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Sources: to win US allies, TikTok proposed a complex, $1.5B plan to reorganize its US operations, including oversight of its content-recommendation algorithms — Chinese-owned app proposes giving U.S. officials oversight of its algorithms — Two years into negotiations with U.S. regulators …
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| Sapna Maheshwari / New York Times: |
Some US universities, including Alabama's Auburn University and the University of Oklahoma, are banning TikTok on their Wi-Fi networks, annoying some students — The school's prohibition brings a geopolitical fight front and center for TikTok's biggest fans: young Americans.
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3AC founders aim to raise $25M to start “GTX”, a crypto exchange with CoinFlex founders that would let people transfer in FTX claims and get credit in a token — - Su Zhu and Kyle Davies, the founders of collapsed crypto hedge fund Three Arrows Capital (3AC) …
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| James Vincent / The Verge: |
A trio of artists sue Stability AI, Midjourney, and DeviantArt over AI art copyright; a firm suing Microsoft, GitHub, and OpenAI over Copilot filed the lawsuit — A trio of artists have launched a lawsuit against Stability AI and Midjourney, creators of AI art generators Stable Diffusion and Midjourney …
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| Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: |
Sources: the European Commission is preparing to send a statement of objections to Microsoft, regarding its $69B Activision Blizzard deal, in the coming weeks — Microsoft (MSFT.O) is likely to receive an EU antitrust warning about its $69 billion bid for “Call of Duty” maker Activision Blizzard … | Ezra Reguerra / Cointelegraph: |
After North Korea's Lazarus Group moved ~41K ETH, worth ~$63.5M, from the Harmony bridge hack, Binance and Huobi freeze 124 BTC, worth ~$2.6M, linked to Lazarus — In a recent tweet, on-chain crypto detective ZachXBT said that the hackers have been moving $64 million in the last weekend.
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Tweets: @zachxbt, @cz_binance, @justinsuntron, @newsasset, @zachxbt, @whalecointalk, @tayvano_, and @zachxbt
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Ride-hailing giant Didi says Chinese regulators lifted a ban on new user registrations on January 16, signaling an end to the long-running 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 … | Forbes: |
A look at Deltec, an obscure Bahamian bank that got a $50M loan from an FTX-tied entity in October 2021, and chairman Jean Chalopin, who has ties to FTX leaders — The loan was among several deals struck with Jean Chalopin, the head of Deltec and Moonstone banks — and co-creator of Inspector Gadget … | Craig Hockenberry / furbo.org: |
Twitterrific developer Craig Hockenberry: Twitter axing APIs for third-party apps without notice is part of the “shit show” and leaves 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.
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| William Mauldin / Wall Street Journal: |
Russian attacks on Ukraine's electrical grid are straining its mobile network, leading to a global hunt for equipment like batteries to keep the system online — Telecom operators and internet providers scour suppliers for better batteries, generators — Russia's attacks on Ukraine's electrical grid … | Dylan Patel / SemiAnalysis: |
An overview of the ML software development industry over the past decade: a decline of Nvidia's CUDA monopoly, PyTorch overtaking Google's TensorFlow, and more — Over the last decade, the landscape of machine learning software development has undergone significant changes.
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| Shaurya Malwa / CoinDesk: |
Shiba Inu developers plan to launch a beta testnet of Shibarium, an Ethereum Layer 2 network, in the coming weeks, focusing on metaverse and gaming applications — Ecosystem tokens shiba inu, leash and bone will serve as the the upcoming Ethereum-based blockchain.
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Shiba Inu Ecosystem, The Block, NewsBTC, Invezz, Decrypt, Bitcoin News, crypto.news, CryptoPotato, CoinGape, Coinpedia Fintech News, Cointelegraph, CryptoGlobe, CryptoSlate, CoinGape, The Crypto Basic, Watcher Guru, Micky, CryptoGlobe, and Ethereum World News
Tweets: @shibtoken, @shibsteve, @cryptokoryo, and @hsakatrades
| Ben Jiang / South China Morning Post: |
How Apple's supply chain is leaving China: moving some iPad and MacBook production to Foxconn's Vietnam plants, expanded iPhone production in India, and more — Four days before Christmas , while China was battening down the hatches to survive the explosion of Covid-19 infections around the country …
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9to5Mac, iThinkDifferent, Appuals.com, Philip Elmer‑DeWitt, iPhone in Canada Blog, AppleInsider, India TV News, Bloomberg, The Motley Fool, Livemint, and The Hill
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