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| Casey Newton / Platformer: |
Sources: Elon Musk pitched charging most or all Twitter users for a subscription; internal estimates show Blue could lose the company ~$6/user/month in the US — Will he go through with it? PLUS: Botched layoffs, how the new Blue could lose money, and more
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Gizmodo, Vox, Insider, ExchangeWire.com, Pocket-lint, Marques Brownlee on YouTube, TheGamer, International Business Times, and SlashGear
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| Alex Heath / The Verge: |
Source: Twitter tells advertisers the service added 15M+ mDAUs since the end of Q2, “crossing the quarter billion mark”; Musk also tweeted user numbers are up — Twitter's daily user growth hit “all-time highs” during the first full week of Elon Musk owning the platform …
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TechCrunch, ZDNet, Financial Times, iMore, Livemint, Marketing Brew, SlashGear, Observer, Mashable, TechCircle, and The Economic Times
| Jonathan Vanian / CNBC: |
Early Twitter investor Chris Sacca says Elon Musk is “alone right now and winging this” and needs people around him willing to “speak some truth to power” — - Venture capitalist Chris Sacca was one of Twitter's first investors and an early user.
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The Atlantic, Insider, Fortune, and Webb Chatham Report
| Sam Reynolds / CoinDesk: |
FTX's FTT drops 20%+ to ~$18 as investors fear possible contagion from the collapse of FTX-linked Alameda; Nansen shows FTX outflows reached $450M+ — FTT has declined nearly 20% over the course of an hour, with Solana's SOL down 17% and Serum's SRM off 10%.
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| Andrew Rummer / The Block: |
FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried says “FTX is fine” as Binance begins selling FTX's FTT token; an Alameda balance sheet leaked on November 2 showed $8B in liabilities — - FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried insisted his crypto exchange is “fine” after rival Binance announced it would start selling its holdings of FTX's FTT token.
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Tweets: @cz_binance, @sbf_ftx, @carolinecapital, @ftx_official, @cz_binance, @starokg, @sbf_ftx, @sbf_ftx, @sbf_ftx, @sbf_ftx, @milesdeutscher, @heyibinance, @hsakatrades, @ki_young_ju, @sbf_ftx, @raoulgmi, @autismcapital, @asvanevik, @coinmamba, @asvanevik, @timccopeland, @cz_binance, @samuelalpha77, @asvanevik, @johnreedstark, @dystopiabreaker, @jimcramer, @cz_binance, and @emilyjnicolle
| Jane Lanhee Lee / Reuters: |
Nvidia offers Chinese customers the A800 GPU, which the company says meets US export control rules, as an alternative to the A100 that the US banned for export — U.S. chip maker Nvidia Corp (NVDA.O) said on Monday it is offering a new advanced chip in China that meets recent export control rules aimed … | Financial Times: |
Analysis: Apple's profits surpass China's tech giants, boosted by US chip sanctions and its deal with Beijing, which helps the company evade the tech crackdown — The most profitable tech company operating in China is not a homegrown internet giant such as Alibaba or Tencent, but California-based Apple.
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New York Times, 9to5Mac, and Philip Elmer‑DeWitt
| Ryan Mac / New York Times: |
As Twitter's problems mount, Elon Musk is on pace to tweet over 750 times in November, or more than 25 times a day, up from around 13 per day in April — The new owner of Twitter has embarked on a tweeting spree to push back, spar and justify his actions. — Ryan Mac, who is based in Los Angeles …
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Wired. Tweets: @meslackman, @tuviae, @aaschapiro, @trippmickle, @tigerbeat, @laurenshirsch, and @rmac18
| Takashi Mochizuki / Bloomberg: |
Nintendo reports Q2 operating profit of ~$809M, up from ~$685M YoY, and cuts its fiscal year Switch sales forecast by 10% to 19M; a weakened yen boosts results — Nintendo Co. cut its fiscal-year forecast for Switch console sales by 10% to 19 million after reporting earnings in line with expectations.
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Nintendo Investor Relations, Game Developer, Engadget, Destructoid, RTÉ, Wccftech, Nintendo World Report Updates, Video Games Chronicle, Tech Xplore, and GoNintendo
Tweets: @andresegers, @6d6f636869, and @6d6f636869
| Oliver Knight / CoinDesk: |
The US DOJ seized 50,676 bitcoins in November 2021, now worth ~$1B, from James Zhong, who pled guilty to wire fraud for taking the coins from Silk Road in 2012 — The bitcoins, obtained in in 2012, were valued at $3.36 billion when discovered in November; now they're worth $1.04 billion.
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U.S. Department of Justice, Ars Technica, Protocol, Decrypt, BBC, Wired, MUO, CNBC, Coinspeaker, Infosecurity, Bitcoin News, CoinGeek, Cryptonews, Security Affairs, and Newser
| Andrew Hayward / Decrypt: |
Some NFT marketplaces stop honoring NFT royalties, usually a 5%-10% fee set by the creator and paid by sellers on secondary market sales, rocking the community — Creators sound the alarm after the marketplace reveals its plans, which include blacklisting rivals and potentially optional royalties.
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Web3 for the Culture, Pandaily, and Cryptopolitan
| Joseph Menn / Washington Post: |
An investigation shows TrustCor Systems, used by Chrome, Safari, and Firefox as a root certificate authority, has connections to US intel and law enforcement — TrustCor Systems vouches for the legitimacy of websites. But its physical address is a UPS Store in Toronto.
Tweets: @pauldokas, @v0max, @v0max, @v0max, and @v0max
| Jason Schreier / Bloomberg: |
Take-Two reports Q2 bookings up 53% YoY to $1.5B, below $1.55B estimates, and revises FY 2023 bookings down to $5.5B; stock drops 17%+ — Take-Two Interactive Software Inc. reduced its annual forecast for net bookings in the wake of an industrywide spending slowdown, particularly in mobile gaming.
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Video Games Chronicle, Business Wire, Gameranx, GamesIndustry.biz, Game Rant, and PC Gamer
| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Signal launches its Stories feature out of beta on Android and iOS, letting users share Stories that expire after 24 hours — End-to-end encrypted messaging app Signal is rolling out a new Stories feature to all users on Android and iOS, the company announced on Monday.
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Signal Blog, Engadget, MUO, and SamMobile
Tweets: @signalapp, @signalapp, @navalang, @chronotope, @kaepora, @popey, @mer__edith, @tante, @cubicleapril, @tehabe, and @caseyho
| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
Google and Renault expand their four-year partnership to develop a “software-defined vehicle” based on Google's Android Automotive OS — This “software-defined vehicle” will be built on Google's Android Automotive operating system and send data to the company's cloud servers for processing, the companies announced.
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PYMNTS.com, Tech Monitor, Google Inc., Engadget, 9to5Google, XDA Developers, Reuters, CNBC, T3, Bloomberg, Barron's Online, and ComputerWeekly.com
| Samuel K. Moore / IEEE Spectrum: |
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