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| Faiz Siddiqui / Washington Post: |
Former Twitter employees and people in Elon Musk's orbit detail his erratic leadership; Musk wanted “full access” for Bari Weiss, which staff refused to grant — Musk's intense focus on his social media company purchase has devolved into the culture wars. Meanwhile, Tesla is tanking.
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| Tim Higgins / Wall Street Journal: |
A look at Elon Musk's tightening finances as TSLA dropped 65% in 2022, shrinking his borrowing power, and his fortune fell from an estimated $340B high to $140B — Billionaire's borrowing power has shrunk with Tesla share decline — Elon Musk's Unconventional Management Style: Former Employees Share Stories
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| Freddy Brewster / Los Angeles Times: |
FOIA emails detail Sam Bankman-Fried's courtship of US federal regulators, including hiring former regulators and dining with ex-CFTC Commissioner Dan Berkovitz — Before his mid-December arrest, cryptocurrency billionaire Sam Bankman-Fried repeatedly claimed that he was a responsible business leader …
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| Thomas Claburn / The Register: |
Study: programmers who use GitHub Copilot and other AI tools produce less secure code than those who do not — At the same time, tools like Github Copilot and Facebook InCoder make developers believe their code is sound — Computer scientists from Stanford University have found … | Ben Hunte / VICE: |
A look at the Central African Republic's decision to adopt bitcoin as legal tender in April 2022 and launch a half-baked “Sangocoin” cryptocurrency in July 2022 — The Central African Republic heralded its status as the only country in Africa to adopt Bitcoin as legal currency …
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Reuters, Cointelegraph, BeInCrypto, and CoinGeek
| Matthew Field / Telegraph: |
Source: Magic Leap raised $450M in 2022, across $150M in equity and $300M in debt, giving Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund a majority stake in the company — Saudi Arabia has taken control of US augmented reality company Magic Leap, The Telegraph can reveal, as the company taps up investors for a further $450m.| Omer Benjakob / Haaretz: |
A look at Tel Aviv-based Toka, which helps clients in government and intelligence agencies hack security cameras and alter live feeds and past recordings — Meet Toka, the Israeli cyber firm founded by Ehud Barak, that lets clients hack cameras and change their feeds - just like in Hollywood heist movies
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| Justin Garrison / Justin Garrison: |
Stack Overflow's 2022 Developer Survey: 40.2% use a Linux-based system, up from 25.3% in 2021 and 23.2% in 2018, compared to 62.3% for Windows and 31.1% for Mac — Thanks to the 2022 StackOverflow developer survey we can finally say 2022 was the year of Linux on the Desktop!
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| Dhruv Mehrotra / Wired: |
A look at Flipper Zero, a $200 portable security penetration testing device for hackers to intercept and replay signals from IoT sensors, garage doors, and more — Don't be fooled by its fun name and Tamagotchi-like interface—this do-everything gadget is trouble waiting to happen and a whole lot more.
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| Jaran Mellerud / Hashrate Index: |
Analysis: publicly listed bitcoin mining companies collectively owe $4B+, led by bankrupt Core Scientific with $1.3B as of September 30 and Marathon with $851M — The public bitcoin mining companies collectively owe more than $4 billion, and the biggest of them has already declared bankruptcy due to its unsustainable debt burden.
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The Block and TheBitTimes.Com's Newsletter
| Financial Times: |
Internal memo: Xiaomi President Wang Xiang and co-founders Hong Feng and Wang Chuan step down, as the company battles slowing sales from COVID-19 disruptions — China's leading handset maker has suffered Covid disruption at home and regulatory woes abroad — Three top executives … | Shen Lu / Wall Street Journal: |
Sensor Tower: Pinduoduo's marketplace Temu app had 10.8M US installations since September 1 and became the most downloaded US app from November 1 to December 14 — Temu, a marketplace with deep discounts and copious coupons, has become the most downloaded mobile app in the U.S. — Copy LinkSponsor Posts
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