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The SEC charges eight influencers with securities fraud, alleging they used Twitter and Discord to manipulate stocks from January 2020 as part of a $100M scheme (Kat Tenbarge/NBC News)

Kat Tenbarge / NBC News: The SEC charges eight influencers with securities fraud, alleging they used Twitter and Discord to manipulate stocks from January 2020 as part of a $100M scheme — The Securities and Exchange Commission has charged eight influencers with securities fraud, the agency said Wednesday.

Tether plans to stop using loans denominated in its tether stablecoin throughout 2023, following a report on the potentially risky practice (Wall Street Journal)

Wall Street Journal: Tether plans to stop using loans denominated in its tether stablecoin throughout 2023, following a report on the potentially risky practice — The rapid growth of Tether’s lending program raised concerns about its ability to meet redemptions in a crisis — FTX Collapse Hearing: Key Moments From John J. Ray’s Testimony

Google won’t launch ChatGPT rival because of ‘reputational risk’

Google has launched chatbots like Assistant, but has kept AI improvements to its search engine in the background. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge The launch of ChatGPT has prompted some to speculate that AI chatbots could soon take over from traditional search engines. But executives at Google say the technology is

YouTube expands its tools to curtail toxic comments, sending users a notification when their comment is removed and temporarily banning them from commenting (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: YouTube expands its tools to curtail toxic comments, sending users a notification when their comment is removed and temporarily banning them from commenting — Toxic and hateful comments on YouTube have been a constant headache for the company, creators and users.

Verizon partners with Netflix to give some customers who subscribe to another service using its +play marketplace a one year Netflix subscription for free (Sarah Krouse/Wall Street Journal)

Sarah Krouse / Wall Street Journal: Verizon partners with Netflix to give some customers who subscribe to another service using its +play marketplace a one year Netflix subscription for free — Amazon, Apple and YouTube woo customers with streaming marketplaces — Verizon Communications Inc. said it would give …

Polestar and Cake extend their partnership to include a new electric moped

Polestar’s Cake moped will come in a Sky Blue exterior paint. | Image: Polestar EV maker Polestar is extending its collaboration with Swedish e-motorbike company Cake to release a new battery-powered moped that, for the first time, will be available in North America. The limited-edition, customized version of Cake’s Makka moped will feature a Sky

Tesla rolls out an update, adding support for Steam on 2022 Model S and X vehicles or newer with 16GB RAM, Apple Music, Light Show, and more (Jay Peters/The Verge)

Jay Peters / The Verge: Tesla rolls out an update, adding support for Steam on 2022 Model S and X vehicles or newer with 16GB RAM, Apple Music, Light Show, and more — Tesla’s new “Holiday Update” adds a few long-awaited new features, including the ability to play games from Steam in your car and

Poll: When was the last time you sideloaded an app on your phone?

Apple is reportedly working on the ability to more easily sideload apps on iPhones, and this would be a major change for iOS if confirmed. But this feature isn’t new for Android, as sideloading has been available since the early days of the platform. Nevertheless, we’re curious to know when was the last time you

A profile of Helen Fisher, the chief scientific adviser to Match.com, who has been instrumental in bringing science to online dating and popularizing the idea (Kaitlyn Tiffany/The Atlantic)

Kaitlyn Tiffany / The Atlantic: A profile of Helen Fisher, the chief scientific adviser to Match.com, who has been instrumental in bringing science to online dating and popularizing the idea — Almost 20 years ago, Helen Fisher helped revolutionize dating. She has no regrets. — The anthropologist and famed love …

17 Best Tech Books to Gift (2022): Biographies, Startup Histories, Exposés

Give the techie in your life access to the inner workings of the companies and characters shaping Big Tech.

Volkswagen has given a name to its pain, and it is ‘software’

Owners of VW’s electric ID cars all over the world have reported problems with infotainment screens. The German automaker’s ID family of electric cars are plagued with buggy software, causing customer headaches and leading to major setbacks for the company’s next-gen Trinity project. How can VW patch the problem? Continue reading…

International Standards Group Votes to Kill the Leap Second

Credit: Erik Mclean/Unsplash (Credit: Eric Mclean/Unsplash)Time can be tricky to measure, whether you’re rocketing through space at relativistic speed or just sitting on the surface of a spinning planet. Fifty years ago, scientists invented leap seconds to make sure clocks didn’t get out of sync with the Earth’s rotation, but there’s increasing pressure to do

An investigation details the global supply chain that continues to offer Russia access to Western components and electronics, including from Intel and AMD (Reuters)

Reuters: An investigation details the global supply chain that continues to offer Russia access to Western components and electronics, including from Intel and AMD — In March this year, a new firm appeared in Turkey’s corporate registry. Azu International Ltd Sti described itself as a wholesale trader …

A look at Vietnamese supplier Gilimex’s lawsuit against Amazon, seeking damages over investing heavily in manufacturing facilities before Amazon cut its orders (Spencer Soper/Bloomberg)

Spencer Soper / Bloomberg: A look at Vietnamese supplier Gilimex’s lawsuit against Amazon, seeking damages over investing heavily in manufacturing facilities before Amazon cut its orders — Amazon.com Inc. faces a $280 million lawsuit from a Vietnamese manufacturer of warehouse storage systems that alleges …

Nerdio, which helps deploy and manage virtual desktops on Azure Virtual Desktop, raised a $117M Series B led by Updata Partners, bringing its funding to $125M (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Nerdio, which helps deploy and manage virtual desktops on Azure Virtual Desktop, raised a $117M Series B led by Updata Partners, bringing its funding to $125M — In 2005, three entrepreneurs — Vadim Vladimirskiy, Stuart Gabel and Niall Keegan — co-founded Adar, a Chicago-based company providing …

Tesla just gave millions of drivers a reason to use Apple Music

Tesla has added Apple Music support to its vehicles as part of a new software update.

Memo: Changpeng Zhao tells Binance staff to expect a “bumpy” several months but the exchange “will survive any crypto winter”, following massive withdrawals (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg: Memo: Changpeng Zhao tells Binance staff to expect a “bumpy” several months but the exchange “will survive any crypto winter”, following massive withdrawals — Binance Holdings Ltd. Chief Executive Officer Changpeng Zhao warned his colleagues to expect tough months ahead …

Microsoft Teams chat is coming to Outlook

Image: Microsoft Microsoft is planning to add Teams chat integration into Outlook. The software giant has started testing this new feature recently, and Microsoft says it will be available for all users in March 2023. “This feature provides an easy Teams chat experience from Outlook in the context of a meeting for participants to send

Sources: some US banks that lent Elon Musk $13B to buy Twitter are preparing to book losses on the loans this quarter, as investors shy away from risky debt (Reuters)

Reuters: Sources: some US banks that lent Elon Musk $13B to buy Twitter are preparing to book losses on the loans this quarter, as investors shy away from risky debt — Some of the banks that lent Elon Musk $13 billion to buy Twitter are preparing to book losses on the loans this quarter …

3 tiny Kubernetes distributions for compact container management

“Small is beautiful,” as E. F. Schumacher once said. Kubernetes, a powerful but sprawling container orchestration platform, might benefit from a more stripped-down approach. Not everyone needs the full set of tools and features found in the default Kubernetes distribution. You may not have the time or technical know-how to customize Kubernetes for more minimalist

As Tesla’s stock drops 54%+ in 2022, on pace for its worst year on record, investors criticize Elon Musk’s involvement in Twitter and his lack of focus on Tesla (Meghan Bobrowsky/Wall Street Journal)

Meghan Bobrowsky / Wall Street Journal: As Tesla’s stock drops 54%+ in 2022, on pace for its worst year on record, investors criticize Elon Musk’s involvement in Twitter and his lack of focus on Tesla — Supporters of Tesla and Musk are asking questions about who is running the electric-vehicle maker

SBF’s “carelessness” fraud defense, after misrepresenting risk management and funneling customer money to Alameda, is a confession the SEC sees straight through (Matt Levine/Bloomberg)

Matt Levine / Bloomberg: SBF’s “carelessness” fraud defense, after misrepresenting risk management and funneling customer money to Alameda, is a confession the SEC sees straight through — Oh Sam — I. — Here is how you run a futures exchange: — You offer some bets on some propositions, say, whether Bitcoin will go up or

Activists, publishers, and social media users criticize Indonesia’s new, broad criminal code, set to take full effect in 2025, and its impact on online speech (Johanes Hutabarat/Rest of World)

Johanes Hutabarat / Rest of World: Activists, publishers, and social media users criticize Indonesia’s new, broad criminal code, set to take full effect in 2025, and its impact on online speech — Articles forbidding “humiliation” of the government continue an unsettling trend of pressure on online speech. — • JAKARTA, INDONESIA

China’s Alibaba can’t buy advanced Arm chips because of US and UK export controls

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Chinese ecommerce giant Alibaba is unable to purchase Arm’s most advanced chip designs due to US and UK export controls. The Financial Times reports that Arm has concluded that its latest Neoverse V series chip designs can’t be sold to Alibaba because the US and UK wouldn’t approve

The DOJ charged SBF with violating campaign finance laws, creating a showdown over what could be the biggest recent illegal infusion of money in US politics (Bill Allison/Bloomberg)

Bill Allison / Bloomberg: The DOJ charged SBF with violating campaign finance laws, creating a showdown over what could be the biggest recent illegal infusion of money in US politics — Sam Bankman-Fried, the second biggest Democratic donor in the 2022 election cycle, is charged with violating campaign finance laws …

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