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In an interview, SBF admits involvement in Alameda's largest uses of funds: spending $3B to buy out Binance's stake in FTX and pouring $4B into venture capital — Exchange's former CEO says he was close to key decisions at nominally separate trading firm — Speaking from his bed in Nassau …
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| Ankush Khardori / New York Magazine: |
Unlike Bernie Madoff, SBF has not confessed to any criminal conduct, arguing FTX's collapse was purely sloppiness, meaning a US prosecution could take some time — On December 11, 2008, Bernie Madoff was arrested and criminally charged with one of the biggest financial frauds in history … | Stephanie Murray / The Block: |
SBF says John Ray III is not working with him or responding to messages, claims Ray made false statements, and dodges questions on Alameda and loaning funds — - Sam Bankman-Fried is taking aim at John Ray, the new CEO of FTX, claiming he's been iced out after the firm filed for bankruptcy protection.
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| Simon Sharwood / The Register: |
Rackspace confirms a “security incident” impacted its hosted Microsoft Exchange services, leading to an “extended outage”; customers complain of poor support — Warns recovery could take several days and pledges better support after customer complaints
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| Reuters: |
Source: Foxconn expects its Zhengzhou plant to resume full production in late December or early January, but plans may change; November revenue drops 11.4% YoY — Apple supplier Foxconn (2317.TW) expects its COVID-hit Zhengzhou plant in China to resume full production around late December to early January …
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| Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
Kuo: mass shipments of Apple's AR/VR headset may be delayed until H2 2023, from previously estimated Q2 2023, due to “software-related issues” — Mass shipments of Apple's long-rumored AR/VR headset may be delayed until the second half of 2023 due to unspecified “software-related issues …
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| James Vincent / The Verge: |
Stack Overflow temporarily bans users from sharing responses generated by ChatGPT, pending a ruling in the future; most answers are wrong on closer inspection — Stack Overflow, the go-to question-and-answer site for coders and programmers, has temporarily banned users from sharing responses generated by AI chatbot ChatGPT.
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| Tim Copeland / The Block: |
Orthogonal Trading defaults on eight loans to lending protocol Maple Finance totaling $36M, or ~30% of active loans on the protocol, likely due to FTX exposure — - Orthogonal Trading has defaulted on eight loans totalling $36 million on lending protocol Maple Finance.| Parikshit Mishra / CoinDesk: |
USDC stablecoin developer Circle ends its planned SPAC merger with Concord Acquisition Corp., announced in July 2021, by mutual agreement — The firm had announced plans to go public in July of 2021. — Circle, the company behind stablecoin USDC, has terminated its agreement …
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| Dan Milmo / The Guardian: |
A survey of 8,000 young people in nine European countries finds 34% say they have pirated content, 27% have trolled someone, 22% have incited violence, and more — EU-funded survey of people aged 16-19 finds one in four have trolled someone - while UK least ‘cyberdeviant’ of nine countries
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| Financial Times: |
Seeking to emulate BlackRock's Aladdin portfolio management system, State Street, Pimco, Amundi, and others are creating their own digital investment platforms — Companies including State Street and Pimco compete to capture slice of outsourced IT services| Lauren Goode / Wired: |
An interview with Affirm co-founder Max Levchin on the US CFPB's probe into BNPL services, issues with credit cards, the current economic environment, and more — The PayPal cofounder on why his “buy now, pay later” company Affirm is a healthier way to borrow, what caused the techlash, and Elon Musk's Twitter.
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