associated Press:
CCDH: when researchers liked self-harm and eating disorder videos on TikTok in the US, the UK, Canada, and Australia, the app recommended more similar content  —  TikTok's algorithms are promoting videos about self-harm and eating disorders to vulnerable teens, according to a report published Wednesday …
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.
Sebastian Moss / DCD:
Sources: Meta reviews some of its 11 in-development data center projects globally and lays off a Danish contractor, as part of a design change for AI workloads  —  As it plans radical shift to AI data centers  —  Meta is reviewing a number of under-construction data center projects around …
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Dave Lee / Financial Times:
Filing: Elon Musk sells 22M Tesla shares, worth almost $3.6B, his fourth sale since his Twitter takeover bid and third since tweeting “no further TSLA sales”  —  Billionaire has sold $23bn of stock in EV group since announcing Twitter takeover  —  Elon Musk has offloaded another tranche …
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 …
Greg Stohr / Bloomberg:
Tech industry groups that include Meta and Google ask SCOTUS to overturn the Texas social media content moderation law, arguing it violates the First Amendment  —  Trade groups that represent Meta Platforms Inc. and Alphabet Inc.'s Google said they asked the US Supreme Court to overturn …
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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