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December 22, 2022, 6:40 AM

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Washington Post:

The SDNY says ex-Alameda CEO Caroline Ellison and FTX CTO Gary Wang pleaded guilty to federal charges, both are cooperating, and releases them on a $250K bond — Caroline Ellison and Gary Wang helped disgraced crypto mogul divert funds and are now aiding prosecutors

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U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission:

The SEC charges ex-Alameda CEO Caroline Ellison and ex-FTX CTO Gary Wang for their role in defrauding FTX's investors at SBF's direction between 2019 and 2022 — The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged Caroline Ellison, the former CEO of Alameda Research, and Zixiao (Gary) …

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Bloomberg:

Sam Bankman-Fried lands in the US to face criminal charges after being taken into custody on December 21, following extradition approval by a Bahamas judge — Sam Bankman-Fried is on his way to an airport to be flown to the US to face a litany of criminal charges after a Bahamas judge approved his extradition.

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Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer:

Reports: an Android malware called Godfather is using overlaid login screens to get users' credentials on 400+ banking apps and crypto exchanges in 16 countries — An Android banking malware named ‘Godfather’ has been targeting users in 16 countries, attempting to steal account credentials …

Source: Blog Group-IB and Cyble. More: SecurityWeek, The Register, PaymentSecurity.io, SamMobile, SC Media, TechRadar, Finextra, The Hacker News, Tom's Guide, Infosecurity, Dark Reading, HackRead, and Tech Monitor

Tweets: @virusbtn, @ourielohayon, and @sentientsixp

Brayden Lindrea / Cointelegraph:

Twitter rolls out $Cashtags, offering stock, ETF, and crypto prices within search results using data from TradingView and adds a View on Robinhood link — Twitter searches for “$Bitcoin,” “Bitcoin price” and “BTC price” pulls up a price chart, with equivalent searches working for Ethereum too.

More: CoinDesk, TechCrunch, International Business Times, CryptoSlate, Adweek, Social Media Today, and Tech Xplore

Tweets: @twitterbusiness, @elonmusk, @jason, @esthercrawford, @satoshiflipper, and @parismarx

New York Times:

Sources: OpenAI releasing ChatGPT led Google to declare a “code red”, including reassigning teams to respond to the threat ChatGPT poses to its search business — A new wave of chat bots like ChatGPT use artificial intelligence that could reinvent or even replace the traditional internet search engine.

More: Android Police, EU-Startups, 9to5Google, Insider, and VentureBeat

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ProPublica:

Google's Display Network, which places ads on 2M+ websites, lets site owners stay anonymous while putting ads beside pirated content, porn, and disinformation — In late 2021, the right-wing site Conservative Beaver published a story falsely claiming the FBI had arrested Pfizer's CEO for fraud.

Reuters:

Sources: aiming to appease the US government, TikTok offers to operate more of its business at arm's length and allow more outside scrutiny by Oracle and others — Popular short-video app TikTok is offering to operate more of its business at arm's length and subject it to outside scrutiny …

More: Insider. Tweets: @deitaone and @knowledge_vital

Alex W. Palmer / New York Times:

How ByteDance and TikTok, which owe their existence to intermingled Western and Chinese ideas, capital, and people, became entangled in the US-China rift

More: GCN

BreAnna Bell / Variety:

Netflix plans to add Nike Training Club workouts to its offerings starting on December 30, eventually reaching over 90 Training Club workouts in total — Netflix is adding Nike Training Club workouts to its offerings, the streamer announced on Wednesday. — The first five programs including …

More: Netflix Tudum, Neowin, The Verge, TechCrunch, Mashable, BGR, Engadget, IndieWire, and Deadline

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Wall Street Journal:

Sources detail steps Netflix may take to reduce US password sharing, like charging account owners an extra sharing fee at just below the $6.99 ad-supported tier — Putting a stop to the practice without alienating customers will be a challenge — The end of password sharing is coming to Netflix soon …

More: Infosecurity, Phandroid, MacRumors, AppleInsider, BGR India, Gizchina, and The Streamable

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Tom Gerken / BBC:

The UK's IPO says sharing passwords for online streaming services such as Netflix breaks the law if the intent is to access copyright works without payment

More: The Guardian, iThinkDifferent, and Neowin

Tweets: @hannahcusworth and @moonyslovely

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Financial Times:

Sources: Alphabet, Meta, and Salesforce are seeking to abandon leased office space in London and Dublin; Amazon and Microsoft put London expansion plans on hold — Moves by Alphabet, Meta and Salesforce come as companies respond to downturn in sector's stocks by cutting costs

Tweets: @cristinacriddle, @georgenhammond, @louiscyprien, @louiscyprien, @peterproperty, and @gergelyorosz

Tonya Riley / CyberScoop:

The FCC proposes a record-breaking ~$300M fine against an auto warranty scam robocall campaign that made 5.1B+ calls to 550M+ US phone numbers in Q1 2021 — The Federal Communications Commission on Wednesday proposed a record-breaking $300 million fine against an auto warranty robocall campaign …

More: Federal Communications …, Engadget, BleepingComputer, Infosecurity, The Record, Reuters, The Verge, Telecompetitor, and PCMag

Tweets: @jrosenworcelfcc, @fcc, and @tedgioia. Thanks:@tonyajoriley

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Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:

CBS News and The Free Press announce Things That Matter, a series of town halls and debates, starting in early 2026, with Sam Altman, J.D. Vance, and others

Shane O'Neill / Washington Post:

Q&A with Christopher Anderson, who photographed Trump's inner circle for VF: “My job is to ... draw on my experience as a journalist and photograph what I see”

Anna Betts / The Guardian:

David Brooks, who wrote a NYT column last month decrying popular fixation on the Epstein story, appears in newly released photos of a 2011 event with Epstein

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Jean Eaglesham / Wall Street Journal:

The SEC's Paul Munter says the regulator is increasing scrutiny of audit firms working with crypto companies, warning investors to be “very wary” of some claims

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Bloomberg:

Sources: at a town hall, Tencent CEO Pony Ma ranted for 10 minutes about staff laziness, graft, “superficial” reforms, Tencent's aging social network, and more

More: Pandaily. Tweets: @frances_coppola, @ruima, @ruima, and @ruima

Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch:

TuSimple confirms plans to lay off 25% of its workforce, or an estimated 350 workers, following a rough year for the self-driving trucking company

More: PR Newswire, Pandaily, FreightWaves, and Reuters

Nilay Patel / The Verge:

Q&A with LinkedIn's Chief Product Officer Tomer Cohen on the number of people hired via LinkedIn being a core metric, generative AI, regulation, and more

Tweets: @cohentomer and @dbn_28

Financial Times:

The US government's entity list also targets newer Chinese chip companies, including PXW, which are more vulnerable than established players like Huawei

More: SiliconANGLE and The Register

Tweets: @noahpinion, @adam_tooze, @pstasiatech, and @dnystedt

Ian King / Bloomberg:

Micron reports Q1 revenue down ~47% YoY to $4.09B and plans to reduce its workforce by ~10% over the next year; Micron had 48,000 employees in September 2022

More: The Economic Times, Micron Technology, Inc., CNBC, TechCircle, SiliconANGLE, Reuters, and Barron's Online. Tweets: @emposts

David Ignatius / Washington Post:

A look at the intelligence and battle management system, built around software developed by Palantir, that has given Ukraine a high-tech edge in Russia's war

Tweets: @tonyajoriley, @davidjshipley, @palantirtech, @davidmwessel, and @byheatherlong

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Sean Lyngaas / CNN:

Sources: after serving in the White House since July 2021, National Cyber Director Chris Inglis is expected to step down and retire in the next two months

More: CyberScoop, InfoRiskToday.com, Politico, PYMNTS.com, Federal Computer Week, The Hill, and Bloomberg

Tweets: @ericgeller and @mideastxmidwest

Todd Spangler / Variety:

Deep Voodoo, founded by South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone to develop deepfake technology and cost-effective visual effects, raised $20M

More: Deep Voodoo, SiliconANGLE, TechCrunch, and Voicebot.ai

Tweets: @iankar_, @chrismessina, @beforesmag, and @lanceulanoff

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Paul Alcorn / Tom's Hardware:

Intel splits AXG graphics unit into two groups under gaming and data center units; AXG's EVP Raja Koduri returns to his previous role as Intel Chief Architect

More: Bloomberg, TechCircle, HPCwire, TechPowerUp, Reuters, SiliconANGLE, and Wccftech. Tweets: @anshelsag. Thanks:@paulyalcorn

Kevin Purdy / Ars Technica:

Raspberry Pi CEO Eben Upton says customers shouldn't expect the Pi 5 in 2023, which will be a “recovery year” for the company due to ongoing supply chain issues

More: ExplainingComputers on YouTube, PC Gamer, PCWorld, and Thurrott

Hannah Murphy / Financial Times:

Elon Musk says he now thinks Twitter will “be okay next year” and would have faced a “negative cash flow situation of $3B a year” without his cost cutting

Juli Clover / MacRumors:

Kuo: Apple plans to postpone mass production or cancel the iPhone SE 4, set to launch in 2024, due to lower-than-expected middle- and lower-end iPhone shipments

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Tweets: @mingchikuo, @mingchikuo, @bencsin, and @vadimyuryev

Ax Sharma / BleepingComputer:

Okta tells customers that hackers breached its GitHub repositories in December and stole its source code but that they did not access service or customer data

More: Ars Technica, Okta Security, Candid.Technology, The Record, Security Boulevard, The Information, HackRead, Engadget, Security Affairs, SiliconANGLE, and Developer Tech News

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