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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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| CoinDesk: |
Analysis: 196 members of the new Congress accepted donations from Sam Bankman-Fried or other FTX senior executives, including Kevin McCarthy and Chuck Schumer — The session began with 196 U.S. lawmakers who took direct contributions from Sam Bankman-Fried and other former FTX executives …
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| David Yaffe-Bellany / New York Times: |
US and Bahamian government documents detail which FTX and Alameda executives had discussed the crypto exchange using 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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| 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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| Hartley Charlton / MacRumors: |
Apple unveils M2 Pro and M2 Max, built on a second-gen 5nm process, with 20% more transistors than the M1 Pro and double the M2's, 200GB/s bandwidth, and more — Apple today unveiled the M2 Pro and M2 Max chips alongside refreshed MacBook Pro and Mac mini models.| 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: |
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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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SEC.gov, Pensions & Investments, SlashGear, 9to5Mac, and Engadget
| 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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Canalys, Softpedia News, Android Authority, Sammy Fans, TechSpot, Philip Elmer‑DeWitt, SamMobile, Patently Apple, and iThinkDifferent. Tweets: @canalys
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Discord acquires Gas, a poll-based app with 1M+ DAUs that is 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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Discord Blog, Bloomberg, Adweek, Appuals.com, Social Media Today, and TechCrunch
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| 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.| 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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Oversight Board, The Guardian, transparency.fb.com, and Fast Company
Tweets: @castrotech and @emilybell
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: about 14 Chinese suppliers receive initial clearance to expand in India, after Apple said it needed their services to grow its presence in the country — More than a dozen of Apple Inc.'s Chinese suppliers are receiving initial clearance by India to expand in the country … | Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Twitter says it's enforcing “long-standing API rules” that “may result” in some third-party apps “not working” without listing which alleged rules were broken — Twitter confirmed that it's purposefully blocking third-party apps like Tweetbot and Twitterific following days of silence.
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