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A look at a draft copy of Sam Bankman-Fried’s planned House testimony, including accusations against John Ray and screenshots from a chat with Changpeng Zhao (Steven Ehrlich/Forbes)

Steven Ehrlich / Forbes: A look at a draft copy of Sam Bankman-Fried’s planned House testimony, including accusations against John Ray and screenshots from a chat with Changpeng Zhao — Sam Bankman-Fried, founder of collapsed crypto exchange FTX, was scheduled to testify Tuesday before the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Financial Services.

Changpeng Zhao seeks to reassure Binance users on USDC outflows, saying they can “withdraw any other stablecoin”; Nansen shows $1.6B in ETH outflows in 24 hours (Adam James/The Block)

Adam James / The Block: Changpeng Zhao seeks to reassure Binance users on USDC outflows, saying they can “withdraw any other stablecoin”; Nansen shows $1.6B in ETH outflows in 24 hours — – Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao has addressed major USD Coin outflows. — Some $1.6 billion has been withdrawn …

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)

Julie Zhu / Reuters: 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 — China is working on a more than 1 trillion yuan ($143 billion) support package for its semiconductor industry, three sources said …

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)

Ben Thompson / Stratechery: 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 — The first video game was a 1952 research product called OXO — tic-tac-toe played on a computer the size of a large room:

Interesting Optical Journey Results in Hybrid Viewfinder for Smartphones

Fair warning: if you ever thought there was nothing particularly interesting with optical viewfinders, prepare to have your misconception corrected by [volzo] with this deep-dive into camera-aiming aids that leads to an interesting hybrid smartphone viewfinder. For most of us, the traditional optical viewfinder is very much a thing of the past, having been supplanted

OnePlus’ upcoming affordable flagship might win hearts with these two features

Credit: C. Scott Brown / Android Authority The OnePlus 11 series is expected to get at least two new phones — the OnePlus 11 and a more affordable OnePlus 11R. There’s been a lot of back and forth about their design and specs, thanks to multiple leaks making different claims. Today, we have another leak

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)

Reuters: 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 — China has launched a trade dispute at the World Trade Organization against the United States over its chip export control measures, China’s commerce ministry said.

Samsung Good Lock is finally available in more countries

Credit: Joe Hindy / Android Authority Samsung’s Good Lock customization apps have reportedly landed in more markets. These markets include Europe, Latin America, and a couple of Asian countries. Samsung’s Good Lock suite of apps allows for an unprecedented amount of customization on your phone, but the apps have been limited to just a few

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)

Ivan Levingston / Financial Times: Sources: Checkout.com, which offers payment processing tools, drops its internal valuation to ~$11B, after securing a $40B investor valuation in January 2022 — Start-up sharply reduces price of staff stock options as private tech groups are hit by funding crunch

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)

Brian Quarmby / Cointelegraph: 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 — SBF has finally been slapped with criminal charges and will be extradited to the U.S., once there, he will have

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)

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: 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. — Lensa AI’s popularity has had a notable impact on the App Store’s Top Charts. The popular photo and video

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)

Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch: 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 — Car parts buyers require specific parts to fit specific vehicles, making for a supply-constrained environment.

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)

Nelson Wang / CoinDesk: 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 — The number of requests from the U.S., which accounted for about 43% of the total, increased by 6%. — Coinbase (COIN) …

Travel Uke from a Fallen Tree

When faced with what to build from the trimmings of the walnut tree in her yard, [Amy Quian] decided to build a headless travel ukulele. [via MAKE:] Headless instruments relocate the tuners to the body of the instrument, and [Quian] had to do a fair bit of trimming and whittling on the body to make

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)

Urvi Dugar / Reuters: 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 — Twitter owner Elon Musk tweeted on Monday that Twitter’s Basic blue tick will have half the number of advertisements and the social media

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)

Jordan Novet / CNBC: 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 — – Oracle reported better-than-expected results in the fiscal second quarter, as cloud infrastructure revenue jumped.

Pokémon Go: Mega Glalie Mega Raid guide

Mega Glalie is coming to raids in Pokémon Go. Read ahead for everything you need to know to beat it.

Apple gifts two ‘dream’ Mac Studio setups in collaboration with Jonathan Morrison

Apple has gifted two product-packed “dream” Mac Studio setups in a collaboration with technology YouTuber Jonathan Morrison.

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)

Platformer: 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 — PLUS: Why it’s time to start leaving Twitter behind — On Sunday, Elon Musk tweeted a vague warning: “the bots are in for a surprise tomorrow.”

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)

Cat Zakrzewski / Washington Post: 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” — Meanwhile, a former top Twitter official fled his home amid attacks following Musk tweets

Westworld is leaving HBO Max

Is there going to be any HBO content left for the upcoming Max app? | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Just over a month after HBO canceled its once-hit original show Westworld, it’s planning on yanking the back catalog from its streaming service, according to Variety, Deadline, IndieWire, and The Wrap. It’s currently

Golang previews profile-guided optimization

Go 1.20, a planned upgrade to the Google-developed open source language known for its simplicity, concurrency, and functional programming features, has just reached a release candidate stage. The new version previews profile-guided optimization (PGO) for the compiler. Announced December 7, the Go 1.20 release candidate can be downloaded from go.dev. The production release of Go

Comcast’s symmetrical multi-gigabit internet test is a preview of next year’s ‘10G’ rollout

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Comcast announced in a press release it successfully tested a symmetrical multi-gigabit DOCSIS 4.0 connection on its live network, taking a major step toward “offering 10G-enabled services” in the second half of 2023. In Philadelphia, where Comcast is headquartered, it connected service at an undisclosed business location using

Discord leans on linked accounts to verify who you are and what you can access

A list of Linked Roles on a server, along with icons for the connections they’ll require. | Image: Discord Discord is making the accounts you have linked to your profile a key part of the chatting experience. It’s introducing a system called Linked Roles, where admins and moderators can grant people access to certain channels

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)

CNBC: 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 — – The cofounder and former CEO of bankrupt crypto trading firm FTX was arrested in the Bahamas after the U.S. attorney …

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