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November 9, 2022, 6:50 PM

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Wall Street Journal:
Binance abandons its rescue acquisition offer for FTX after reviewing FTX's finances, 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
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 …
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 …
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.
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 …
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 …
Sara Fischer / @sarafischer:
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.
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Microsoft begins to roll out iCloud Photos integration in Windows 11 through 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 …
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's iOS 16.2 beta 2 reveals work on a Custom Accessibility Mode, codenamed Clarity, aimed at making 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.
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 …
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 …

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