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The CFTC sues Binance, CEO CZ, and a former chief compliance officer, calling the company's compliance efforts “a sham” and its structure “intentionally opaque” — Washington, D.C. — The Commodity Futures Trading Commission today announced it has filed …
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John Reed Stark. Mastodon:
@GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social and @caseynewton@mastodon.social
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| Daniel Taub / Bloomberg: |
First Citizens agrees to acquire Silicon Valley Bank's commercial banking business from the FDIC, including all deposits and loans, at a $16.5B discount — First Citizens BancShares Inc. agreed to buy Silicon Valley Bank which was seized by regulators following a run on the lender.
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft says Teams has 280M MAUs, up from 270M MAUs in January 2022, and the rebuilt Teams rolling out to Windows' Public Preview program is twice as fast — Teams, Microsoft's Slack rival, has always had a bit of a reputation for being slow and resource-hungry.
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Stefan Nordkamp, Nicole Herskowitz, and Chris Barry
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@jeffteper, @archiecoder, @maryjofoley, and @mtholfsen
| Dustin Volz / Wall Street Journal: |
Biden signs an EO limiting US agencies' use of hacking tools from companies that are linked to human rights abuses or are deemed to pose national security risks — Officials say at least 50 U.S. personnel overseas had been compromised by commercial spyware
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@riana@mastodon.lawprofs.org and @howelloneill@infosec.exchange
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@jsrailton, @davidakaye, @wcathcart, @ericgeller, @runasand, @jsrailton, @jsrailton, @dnvolz, @lorenzofb, @nicoleperlroth, @nicoleperlroth, @artemisseaford, @dnvolz, and @fpwellman
| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Zoom partners with OpenAI to expand its Zoom IQ assistant with features to generate whiteboards from text prompts, recap meetings, summarize threads, and more — Zoom has become the latest productivity app to expand its use of artificial intelligence. In a blog post published on Monday …
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| Alex Hern / The Guardian: |
Nvidia CTO Michael Kagan says crypto does not “bring anything useful for society” and other processing power uses like AI are more worthwhile than mining crypto — Tech chief says the development of chatbots is a more worthwhile use of processing power than crypto mining
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@mattturck, @carnage4life, @_danilo, @jgarzik, @hkanji, and @investroiss
| Rohan Goswami / CNBC: |
Lyft co-founders Logan Green and John Zimmer plan to step down as CEO on April 17 and president on June 30; ex-Amazon executive David Risher is set to be CEO — - Lyft's cofounders, Logan Green and John Zimmer, will step back from their day-to-day roles as CEO and president, respectively.
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| Sarah Zheng / Bloomberg: |
Kaspersky: some versions of Pinduoduo, which Google suspended from its app store, exploited Android vulnerabilities to install backdoors and access user data — Security researchers at Moscow-based Kaspersky Lab have identified and outlined potential malware in versions …
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| Joseph Menn / Washington Post: |
Many of the top VPN services and apps, some with 100M+ downloads, have misled users about their practices while disguising their ownership, like ties to China — SAN FRANCISCO — As Congress weighs an unprecedented ban of the wildly popular Chinese-owned TikTok over supposed security concerns …
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@thisiswenhao
| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apple debuts iOS 16.4 with 21 new emoji, Safari push notifications for web apps on the Home Screen, Voice Isolation for calls, Crash Detection tweaks, and more — Apple today released iOS 16.4, the fourth major update to the iOS 16 operating system that initially came out last September. iOS 16.4 comes …
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| Larry DiTore / The Block: |
Filing: MicroStrategy bought 6,455 BTC for ~$150M from February 16 to March 23 at an average price of $23,238; the company held ~$4.14B worth of BTC on March 23 — - MicroStrategy now has a little more than $4 billion worth of bitcoin in its corporate coffers.
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Tweets:
@saylor, @coinmamba, and @mattzeitlin
Prelay:
How Public Tech Companies De-risk Millions in Revenue Loss — Complex products and hybrid teams are today's major growth challenges. With 50-70% of revenue driven by internal teams beyond sales, how is your org adapting?
How Public Tech Companies De-risk Millions in Revenue Loss — Complex products and hybrid teams are today's major growth challenges. With 50-70% of revenue driven by internal teams beyond sales, how is your org adapting?Sponsor Post
| Kat Tenbarge / NBC News: |
A look at the non-consensual deepfake porn economy, with video sites easily accessible via top Google search results and some accepting Visa and Mastercard — The nonconsensual deepfake economy has remained largely out of sight, but it's easily accessible and some creators can accept major credit cards.
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@jasonabbruzzese and @kattenbarge
| Richard Milne / Financial Times: |
Ammo maker Nammo says its growth is limited by a TikTok data center using all the spare electricity, as energy demand across industries grows in the Nordics — Norwegian group Nammo blames ‘storage of cat videos’ for threatening its growth as data centre corners spare electricity
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@maxseddon, @klonkitchen, @oajonsson, @emmavj, @emilygorcenski, @fbermingham, @stokel, and @christopherjm
| Katie Haun / Wall Street Journal: |
Regulators are choking the crypto industry in the US, but major policy decisions should be made by Congress and state legislatures, not by unelected officials — The effort would stifle American innovation and competition—and that seems to be the objective. — WSJ Opinion: Congress Hammers TikTok
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@davidmarcus, @haunventures, and @brian_armstrong
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How Public Tech Companies De-risk Millions in Revenue Loss — Complex products and hybrid teams are today's major growth challenges. With 50-70% of revenue driven by internal teams beyond sales, how is your org adapting?
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