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January 16, 2023, 7:40 AM

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Erin Woo / The Information:
Internal Slack messages show Twitter deliberately suspended access to third-party clients, leaving staff wondering when the decision would be announced publicly  —  The mysterious outage of Tweetbot and other third-party Twitter clients that began Thursday night was an intentional suspension …
Craig Hockenberry / furbo.org:
Twitterrific developer Craig Hockenberry calls Twitter's decision to ax APIs for third-party apps without notice a “shit show”, leaving customers in the lurch  —  Well, it happened.  —  We knew it was coming.  —  A prick pulled the plug.  And what bothers me most about it is how Space Karen did it.
Ezra Reguerra / Cointelegraph:
After North Korea's Lazarus Group moved ~41K ETH, worth ~$63.5M, stolen from the Harmony bridge hack, Binance and Huobi freeze 124 BTC linked to the hackers  —  In a recent tweet, on-chain crypto detective ZachXBT said that the hackers have been moving $64 million in the last weekend.  —  75 Total views
Reuters:
Chinese ride-hailing giant Didi says regulators have lifted a ban on new user registrations, signaling an end to a longrunning regulatory crackdown  —  China's ride hailing giant Didi Global said in a statement on Monday that it would be allowed to resume new user registration, after a more than year-long ban that curbed its growth.
Qianer Liu / Financial Times:
Investigation: Alibaba paid Chinese scholars to lobby authorities to relax regulations and rehabilitate its reputation, hoping to navigate China's clampdown  —  Alibaba has been paying academics to lobby Chinese authorities to relax regulations and rehabilitate its reputation …
Shaurya Malwa / CoinDesk:
Shiba Inu developers plan to launch Shibarium, an Ethereum Layer 2 network, in the coming weeks, focusing on the metaverse and gaming applications  —  Ecosystem tokens shiba inu, leash and bone will serve as the the upcoming Ethereum-based blockchain.  —  Upcoming layer 2 network Shibarium …
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Touchscreen Macs will help Apple further unify its software and services, keep up with a touch-first generation, and pick up a bigger piece of the PC market  —  Apple's upcoming move to Macs with touch screens is about the future of its user base.  Also: The company kicks its in-house technology plans …
New York Times:
AI tech like ChatGPT can be used by bad actors to lobby within democracies at incredible speed and scope, costing far less than troll farms like Russia's IRA  —  Mr. Sanders is a data scientist.  Mr. Schneier is a security technologist.  —  Launched just weeks ago, ChatGPT is already threatening …

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