Bloomberg: Internal FTX documentation shows a GitHub account bearing the name of engineering director Nishad Singh authored code to hide Alameda’s ballooning liabilities — A GitHub account bearing the name of former FTX executive Nishad Singh authored code that hid Alameda Research’s ballooning liabilities …
Read MoreMK Manoylov / The Block: Binance spokesperson Patrick Hillmann claims Changpeng Zhao has traveled to the US without publicizing it, after rumors that he could face legal difficulties — – Binance’s Chief Strategy Officer and company spokesperson Patrick Hillmann said that CEO Changpeng “CZ” Zhao has been in the U.S. …
Read MoreSimon Sharwood / The Register: Microsoft quietly updates its TOS to prohibit crypto mining on Azure and other services without “prior written approval”, citing “disruption or even impairment” — Windows giant fears coin crafting may upend its servers — UPDATED Microsoft has quietly banned cryptocurrency mining …
Read MoreJustin Baer / Wall Street Journal: Despite SBF claiming he stepped away from running Alameda, shifting blame to CEO Caroline Ellison, the US government argues that SBF was still calling the shots — FTX founder says he wasn’t closely involved with crypto trading firm. The U.S. government says otherwise.
Read MoreNot long ago, I showed you how to add tracing to a JavaScript application with Sentry. In this article, we’ll walk through using Sentry on the back end to track errors in a Python-Django application stack. Install and set up Python and Django The first step is to create a Django application. We’re going to use Python
Read MoreAn ARMA or autoregressive moving average model is a forecasting model that predicts future values based on past values. Forecasting is a critical task for several business objectives, such as predictive analytics, predictive maintenance, product planning, budgeting, etc. A big advantage of ARMA models is that they are relatively simple. They only require a small
Read MoreWith ASP.NET Core 7, we can take advantage of the newly introduced IEndpointFilter interface to create filters and attach them to the endpoints in our minimal APIs. These filters can be used to modify request or response objects or to short-circuit the request processing pipeline. This article discusses how we can work with endpoint filters
Read MoreOpenAI’s beta ChatGPT service based on the GPT-3 database of content is amazing people with its human-like conversations, but the technology is not as deep as it seems — yet.
Read MoreCredit: Dhruv Bhutani / Android Authority Google has announced that it is enabling Matter on a variety of Google products. The new standard will make it easier to customize your smart home with other brands. Google plans to enable Matter on more devices in 2023. The Connectivity Standards Alliance (CSA) announced the launch of Matter
Read MoreChainalysis: Analysis of weekly realized gains and losses of all personal crypto wallets in 2022: UST’s collapse caused $20.5B in losses, Celsius and 3AC $33B, and FTX $9B — Allow us to state the obvious: There’s been a lot of doom and gloom in conversations around cryptocurrency over the last month.
Read MoreA pet tracker has a particularly grueling set of requirements: small, light, rugged, incredibly long battery life, safe for the pet, and cheap. [Mihai Cuciuc] was looking at the options and wasn’t thrilled with any of them. So as any hacker would, he rolled his own, dubbed Squeak. It uses an RN2483 module as it
Read MoreAnshuman Daga / Reuters: Memo: Grab begins cost cutting, including pausing most hiring, freezing salaries for senior managers, and cutting travel and expense budgets, to stem losses — Grab Holdings Ltd (GRAB.O), Southeast Asia’s biggest ride-hailing and food delivery firm, is rolling out cost-cutting measures …
Read MoreDebby Wu / Bloomberg: Foxconn begins easing most restrictions at its Zhengzhou plant, including those on workers’ daily movements, as China rolls back its COVID-19 rules — Foxconn Technology Group, which assembles most iPhones for Apple Inc., is easing most of its anti-Covid restrictions at its factory in Zhengzhou …
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Former Twitter employee Ahmad Abouammo has been sentenced to three and a half years in prison after being convicted of spying for Saudi Arabia, Reuters and NBC News report. Ahmad Abouammo was employed by Twitter between 2013 and 2015, during which time he used his position as a
Read MoreGood morning! We switched from a bowl for our cat’s food to a plate, and now a substantial amount of food ends up on the floor. I foresee a switch back to the bowl really soon. In any event, today’s Daily covers everything from Apple’s satellite SOS saving the day again to Google’s top Chrome
Read MoreFinancial Times: The mobile games market is set to fall in 2022 for the first time in over a decade; Newzoo forecasts revenues to drop by 6.4% to $92.2B, vs. 7.3% growth in 2021 — Once fast-growing $100bn industry hit by post-pandemic changes in player behaviour and drop in consumer spending
Read MoreCredit: Supplied by Oppo The Oppo Find N instantly attracted attention upon its reveal earlier this year, showing a more compact take on the Galaxy Fold-style form factor. Now, Oppo has returned with a sequel, while also teasing a brand-new foldable. More like Oppo Refined N2 The Oppo Find N2 is a follow-up to the
Read MoreAl Weaver / The Hill: The US Senate unanimously passed the “No TikTok on Government Devices Act” over security concerns related to the app, after 13 states imposed similar bans — The Senate on Wednesday unanimously approved legislation that would ban the use of TikTok on government phones and devices …
Read MoreReuters: Microsoft will roll out its “EU data boundary”, allowing EU cloud customers to process and store data in the region, starting with customer data, from January 1 — Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) said on Thursday its European Union cloud customers will be able to process and store parts of their data in the region from
Read MoreWhen it comes to vintage consoles like the Game Boy, it’s often nice to be able to dump cartridge ROMs for posterity, for archival, and for emulation. To that end, [Francis Stokes] of [Low Byte Productions] whipped up a rather unique method of dumping Game Boy carts via the link cable port. The method starts
Read MoreCredit: Hadlee Simons / Android Authority Google has published a blog post detailing what went into creating the new Speaker Labels feature on Tensor-powered Pixels. Google also revealed that it’s working to make the feature less power-hungry. Google recently added Speaker Labels to the super helpful Pixel Recorder app. The feature automatically recognizes different speakers
Read MoreSteffie Banatvala / Financial Times: A look at the Safetipin app, which lets users map safe and unsafe areas in 65 cities across 16 countries and is helping New Delhi carry out improvement work — First rolled out in India, Safetipin is mapping safe and unsafe areas in 65 cities across 16 countries
Read MoreThere are scant alternatives for those who don’t want a fitness tracker or smartwatch to keep tabs on their health. Screenless trackers have bit the dust, while health-tracking earbuds are only useful during activity. Smart rings are seemingly the only viable and practical alternative. The most recognizable brand in this segment is Finnish firm Oura,
Read MoreMiles Kruppa / Wall Street Journal: A look at Spotter and Jellysmack, two companies offering YouTubers cash in exchange for up to five year of ad sales generated by licensing their old videos — Investors bet the back catalogs of top YouTubers will increase in value — TikTok, Instagram Reels or YouTube Shorts: Who Will
Read MoreCredit: Apple Apple’s emergency satellite system has helped save a couple stranded in a remote canyon after a 300-foot fall. The duo used an iPhone 14 to communicate with a relay center via text. Search teams then found them using their exact latitude and longitude thanks to Apple’s Emergency SOS feature. Apple’s Emergency SOS system
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