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Meta's Oversight Board urges the company to change its nudity policy after overturning its removal of two posts showing topless transgender and nonbinary people (Devin Coldewey/TechCrunch)

Meta's Oversight Board urges the company to change its...

Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch:Meta's Oversight Board urges the company to change its...

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Source: Microsoft is contemplating cutting ~5% of its workforce, or ~11,000 jobs, and could announce the layoffs in the coming days, before company earnings (Mark Kleinman/Sky News)

Source: Microsoft is contemplating cutting ~5% of its workforce,...

Mark Kleinman / Sky News:Source: Microsoft is contemplating cutting ~5% of its workforce,...

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Trend Micro researchers demonstrate how threat actors can abuse GitHub Codespaces' port forwarding feature to host and distribute malware and malicious scripts (Bill Toulas/BleepingComputer)

Trend Micro researchers demonstrate how threat actors can...

Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer:Trend Micro researchers demonstrate how threat actors...

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Amid a wave of lawsuits claiming Tesla dangerously overhyped its self-driving software, an overview of Tesla from its erratic CEO to its erratic Autopilot AI (Christopher Cox/New York Times)

Amid a wave of lawsuits claiming Tesla dangerously overhyped...

Christopher Cox / New York Times:Amid a wave of lawsuits claiming Tesla dangerously...

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Apple plans to hire a third-party firm to audit its US labor practices, focusing on human rights, after an investor coalition pushed for the assessment (Noam Scheiber/New York Times)

Apple plans to hire a third-party firm to audit its US...

Noam Scheiber / New York Times:Apple plans to hire a third-party firm to audit its...

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FTX identifies ~$5.5B in "liquid" assets for recovery, including $415M in "unauthorized third-party transfers" possibly tied to a hack found after its collapse (Rohan Goswami/CNBC)

FTX identifies ~$5.5B in "liquid" assets for recovery,...

Rohan Goswami / CNBC:FTX identifies ~$5.5B in “liquid” assets for recovery, including...

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Canalys: global smartphone shipments fell 17% YoY in Q4 2022 and 2022 shipments fell 11% YoY to under 1.2B, the lowest quarterly and annual levels since 2013 (Brian Heater/TechCrunch)

Canalys: global smartphone shipments fell 17% YoY in Q4...

Brian Heater / TechCrunch:Canalys: global smartphone shipments fell 17% YoY in Q4...

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By suing Genesis Global Capital and Gemini Trust over Gemini Earn in 2023, the SEC is years late to addressing the crypto lending product marketed as a security (Matt Levine/Bloomberg)

By suing Genesis Global Capital and Gemini Trust over Gemini...

Matt Levine / Bloomberg:By suing Genesis Global Capital and Gemini Trust over Gemini...

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Government documents offer new details and which FTX and Alameda executives were discussing the crypto exchange's use of customer funds before FTX's collapse (David Yaffe-Bellany/New York Times)

Government documents offer new details and which FTX and...

David Yaffe-Bellany / New York Times:Government documents offer new details and...

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Dune Analytics: the number of smart contracts deployed on the Ethereum mainnet grew 293% YoY in 2022 and 453% QoQ to 4.6M in Q4 2022, just as FTX collapsed (Andrew Asmakov/Decrypt)

Dune Analytics: the number of smart contracts deployed...

Andrew Asmakov / Decrypt:Dune Analytics: the number of smart contracts deployed...

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Sources: Apple indefinitely postpones its lightweight AR glasses due to technical difficulties and is instead planning a lower-cost MR headset for 2024 or 2025 (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Sources: Apple indefinitely postpones its lightweight AR...

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:Sources: Apple indefinitely postpones its lightweight AR...

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Sources: about 14 Chinese suppliers receive initial clearance to expand in India, after Apple said it needed their services to grow its presence in the country (Bloomberg)

Sources: about 14 Chinese suppliers receive initial clearance...

Bloomberg:Sources: about 14 Chinese suppliers receive initial clearance to expand...

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The West reaches a vital new tipping point on Ukraine

The West reaches a vital new tipping point on Ukraine

The West has reached its latest fateful crossroads over Ukraine.

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Hear how Wagner mercenary made daring escape from Russia

Hear how Wagner mercenary made daring escape from Russia

Former Wagner mercenary Andrei Medvedev fled Russia, escaping to Norway through...

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A profile of DCG CEO Barry Silbert, a finance veteran who built a crypto conglomerate and is now fighting to keep DCG's brokerage firm Genesis out of bankruptcy (Wall Street Journal)

A profile of DCG CEO Barry Silbert, a finance veteran who...

Wall Street Journal:A profile of DCG CEO Barry Silbert, a finance veteran who built...