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Binance walks away from its offer to acquire FTX after reviewing FTX's structure and books, saying “the issues are beyond our control or ability to help” — Crypto exchange's decision comes as it conducts due diligence on FTX — Sam Bankman-Fried in Talks to Raise More Funding
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| Tanaya Macheel / CNBC: |
Major coins are plummeting: Solana crashes 45%+ to ~$12, bitcoin drops 10%+ to below $16,000, its lowest since November 2020, and ether drops 12%+ to ~$1,150 — FTX token plunges as Binance steps in to buy the crypto exchange's non-U.S. unit: CNBC Crypto World
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: the SEC and CFTC are investigating FTX.com over handling customer funds and its relationship with other parts of Sam Bankman-Fried's empire — US financial regulators are investigating whether beleaguered crypto-exchange FTX.com properly handled customer funds …
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Tweets: @tier10k, @tier10k, @smtuffy, @wublockchain, @mayazi, and @brianquintenz
| Joshua Oliver / Financial Times: |
Memo: Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao says FTX's near collapse “severely” shook confidence in the crypto industry, offers some deal details, and halts FTT sales — Changpeng Zhao tells employees that the bailout of its chief rival is ‘not a win’ — The near collapse of FTX has …
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| Shaurya Malwa / CoinDesk: |
In the wake of FTX's dramatic fall, Binance, Gate.io, KuCoin, Poloniex, Bitget, Huobi, and OKX pledge to release their Merkle tree reserve certificates — Nine prominent exchanges said they will publish proof-of-their-reserve holdings in the next month. — Crypto exchanges are now scrambling …
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| Tom Maloney / Bloomberg: |
Sam Bankman-Fried's estimated $15.6B fortune has been eviscerated in days by the demise of FTX and Alameda, dropping to ~$1B, the largest one-day collapse ever — Just weeks ago, Sam Bankman-Fried was considered crypto's version of John Pierpont Morgan, willing to throw around his massive fortune to save the industry.
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Tweets: @cz_binance, @ericnewcomer, @wassielawyer, @evgenygaevoy, and @lizrhoffman
| Meta: |
Mark Zuckerberg says Meta plans to lay off 13% of its staff, or 11,000+ employees, and will cut discretionary spending and extend its hiring freeze through Q1 — Mark Zuckerberg just shared the following with Meta employees: — Today I'm sharing some of the most difficult changes we've made in Meta's history.
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
After rolling out Twitter's “Official” label to select high-profile accounts, Elon Musk says he “killed it” in a reply to YouTuber MKBHD — Update: Well, that was fast. The grey checks have begun to disappear following a tweet from Twitter CEO Elon Musk implying …
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| Becky Peterson / The Information: |
Report: Twitter filed to register with the US Treasury to process payments; source: Twitter is working on a product that accepts cryptocurrencies including DOGE — Twitter is taking steps to launch a payment processing product that could put it into competition with PayPal.
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Sources: TSMC plans to announce a second chipmaking factory north of Phoenix, Arizona, in the coming months, investing roughly $12B and aiming to make 3nm chips — New facility would produce cutting edge 3-nanometer semiconductors — Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. … | Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft begins to roll out iCloud Photos integration into Windows 11, in an update to the built-in Windows Photos app — Microsoft is starting to roll out iCloud Photos integration into Windows 11. A new update to the Photos app in Windows 11 is now available, which will include the ability …
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| Jem Aswad / Variety: |
YouTube says Music and Premium together have 80M+ paying subscribers, up from 50M in September 2021, and payments to creators and others reached $50B since 2019 — It's a dramatic leap, especially for a platform where so much can be had for free, and would seem to place YouTube … | Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
IBM unveils its Osprey quantum processor with 433 qubits, up from 127 in its 2021 Eagle processor, and plans to hit 4,000+ with its Kookaburra processor in 2025 — IBM wants to scale up its quantum computers to over 4,000 qubits by 2025 — but we're not quite there yet.| Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac: |
Apple is working on a Custom Accessibility Mode for iOS 16.2 beta 2, codenamed Clarity, helping make the iPhone's and the iPad's UI more user-friendly — Apple on Tuesday released iOS 16.2 beta 2 to developers as the company gets ready to make the update available to the public in December.
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| James Vincent / The Verge: |
Q&A with the lawyers “challenging the legality of GitHub Copilot” via a proposed class action lawsuit, which could have a huge impact on generative AI models — Microsoft, its subsidiary GitHub, and its business partner OpenAI have been targeted in a proposed class action lawsuit alleging … | Nate Bek / GeekWire: |
Seattle-based Redfin lays off 862 employees, or 13% of its workforce, and winds down its home-flipping program RedfinNow; stock is down 96%+ since February 2021 — Redfin will wind down its home-flipping program RedfinNow and lay off employees for the second time this year as it cuts expenses in response to a slowing housing market.
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| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
An interview with CEO Dylan Field on scaling Figma, selling the company to Adobe, retaining autonomy, WebGL, making VR Figma for the metaverse, AGI, and more — We also talk about AI and VR — but we know why you're here. … Dylan Field is the co-founder and CEO of Figma … | Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Google rolls out its VPN service to Windows and macOS in 22 countries; the desktop apps are available to Google One Premium subscribers with 2TB+ storage — Google is bringing its VPN access to desktop today. Google One subscribers on Premium plans (2TB or higher) can now download VPN apps …
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| Rebecca Elliott / Wall Street Journal: |
Filings: after buying Twitter for $44B, Elon Musk sold 19.5M Tesla shares, worth almost $4B, from November 4 to 8, leaving him with a roughly 14% stake — The sale of 19.5 million shares this month in the electric-vehicle maker follows sales in April and August
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| Financial Times: |
Sources: TikTok cut its 2022 revenue target from $12B-$14.5B to ~$10B in September, as some staff complain of overspending on salaries, social events, and more — Fast-growing social platform cuts ambitious goals by 20% as some staff complain of lavish spending| Ashley Capoot / CNBC: |
Roblox reports Q3 revenue up 2% YoY to $517.7M, bookings up 10% YoY to $701.7M, and DAUs up 24% YoY to 58.8M; stock drops 15%+ on a larger-than-expected loss — - Shares of Roblox fell more than 17% in premarket trading Wednesday after the company reported a third-quarter loss but beat analyst estimates for revenue.
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Intel announces the Xeon CPU Max Series and Data Center GPU Max Series, set to arrive in early 2023 and power the US Department of Energy's Aurora supercomputer — x86 giant goes all-in with high-bandwidth memory — Intel's latest plan to ward off rivals from high-performance computing workloads involves … | Ernesto Van der Sar / TorrentFreak: |
Italian court upholds a ban against Cloudflare resolving DNS queries for three torrent sites, after Cloudflare appealed that the ban would impact users globally — The Court of Rome has confirmed that Cloudflare must block three torrent sites through its public 1.1.1.1 DNS resolver.Sponsor Posts
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