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Sources: Elon Musk fired a Twitter engineer for suggesting that his engagement numbers are tanking not because of a bug but because his popularity is waning — Inside Twitter 2.0, turmoil leaves employees stretched to the max — For weeks now, Elon Musk has been preoccupied with worries about how many people are seeing his tweets.
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Kraken agrees to pay $30M and discontinue its crypto-asset staking products to settle SEC allegations that its staking services broke US securities rules — Kraken will pay $30 million to settle Securities and Exchange Commission allegations that it broke US securities rules …
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Inside FTX's final hours, described by employees, chat logs, and Sam Bankman-Fried: panic selling assets, failing to raise money, SBF's silence, and bankruptcy — In January, I walked up the front steps of a single-storey, grey-shingled house in a neighbourhood on the fringe of Stanford University.
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Rejecting a deal to let Sam Bankman-Fried use encrypted messaging, a judge orders SBF's lawyers to form a plan to tighten his bail to ensure messages are saved — A federal judge said he was not satisfied with a plan that lawyers for the disgraced FTX founder struck with prosecutors to limit his use of encrypted messaging apps.
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Yahoo plans to lay off 20%+ of its workforce and restructure its ad tech unit, impacting 50%+ of the unit, or 1,600+ people; CEO says the cuts are “strategic” — Yahoo plans to lay off more than 20% of its total workforce as part of a major restructuring of its ad tech unit, executives told Axios.
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| Maria Deutscher / SiliconANGLE: |
Microsoft's GitHub cuts 10% of its staff, or an estimated 300+; GitLab cuts 7%, or an estimated 114; report: GitHub will close offices and shift to remote work — Microsoft Corp.'s GitHub unit and publicly traded rival GitLab Inc. today both announced layoffs, disclosing plans to let go 10% and 7% of their respective workforces.
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The US and the UK sanction seven people based in Russia, with likely FSB ties, connected to the Conti and Ryuk ransomware gangs and the Trickbot banking trojan — The United Kingdom and United States on Thursday sanctioned seven people connected to what officials have told The Record … | Rachael Levy / Reuters: |
The US DOT is investigating Neuralink over the potentially illegal movement of hazardous pathogens, after animal welfare group PCRM wrote to Pete Buttigieg — The U.S. Department of Transportation said on Thursday it is investigating Elon Musk's brain-implant company Neuralink … | CNBC: |
PayPal says its CEO and president Dan Schulman will retire and leave the company at the end 2023; Schulman, who became CEO in 2015, will stay on PayPal's board — - Schulman became PayPal CEO after the company's split from eBay in 2015. — PayPal said on Thursday that CEO and president Dan Schulman … | Bloomberg Law: |
A US jury finds an artist violated Hermès' rights to the Birkin trademark in 2021 by creating and selling MetaBirkin 100 NFTs depicting versions of the handbags — Luxury brand Hermès International SA won its lawsuit against the digital artist behind “MetaBirkin” …
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Cloudflare reports Q4 revenue up 42% YoY to $274.7M, vs. $274.1M est., and FY 2023 revenue guidance between $1.33B and $1.34B, vs. $1.31B est.; NET jumps 9%+ — Cloudflare (NET) on Thursday reported fourth-quarter earnings and revenue that edged by Wall Street targets.
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The FCC approves Amazon's plan to mitigate its Kuiper satellite internet system's orbital debris; SpaceX asked for stricter conditions on Kuiper's deployment — SpaceX had urged the FCC to impose stricter conditions to prevent Amazon's satellite internet system Project Kuiper from producing orbital debris.
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Meta submits data to the EU showing that pop up content warnings stopped Facebook users sharing 25% of flagged posts and 38% on Instagram; TikTok reports 29% — The warnings that pop up when someone tries to share potentially false or misleading posts on TikTok Inc., Instagram and Facebook are ignored most of the time.
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SpaceX has limited Ukraine's military from using Starlink to control drones; COO Gwynne Shotwell says the internet service was “never meant to be weaponized” — SpaceX has taken steps to prevent Ukraine's military from using the company's Starlink satellite internet service …
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Analysis: darknet markets made $1.5B in revenue in 2022, down from $3.1B in 2021, led by Hydra Market, despite being shut down by German police in April 2022 — 2022 saw a decline in revenue from the previous year for darknet markets and fraud shops. Total darknet market revenue for 2022 ended …
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| Yogita Khatri / The Block: |
Tether claims $700M in Q4 profit, in addition to its reserves, and $67.04B in total assets and $66.08B in liabilities; Tether reduced its secured loans by $300M — - Tether issued its latest attestation report, saying its assets exceeded its liabilities as of December 2022.
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As ChatGPT and other LLMs repackage info into superficial approximations, like lossy compression for images, the web will become a blurrier version of itself — OpenAI's chatbot offers paraphrases, whereas Google offers quotes. Which do we prefer? — In 2013, workers at a German …
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Reddit suffered a cyberattack on February 5 during which hackers accessed some documents, code, and business systems; the company says users' passwords are safe — Reddit suffered a cyberattack Sunday evening, allowing hackers to access internal business systems and steal internal documents and source code.
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Lyft reports Q4 revenue up 21% YoY to $1.2B, a $588.1M net loss, vs. $283.2M YoY, and active riders up 8.7% YoY to 20.4M; LYFT drops 30%+ on a weak Q1 forecast — Ride-hailing company reports highest number of users in nearly three years — Lyft Inc. LYFT -3.16%decrease …
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