Richard Lawler

Update authority for its code was held by insiders at FTX, which has left developers unable to address known security risks.

Now the project is promoting a community fork called OpenBook, and says the future of its SRM token — which once had a market cap of over $1 billion but is now down to around $60 million — is “uncertain.”

Faraday has most recently been seen building a “production intent” version of its FF91 before eventually delaying the car’s launch... again.

Breitfeld, who previously made a complicated exit from Chinese EV startup Byton, spoke extensively to Sean about his plans for Faraday Future when he took over in 2019.

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If you’re stuck watching a TV with that soap opera effect, our how-to guide can get you started on finding the off switch, even if some TV manufacturers have recently changed the name of the setting (for example, many new Samsung TVs can turn all the processing off with one toggle now).

But, while musing about the potential of another mobile OS, Dorsey tells The Verge editor and reviewer Chris Welch, that unspecified changes are “coming soon.”

How soon? Who knows, but probably before Spotify adds lossless HiFi streaming.

On the other hand, can you afford to miss Meta’s Notorious B.I.G. “VR concert experience” on December 16th?

It’s unclear exactly what that will be like, but this blog post makes the point that maybe Meta could have focused on living artists. It points out several who already perform VRChat, and other platforms that succeed in ways the Horizon environments haven’t yet.

But now it’s bringing renewed attention to the combined market power of Ticketmaster and its parent company Live Nation Entertainment. The New York Times reports the DOJ has opened an antitrust investigation.

One way or another, the story isn’t over — you can keep up with the updates as they come in right here.

But, as Roth explains, the most notable check on Elon’s “unilateral edict” and free speech platitudes may be Apple and Google:

We don’t have a number to put on that, but Alex Heath has this email that was just sent from Elon Musk to Twitter’s software engineers.

The strangest part of all this is that just 18 hours ago, Twitter told employees that all office buildings will be closed until the 21st. But maybe they could really use the help.