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Sources: Yandex seeks Putin’s assent for restructuring, including selling its Russian business and spinning off key global projects in edtech and other sectors (Max Seddon/Financial Times)

Max Seddon / Financial Times: Sources: Yandex seeks Putin’s assent for restructuring, including selling its Russian business and spinning off key global projects in edtech and other sectors — Yandex, the company often described as “Russia’s Google”, is seeking Vladimir Putin’s blessing to sell its operations in the country …

The US Fed raising interest rates faster than expected is driving the crypto crash, tech layoffs, and more, as companies value “money now” over long-term bets (Matthew Yglesias/Slow Boring)

Matthew Yglesias / Slow Boring: The US Fed raising interest rates faster than expected is driving the crypto crash, tech layoffs, and more, as companies value “money now” over long-term bets — Higher interest rates drive the Bitcoin crash, tech layoffs, and everything else

Daily Authority: 📱 Hands-on with this Galaxy Z Fold 4 rival

Credit: Kris Carlon / Android Authority Hey all! We’ve got leftover pizza from last night, so lunch is going to be fantastic. In today’s edition, we go hands-on with the brand-new Honor Magic Vs foldable. Check out our thoughts below. Honor’s global foldable ambition

Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao says the exchange aims for a ~$1B fund to buy distressed assets and plans to make another bid for bankrupt lender Voyager Digital (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg: Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao says the exchange aims for a ~$1B fund to buy distressed assets and plans to make another bid for bankrupt lender Voyager Digital — Binance Holdings Ltd. is aiming for a roughly $1 billion fund for the potential purchase of distressed assets in the digital-asset sector …

Trackball Split Keyboard Will Roll Into Your Heart

One of the nicest problems to have with a split keyboard, even a monoblock split, is deciding what to put in the middle. Most people go for either the mouse, or else their beverage of choice. Some might sub in a bowl of snacks later on in the day. Personally, we most often use the

FTX sister firm Alameda paid $11.5M for control of a small WA-based US-licensed bank, raising questions about why federal regulators approved the deal (Stephen Gandel/New York Times)

Stephen Gandel / New York Times: FTX sister firm Alameda paid $11.5M for control of a small WA-based US-licensed bank, raising questions about why federal regulators approved the deal — Through a subsidiary, FTX invested $11.5 million in the parent company of Farmington State Bank, which has a single branch and, until this year, just

Bob Iger returns to a more competitive and challenging streaming landscape and should steer Disney+ to profitability without cannibalizing Disney’s other units (Sarah Krouse/Wall Street Journal)

Sarah Krouse / Wall Street Journal: Bob Iger returns to a more competitive and challenging streaming landscape and should steer Disney+ to profitability without cannibalizing Disney’s other units — Incoming CEO championed Disney+, but needs to steer streaming business toward profitability without cannibalizing other Disney units

Frederick P. Brooks Jr., a Turing Award recipient who co-led IBM’s System/360 project and wrote a book cited as gospel by computer scientists, dies at 91 (Steve Lohr/New York Times)

Steve Lohr / New York Times: Frederick P. Brooks Jr., a Turing Award recipient who co-led IBM’s System/360 project and wrote a book cited as gospel by computer scientists, dies at 91 — He was a lead designer of the computers that cemented IBM’s dominance for decades. He later wrote a book on software engineering

Sick Beats: Using Music and Smartphone to Attack a Biosafety Room

Imagine a movie featuring a scene set in a top-secret bioweapons research lab. The villain, clad in a bunny suit, strides into the inner sanctum of the facility — one of the biosafety rooms where only the most infectious and deadliest microorganisms are handled. Tension mounts as he pulls out his phone; surely he’ll use

All three founders of online trading service Pipe are stepping down as the company looks for a “veteran” CEO; Pipe raised $250M at a $2B valuation in May 2021 (Mary Ann Azevedo/TechCrunch)

Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch: All three founders of online trading service Pipe are stepping down as the company looks for a “veteran” CEO; Pipe raised $250M at a $2B valuation in May 2021 — Co-founder Harry Hurst says, ‘We’re 0-1 builders, not at-scale operators.’ — The three co-founders …

Stability AI releases Stable Diffusion 2.0, which can now generate images with default resolution of 512×512 and 768×768, and can upscale images to 2048×2048 (Bill Cusick/Stability.Ai)

Bill Cusick / Stability.Ai: Stability AI releases Stable Diffusion 2.0, which can now generate images with default resolution of 512×512 and 768×768, and can upscale images to 2048×2048 — It is our pleasure to announce the open-source release of Stable Diffusion Version 2. — The original Stable Diffusion V1 led …

Prosus valued its 9.67% stake in Byju’s at $578M at the end of Q3 2022, implying Byju’s total value to be $5.9B; Byju’s was valued at $22B in October 2022 (Moneycontrol)

Moneycontrol: Prosus valued its 9.67% stake in Byju’s at $578M at the end of Q3 2022, implying Byju’s total value to be $5.9B; Byju’s was valued at $22B in October 2022 — Although Prosus’ accounting entry implies that it values Byju’s at $5.9 billion, experts say that different shareholders may value a private company differently

Sources: US senators raise concerns as hundreds of China-made DJI recreational drones have violated restricted airspace over Washington, DC in recent months (Politico)

Politico: Sources: US senators raise concerns as hundreds of China-made DJI recreational drones have violated restricted airspace over Washington, DC in recent months — Hundreds of Chinese-manufactured drones have been detected in restricted airspace over Washington, D.C., in recent months …

HBO Max is working on a fix for playback errors on Apple TV 4K

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge If you’ve been running into abrupt “can’t play title” errors when trying to stream HBO Max content on your Apple TV 4K, you’re not alone. I ran into the issue last week, and found that others are also dealing with it. The issue seems to specifically occur on

Amazon’s already greenlit an FTX miniseries

Sam Bankman-Fried speaking at an IIF Annual Membership Meeting. | Getty Though the real world impacts of FTX’s spectacular crash have yet to fully settle, Amazon’s reportedly moving forward with a miniseries about the bankrupt crypto exchange and its infamous former CEO Sam Bankman-Fried. Anthony and Joe Russo’s AGBO production company is attached to produce

A San Francisco Police Department draft policy allowing police to apply lethal force using robots faces criticism from advocates opposing police militarization (Will Jarrett/Mission Local)

Will Jarrett / Mission Local: A San Francisco Police Department draft policy allowing police to apply lethal force using robots faces criticism from advocates opposing police militarization — “This is not normal. No legal professional or ordinary resident should carry on as if it is normal.”

Tidy POV Display Using The ESP32

Chinese Youtuber [corebb] presents the second version of his POV display. The earlier version used 5050-sized SMT addressable LEDs, which didn’t give great resolution, so he rev’d the design to use a much higher number (160 to be exact) of APA102 LEDs. These are 2mm on the side, making them a little more difficult to handle, so

Union blames Apple for St. Louis store’s decision to halt organizing effort

Employees at an Apple Store in St. Louis, Missouri have stopped their attempt to unionize.

Sources: the FTC is likely to file an antitrust lawsuit to block Microsoft’s $69B Activision Blizzard deal; FTC staff are skeptical of the companies’ arguments (Josh Sisco/Politico)

Josh Sisco / Politico: Sources: the FTC is likely to file an antitrust lawsuit to block Microsoft’s $69B Activision Blizzard deal; FTC staff are skeptical of the companies’ arguments — A lawsuit would be the FTC’s biggest merger challenge to date under Chair Lina Khan. — The Federal Trade Commission is likely …

The FTC could challenge Microsoft’s Activision purchase by December

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The Federal Trade Commission is preparing a potential legal challenge to Microsoft’s plan to buy Activision for $68.7 billion, and it could file the lawsuit by next month, according to Politico. The outlet’s sources say both CEOs — Satya Nadella and Bobby Kotick — have already been deposed,

Google blocklisted two Chrome “SearchBlox” extensions with 200K+ installs, after discovery of a backdoor that can be used to steal Roblox credentials and assets (Ax Sharma/BleepingComputer)

Ax Sharma / BleepingComputer: Google blocklisted two Chrome “SearchBlox” extensions with 200K+ installs, after discovery of a backdoor that can be used to steal Roblox credentials and assets — Chrome browser extension ‘SearchBlox’ installed by more than 200,000 users has been discovered to contain a backdoor …

Level-up your gaming in the Corsair Black Friday sale

Credit: Amazon Corsair’s gaming gear is renowned for its quality — in an industry where speed and accuracy are paramount. You’re expected to pay a premium price for the higher-end models, but that’s not the case in the Corsair Black Friday sale. Related: The best gaming keyboards you can buy

Pokémon Scarlet and Violet: How to catch and evolve Eevee

Catch Eevee in Pokémon Scarlet and Violet, then evolve them the way you see fit.

San Francisco police consider letting robots use ‘deadly force’

A remote-controlled robot used to disarm bombs. | ARNO BURGI/DPA/AFP via Getty Images The San Francisco Police Department is proposing a new policy that would give robots the license to kill, as reported earlier by Mission Local (via Engadget). The draft policy, which outlines how the SFPD can use military-style weapons, states robots can be

Honor Magic Vs hands-on impressions: The on-paper foldable king

Credit: Kris Carlon / Android Authority Honor desperately wants to step out from the lingering shadow of its former parent, Huawei. In its effort to demonstrate it is indeed its own company, Honor is summoning all of its comparatively meager resources and swinging for the fences. The Honor Magic Vs is its second foldable phone

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