GitHub Copilot investigation
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Don’t let today’s software rally improve your mood
After a rough year in the public markets, you might take today’s brilliant trading as good news. Any positive price movement is a win, right? Kinda. The tech-heavy Nasdaq composite index rose 3.4% today, while other major U.S. indices jumped smaller amounts in a hall-of-fame start to the trading week. (That the markets are turning … Read more
Tails 5.5
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Daily Crunch: Kanye West reaches agreement to acquire social media platform Parler
To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PDT, subscribe here. Greetings from the TechCrunch office! Yes, it turns out we have an office, even though we haven’t seen the inside of it for a good long stretch. We are here doing some … Read more
Ozzy Osbourne, Dillon Francis and Soulja Boy to Perform at Decentraland’s Metaverse Music Festival
A producer of the four-day event told CoinDesk that the goal of the event is to bridge Web2 and Web3 worlds to mutually benefit fans and artists.
Max Q: Any way you spice it
Hello and welcome back to Max Q. Last week was one of those weeks where your head spins with the sheer amount of news/announcements/launches in the space sector. It’s a crazy time to be alive, folks! In this issue: A busy November for… the moon! Launch companies expanding to new continents News from SpaceX, Spire … Read more
SpaceX no longer seeking Pentagon funding for Starlink in Ukraine, Musk says
SpaceX has withdrawn its request to the Pentagon that it fund the ongoing use of Starlink internet terminals in Ukraine, CEO Elon Musk said Monday. His statement (made on Twitter – where else?) comes just hours after it was reported that the Pentagon was considering footing the bill using a fund that finances contracts for … Read more
Celsius judge says court may look to UK consultation paper in absence of US guidance
Judge Martin Glenn says U.K. legal principles may be “persuasive” in the absence of U.S. legal precedents in the complex case of the crypto lending platform’s bankruptcy.
AI Data Laundering
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Texas investigates FTX for securities violations after objecting to Voyager auction
The Texas State Securities Board enforcement director downloaded an FTX Trading app – not an FTX US app – in Texas using his own information and was able to earn interest on it.
Market Wrap: Bitcoin and Ether Start the Week Higher
BTC crosses $19,600 at one point but appears likely to continue trading in its recent narrow range. Market Wrap is CoinDesk’s daily newsletter diving into what happened in today’s crypto markets.
Counterintuitive web worker behavior
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How to hide your IP address
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Everything you need to know about Meta’s moderation controversy in India
Illustration by Nick Barclay / The Verge Meta — Facebook and Instagram’s parent company — is currently at the center of controversy in India, where a local publication claims the company removed an Instagram post on behalf of an Indian politician. Meta has since pushed back on these claims and accuses the outlet of using … Read more
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Price analysis 10/17: BTC, ETH, BNB, XRP, ADA, SOL, DOGE, DOT, MATIC, SHIB
These altcoins are carving out gains as Bitcoin price continues to trade within a tightening range.
The crypto industry fights regulators in the courts: Law Decoded, Oct. 10–17
Grayscale and Ripple against the SEC, Coin Center versus the Treasury — it’s a hot season in the U.S. courts.
SEC, CFTC Probing Bankrupt Crypto Hedge Fund Three Arrows Capital: Report
The federal agencies are looking into whether Three Arrows misled investors about its balance sheet and whether the hedge fund should have registered with them.
Developers pour into crypto space despite stagnant markets
This year was huge for the crypto developer space even though the digital asset market continues to wallow in a downturn, according to a new report by web3 developer platform Alchemy. Although the crypto market capitalization is down about 58% year to date, web3 developers are pouring into the space. The report found that developer … Read more
La próxima gran actualización de Ethereum, Shanghai, ya tiene una testnet
La testnet Shandong les permitirá a los desarrolladores experimentar con las próximas fases del desarrollo de Ethereum, incluida la implementación adecuada para el retiro de ether bloqueado.
Google Fit is missing
The Fossil Gen 6 smartwatches are eligible for the upgrade to Wear OS 3 starting today. | Photo by Dieter Bohn / The Verge Last week, Fossil announced the Gen 6 Wellness Edition, its first Wear OS 3 smartwatch. But starting today, the company is also beginning to roll out the Wear OS 3 update … Read more
Earthquake sensors can detect disastrous floods
Destroyed houses, hotels and railway tracks pictured during ongoing cleanup efforts in the Ahr Valley region following catastrophic flash floods on August 4th, 2021, near Dernau, Germany | Photo by Thomas Lohnes / Getty Images Earthquake sensors can detect fast-moving floods barreling toward them, new research finds. That information is especially valuable to people working … Read more
Terra developers propose revised 95M LUNA ecosystem funding program
It is an update to the original 100M ecosystem funding proposal, which Terra developers say did not fit the community’s needs.
Crypto Venture Capital Fund Paradigm Also Wants CFTC to Serve Ooki DAO’s Members
Crypto venture capital fund Paradigm Operations has asked a federal court for permission to join two other groups in arguing that the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) should serve the members of a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) directly, rather than through a generic website help portal.