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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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| 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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| Sam Reynolds / CoinDesk: |
The SEC's complaint against Caroline Ellison and Gary Wang says FTX's FTT token is a security as it was sold as an investment contract — Complaint against Alameda's Caroline Ellison and FTX's Gary Wang contains allegations that FTX's exchange token, FTT, constitutes an investment contract.
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| Reuters: |
Sam Bankman-Fried appears in NY federal court charged with wire fraud and other crimes; judge grants bail with a $250M bond and custody at his parents' CA home — Sam Bankman-Fried will be released on a $250 million bond package while he awaits trial on fraud charges related to the collapse …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
YouTube acquires NFL Sunday Ticket residential rights for seven years, starting in 2023, sources say for ~$2B per year; DirecTV reportedly currently pays $1.5B — Video streamer to pay annual fee of roughly $2 billion under seven-year deal — Created with sketchtool.
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| Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch: |
Twitter begins rolling out public view counts for tweets, expanding on video view counts and analytics; Elon Musk says they will show how “alive Twitter is” — Twitter is rolling out a feature that shows how many people view your tweets, similar to features on platforms like YouTube …
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Thurrott, Huawei Central, Watcher Guru, and The Economic Times
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| Cecilia Kang / New York Times: |
An internal ByteDance investigation finds a few employees accessed data on US TikTok users, including two reporters, while trying to find sources for a story — The company's internal investigation showed that workers also obtained data on a small number of other U.S. users.
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CNN, The Verge, Bloomberg, Reuters, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, and Tech Xplore
Tweets: @ceciliakang, @anthony, @paulszoldra, @hawleymo, @tonyromm, @ceciliakang, and @lourdesgnavarro
| Brayden Lindrea / Cointelegraph: |
Twitter rolls out $Cashtags, offering stock, ETF, and crypto prices within search results using data from TradingView, along with a View on Robinhood link — Twitter searches for “$Bitcoin,” “Bitcoin price” and “BTC price” pulls up a price chart, with equivalent searches working for Ethereum too.
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TechCrunch, Gizmodo, ZyCrypto, CoinDesk, and Coinspeaker
Tweets: @twitterbusiness, @elonmusk, @anthony, @jason, @esthercrawford, and @satoshiflipper
| 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 — A Chinese app conquered the planet — and now the U.S. is threatening to shut it down. Can the world's biggest virality machine survive?
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Financial Times. Tweets: @jordanschnyc, @willystaley, @leftiblog, @leftiblog, @jordanschnyc, @nytimestech, @jordanschnyc, and @jchengwsj
| Mike Masnick / Techdirt: |
Mastodon, nostr, and other decentralized social networks are having a moment, despite some complexity, propelled by the apparent decline of Twitter and Meta — So, it's been quite a year for legacy, centralized social media — and all without any really big change to the laws that govern it … | 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 — Many multinational CEOs like to close out the year with a message of congratulations.
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Pandaily. Tweets: @justin_mallen, @ruima, @frances_coppola, @ruima, @ruima, and @knowledge_vital
| 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.| Alex Thompson / Politico: |
Investigation: Eric Schmidt helps fund the salaries of over 24 Biden administration officials through the Federation of American Scientists and Schmidt Futures — Eric Schmidt, the former CEO of Google who has long sought influence over White House science policy, is helping to fund …
Tweets: @j_timmer, @alexthomp, @mideastxmidwest, @alexthomp, and @neilturkewitz
| 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 … | Stuart A. Thompson / New York Times: |
Analysis of 1,000 reinstated Twitter accounts: most are deeply partisan, support Donald Trump, and spread misinformation on COVID-19, election fraud, and QAnon — Many reinstated users are tweeting about topics that got them barred in the first place: Covid-19 skepticism, election denialism and QAnon.
Tweets: @ccdhate, @mattnavarra, and @mzhemingway
| Wall Street Journal: |
Pathmatics: about 70% of Twitter's top 100 ad spenders before Elon Musk's takeover were not spending on the service as of the week ending December 18 — Executives are promising big incentives and new technology while also trying to explain the actions of their new owner
Tweets: @tomfitton, @jtoonkel, @djrothkopf, and @jyarow
| Steve Dent / Engadget: |
Google open sources two of its latest privacy-enhancing technologies, including one that blurs objects in a video, as part of its Protected Computing initiative — Google has announced that two of its latest privacy-enhancing technologies (PETs), including one that blurs objects in a video …
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Gizmodo and SiliconANGLE
| 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 — Regulator concerned about cryptocurrency companies overstating audit firms' narrow reports
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PYMNTS.com, Crypto Daily, and Reuters
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