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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.| CoinDesk: |
Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao plans to sell the remaining FTT tokens received from exiting FTX equity in 2021; FTX-linked Alameda offers to buy them for $22 each — Alameda's CEO offered to buy Binance's FTT token holdings for $22 apiece. — Binance's CEO, responding to a CoinDesk scoop … | Oliver Knight / CoinDesk: |
The US DOJ seized 50,676 bitcoins in 2021, now worth ~$1B, from James Zhong, who pled guilty to wire fraud for taking the coins from the 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.| Richard Lawler / The Verge: |
Elon Musk says Twitter handles “engaging in impersonation without clearly specifying ‘parody’ will be permanently suspended” and there will be no more warnings — Elon Musk's Twitter has a new rule for everyone with an account on Twitter to follow … | Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
Apple expects iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max shipments to be lower than anticipated due to COVID-19 restrictions at Foxconn's factory in Zhengzhou, China — Apple today said it expects iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max shipments to be lower than the company previously anticipated due … | Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple expects to produce at least 3M fewer iPhone 14 units than originally anticipated in 2022, aiming to make 87M or fewer mainly due to softer demand — Apple Inc. expects to produce at least 3 million fewer iPhone 14 handsets than originally anticipated this year, according to people familiar with its plans.| Allison Pohle / Wall Street Journal: |
Airbnb plans to show the total cost of stays including cleaning fees in its search results starting in December 2022, after announcing a fee review in May 2021 — The travel company also says it will make predeparture cleaning requirements easier for customers to find earlier in their search| David Pierce / The Verge: |
An interview with YouTube Shorts Director of Product Management Todd Sherman on UI challenges as YouTube rolls out the TikTok competitor to its TV apps — YouTube Shorts is working. That much Todd Sherman knows for sure. Sherman, the product manager behind YouTube's endless-scrolling … | Steven Lee Myers / New York Times: |
Research: Russia reactivated its trolls and bots on Gab, Parler, Getter, and other platforms, seeking to influence the US midterms and erode support for Ukraine — Researchers have identified a series of Russian information operations to influence American elections and, perhaps, erode support for Ukraine.| 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.| Alex Heath / The Verge: |
Source: Twitter is telling advertisers it has added 15M mDAUs since the end of Q2, “crossing the quarter billion mark”; Musk also tweeted user numbers were up — Twitter's daily user growth hit “all-time highs” during the first full week of Elon Musk owning the platform … | Billy Perrigo / TIME: |
Q&A with Mastodon founder and lead developer Eugen Rochko on how decentralized social media servers mitigate hateful speech, why he built the service, and more — As Twitter changed hands at the end of October, another very similar social media site was experiencing something of an influx.| Washington Post: |
Sources: Donald Trump told allies that he can't leave Truth Social for Twitter because he's propping his social network up and doesn't want the site to collapse — The former president has told his allies that he can't leave his Twitter clone because he's propping it up …
Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens.
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Zoho Mail Admin Console: A complete overview — You just got added as an admin for your company's Zoho Mail account. Someone from IT sends you a link, you log in, and there it is, a full console with everything …
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data — Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Salesforce data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.
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