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| Ian Allison / CoinDesk: |
Source: after looking at FTX's data and loan commitments, Binance is highly likely to scrap its acquisition; FTX was turned down by Coinbase, OKX, and others — Backing out would be one more stunning development in the collapse of Sam Bankman-Fried's crypto empire.
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Tweets: @cz_binance, @deitaone, @asvanevik, @tier10k, @loopifyyy, @ldrogen, @scott_lew_is, @macnbtc, @0xsisyphus, @quintenfrancois, @ashcryptoreal, @fintwit_news, @scruffur, @cryptowendyo, @ellars, @jamespmcleod, @eringriffith, @brantlymillegan, @ryansadams, @pythianism, @simondixontwitt, @algodtrading, @wallstcynic, @mayazi, @smtuffy, @mayazi, @tracyalloway, @mrjasonchoi, @punk6529, @obsoletedogma, @jack_raines, @tradermayne, @byzgeneral, @valueandtime, @trackinflation, @deitaone, @asemota, @dee_bosa, @scottmelker, @darth, @asemota, @shaanvp, @autismcapital, @cobie, @mdudas, @davidmarcus, @adamscochran, @autismcapital, @therealjoshye, @hsakatrades, @jessicalessin, @mikeburgersburg, @claritytoast, @kantrowitz, @traderskew, @degenspartan, @adamscochran, @hsakatrades, @cobie, and @edzitron
| Tanaya Macheel / CNBC: |
Major coins are plummeting: Solana crashes 40%+ to under $17, bitcoin drops 10%+ to ~$17,100, its lowest since November 2020, and ether drops 20%+ 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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| 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 … | Yueqi Yang / Bloomberg: |
Sources: the SEC and CFTC are investigating FTX.com over its handling of customer funds and its relationship with other parts of Sam Bankman-Fried's empire — Binance is unlikely to follow through on its takeover of FTX.com, according to a person familiar with the matter.
Tweets: @hsakatrades, @ellebeyoud, @wublockchain, and @fintechfrank
| Changpeng Zhao / @cz_binance: |
Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao says the company signed a non-binding letter of intent to acquire FTX.com and help cover its liquidity crunch, pending due diligence — This afternoon, FTX asked for our help. There is a significant liquidity crunch. To protect users, we signed a non-binding LOI, intending to fully acquire FTX.com and help cover the liquidity crunch. We will be conducting a full DD in the coming days.
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Tweets: @sbf_ftx, @cz_binance, @cz_binance, @cryptomanran, @ericnewcomer, @zhusu, @benbybit, @wassielawyer, @sbf_ftx, @lizrhoffman, @cobie, @boazweinstein, @danprimack, @firstadopter, @dogetoshi, @tier10k, @cryptomanran, @arthur_0x, @sbf_ftx, @lizrhoffman, @scopeprotocol, @vetlelunde, @lookonchain, @hhorsley, @yassineark, @chrisfralic, @punk9059, @alex_valaitis, @robinwigg, @ftx_official, @hsakatrades, @danprimack, @0xngmi, @hodlkryptonite, @doug_hanks, @fxmacro, @dogetoshi, and @robinwigg
| 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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Financial Times, Watcher Guru, Crowdfund Insider, Ethereum World News, and Cointelegraph
Tweets: @r0h1n and @evgenygaevoy
| 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 — Over seven crypto exchanges will publish proof of their reserve holdings in the next month. — Crypto exchanges are now scrambling …
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The Block, The Block, Protos, CryptoPotato, CoinGape, Bitcoin News, Ethereum World News, Cryptonews, and The Block
Tweets: @cz_binance, @cumberlandsays, @jerallaire, @deribitexchange, @antoninexo, @iconomicom, @bitmex, @aeyakovenko, @star_okx, and @jerallaire
| 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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Tweets: @kenyafitdee, @willoremus, @juokaz, @carnage4life, @sarthakgh, @alexleavitt, @benedictevans, @jeffhorwitz, @gergelyorosz, and @naominixwrites
| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Twitter begins labeling select accounts “Official” as part of its Blue update; not all previously verified accounts will get the label, which won't be for sale — Twitter is rolling out another type of check mark to help distinguish accounts that users actually need to know are real.
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The Verge, The Verge, Engadget, Washington Post, Thurrott, TechCrunch, Insider, MacRumors, PCMag, Appuals.com, CNBC, Silicon Republic, Techdirt, BGR, and 9to5Mac
Tweets: @esthercrawford, @esthercrawford, @esthercrawford, @maxwelltani, @levie, @ditzkoff, @malwaretechblog, @tapbot_paul, @wongmjane, @levie, @_llebrun, @timcast, @inabber69, @caseynewton, @carnage4life, @seyitaylor, @miarsato, @davechensky, @can, @carnage4life, @lorakolodny, @willoremus, @kantrowitz, and @nanjala1
| Wall Street Journal: |
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. …
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9to5Mac, AppleInsider, MacRumors, and MacDailyNews
Tweets: @iron_man_actual and @matthew_pines
| 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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| 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 … | Thomas Germain / Gizmodo: |
Research suggests Apple collects data about iPhone usage even when the iPhone Analytics setting to “disable the sharing of Device Analytics altogether” is off — For all of Apple's talk about how private your iPhone is, the company vacuums up a lot of data about you. iPhones …
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The Economic Times, Tom's Guide, and Philip Elmer‑DeWitt
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
IBM announces its Osprey quantum processor with 433 qubits, up from 127 qubits in the 2021 Eagle processor, and plans to hit 4,000 qubits by 2025 — IBM wants to scale up its quantum computers to over 4,000 qubits by 2025 — but we're not quite there yet. For now, we have to make do with …
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IBM Research Blog, Engadget, Silicon Republic, Wall Street Journal, Tech Monitor, Reuters, VentureBeat, Livemint, and HPCwire
Tweets: @ibmresearch and @kylebrussell
| 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 … | Dylan Martin / The Register: |
Intel announces a new Xeon CPU family and updated data center GPUs, both part of the Max Series lineup, set to arrive in early 2023 — x86 giant goes all-in with high-bandwidth memory — Intel's latest plan to ward off rivals from high-performance computing workloads involves a CPU …
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VideoCardz.com, Phoronix, ServeTheHome, Intel, Network World, Club386, VentureBeat, ZDNet, The Next Platform, Appuals.com, IT PRO, HPCwire, and TechPowerUp. Thanks:@dylanljmartin
| Rebecca Elliott / Wall Street Journal: |
Filings: after taking over Twitter, Elon Musk sold 19.5M Tesla shares, worth almost $4B, between November 4-8; Musk retains a roughly 14% stake in Tesla — The sale of 19.5 million shares this month in the electric-vehicle maker follows sales in April and August
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The Hill, RTÉ, Bloomberg, CNBC, The Guardian, Forbes, Reuters, and Axios
Tweets: @carlquintanilla and @carlquintanilla
| James Vincent / The Verge: |
Q&A with the lawyers “challenging the legality of GitHub Copilot” through a proposed class action suit, 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 … | 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
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TheStreet, PYMNTS.com, Business Post, The Economic Times, and The Information
Tweets: @eric_seufert, @dondekojo, @chairliftcap, and @ramah_nyang
| Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch: |
Disney hit 235.7M global streaming subscribers in its Q4, above Netflix's 223.1M in its Q3; Disney+ had 164.2M subscribers, Hulu had 47.2M, and ESPN+ had 24.3M — Disney reported results for the final quarter of its 2022 fiscal year today, revealing a total of 164.2 million Disney+ global subscribers … Sponsor Posts
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