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| Joshua Oliver / Financial Times: |
FTX plans to recoup political donations by Sam Bankman-Fried and his associates, estimated at $70M+ in the 2021-2022 election cycle, to help repay creditors — Crypto group's new management says if funds are not returned voluntarily it will pursue recipients in court
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| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
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Reuters. Tweets: @kleinmatic, @parkermolloy, @nsbarsky, @ivanthek, @seanismoney, @davidgura, @kenvogel, @markamesexiled, and @rachelhaot
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| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Twitter pilots Blue for Business with select accounts, helping companies identify brands and key employees via badges, but doesn't share other perks and pricing — Twitter launched “Blue for Business” last week alongside relaunching Twitter Blue. At that time, the social network had assigned a gold checkmark to businesses.
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Twitter for Business, Mashable, Android Central, The Verge, Adweek, MobileSyrup, Insider, MSPoweruser, PCMag, Android Headlines, and Thurrott
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| Alex Stamos / @alex@cybervillains.com: |
Elon Musk is amplifying false claims the FBI “paid Twitter millions” to “censor info from the public”; law enforcement reimburses companies for data requests — This claim is false. Law enforcement has the ability to get stored communications from companies like Twitter under 18 USC 2703(d).
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| Wall Street Journal: |
As US lawmakers considered adding antitrust bills to the omnibus spending package, tech trade group CCIA, Meta, Amazon, and more ramped up opposition to them — Industry has spent more than $100 million to fight antitrust measures and other bills in Congress — How Apple's iPhone and Apps Trap You in a Walled Garden
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
OpenAI releases Point-E, an open-source ML system that generates and displays 3D objects from a text prompt in one to two minutes on a single Nvidia V100 GPU — The next breakthrough to take the AI world by storm might be 3D model generators. This week, OpenAI open-sourced Point-E …
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| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
TikTok begins telling users why a video was recommended in the For You feed, such as previous interactions or followed accounts — TikTok is launching a new feature that allows users to see why a particular video was recommended to them in their For You feed, the company announced on Tuesday.
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| Lee Fang / The Intercept: |
Internal documents show that, going back to 2017, Twitter worked with the Pentagon to whitelist CENTCOM accounts used in online foreign influence campaigns — Twitter executives have claimed for years that the company makes concerted efforts to detect and thwart government-backed covert propaganda campaigns on its platform.| Thomas Brewster / Forbes: |
The DEA finds a Mexico-based methamphetamine and cocaine gang operating across the US, Mexico, Europe, and Australia used Binance to launder $15M to $40M — A methamphetamine and cocaine gang operating across the U.S., Mexico, Europe and Australia used the world's biggest cryptocurrency exchange Binance …
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Reuters. Tweets: @bitfinexed, @eliotwb, @iblametom, @hkanji, @silvermanjacob, and @charlesarthur
| Sam Schechner / Wall Street Journal: |
Amazon agrees to settle two EU antitrust cases related to third-party sellers on its platform, won't pay a fine, and will adhere to commitments for seven years — Amazon.com Inc. has agreed to settle two European Union antitrust cases related to allegations about its treatment of third-party sellers …
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Tweets: @deitaone, @lutherlowe, @samuelstolton, @arianna_podesta, @mariskreizman, @eu_competition, @vestager, @arcapde, and @jcbcp
| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Mastodon CEO Eugen Rochko says the social network reached 2.5M MAUs in November, up from around 300,000 in October, as Twitter users flee the service — Mastodon, a decentralized social media platform that many are turning to as a Twitter alternative, saw its userbase skyrocket …
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Official Mastodon Blog, New York Post, Softpedia News, CNN, Neowin, KnowTechie, WinBuzzer, MUO, and PCMag
Tweets: @sandofsky, @parismarx, @mr_james_c, @mr_james_c, @mattcassinelli, and @werty
| Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: |
Over 100 BTC claimed to be inaccessible was moved out of cold wallets tied to QuadrigaCX, the exchange that went bankrupt in 2019 after its CEO allegedly died — More than 100 BTC tied to QuadrigaCX moved out of cold storage wallets over the weekend. Quadriga's bankruptcy trustee …
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Tweets: @zachxbt, @crypto_mags, @zachxbt, @zachxbt, @trim_bot, @coindesk, @fullbeerbottle, @stephenpunwasi, @cryptadamist, @testinprodcap, @nikhileshde, @cmbarce1, and @coins
| Cheng Ting-Fang / Nikkei Asia: |
Sources: in a first, Apple plans to move some MacBook production to Vietnam in 2023, asking Foxconn to begin as early as May, to further diversify from China — iPhone maker aims to have ‘out of China’ production alternatives for key products — TAIPEI — Apple plans to move …
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Tweets: @dancollins2011, @jeff4malaysia, and @kentaro_iwamoto
| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
Insider Intelligence: Google will capture 28.8% of US digital ad revenue in 2022 and Meta will get 19.6%, for a combined 48.4%, down from a 54.7% peak in 2017 — Google and Meta, known together in the ad industry as the “duopoly,” are expected to bring in less than half of all U.S. digital advertising … | Jeff Kauflin / Forbes: |
A profile of London-based crypto trading firm Wintermute in the aftermath of UST and FTX's implosion and a $160M hack, as revenues dramatically decline in 2022 — By deftly navigating crypto's frontier markets and winning big on the collapse of Terra's stable coin, Wintermute has grown …
Tweets: @erikvoorhees, @hsakatrades, @jeffkauflin, @jeffkauflin, @jeffkauflin, @blockanalia, @delrayman, @avi_eisen, @avi_eisen, @jeffkauflin, and @lsukernik
| Viola Zhou / Rest of World: |
Sources: Foxconn workers in Zhengzhou say they got COVID-19 at the plant in December and some were asked to keep working; one said he was dissuaded from testing — Sick workers say they're being asked to stay on the assembly line as Foxconn ramps up iPhone 14 Pro production.
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MobileSyrup, 9to5Mac, iThinkDifferent, iMore, and BGR
Tweets: @bruce_arthur, @jerometaylor, @restofworld, @rzhongnotes, @violazhouyi, and @violazhouyi
| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
Apple fixes a macOS vulnerability, reported by Microsoft, that let attackers bypass Gatekeeper, a feature that checks if apps are notarized and developer-signed — Apple has fixed a vulnerability attackers could leverage to deploy malware on vulnerable macOS devices via untrusted applications capable … | Rolfe Winkler / Wall Street Journal: |
BetterHelp, Cerebral, and other digital mental health companies are failing to offer quality care due to unprofessional therapists, a pressure to grow, and more — Heavy advertising and other strategies from Silicon Valley's playbook boost providers' growth but not the quality of care| Norman Harsono / Bloomberg: |
Changpeng Zhao confirms Binance acquired the remaining 49% stake in Indonesian crypto exchange Tokocrypto; the unit will cut 58% of jobs and replace its CEO — Binance Holdings Ltd.'s Indonesian unit is cutting jobs and replacing its top executive after the parent company took nearly full control over it.| Marta Belcher / CoinDesk: |
Senator Warren's Digital Asset Anti-Money Laundering Act would be a disaster for privacy and civil liberties by effectively surveilling all blockchain users — The proposal would turn blockchains into permissioned ledgers surveilled by centralized gatekeepers.
Tweets: @raineyreitman
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