Emily Nicolle / Bloomberg:
As US prosecutors reportedly investigate FTX and Alameda's role in orchestrating LUNA and UST's collapse, a look at the timeline of events and evidence — The latest twist in the downfall of crypto maven Sam Bankman-Fried is prompting a reexamination of the implosion of the Terra algorithmic …
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Friday, December 9, 2022
As US prosecutors reportedly investigate FTX and Alameda's role in orchestrating LUNA and UST's collapse, a look at the timeline of events and evidence (Emily Nicolle/Bloomberg)
Thursday, December 8, 2022
Sources: a letter by Foxconn founder Terry Gou to China's leadership, sent over a month ago during unrest in Zhengzhou, helped accelerate looser COVID-19 rules (Wall Street Journal)
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: a letter by Foxconn founder Terry Gou to China's leadership, sent over a month ago during unrest in Zhengzhou, helped accelerate looser COVID-19 rules — Foxconn Technology Group founder Terry Gou warned that the government's strict policies would threaten its position in global supply chains
The EU sets a December 28, 2024, deadline for all new smartphones, headphones, handheld game consoles, and other devices to use USB-C for wired charging (Jon Porter/The Verge)
Jon Porter / The Verge:
The EU sets a December 28, 2024, deadline for all new smartphones, headphones, handheld game consoles, and other devices to use USB-C for wired charging — We finally have a final official deadline for when new phones sold in the European Union — including future iPhones — will have to use USB-C for wired charging: December 28 2024.
A look at Prisma Labs' Stable Diffusion-based image generation app Lensa, which costs $36 per year and exploded in popularity after adding "magic avatars" (Tatum Hunter/Washington Post)
Tatum Hunter / Washington Post:
A look at Prisma Labs' Stable Diffusion-based image generation app Lensa, which costs $36 per year and exploded in popularity after adding “magic avatars” — Social media is celebrating. Artists are protesting. What's the real cost of an AI-generated portrait?
Sources: Dutch officials plan new controls on exporting chipmaking equipment to China as soon as January, potentially impacting ASML, following US curbs (Bloomberg)
Bloomberg:
Sources: Dutch officials plan new controls on exporting chipmaking equipment to China as soon as January, potentially impacting ASML, following US curbs — Dutch officials are planning new controls on exports of chipmaking equipment to China, according to people familiar with the matter …
Docs detail cybersurveillance company Altrnativ, started by Eric Leandri, who co-founded search engine Qwant and was lauded as France's digital privacy defender (Elisa Braun/Politico)
Elisa Braun / Politico:
Docs detail cybersurveillance company Altrnativ, started by Eric Leandri, who co-founded search engine Qwant and was lauded as France's digital privacy defender — This story is part of the series Leaked: The Altrnativ world of cybersurveillance. Read the rest.
Debunking claims on Twitter handling the Hunter Biden laptop story, including that Twitter engaged in election interference or violated the First Amendment (Mike Masnick/Techdirt)
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
Debunking claims on Twitter handling the Hunter Biden laptop story, including that Twitter engaged in election interference or violated the First Amendment — Hello! Someone has referred you to this post because you've said something quite wrong about Twitter and how it handled something to do with Hunter Biden's laptop.
Wednesday, December 7, 2022
OpenAI's ChatGPT presents a potentially serious threat to Google, offering quick, comprehensive answers to difficult questions that require no further searches (Parmy Olson/Bloomberg)
Parmy Olson / Bloomberg:
OpenAI's ChatGPT presents a potentially serious threat to Google, offering quick, comprehensive answers to difficult questions that require no further searches — A new chatbot from OpenAI took the internet by storm this week, dashing off poems, screenplays and essay answers that were plastered …
Xiaomi 13 series may launch on December 11 in China
A survey of 19 developed nations: 57% say social media has been good for democracy, 35% say it has been bad; in the US, 34% think it has been good for democracy (Pew Research Center)
Pew Research Center:
A survey of 19 developed nations: 57% say social media has been good for democracy, 35% say it has been bad; in the US, 34% think it has been good for democracy — Most think social media has made it easier to manipulate and divide people, but also say it informs and raises awareness
Elon Musk says Twitter's deputy general counsel Jim Baker was "exited", citing "concerns" over the "suppression of information" related to the "Twitter Files" (William Turton/Bloomberg)
William Turton / Bloomberg:
Elon Musk says Twitter's deputy general counsel Jim Baker was “exited”, citing “concerns” over the “suppression of information” related to the “Twitter Files” — Jim Baker, Twitter Inc.'s deputy general counsel, was pushed out of the company …
Oppo’s next foldable phones likely to launch on December 15
Facing a large deficit in its treasury, DeFi protocol Sushi proposes diverting fees from the Kanpai protocol and reduces its runway requirement from $9M to $5M (Shaurya Malwa/CoinDesk)
Shaurya Malwa / CoinDesk:
Facing a large deficit in its treasury, DeFi protocol Sushi proposes diverting fees from the Kanpai protocol and reduces its runway requirement from $9M to $5M — Developers proposed to divert 100% of fees generated on the platform to Sushi's multisig for one year or until new tokenomics are implemented.
Tuesday, December 6, 2022
Hong Kong officials and legislators criticize Google over a pro-democracy song, "Glory to Hong Kong", appearing among the top results for the national anthem (Newley Purnell/Wall Street Journal)
Newley Purnell / Wall Street Journal:
Hong Kong officials and legislators criticize Google over a pro-democracy song, “Glory to Hong Kong”, appearing among the top results for the national anthem — Officials and lawmakers call on company to alter its results page to show China's national anthem instead of a song made popular by antigovernment protesters
Kaiko: as FTX disintegrated, trading volume at the largest crypto exchanges jumped 23% to $705B in November, mainly driven by a 30% jump on Binance (David Pan/Bloomberg)
David Pan / Bloomberg:
Kaiko: as FTX disintegrated, trading volume at the largest crypto exchanges jumped 23% to $705B in November, mainly driven by a 30% jump on Binance — Digital-asset exchange Binance Holdings Ltd. saw a substantial boost in trading activity as Sam Bankman-Fried's FTX crypto empire collapsed in November.
Russia's finance minister says Russian companies have begun using bitcoin and other digital currencies in international payments to counter Western sanctions (Gleb Bryanski/Reuters)
Gleb Bryanski / Reuters : Russia's finance minister says Russian companies have begun using bitcoin and other digital currencies in i...
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Jake Offenhartz / Gothamist : Since October, the NYPD has deployed a quadruped robot called Spot to a handful of crime scenes and hostage...
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