Tracy Qu / South China Morning Post:
After a 24+ hour Alibaba Cloud outage on December 18, Alibaba names Wu Zeming as CTO and says CEO Daniel Zhang Yong will oversee Cloud, effective immediately — Alibaba Group Holding has named a new chief technology officer (CTO) and removed the president of its cloud computing services unit …
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Thursday, December 29, 2022
After a 24+ hour Alibaba Cloud outage on December 18, Alibaba names Wu Zeming as CTO and says CEO Daniel Zhang Yong will oversee Cloud, effective immediately (Tracy Qu/South China Morning Post)
Solana cofounders Anatoly Yakovenko and Raj Gokal scramble to move past FTX's stain on their token, down 96% from November 2021; FTX and Alameda bought 58M+ SOL (Hannah Miller/Bloomberg)
Hannah Miller / Bloomberg:
Solana cofounders Anatoly Yakovenko and Raj Gokal scramble to move past FTX's stain on their token, down 96% from November 2021; FTX and Alameda bought 58M+ SOL — Solana, the blockchain network once championed by Sam Bankman-Fried, is drawing immense scrutiny as industry watchers wonder whether …
Wednesday, December 28, 2022
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After China lifted its COVID-19 rules, leading to surging cases, social media censors relax some rules, allowing criticism of protestors but not the government (Austin Ramzy/Wall Street Journal)
Austin Ramzy / Wall Street Journal:
After China lifted its COVID-19 rules, leading to surging cases, social media censors relax some rules, allowing criticism of protestors but not the government — Protesters, public-health experts targeted for country's sudden about-face as infections explode, but leader Xi Jinping remains unscathed
As the Nasdaq closes its worst year since 2008, IBM was a bright spot for tech companies with a $50B+ market cap, rising 6% in 2022, as investors sought safety (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
Jordan Novet / CNBC:
As the Nasdaq closes its worst year since 2008, IBM was a bright spot for tech companies with a $50B+ market cap, rising 6% in 2022, as investors sought safety — - IBM is up 6% in 2022, topping every large-cap tech stock. — The company has bolstered its consulting business …
Solana drops 10%+ to around $10, as bitcoin and ether saw modest declines, over concerns that large holders could offload the token; SOL is down 94% in 2022 (Sidhartha Shukla/Bloomberg)
Sidhartha Shukla / Bloomberg:
Solana drops 10%+ to around $10, as bitcoin and ether saw modest declines, over concerns that large holders could offload the token; SOL is down 94% in 2022 — Solana, the cryptocurrency backed by fallen crypto mogul Sam Bankman-Fried, tumbled on Wednesday amid concerns that large holders may be about to offload the token.
Court filings: Sam Bankman-Fried said in an affidavit that he and Gary Wang borrowed $546M+ from Alameda to buy a nearly 8% stake, or ~56M shares, in Robinhood (Bloomberg)
Bloomberg:
Court filings: Sam Bankman-Fried said in an affidavit that he and Gary Wang borrowed $546M+ from Alameda to buy a nearly 8% stake, or ~56M shares, in Robinhood — FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried said he and former executive Gary Wang borrowed more than $546 million from Alameda Research to buy …
Tuesday, December 27, 2022
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BAYC, Doodles, Pudgy Penguins, and other NFT projects are diversifying into real-world assets, including toys, albums, and sports teams, to generate new revenue (Financial Times)
Financial Times:
BAYC, Doodles, Pudgy Penguins, and other NFT projects are diversifying into real-world assets, including toys, albums, and sports teams, to generate new revenue — Creators of best-selling internet collectibles have responded to a crash in the value of crypto and digital assets by seeking new revenues …
Samsung raises over $10 mn for Global Goals
Monday, December 26, 2022
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A look at the Central African Republic's decision to adopt bitcoin in September 2021 and launch its own "Sangocoin" currency, which has stalled after weak sales (Ben Hunte/VICE)
Ben Hunte / VICE:
A look at the Central African Republic's decision to adopt bitcoin in September 2021 and launch its own “Sangocoin” currency, which has stalled after weak sales — The Central African Republic heralded its status as the only country in Africa to adopt Bitcoin as legal currency …
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Stack Overflow's 2022 Developer Survey shows ~40% use a Linux-based system, up from ~25% in 2021 and ~23% in 2018, compared to ~62% for Windows and ~31% for Mac (Justin Garrison/Justin Garrison)
Justin Garrison / Justin Garrison:
Stack Overflow's 2022 Developer Survey shows ~40% use a Linux-based system, up from ~25% in 2021 and ~23% in 2018, compared to ~62% for Windows and ~31% for Mac — Thanks to the 2022 StackOverflow developer survey we can finally say 2022 was the year of Linux on the Desktop!
FOIA emails detail Sam Bankman-Fried's courtship of US federal regulators, including hiring former regulators and dining with ex-CFTC Commissioner Dan Berkovitz (Freddy Brewster/Los Angeles Times)
Freddy Brewster / Los Angeles Times:
FOIA emails detail Sam Bankman-Fried's courtship of US federal regulators, including hiring former regulators and dining with ex-CFTC Commissioner Dan Berkovitz — Before his mid-December arrest, cryptocurrency billionaire Sam Bankman-Fried repeatedly claimed that he was a responsible business leader …
Arizona's Maricopa County is set to have the second largest concentration of US data centers by 2028, as the state races to increase electricity production (Pranshu Verma/Washington Post)
Pranshu Verma / Washington Post : Arizona's Maricopa County is set to have the second largest concentration of US data centers by 202...
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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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