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| Financial Times: |
Inside FTX's final hours, described by employees, chat logs, and Sam Bankman-Fried: panic selling assets, failing to raise money, SBF's silence, and bankruptcy — In January, I walked up the front steps of a single-storey, grey-shingled house in a neighbourhood on the fringe of Stanford University.
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| New York Times: |
Rejecting a deal to let Sam Bankman-Fried use encrypted messaging, a judge orders SBF's lawyers to form a plan to tighten his bail to ensure messages are saved — A federal judge said he was not satisfied with a plan that lawyers for the disgraced FTX founder struck with prosecutors to limit his use of encrypted messaging apps.
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| Dietrich Knauth / Reuters: |
A judge lets FTX subpoena Sam Bankman-Fried, his parents, brother, former FTX CTO Garry Wang, former FTX COO Constance Wang, and ex-Alameda CEO Caroline Ellison — Failed crypto firm FTX received court approval on Wednesday to issue subpoenas to its founder Sam Bankman-Fried and members …
Tweets: @certikalert and @smtuffy
| Bloomberg: |
Brian Armstrong says Coinbase has heard “rumors” the SEC wants to “get rid of” crypto staking for retail investors, which “would be a terrible path for the US” — Coinbase Global Inc.'s head Brian Armstrong escalated his war of words with the Securities …
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CoinDesk, The Block, Cointelegraph, Bitcoin News, CryptoSlate, Decrypt, Investing.com UK, Crypto Daily, Inside Bitcoins, Coinspeaker, Coinpedia Fintech News, ZyCrypto, Cryptopolitan, NewsBTC, crypto.news, Watcher Guru, Crowdfund Insider, Cryptonews, and Barron's Online
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| Joey Roulette / Reuters: |
SpaceX has limited Ukraine's military from using Starlink to control drones; COO Gwynne Shotwell says the internet service was “never meant to be weaponized” — SpaceX has taken steps to prevent Ukraine's military from using the company's Starlink satellite internet service …
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| Alexander Martin / The Record: |
The US and the UK sanction seven people based in Russia, with likely FSB ties, connected to the Conti and Ryuk ransomware gangs and the Trickbot banking trojan — The United Kingdom and United States on Thursday sanctioned seven people connected to what officials have told The Record …
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| Yogita Khatri / The Block: |
Tether claims $700M in Q4 profit, in addition to its reserves, and $67.04B in total assets and $66.08B in liabilities; Tether reduced its secured loans by $300M — - Tether issued its latest attestation report, saying its assets exceeded its liabilities as of December 2022.
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| Maria Deutscher / SiliconANGLE: |
GitHub lays off 10% of staff, or an estimated 300+ people; GitLab lays off 7%, or an estimated 114; report: GitHub will close offices and shift to remote work — Microsoft Corp.'s GitHub unit and publicly traded rival GitLab Inc. today both announced layoffs, disclosing plans to let go 10% and 7% of their respective workforces.| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Q&A with Satya Nadella on Microsoft's partnership with OpenAI, using AI to improve search as a product, competition with Google, the Prometheus model, and more — I'm coming to you from Microsoft's campus in Redmond, where just a few hours ago, Microsoft announced that the next version … | Bloomberg: |
Nintendo's upcoming Zelda sequel will cost $70, $10 more than prior new titles, matching Sony and Microsoft and opening the door for more expensive video games — Nintendo Co.'s upcoming Zelda sequel will be pricier than the company's other Switch games, clearing the way for more game makers to also lift their prices.
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| Jason Schreier / Bloomberg: |
After over a decade of waiting for a quality Harry Potter video game, some fans battle to reconcile enjoying WBD's Hogwarts Legacy with JK Rowling's transphobia — Harry Potter fans have been waiting more than a decade for a video game worthy of the blockbuster entertainment franchise's dedicated following.
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| New York Times: |
Researchers say ChatGPT can produce clean, convincing text that repeats conspiracy theories and misleading narratives but can sometimes debunk falsehoods too — Researchers used ChatGPT to produce clean, convincing text that repeated conspiracy theories and misleading narratives.
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| Justinas Baltrusaitis / Finbold: |
Apple's Services revenue hit $78.1B in 2022, more than Intel's $63.1B, double Netflix's $31.6B, and above the $72.3B combined revenues of McDonald's and Nike — Apple Services business has now grown to become one of its most lucrative segments, with revenue surpassing that of major corporations.
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| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
Yahoo plans to lay off 20%+ of its workforce and restructure its ad tech unit, impacting 50%+ of the unit, or 1,600+ people; CEO says the cuts are “strategic” — Yahoo plans to lay off more than 20% of its total workforce as part of a major restructuring of its ad tech unit, executives told Axios.
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| Celso Martinho / The Cloudflare Blog: |
Cloudflare debuts Wildebeest, an open-source ActivityPub server built on its Supercloud service that makes it easier to self-host a Mastodon-compatible instance — Loading... The Fediverse has been a hot topic of discussion lately, with thousands, if not millions, of new users creating accounts …
Mastodon: @ukuku@mstdn.social, @jonah@mastodon.neat.computer, @paul@tapbots.social, @campuscodi@mastodon.social, and @fediversereport …
Tweets: @pauldjohnston, @grittygrease, @jgrahamc, @cloudflare, and @cloudflare
| Forbes: |
Google's fraught history with AI ethics, a backlash after Duplex's unveiling, and a talent drain has left the company playing catch up with OpenAI and Microsoft — With Bard, its newly launched “experimental conversational AI service,” Google is scrambling to ship AI products.
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| Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
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| @twitterdev: |
Twitter's free APIs will work until February 13, when the company will launch a low-usage $100/month plan and a limited free plan and deprecates its Premium API — We have been busy with some updates to the Twitter API so you can continue to build and innovate with us. We're excited to announce an extension of the current free Twitter API access through February 13. Here's what we're shipping then 🧵
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| Jillian Deutsch / Bloomberg: |
The EU says Twitter's first voluntary report on how the company was tackling disinformation lacked data and didn't include commitments to empower fact-checkers — Twitter Inc. was the only tech platform that didn't send a complete report to the European Union detailing how it was tackling disinformation …
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Politico, Bloomberg, Fortune, Reuters, Ars Technica, Silicon Republic, TikTok, Gizmodo, Reclaim The Net, CNBC, Associated Press, TechCrunch, and Wall Street Journal
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| Jonathan Greig / The Record: |
The CISA publishes a recovery script for the ESXiArgs ransomware that encrypted files at 3,800+ organizations across the US, France, Italy, and other countries — The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has published a process for recovering files for organizations affected …
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BleepingComputer, Security Affairs, CISA, Network World, ZDNet, PaymentSecurity.io, and SecurityWeek
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| The Guardian: |
Investigation: AI tools rate photos of women as more sexually suggestive than photos of men, especially if nipples, pregnant bellies, or exercise are involved — Guardian exclusive: AI tools rate photos of women as more sexually suggestive than those of men, especially if nipples, pregnant bellies or exercise is involved
Tweets: @womenreadwomen, @nyuniversity, @random_walker, @msmarymcgill, and @mmitchell_ai
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