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The SDNY says ex-Alameda CEO Caroline Ellison and FTX CTO Gary Wang pleaded guilty to federal charges, both are cooperating, and releases them on a $250K bond — Caroline Ellison and Gary Wang helped disgraced crypto mogul divert funds and are now aiding prosecutors
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| U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission: |
The SEC charges ex-Alameda CEO Caroline Ellison and ex-FTX CTO Gary Wang for their role in defrauding FTX's investors at SBF's direction between 2019 and 2022 — The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged Caroline Ellison, the former CEO of Alameda Research, and Zixiao (Gary) …
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| Bloomberg: |
Sam Bankman-Fried lands in the US to face criminal charges after being taken into custody on December 21, following extradition approval by a Bahamas judge — Sam Bankman-Fried is on his way to an airport to be flown to the US to face a litany of criminal charges after a Bahamas judge approved his extradition.
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| Mike Masnick / Techdirt: |
Mastodon, nostr, and other decentralized social networks are having a moment, despite some complexity, propelled by the apparent decline of Twitter and Meta — So, it's been quite a year for legacy, centralized social media — and all without any really big change to the laws that govern it …
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Tweets: @brosandprose, @kkomaitis, @nickgillespie, @davidpwhelan, and @rohangrey
| Chris Stokel-Walker / Nature: |
How Twitter played a major role in research and science communication, especially during the pandemic, as researchers and scientists leave the service — In November, Vince Knight decided he'd had enough of Twitter. After more than a decade on the social-media platform, Knight …
Tweets: @jeffnolan, @erictopol, @marionkoopmans, @ibjiyongi, @evornithology, and @kashprime
| Brayden Lindrea / Cointelegraph: |
Twitter rolls out $Cashtags, offering stock, ETF, and crypto prices within search results using data from TradingView and adds a View on Robinhood link — Twitter searches for “$Bitcoin,” “Bitcoin price” and “BTC price” pulls up a price chart, with equivalent searches working for Ethereum too.
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Tweets: @twitterbusiness, @elonmusk, @jason, @esthercrawford, @satoshiflipper, and @parismarx
| Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: |
Reports: an Android malware called Godfather is using overlaid login screens to get users' credentials on 400+ banking apps and crypto exchanges in 16 countries — An Android banking malware named ‘Godfather’ has been targeting users in 16 countries, attempting to steal account credentials …
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Crowdfund Insider, Android Headlines, Sammy Fans, SecurityWeek, The Register, SamMobile, SC Media, and PaymentSecurity.io
Tweets: @virusbtn, @ourielohayon, and @sentientsixp
| New York Times: |
Sources: OpenAI releasing ChatGPT led Google to declare a “code red”, including reassigning teams to respond to the threat ChatGPT poses to its search business — A new wave of chat bots like ChatGPT use artificial intelligence that could reinvent or even replace the traditional internet search engine.
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Bloomberg, Android Police, MUO, EU-Startups, Fossbytes, and 9to5Google
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| Alex W. Palmer / New York Times: |
How ByteDance and TikTok, which owe their existence to intermingled Western and Chinese ideas, capital, and people, became entangled in the US-China rift — A Chinese app conquered the planet — and now the U.S. is threatening to shut it down. Can the world's biggest virality machine survive?
Tweets: @jordanschnyc, @leftiblog, @jchengwsj, @akinunver, @willystaley, @leftiblog, @nytimestech, @jordanschnyc, @jchengwsj, and @sushantsin
| ProPublica: |
Google's Display Network, which places ads on 2M+ websites, lets site owners stay anonymous while putting ads beside pirated content, porn, and disinformation — In late 2021, the right-wing site Conservative Beaver published a story falsely claiming the FBI had arrested Pfizer's CEO for fraud.
Mastodon: @Jbat@mstdn.media, @singe@chaos.social, and @craigsilverman@mastodon …
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: at a town hall, Tencent CEO Pony Ma ranted for 10 minutes about staff laziness, graft, “superficial” reforms, Tencent's aging social network, and more — Many multinational CEOs like to close out the year with a message of congratulations.| Stuart A. Thompson / New York Times: |
Analysis of 1,000 reinstated Twitter accounts: most are deeply partisan, support Donald Trump, and spread misinformation on COVID-19, election fraud, and QAnon — Many reinstated users are tweeting about topics that got them barred in the first place: Covid-19 skepticism, election denialism and QAnon.
Tweets: @jamesrbuk and @mattnavarra
| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources detail steps Netflix may take to reduce US password sharing, like charging account owners an extra sharing fee at just below the $6.99 ad-supported tier — Putting a stop to the practice without alienating customers will be a challenge — The end of password sharing is coming to Netflix soon … | Bloomberg: |
Customs data: Chinese companies imported $2.3B worth of semiconductor manufacturing machines in November, down 40% YoY and the lowest level since May 2020 — China's purchases of machines to make computer chips contracted in November to their lowest in more than two years …
Tweets: @martijnrasser
| Jean Eaglesham / Wall Street Journal: |
The SEC's Paul Munter says the regulator is increasing scrutiny of audit firms working with crypto companies, warning investors to be “very wary” of some claims — Regulator concerned about cryptocurrency companies overstating audit firms' narrow reportsSponsor Posts
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