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Sam Bankman-Fried agrees voluntarily to be extradited to the US, where he faces criminal and civil charges including conspiracy, fraud, and money laundering — - Sam Bankman-Fried is set to fly to the U.S., where he faces multiple criminal charges tied to the collapse of his crypto exchange FTX.
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Elon Musk says he will resign as CEO after finding someone “foolish enough to take the job”, after which he plans to run the “software and servers teams” — I will resign as CEO as soon as I find someone foolish enough to take the job! After that, I will just run the software & servers teams.
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| Brian Fung / CNN: |
SEC deposition: Zuckerberg considered disclosing in 2017 that Facebook was investigating “organizations like Cambridge Analytica”, but advisers suggested not to — Mark Zuckerberg considered disclosing in 2017 that Facebook (FB) was investigating “organizations like Cambridge Analytica” …
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Sources: the NFL is in advanced talks to give YouTube exclusive Sunday Ticket rights; a deal could be reached as early as December 21 after an NFL owner meeting — DirecTV currently pays for rights to subscription package that allows football fans to watch most Sunday afternoon games
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| MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC: |
Source: Publicly-traded US bitcoin miner Core Scientific is filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on Wednesday, as its valuation fell from $4.3B in July 2021 to $78M — - Core Scientific, one of the largest publicly traded crypto mining companies in the U.S., is filing for bankruptcy.
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| Lee Fang / The Intercept: |
Internal documents: from at least 2017, Twitter helped the Pentagon in its covert online foreign propaganda campaigns including by whitelisting CENTCOM accounts — Twitter executives have claimed for years that the company makes concerted efforts to detect and thwart government-backed covert propaganda campaigns on its platform.
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| Alex Stamos / @alex@cybervillains.com: |
Elon Musk amplifies false claims that 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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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
OpenAI open sources Point-E, a machine learning system that generates and displays a 3D object from a text prompt in one to two minutes on an 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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| James Reddick / The Record: |
US prosecutors say two men conspired with Russian hackers to tamper with JFK airport's taxi queuing software, allegedly letting drivers cut the line for a fee — Two Queens men have been arrested and are facing up to 10 years in prison on charges that they conspired with Russian hackers … | Micah Lee / The Intercept: |
Donie O'Sullivan, Drew Harwell, and other journalists remain locked out of their Twitter accounts despite suspensions lifted, many until they delete tweets — I've been writing critically about billionaire Elon Musk since he took over Twitter — particularly about his “free speech” hypocrisy and his censorship of left-wing accounts.
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| New York Times: |
Mark Zuckerberg testified in federal court about Meta's acquisition of Within, as the FTC's highly unusual challenge seeks an injunction to stop the deal — Meta's chief executive made a rare court appearance as the Federal Trade Commission tries to block his company's purchase of the virtual reality start-up Within.
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| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
Insider Intelligence: Google will capture 28.8% of US digital ad revenue in 2022 and Meta will grab 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 …
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| 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, @kurtopsahl, @evan_greer, @jenniferjschulp, and @naomibrockwell
| The Economic Times: |
Tata Digital-owned Indian e-grocer BigBasket raised $200M from Tata Digital and others at a $3.2B valuation, up from $2.7B in March in a secondary share sale — CEO Hari Menon outlines quick commerce expansion, bringing 1mg on its app . The funding takes e-grocer's valuation to $3.2 billion.| Vibhuti Sharma / DealStreetAsia: |
Bengaluru-based BetterPlace, which offers a SaaS for blue-collar workforce management, raised a $40M Series C extension, bringing its total funding to ~$80M — BetterPlace, a SaaS platform for workforce management, said on Tuesday that it has raised $40 million as part of an extended Series C round …
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Ukrainian Vice PM Mykhailo Fedorov says 10K+ more Starlink terminals will arrive in the coming months and “as of now all financial issues have been resolved” — Ukraine has reached a deal with Elon Musk's Space Exploration Technologies Corp. to receive thousands more Starlink antennas …
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| Mishaal Rahman / Esper Blog: |
Android and Google Chrome will soon stop trusting TrustCor certificates, following Firefox and Edge, over alleged ties to US defense contractor Packet Forensics — The world's biggest tech companies have lost confidence in one of the Internet's behind-the-scenes gatekeepers.| Xinmei Shen / South China Morning Post: |
China sets new data guidelines, imposing a strict review of data processing, cross-border data transfers, and M&A involving foreign capital — Chinese authorities will impose a strict review of data processing, cross-border data transfers, and mergers and acquisitions (M&A) … Sponsor Posts
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