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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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| Nikou Asgari / Financial Times: |
Sources: crypto broker Genesis owes creditors over $3B, leading DCG to explore selling parts of its venture capital holdings, estimated at ~$500M, to raise cash — Barry Silbert's conglomerate weighs offloading venture assets to help wholly owned digital asset lender
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| Lucinda Shen / Axios: |
Sam Bankman-Fried publishes a Substack post offering his account of how FTX collapsed, sticking to his claims of innocence even after ex-executives pled guilty — Disgraced FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried on Thursday published his account of how the crypto company collapsed.
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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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| Tony Stubblebine / The Official Medium Blog: |
Medium launches a Mastodon instance on me.dm, promising members a service with reliable moderation, smoother onboarding, an interesting local feed, and more — The fediverse is a breath of fresh air for writers and social media — Today, Medium is launching a Mastodon instance at me.dm …
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Google and Nvidia told the FTC that the Activision Blizzard deal could give Microsoft an unfair advantage in cloud, subscription, and mobile gaming — Alphabet Inc.'s Google and Nvidia Corp. have expressed concerns to the Federal Trade Commission about Microsoft Corp.'s acquisition …
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
SEC filing: Apple plans to cut Tim Cook's compensation by 40%+ to $49M in 2023, 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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Tweets: @markgurman, @chancehmiller, @sharkbiotech, @rsgnl, and @cwaunion
| John D. McKinnon / Wall Street Journal: |
Google argues that gutting Section 230 “would upend the internet” in a brief filed with the US Supreme Court ahead of a YouTube case involving terrorist content — Tech giant files brief in YouTube case brought by family of woman killed in Paris terrorist attacks
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| Anthony Capaccio / Bloomberg: |
Congress rejects the US Army's request for $400M to buy as many as 6,900 Microsoft HoloLens goggles this fiscal year but approves $40M to develop a new model — Microsoft Corp. won't be getting more orders for its combat goggles anytime soon after Congress rejected the US Army's request …
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| Bloomberg: |
Bulgarian police raided London-based crypto lender Nexo's office in Sofia on January 12, seeking information on suspected money laundering and tax crimes — Crypto lender Nexo's office in Sofia was raided by Bulgarian police on Thursday as part of an investigation into suspected money laundering and tax crimes.
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| The Guardian: |
Meta sues to ban Voyager Labs from using Facebook and Instagram, alleging the investigative software startup created 38K+ accounts to scrape 600K+ users' data — The social media giant launched an investigation into Voyager's use of fake accounts after a Guardian investigation
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Tweets: @rachelblevinson, @sociallydoesit, @jmbooyah, and @rachelblevinson
| Semafor: |
Sources: Tiger Global struggles to raise its latest fund after investors learned it secretly paid a senior female employee $10M to settle bullying allegations — Tiger Global, the $60 billion firm that's a major tech investor, has been struggling to raise its latest venture fund since investors learned …
Tweets: @saacksattack
| Kenrick Cai / Forbes: |
Butter Payments, which uses AI to help companies catch accidental subscription churn, raised a $21.5M Series A led by Norwest, sources say at a ~$100M valuation — A decade ago, Microsoft, Dropbox and Scribd were all leaking money. They were losing millions a year to subscriptions that were being … | Kenrick Cai / Forbes: |
Sources: low-code app development tool startup OutSystems raised $228.4M in October 2022 at a $4.3B valuation, 55% lower than February 2021's $9.5B valuation — OutSystems, a software firm which sells low-code app development tools, quietly raised a new financing round last October at less …
Tweets: @kenrickcai
| Connie Guglielmo / CNET: |
After a report, CNET explains its test for AI writing articles edited by humans, changes the byline on AI-written posts, and makes its disclosure more prominent — For over two decades, CNET has built our reputation testing new technologies and separating the hype from reality.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
TikTok is testing, with select agencies, a Talent Manager Portal that helps creators' agents and representatives to oversee, execute, and analyze brand deals — TikTok is making it easier for brands to work with its “megastar” creators with an update to its Creator Marketplace … | Chainalysis: |
Analysis: in 2022, illicit crypto transaction volume rose to an all-time high of $20.1B, of which 44% came from activity associated with sanctioned entities — Every year, we publish our estimates of illicit cryptocurrency activity to demonstrate the power of blockchains' transparency …
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Reuters, Tech Monitor, Fox Business, CyberScoop, Watcher Guru, Gizmodo, and Fortune
Tweets: @chainalysis, @leomschwartz, @clarkcoin1, and @ericgeller
| 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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The Information, Bloomberg, and Reuters
| Tonya Riley / CyberScoop: |
NSA Director Paul Nakasone urges Congress to renew the FISA's Section 702, set to expire in 2023, saying the surveillance law protects the US from cyberattacks — NSA Director and head of U.S. Cyber Command Gen. Paul Nakasone said in remarks on Thursday that intelligence authorities …
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| Gavin Bonshor / AnandTech: |
Intel unveils its Core i9-13900KS CPU, clocked at 6GHz out of the box, with eight performance cores, 16 efficiency cores, and a 150W TDP, available now for $699 — Initially mentioned during their Innovation 2022 opening keynote by Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger, Intel has unveiled … | TechCrunch: |
Sources: Tokyo-based aggregator website and app SmartNews, valued at $2B in 2021, laid off ~120 people, or 40% of US and China staff, with more coming in Japan — SmartNews, a Tokyo-headquartered news aggregation website and app valued at $2 billion as of 2021, today announced a 40% reduction …
Tweets: @seovillas
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