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| Elon Musk / @elonmusk: |
Elon Musk says he plans to resign as CEO when he finds someone “foolish enough to take the job”, after which he plans to run the “software and servers teams” — I will resign as CEO as soon as I find someone foolish enough to take the job! After that, I will just run the software & servers teams.
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| Hannah Murphy / Financial Times: |
In a Twitter Space, Elon Musk says he expects Twitter to “be okay” next year after cost cutting, claiming the company was on course to spend ~$5B in 2023 — Social network's owner offers snapshot of dire finances to explain huge lay-offs since $44bn takeover
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
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| CNBC: |
Sam Bankman-Fried agrees voluntarily to be extradited to the US, where he faces criminal and civil charges including conspiracy, fraud, and money laundering — - Sam Bankman-Fried is set to fly to the U.S., where he faces multiple criminal charges tied to the collapse of his crypto exchange FTX.
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| Brian Fung / CNN: |
SEC deposition: Mark Zuckerberg considered disclosing in 2017 that Facebook was investigating “organizations like Cambridge Analytica”, but advisers said not to — Mark Zuckerberg considered disclosing in 2017 that Facebook (FB) was investigating “organizations like Cambridge Analytica” …
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| New York Times: |
Mark Zuckerberg testified in US federal court about Meta's acquisition of Within, as the FTC seeks an injunction to stop the deal, in a highly unusual challenge — Meta's chief executive made a rare court appearance as the Federal Trade Commission tries to block his company's purchase of the virtual reality start-up Within.
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Kuo: Apple plans to cancel or postpone iPhone SE 4 mass production, set for 2024, due to lower than expected shipments of its middle- and lower-tier iPhones — Apple will cancel or postpone mass production for the planned 2024 iPhone SE 4, Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo said today in a series of tweets.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: the NFL is in advanced talks to give YouTube exclusive Sunday Ticket rights; a deal could be reached as early as December 21 after an NFL owner meeting — DirecTV currently pays for rights to subscription package that allows football fans to watch most Sunday afternoon games
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| Lee Fang / The Intercept: |
Internal documents: from at least 2017, Twitter helped the Pentagon in its covert online foreign propaganda campaigns including by whitelisting CENTCOM accounts — Twitter executives have claimed for years that the company makes concerted efforts to detect and thwart government-backed covert propaganda campaigns on its platform.
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| Alex Stamos / @alex@cybervillains.com: |
Elon Musk amplifies false claims that the FBI “paid Twitter millions” to “censor info from the public”; law enforcement reimburses companies for data requests — This claim is false. Law enforcement has the ability to get stored communications from companies like Twitter under 18 USC 2703(d).
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| Micah Lee / The Intercept: |
Donie O'Sullivan, Drew Harwell, and other journalists remain locked out of their Twitter accounts despite lifted suspensions, until they delete a specific tweet — I've been writing critically about billionaire Elon Musk since he took over Twitter — particularly about his “free speech” …
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| Ax Sharma / BleepingComputer: |
Okta tells customers its GitHub repositories were hacked this month and its source code was stolen, but says hackers did not access service or customer data — Okta, a leading provider of authentication services and Identity and Access Management (IAM) solutions, says that its private GitHub …
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| CoinDesk: |
US-based crypto miner Core Scientific files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in Texas, estimating its liabilities and assets at $1B-$10B and creditors at 1,000-5,000 — The publicly traded miner expects support from some of the holders of its convertible notes in a restructuring deal.
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| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Anker admits its eufy security cameras' live view feature on its web portal “has a security flaw”, but fails to address why anyone can view unencrypted streams — On the last episode of “Will Anker ever tell us what's actually going on with its security cameras rather than lying …
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| James Reddick / The Record: |
US prosecutors say two men conspired with Russian hackers to tamper with JFK airport's taxi queuing software, allegedly letting drivers cut the line for a fee — Two Queens men have been arrested and are facing up to 10 years in prison on charges that they conspired with Russian hackers … | Byron Kaye / Reuters: |
A look at the Australian Securities Exchange's blockchain project, abandoned in November 2022, to replace its combined trading, clearing, and settlement system — In a Sydney hotel conference room in May, Tim Hogben, the head of securities and payments for ASX Ltd , which runs the Australian stock exchange …
Tweets: @katebevan, @johnreedstark, @byronkaye, and @smdiehl
| The Economic Times: |
Tata Digital-owned Bengaluru-based e-grocer BigBasket raised $200M from Tata and others at a $3.2B valuation, up from $2.7B in a March 2022 secondary share sale — CEO Hari Menon outlines quick commerce expansion, bringing 1mg on its app . The funding takes e-grocer's valuation to $3.2 billion.| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
OpenAI open sources Point-E, a machine learning system that generates and displays a 3D object from a text prompt in one to two minutes on an Nvidia V100 GPU — The next breakthrough to take the AI world by storm might be 3D model generators. This week, OpenAI open-sourced Point-E …
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