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| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Crypto.com lays off ~20% of its global workforce, citing the macro-economic downturn and FTX's implosion, after cutting 260 employees, or ~5%, in June 2022 — Crypto exchange Crypto.com is cutting its global workforce by 20%, it said on Friday, as it navigates ongoing economic headwinds and “unforeseeable” industry events.
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| Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
Tweetbot, Twitterrific, Fenix, Talon, and other third-party Twitter apps are broken; Twitter has given no explanation and developers say they haven't heard back — The past several weeks since Elon Musk's takeover have seen Twitter in turmoil as rapid changes hit the platform …
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| Gareth Corfield / Telegraph: |
Sources: a Russia-linked LockBit ransomware gang infected the UK's Royal Mail customs label printers, forcing the postal service to stop overseas deliveries — Lockbit's ransomware scrambled software on machines used to send international post — A Russia-linked ransomware gang was behind …
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| Sarah Wynn / The Block: |
The SEC charges Genesis and Gemini with offering and selling unregistered securities to retail investors via a crypto lending program promising to pay interest — - The SEC charged both Gemini and Genesis with unregistered offering and sale of securities to retail investors, some of who were in the U.S.
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| Jesse Coghlan / Cointelegraph: |
A US district court orders the distribution of $17M+ in restitution to ~800 victims of the BitConnect Ponzi scheme from 40+ countries; BitConnect folded in 2018 — The millions will be distributed among the select number of victims, but thousands more were impacted by the $2.4 billion fraudulent scheme.
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| Meaghan Tobin / Rest of World: |
A look at China's global satellite internet ambitions in competition with Starlink, including homegrown startups that experts say will ultimately be state-owned — A constellation of companies has sprung up in recent years to power China's satellite internet plans.
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
SEC proxy filing: Apple cuts Tim Cook's 2023 target compensation by 40%+ to $49M, citing investor guidance and a request from Cook, who was paid $99.4M in 2022 — Apple Inc. is cutting Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook's compensation by more than 40% to $49 million in 2023 …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
YouTube is testing a hub of free, ad-supported streaming channels with select media partners, looking to compete with Roku, Paramount's Pluto TV, and Fox's Tubi — Tech company's effort could rival Roku, Fox in fast-growing area of streaming business — Created with sketchtool. — 1x| Financial Times: |
Sources: the Cyberspace Administration of China acquired a 1% stake, or “golden shares”, in an Alibaba subsidiary, and plans to do the same for a Tencent unit — Beijing changes tack in its efforts to secure a firmer grip on the country's tech giants
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| Politico: |
The House GOP plans a crypto oversight subcommittee, to be chaired by Representative French Hill, who led the GOP's study of a central bank digital currency — House Republicans will establish a new subcommittee dedicated to cryptocurrency this Congress, a move that puts oversight …
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Engadget, Crypto Daily, crypto.news, Coinspeaker, Watcher Guru, and Micky. Tweets: @regulatoryjason
| Kevin Roose / New York Times: |
Banning ChatGPT in schools will be hard, so teachers should treat ChatGPT like a calculator: assume students are using it unless they are physically supervised — OpenAI's new chat bot is raising fears of cheating on homework, but its potential as an educational tool outweighs its risks.| Connie Guglielmo / CNET: |
After a report that it is using AI for writing articles, CNET explains its test, changes the byline on AI-written posts, and makes disclosures more prominent — For over two decades, CNET has built our reputation testing new technologies and separating the hype from reality.
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| John D. McKinnon / Wall Street Journal: |
Google tells SCOTUS in a brief in Gonzalez v. Google that gutting Section 230 “would upend the internet”, leading to widespread censorship by internet companies — Tech giant files brief in YouTube case brought by family of woman killed in Paris terrorist attacks
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Tweets: @timcohn, @axios, and @aregularjabroni
| Samantha Cole / VICE: |
Some users of AI companion chatbot Replika, which offers a $70 romantic Pro version, say the free “friend” version is getting more sexually aggressive — For some longtime users of the chatbot, the app has gone from helpful companion to unbearably sexually aggressive. — Samantha Cole
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| The Verge: |
After criticism, YouTube plans to change a policy announced in November that limits ads or demonetizes a creator's video if they swear in the first 15 seconds — The tirade's timing was deliberate, meant to test the company's updated “approach to profanity” that it announced in November … | Sridhar Natarajan / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Goldman Sachs' Platform Solutions lost ~$2B in 2022, mostly due to the Apple Card and Goldman's installment-lending platform GreenSky — Three months after Goldman Sachs Group Inc. carved out a new division to house what's left of its once-ambitious foray on Main Street …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
TikTok is testing a Talent Manager Portal with a few agencies, letting creators' talent managers oversee, execute, and analyze brand opportunities and campaigns — TikTok is making it easier for brands to work with its “megastar” creators with an update to its Creator Marketplace … Sponsor Posts
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