Where is Sam Bankman-Fried? We know the 30-year-old former crypto boss “fucked up,” but where did FTX’s billions actually go?
We don’t know the answers to those questions, but wherever he is, he’s still tweeting, letting us know that he thought unsolicited DMs sent to a Vox reporter would remain confidential under the legal principle of the frieNDA.
With FTX’s founder and former CEO steadily tweeting away and apparently DMing with Vox reporters (despite a precarious legal status as his former firm attempts to declare bankruptcy), John Ray, the new CEO of FTX, has an important message to share.
James Vincent examines the AI-generated, oddly colored future of art and tries to find answers to important questions like whether or not it’s against the law.
The most obvious suggestion is to license the data and pay its creators. For some, though, this will kill the industry. Bryan Casey and Mark Lemley, authors of “Fair Learning,” a legal paper that has become the backbone of arguments touting fair use for generative AI, say training datasets are so large that “there is no plausible option simply to license all of the underlying photographs, videos, audio files, or texts for the new use.”
Monica Chin reviewed both iterations of the Microsoft Surface Pro 9 and has a few reasons why the Intel version is still the better choice.
With an extremely lightweight build, 5G support, and good battery life, the Surface Pro 9 could be the perfect on-the-go device... Microsoft has that hardware part down to a science. But it still hasn’t figured out how to make Windows on Arm viable for the high-end mainstream.
The Artemis 1 Mission is on its way, and if you missed the inaugural SLS launch last night, you can relive all of the updates right here.
Otherwise, Elon Musk is scheduled to take the stand in the Tesla shareholder lawsuit later today, and of course, we’ll be standing by to report on any updates.
Tom Warren takes you through the changes in the new 40th Anniversary update for Microsoft Flight Simulator, including the ability to play Flight Simulator inside Flight Simulator.
Sure, it might sound like a bad idea to invest in a bankrupt exchange with more accusations of fraud than anything else we’ve seen on this side of Enron, but the Wall Street Journal reports Sam Bankman-Fried is asking around anyway.
Mr. Bankman-Fried, alongside a few remaining employees, spent the past weekend calling around in search of commitments from investors to plug a shortfall of up to $8 billion in the hopes of repaying FTX’s customers, the people said.
In Mr. Bankman-Fried’s case, the funds aren’t meant to sustain a bare-bones staff, but to repay individual traders and institutional clients who have been unable to get funds out, the people said.
Twitter isn’t always fully operational, but rumors about what features are shut down aren’t holding up everywhere, based on what we’ve seen so far, but if you’re having problems, then let us know.
But first, a few stories you might have otherwise missed.
Now your new iPhone can connect to satellites.
Elon Musk’s two big Tesla trials that are starting this week.
Google’s nearly $400 million location tracking settlement with 40 states,
Amazon is likely the next tech company to do mass layoffs.
The Witcher 3’s big next-gen patch is a month away.
One month after Google launched the Pixel Watch, its app is getting its first update.
The update is rolling out over the next few weeks, so you may not see it right away, but according to the support page, the November 2022 update has some bug fixes, plus improvements like bringing access Fitbit sync information and integration settings to the home screen.
As temperatures drop, covid, flu, and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) are all getting more people sick. There are vaccines available for two of those diseases, but despite decades of research, there hasn’t been a way to protect against RSV, a respiratory illness that can cause serious illness, especially in young infants.
However, as Nicole Wetsman explains, that might be different next year.
