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Bahamas AG Ryan Pinder and US SDNY Attorney Damian Williams confirm Bahamas police arrested Sam Bankman-Fried, who is under indictment and could be extradited (CNBC)

Bahamas AG Ryan Pinder and US SDNY Attorney Damian Williams...

CNBC:Bahamas AG Ryan Pinder and US SDNY Attorney Damian Williams confirm Bahamas...

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Oracle reports Q2 revenue up 18% YoY to $12.28B, vs. $12.05B est., cloud services revenue up 14% YoY to $8.6B, and health data provider Cerner revenue of $1.5B (Jordan Novet/CNBC)

Oracle reports Q2 revenue up 18% YoY to $12.28B, vs. $12.05B...

Jordan Novet / CNBC:Oracle reports Q2 revenue up 18% YoY to $12.28B, vs. $12.05B...

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Review of the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX and XT: the XTX beats the Nvidia RTX 4080 for $200 less, except in power efficiency and ray tracing, and the XT comes close (Andrew Cunningham/Ars Technica)

Review of the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX and XT: the XTX beats...

Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica:Review of the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX and XT: the...

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Email: Twitter dissolves its Trust and Safety Council, saying it isn't "the best structure" for "external insights into our product and policy development work" (Cat Zakrzewski/Washington Post)

Email: Twitter dissolves its Trust and Safety Council,...

Cat Zakrzewski / Washington Post:Email: Twitter dissolves its Trust and Safety Council,...

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Sources: on December 11, Twitter briefly blocked traffic from ~30 mobile carriers, mainly in the Asia-Pacific region, in an attempt to rid Twitter of spam (Platformer)

Sources: on December 11, Twitter briefly blocked traffic...

Platformer:Sources: on December 11, Twitter briefly blocked traffic from ~30 mobile...

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New Zealand-based Partly, which maintains a database used by marketplaces like eBay of 50M+ car parts from 20K+ suppliers and OEMs, raised a $21M Series A (Rebecca Bellan/TechCrunch)

New Zealand-based Partly, which maintains a database used...

Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch:New Zealand-based Partly, which maintains a database...

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Elon Musk says Twitter Blue subscribers will see half the number of ads, and that it plans to offer a higher tier with no ads in 2023 (Urvi Dugar/Reuters)

Elon Musk says Twitter Blue subscribers will see half the...

Urvi Dugar / Reuters:Elon Musk says Twitter Blue subscribers will see half the number...

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Coinbase transparency report: law enforcement requests rose ~66% YoY to 12,320 from October 2021 to September 2022; ~57% of them were from outside the US (Nelson Wang/CoinDesk)

Coinbase transparency report: law enforcement requests...

Nelson Wang / CoinDesk:Coinbase transparency report: law enforcement requests rose...

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Sensor Tower: Lensa tops the US App Store charts with 3.6M installs in December; app saw 12.6M global installs in Dec. so far, up 600% from last 11 days of Nov. (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

Sensor Tower: Lensa tops the US App Store charts with 3.6M...

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:Sensor Tower: Lensa tops the US App Store charts with 3.6M...

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The US SEC says it is preparing charges against SBF to be filed in court on December 13, separate from the ones leading to his recent arrest in The Bahamas (Brian Quarmby/Cointelegraph)

The US SEC says it is preparing charges against SBF to...

Brian Quarmby / Cointelegraph:The US SEC says it is preparing charges against SBF...

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China files a trade dispute at the WTO against the US over its chip export controls, arguing the curbs threaten the stability of global industrial supply chains (Reuters)

China files a trade dispute at the WTO against the US over...

Reuters:China files a trade dispute at the WTO against the US over its chip export...

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Sources: China is working on a $143B+ five-year support package for its chip industry, mainly including subsidies and tax credits, starting as soon as Q1 2023 (Julie Zhu/Reuters)

Sources: China is working on a $143B+ five-year support...

Julie Zhu / Reuters:Sources: China is working on a $143B+ five-year support package...

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Sources: Checkout.com, which offers payment processing tools, drops its internal valuation to ~$11B, after securing a $40B investor valuation in January 2022 (Ivan Levingston/Financial Times)

Sources: Checkout.com, which offers payment processing...

Ivan Levingston / Financial Times:Sources: Checkout.com, which offers payment processing...

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A brief history of the video game industry, the rise of Nintendo, the dominance of Sony, and what Microsoft's Activision deal means for competition (Ben Thompson/Stratechery)

A brief history of the video game industry, the rise of...

Ben Thompson / Stratechery:A brief history of the video game industry, the rise...

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G7 leaders pledge 'unwavering support' to Ukraine, including boosting air defense systems

G7 leaders pledge 'unwavering support' to Ukraine, including...

1 min agoBrittney Griner reunites with family, eats barbecue ... and makes her first...

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US scientists reach long-awaited nuclear fusion breakthrough, source says

US scientists reach long-awaited nuclear fusion breakthrough,...

The US Department of Energy is expected to announce Tuesday that scientists have...