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Bankruptcy hearing: FTX has recovered $5B+, not including $425M held by the Bahamas or “illiquid cryptocurrency tokens”; FTX had a $65B Alameda line of credit — The announcement substantially raises the total FTX has recovered since filing for bankruptcy last year but it's still short of what customers are owed in total.
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Sources: Alameda invested $1.1B+ in Genesis Digital, including $500M to buy the co-founders' shares; the bitcoin miner is among FTX's largest bankruptcy assets — Genesis Digital is one of the largest assets in the FTX-Alameda wreckage — FTX's Bankruptcy: Three Things to Know — Created with sketchtool.| Financial Times: |
Court documents: Sam Bankman-Fried invested $20M in Paradigm's $2.5B Paradigm One fund in late 2021, and then the fund invested in his FTX and FTX US exchanges — Court documents shed light on Sam Bankman-Fried's circular transactions — Sam Bankman-Fried invested $20mn in a large venture capital fund …
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| New York Times: |
Sources: in December, Twitter started considering auctioning off usernames to generate revenue; Elon Musk had said he wants to free up 1.5B inactive usernames — The company has discussed selling some user names through online auctions, people with knowledge of the plans said.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Apple launches Apple Business Connect, letting US business owners update and manage their information for Apple Maps, a feature Google Maps has had since 2005 — Apple Maps today is gaining a new tool that will allow the decade-plus-old service to better compete with Google …
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| Reuters: |
The FAA says US air traffic is “resuming gradually” after its Notice to Air Missions system failed; FlightAware: 7,300+ flights were delayed and 1,100 canceled — U.S. flights were slowly beginning to resume departures and a ground stop was lifted after the Federal Aviation Administration …
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| Joe Biden / Wall Street Journal: |
In an op-ed, Joe Biden asks Republicans and Democrats to unite “to pass strong bipartisan legislation to hold Big Tech accountable”, saying the risks are clear — Congress can find common ground on the protection of privacy, competition and American children.
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Memo: Microsoft to give US salaried staff unlimited “Discretionary Time Off”, plus 10 corporate holidays, leaves of absence, mental health time off, and more — Microsoft is giving its US employees unlimited time off. The announcement was made in an email to employees from Kathleen Hogan … | Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple plans to design and develop its own displays for mobile devices, starting with microLED screens for the Apple Watch Ultra by the end of 2024 — Apple Inc. is planning to start using its own custom displays in mobile devices as early as 2024, an effort to reduce its reliance …
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
OpenAI says it's “starting to” think about monetizing ChatGPT, possibly via a ChatGPT Professional version, asks members what price would be too low, and more — OpenAI this week signaled it'll soon begin charging for ChatGPT, its viral AI-powered chatbot that can write essays, emails, poems and even computer code.
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| Bloomberg: |
Binance admits to flaws in maintaining its Paxos-issued BUSD stablecoin backing at 1:1; ChainArgos says BUSD was undercollateralized by $1B+ in 2020 and 2021 — Binance Holdings Ltd., the biggest cryptocurrency exchange, acknowledged past flaws in the management of its stablecoin's reserves …
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| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Twitter says that the company's investigation found “no evidence” that its users' data sold online was obtained by exploiting vulnerabilities in its systems — Twitter said that after investigating reports that data on upwards of 400 million users was being sold online, it found …
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| Dhruv Mehrotra / Wired: |
SweepWizard, a US police app built by ODIN, leaked data like personal officer info, locations of suspects' homes, raid times, and more due to a misconfiguration — SweepWizard, an app that law enforcement used to coordinate raids, left sensitive information about hundreds of police operations publicly accessible.
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| Natasha Mascarenhas / TechCrunch: |
Equity management service Carta cuts 10% of its staff, impacting up to ~200 employees, and sues its former CTO; the company was valued at $7.4B in August 2021 — Carta, an equity management platform that was last privately valued at $7.4 billion, has cut 10% of its staff …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft announces 365 Basic for $1.99 per month, replacing the 100GB OneDrive storage option, rolling out globally on January 30 with ad-free Outlook and more — Microsoft is introducing a new consumer tier to its Microsoft 365 subscription offerings. Priced at just $1.99 per month …
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Sources: in late 2022, Netflix stopped letting director-level staff see other employees' salaries, a major shift for a company offering rare pay transparency — Employees at the director level lost ability to view colleagues' pay data late last year — Employers List Wide Salary Ranges in Ways That Sidestep Pay Transparency Law| Mitchell Clark / The Verge: |
Twitter renames Latest Tweets to Following and Home to For You, making the algorithmic feed the default with no option to change it, rolling out on iOS first — Twitter is changing how you move between the algorithmically-driven timeline and the reverse chronological one and making the algorithmic feed the default.
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| Matt Levine / Bloomberg: |
The deep problem with SPACs is the sponsors' 20% cut and the warrant holders' cut, paid by the target company or the SPAC shareholders, a bad deal either way — SPAC SPAC SPAC — Simplifying a bit, the way a special purpose acquisition company works is that the sponsor of the SPAC raises … | Riley de León / CNBC: |
Supply chain software startup Flexport lays off 20% of its global workforce, or ~640 employees; the company raised $935M at an $8B valuation in February 2022 — - Supply chain software startup Flexport is laying off 20% of its global workforce, or roughly 640 employees, according to a memo from co-CEOs Ryan Petersen and Dave Clark.
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| Angus Loten / Wall Street Journal: |
Analysts say Salesforce's customers don't appear to be swayed by Slack; the messaging service's revenue growth declined from 11.7% in Q1 2022 to 6.9% in Q3 2022 — Carhartt's CIO says the addition of the messaging app hasn't made Salesforce's products more appealing
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| Dan Milmo / The Guardian: |
The Guardian confirms the outlet was hit with a ransomware attack in December 2022 and that the personal data of UK staff was accessed, possibly via phishing — Media firm says personal data of UK staff members was accessed in ‘highly sophisticated’ cyber-attack last month| Richard Nieva / Forbes: |
After months of protests, Google contractor Appen, which rates search results, raised hourly pay from $10-$12 to $14-$14.50 on January 1, its first ever raise — The wage increase is welcome, but workers complain they are still making less than Google's other contractors.
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| Paul Kunert / The Register: |
IDC says global used and refurbished handset sales rose 11.5% YoY to 282M in 2022 and forecasts a jump to 413.3M in 2026 after a 10.3% compound annual growth — Who needs shiny new blowers when there bills to pay and kids to feed? Answer: fewer and fewer folk| Olga Kharif / Bloomberg: |
Cameron Winklevoss demands that DCG's board remove CEO Barry Silbert and alleges he and Genesis lied publicly, after his January 8 resolution deadline passed — Gemini crypto exchange co-founder Cameron Winklevoss called for the board of Digital Currency Group to remove Barry Silbert …
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DCG, Fortune, Bitcoin News, Cryptopolitan, CoinGeek, and Blockworks
Tweets: @cameron, @barrysilbert, and @dcgco
| Jai Vijayan / Dark Reading: |
Microsoft releases 98 security fixes, patching 11 critical vulnerabilities and an actively exploited privilege escalation zero-day flaw in Windows ALPC — Microsoft's January 2023 Patch Tuesday security update contains fixes for bugs in multiple products. Here's what you need to patch now.
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Zero Day Initiative, Rapid7, eSecurityPlanet, BankInfoSecurity.com, SecurityWeek, ComputerWeekly.com, TechSpot, ZDNet, Petri IT Knowledgebase, Forbes, TechRadar, and Infosecurity. Tweets: @sophaskins
| Richard Waters / Financial Times: |
After Chinese researchers claimed today's quantum computers could break RSA encryption, Western experts caution that any commercial benefits are years away — China claims to have made a major breakthrough but western experts say any commercial benefits are still years awaySponsor Posts
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