Google's quest to digitize the US DoD's trove of 31M+ tissue samples and 55M+ slides, the world's largest human biorepository, raises ethical and legal concerns (James Bandler/ProPublica)

James Bandler / ProPublica:
Google's quest to digitize the US DoD's trove of 31M+ tissue samples and 55M+ slides, the world's largest human biorepository, raises ethical and legal concerns  —  ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power.  Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they're published.

The SEC charges Sam Bankman-Fried with defrauding investors and concealing diverting FTX customer funds to Alameda while raising over $1.8B (U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission)

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission:
The SEC charges Sam Bankman-Fried with defrauding investors and concealing diverting FTX customer funds to Alameda while raising over $1.8B  —  Defendant concealed his diversion of FTX customers' funds to crypto trading firm Alameda Research while raising more than $1.8 billion from investors

Changpeng Zhao seeks to reassure Binance users on USDC outflows, saying they can "withdraw any other stablecoin"; Nansen shows $1.6B in ETH outflows in 24 hours (Adam James/The Block)

Adam James / The Block:
Changpeng Zhao seeks to reassure Binance users on USDC outflows, saying they can “withdraw any other stablecoin”; Nansen shows $1.6B in ETH outflows in 24 hours  —  - Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao has addressed major USD Coin outflows.  — Some $1.6 billion has been withdrawn …

Sources: Thoma Bravo is in advanced talks to acquire Coupa Software, which helps companies manage their spending, after outbidding Vista Equity Partners (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg:
Sources: Thoma Bravo is in advanced talks to acquire Coupa Software, which helps companies manage their spending, after outbidding Vista Equity Partners  —  Thoma Bravo LLC is in advanced talks to acquire Coupa Software Inc. after outbidding Vista Equity Partners, according to people familiar with the matter.

With AI image generation tools like Stable Diffusion and DreamBooth, it's easy to make damaging deepfakes using just a few images of a person from social media (Benj Edwards/Ars Technica)

Benj Edwards / Ars Technica:
With AI image generation tools like Stable Diffusion and DreamBooth, it's easy to make damaging deepfakes using just a few images of a person from social media  —  AI tech makes it trivial to generate harmful fake photos from a few social media pictures.  —  If you're one of the billions …

Twitter's Community Notes, the crowd-powered feature to fact check tweets previously known as Birdwatch, starts rolling out to all users globally (Igor Bonifacic/Engadget)

Igor Bonifacic / Engadget:
Twitter's Community Notes, the crowd-powered feature to fact check tweets previously known as Birdwatch, starts rolling out to all users globally  —  Twitter has begun rolling out Community Notes to all of its users globally, the company announced on Saturday.

The subpar performance of FAANG stocks, which account for more than 10% of the S&P 500 weighting, will be a big drag on the market in the coming years (Kit Rees/Bloomberg)

Kit Rees / Bloomberg:
The subpar performance of FAANG stocks, which account for more than 10% of the S&P 500 weighting, will be a big drag on the market in the coming years  —  For some investors, this year's rout in high-flying technology stocks is more than a bear market: It's the end of an era for a handful …

Ex-staffers say Twitter's mass firing of security staff and growing reliance on automation will help China and other authoritarian regimes in silencing critics (Adam Rawnsley/Rolling Stone)

Adam Rawnsley / Rolling Stone:
Ex-staffers say Twitter's mass firing of security staff and growing reliance on automation will help China and other authoritarian regimes in silencing critics  —  Elon's mass firing of security staff and increased reliance on automation is going to make it easier for tyrants to shout …

Uber's slow response to law enforcement requests and a complex request process are leaving drivers vulnerable to repeated attacks by riders using fake accounts (Dara Kerr/The Markup)

Dara Kerr / The Markup:
Uber's slow response to law enforcement requests and a complex request process are leaving drivers vulnerable to repeated attacks by riders using fake accounts  —  An investigation by The Markup found that Uber is slow to respond to law enforcement requests, leaving drivers vulnerable to repeated attacks

Sony's CTO and NEC's CEO say US chip export controls may temporarily impact China's ability to procure chips but question the sanctions' long-term effectiveness (Eri Sugiura/Financial Times)

Eri Sugiura / Financial Times:
Sony's CTO and NEC's CEO say US chip export controls may temporarily impact China's ability to procure chips but question the sanctions' long-term effectiveness  —  Sony and NEC executives say progress may be slowed but China will remain a force in AI and other areas

Elon Musk may be planning to sue some Twitter employees, here's why

An email by Musk to employees, accessed by Platformer's Zoe Schiffer, reads that Twitter will "immediately seek damages" if they violate their non-disclosure agreements (NDAs). https://ift.tt/lSD14bY

With "Twitter Files", Elon Musk shows himself as an egregious example of what he wanted to expose: managers leveraging their social platforms for partisan ends (Eric Levitz/New York Magazine)

Eric Levitz / New York Magazine:
With “Twitter Files”, Elon Musk shows himself as an egregious example of what he wanted to expose: managers leveraging their social platforms for partisan ends  —  But it is actually a tool of progressive power.  While you were hypnotized by viral memes, a cabal …

Google, worried about its reputation, is hesitant to release its capable bot LaMDA, but by waiting too long it may cede the market to competitors like ChatGPT (Alex Kantrowitz/Big Technology)

Alex Kantrowitz / Big Technology:
Google, worried about its reputation, is hesitant to release its capable bot LaMDA, but by waiting too long it may cede the market to competitors like ChatGPT  —  The tech giant believes the future of search is conversational.  How did it let OpenAI's ChatGPT take the lead?  —  Google's had an awkward week.

Three members of Twitter's Trust & Safety Council, including two who have been members since 2016, resign, alleging Twitter's new leadership had shut them out (Nitish Pahwa/Slate)

Nitish Pahwa / Slate:
Three members of Twitter's Trust & Safety Council, including two who have been members since 2016, resign, alleging Twitter's new leadership had shut them out  —  Eirliani Abdul Rahman helped the platform stop youth sexual exploitation.  The new boss wasn't listening.

With Republicans poised to take over the House in 2023, a look at the prospects of the bipartisan American Data Privacy and Protection Act in a divided Congress (Washington Post)

Washington Post:
With Republicans poised to take over the House in 2023, a look at the prospects of the bipartisan American Data Privacy and Protection Act in a divided Congress  —  With Republicans poised to take over the House next year, a divided Congress looms.  The result could be two years of partisan strife and gridlock.