Richard Lawler

CEO Devin Finzer says OpenSea is “shifting to a smaller team with a direct connection to users.” Decrypt reports about 50 percent of employees are impacted. When it laid off 20 percent of its employees last year, around 230 people remained.

The jury only started deliberating a few hours ago, but after all of the testimony and evidence, they notified court officials they reached a verdict, as former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried faces seven charges, including wire fraud. We’ll have their decision here as soon as it is available.

In early 2022, Bob Chapek was Disney’s CEO, and it was “placing its bets on sports streaming and the metaverse.” Those metaverse plans evaporated, Chapek lost a petty war with Bob Iger, and ESPN is up for sale despite still making tons of money.

For the second time in the last three nights, many NHL and NBA fans can’t stream their local teams due to a major outage at Bally Sports. It blamed Monday night’s issues on Okta’s Auth0, so I wonder what tonight’s excuse is for why I’m missing a second straight Pistons game.

It opened a few years ago, but this post by a travel vlogger put the “mini Europe” project back on my radar. Housing the Huawei R&D department (which is probably where it designs new chips) and reportedly costing over $1.5 billion to build, it has replicas of 12 European cities, including Gothenburg and Prague.

Expect a new progression dashboard, new cars, and new tracks, as well as some PS5-only tweaks like 4-player split screen and the Sophy AI driver agent.

That’s what experienced litigator Mitchell Epner wrote about this incident during the cross-examination of Sam Bankman-Fried. Elizabeth Lopatto’s summary of SBF’s final day of testimony captures it as part of being “vivisected” on the stand.

Sam Bankman-Fried’s lawyers are done calling witnesses in the big FTX fraud case over the cryptocurrency exchange’s collapse last year. The lawyers are likely preparing to make their closing arguments, and Elizabeth Lopatto will have more reports from the courtroom later today, following last night’s story on all the things SBF conveniently doesn’t remember.

Dan Seifert runs down the news from Monday night’s Scary Fast primetime product event, covering what’s new about these updates to the MacBook Pro and iMac lineup and who should be the most interested in an upgrade. (Anyone who needs that Space Black exterior or someone who is replacing an Apple machine with an Intel processor or the first-gen M1 chip.)