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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: |
How Elon Musk's finances got more complicated as TSLA dropped 65%+ in 2022, shrinking his borrowing power and his fortune from an estimated $340B peak 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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| Timmy Shen / Forkast: |
IntoTheBlock: the Bitcoin network hashrate dropped by 38.8%+ on December 24 from its December 21 peak as many US-based miners paused operations due to blizzards — The Bitcoin network hashrate has dropped by more than 38.8% from its peak on Wednesday, as many U.S.-based miners have been forced …
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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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| 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: |
Stanford study: programmers who used AI tools like GitHub Copilot to solve a set of coding challenges produced less secure code than those who did not — At the same time, tools like Github Copilot and Facebook InCoder make developers believe their code is sound| Omer Benjakob / Haaretz: |
A look at Tel Aviv-based Toka, which helps governments, intelligence agencies, and law enforcement hack security cameras to 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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| 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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| 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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| Anton Shilov / Tom's Hardware: |
Jon Peddie Research: there are 18 companies globally developing and producing GPUs; eight out of the 11 PC and data center GPU designers are based in China — There are 18 GPU developers worldwide today. — The number of GPU startups in China is extraordinary as the country tries …
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| Iris Deng / South China Morning Post: |
Chinese government data for January to October 2022 shows domestic smartphone shipments fell 22% YoY from 275.3M to 214.5M units — Smartphone shipments in China slumped 22 per cent in the first 10 months of the year, according to latest government data, as the industry's largest market … | 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 majority control of 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.Sponsor Posts
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