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After a hacker demanded $200K to delete data on 400M Twitter accounts, Ireland's DPC says it will investigate; Twitter has not yet commented on the breach — A watchdog is to investigate Twitter after a hacker claimed to have private details linked to more than 400 million accounts.
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| Yang Jie / Wall Street Journal: |
Analysts and sources detail Apple's easing iPhone supply chain issues in China; Foxconn's main Zhengzhou iPhone facility is now operating at around 70% capacity — Main Foxconn facility recovers to about 70% of capacity and wait times for iPhone Pro models shorten| Chris Miller / The Atlantic: |
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| Debby Wu / Bloomberg: |
TSMC begins mass producing 3nm chips in Taiwan, which need ~35% less power than 5nm chips, following Samsung, and also promises to build 2nm plants in Taiwan — Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. kicked off mass production of next-generation chips Thursday, ensuring the island remains …
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| Hannah Miller / Bloomberg: |
Solana cofounders Anatoly Yakovenko and Raj Gokal scramble to move past FTX's stain on their token, down 96% from November 2021; FTX and Alameda bought 58M+ SOL — Solana, the blockchain network once championed by Sam Bankman-Fried, is drawing immense scrutiny as industry watchers wonder whether …
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| Eric Bangeman / Ars Technica: |
Amazon starts Prime Air drone deliveries in Lockeford, California, and College Station, Texas, delivering small packages with a maximum payload of 5 lbs — Amazon Prime Air wants to deliver packages within 60 minutes. — Amazon has begun delivering orders by drone.
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| Cameron Faulkner / The Verge: |
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul signed the Digital Fair Repair Act on December 28, set to take effect on July 1, 2023, with amendments that give OEMs some exceptions — New York governor Kathy Hochul signed the Digital Fair Repair Act on December 28th, 2022, and the law will go into effect on July 1st …
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| Tabby Kinder / Financial Times: |
Brokers and investors: Silicon Valley workers are offloading shares in secondary markets, compounding a fall in valuations, amid layoffs and a slow IPO market — Workers forced into sales at sharp discounts amid job cuts and stalled IPO market — Silicon Valley workers are rushing …
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| MK Manoylov / The Block: |
CryptoSlam: NFT trading volume fell from $24M on December 20 to $12.9M on December 25, compared to $80.8M on December 22, 2021, to $64.3M on December 25, 2021 — - NFT sales volumes fell in the lead up to Christmas in both 2021 and 2022. — However, Yuga Labs's Bored Ape Yacht Club's …
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| CNBC: |
The SEC says FTX made two $100M investments using customer funds in fintech company Dave in March 2022 and blockchain startup Mysten Labs in September 2022 — - FTX and former CEO Sam Bankman-Fried made two $100 million venture investments using customer funds through an FTX subsidiary, the SEC said in a pair of complaints.
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| Kate Conger / New York Times: |
Twitter resolves widespread issues reported by users; Downdetector shows the issues began around 7pm ET on December 28 and mainly affected Twitter's website — The issues surfaced several days after Elon Musk said he had shut down one of the company's major data centers.
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| Tracy Qu / South China Morning Post: |
After a 24+ hour Alibaba Cloud outage on December 18, Alibaba names Wu Zeming as CTO and says CEO Daniel Zhang Yong will oversee Cloud, effective immediately — Alibaba Group Holding's CEO has taken direct control over the Chinese tech giant's cloud computing business, a key growth driver …
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| Pratigya Yadav / Business Standard: |
An Indian government official says mobile device makers will have to use USB-C for charging starting in March 2025, following the European Union — Deadline follows EU's timeline for uniform charging ports' standards, says civil servant — Mobile device companies in India … | Makena Kelly / The Verge: |
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