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Source: Sam Bankman-Fried plans to reverse his decision to contest extradition to the US; legal experts say any trial is likely more than a year away — Former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried is expected to appear in court in the Bahamas on Monday to reverse his decision to contest extradition …
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Sources: US prosecutors are seeking information from Democrats and Republicans about donations from SBF and ex-FTX executives Ryan Salame and Nishad Singh — Federal prosecutors appear to be focusing on possible wrongdoing by cryptocurrency executives, rather than by Democratic or Republican politicians.
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| Mitchell Clark / The Verge: |
Twitter reactivates some journalists' accounts, after 58.7% of participants in Elon Musk's poll voted to lift the suspension “now” compared to 41.3% “in 7 days” — (The journalists did not reveal his real-time location.) Out of the two poll options, “now” …
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| Media Matters for America: |
On December 16, Twitter reinstated at least 12 far-right accounts including election misinformation celeb Mike Lindell and QAnon supporters like Patrick Byrne — Among the reinstated accounts are far-right media and other figures, election and vaccine misinformers, and a white nationalist
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| Pranav Dixit / BuzzFeed News: |
Elon Musk briefly joined a Twitter Space hosted by a BuzzFeed News tech reporter discussing the latest bans, but left after journalists asked him questions — The embattled Twitter CEO briefly appeared in the Twitter Space hosted by BuzzFeed News tech reporter Katie Notopoulos.
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| Paul Sawers / TechCrunch: |
A look at Backstage, Spotify's open-source developer platform used at Netflix, LinkedIn, Epic, Roku, Box, and 200+ others, which the company seeks to monetize — Backstage is used by developers at Netflix, American Airlines and hundreds of other companies — With nearly a third … | Wall Street Journal: |
Accounting firm BDO, whose Italian member firm BDO Italia recently signed off on Tether reserves reports, says it is reconsidering its work for crypto companies — Accounting firm BDO, which recently signed off on reserves reports for Tether, on Friday said it is reconsidering its work for crypto companies.| Financial Times: |
Binance says the crypto exchange saw ~$6B in net withdrawals between December 12 and December 14, which the company fulfilled “without breaking stride” — Accounting firm was hired by Binance and other crypto exchanges to conduct key reports — Outflows from Binance accelerated …
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| Mitchell Clark / The Verge: |
Google launches client-side encryption for Gmail in beta and lets Workspace administrators sign up until January 20, coming to Gmail for Android and iOS later — Google has launched a beta of its client-side encryption for Gmail, letting businesses apply to test out the feature meant to make … | Russ Mitchell / Los Angeles Times: |
Amazon has invested $75M so far to help Ukraine, including getting 10PB of government data out of the country in suitcase-sized Snowball Edges for AWS uploading — Since Februrary, Amazon has been playing Santa Claus to Ukraine, delivering planeloads of goods, including blankets, hygiene kits … | Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Anker's security cameras brand Eufy quietly removed 10 commitments from its privacy page, including encryption, after questions about keeping those promises — It's been two weeks since we reported that Anker's Eufy lied to us about the security of its security cameras, and we've been pushing the company for answers ever since.| Alex Cranz / The Verge: |
Netflix, HBO Max, and other streaming services scale back on experimental content that caters to smaller audiences, amid rising costs and increased competition — For a few years, there was a boon of content, and we were all wonderfully spoiled. And now that's over. — It's over.
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