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| Rohan Goswami / CNBC: |
FTX identifies ~$5.5B in “liquid” assets for recovery, including $415M in “unauthorized third-party transfers” possibly tied to a hack found after its collapse — - FTX has identified about $5.5 billion worth of digital assets for recovery, a number that includes $415 million in “hacked crypto.”
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| David Yaffe-Bellany / New York Times: |
Government documents offer new details and which FTX and Alameda executives were discussing the crypto exchange's use of customer funds before FTX's collapse — Documents obtained by The New York Times provide new details about the discussions among FTX's top leaders before the cryptocurrency exchange collapsed in November.
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CoinDesk, Coinpedia Fintech News, Fortune, and The Block
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| Mark Kleinman / Sky News: |
Source: Microsoft is contemplating cutting ~5% of its workforce, or ~11,000 jobs, and could announce the layoffs in the coming days, before company earnings — Microsoft is finalising plans to become the latest technology giant to reduce its workforce amid a global economic slowdown, Sky News learns.
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple indefinitely postpones its lightweight AR glasses due to technical difficulties and is instead planning a lower-cost MR headset for 2024 or 2025 — Apple Inc. is still planning to unveil its first mixed-reality headset this year, but an even more important follow-up product … | Hyunjoo Jin / Reuters: |
Tesla's Autopilot software director testified in 2022 that an October 2016 video promoted by Elon Musk was staged, showing self-driving features the cars lacked — A 2016 video that Tesla (TSLA.O) used to promote its self-driving technology was staged to show capabilities like stopping …
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| Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
Apple announces updated 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pros with M2 Pro or M2 Max, Wi-Fi 6E, 8K HDMI, up to 96GB of RAM, and more, starting at $1,999 and $2,499 — Apple today announced the next-generation 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro models with faster 5nm-based M2 Pro and M2 Max chips …
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| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
Apple updates its Mac mini with M2 and M2 Pro options, improved graphics performance, up to 32GB of RAM, Wi-Fi 6E, Bluetooth 5.3, and more, starting at $599 — Apple today launched the new Mac mini lineup, available with M2 and M2 Pro chips inside. The M2 Mac mini starts at a new lower price of $599.
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| Hartley Charlton / MacRumors: |
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| Noam Scheiber / New York Times: |
Apple plans to hire a third-party firm to audit its US labor practices, focusing on human rights, after an investor coalition pushed for the assessment — The tech giant will assess its compliance with its official human rights policy, according to a federal filing.
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| Matt Levine / Bloomberg: |
By suing Genesis Global Capital and Gemini Trust over Gemini Earn in 2023, the SEC is years late to addressing the crypto lending product marketed as a security — Earn — Well, of course: … We covered this in 2021, when Coinbase Global Inc.'s similar crypto lending program was shut down by the SEC before it started.| Brian Heater / TechCrunch: |
Canalys: global smartphone shipments fell 17% YoY in Q4 2022 and 2022 shipments fell 11% YoY to under 1.2B, the lowest quarterly and annual levels since 2013 — One of these days I'll have some positive news to share about the global smartphone market. Today is not that day.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Discord acquires Gas, a poll-based app with 1M+ DAUs that's popular among teens for sharing anonymous compliments and positive affirmations with each other — Discord has acquired the Gas social app. The poll-based app has become popular among teens in recent months, allowing friends to share compliments with each other.
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| Andrew Asmakov / Decrypt: |
Dune Analytics: the number of smart contracts deployed on the Ethereum mainnet grew 293% YoY in 2022 and 453% QoQ to 4.6M in Q4 2022, just as FTX collapsed — Despite the fierce headwinds the crypto industry faced over the last year, Web3 development activity has grown at an impressive rate, according to a new report.| Jon Christian / Futurism: |
After Futurism found major errors in an AI-written “fact-checked” CNET article, CNET updated almost all its AI pieces as currently being reviewed “for accuracy” — CNET is now letting an AI write articles for its site. The problem? It's kind of a moron.
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| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
Google's Nest team appears to be working on AirTag-like location trackers, codenamed Grogu, with Bluetooth LE and UWB support, for a possible I/O launch in May — Google is reportedly working on a location tracking tag to compete with the likes of Apple's AirTags and Tile trackers …
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| Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch: |
Meta's Oversight Board urges the company to change its nudity policy after overturning its removal of two posts showing topless transgender and nonbinary people — Meta's Oversight Board, which independently evaluates difficult content moderation decisions, has overturned the company's takedown …
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