French President Emmanuel Macron says the government was not involved in the arrest of Telegram CEO Pavel Durov and “this is in no way a political decision”
French president condemns “false information” as Pavel Durov's detention in Paris triggers global outcry.
Sources: Telegram CEO Pavel Durov was arrested in France as part of a probe into Telegram allegedly allowing a range of crimes due to a lack of moderation
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Sources: Telegram CEO Pavel Durov was arrested in France as part of a probe into allegedly allowing a range of crimes due to a lack of moderators on the app
Pavel Durov, the Russian-born billionaire founder and owner of the Telegram messaging app, was arrested at Le Bourget airport outside Paris shortly …
President Biden signs the bill reauthorizing FISA's Section 702, extending the controversial warrantless surveillance program through 2026
President Biden signs the bill reauthorizing FISA's Section 702, extending the controversial warrantless surveillance program through 2026
The Senate has passed a bill reauthorizing Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), a controversial program that allows warrantless spying …
A US judge sentences Sam Bankman-Fried to 25 years in prison for stealing from users of his now-bankrupt FTX crypto exchange and orders him to forfeit $11B+
Past 6 pm on December 29 … Matthew Russell Lee / Matthew Russell Lee's Newsletter : Aftermath: SBF Sentenced to 25 Years in Prison After Coin Flip and Presidential Aspirations Cite...
A US judge sentences Sam Bankman-Fried to 25 years in prison for stealing from users of his now-bankrupt FTX crypto exchange and orders him to forfeit $11B+
Past 6 pm on December 29 … Matthew Russell Lee / Matthew Russell Lee's Newsletter : Aftermath: SBF Sentenced to 25 Years in Prison After Coin Flip and Presidential Aspirations Cite...
A US judge rules that the SEC's lawsuit against Coinbase can proceed, but dismisses one claim that Coinbase acted as an unregistered broker via Coinbase Wallet
Stability AI debuts a preview of Stable Diffusion 3.0, its next-gen flagship text-to-image model, aiming to offer improved image quality and better performance
Google plans to “pause the image generation of people” via Gemini and “re-release an improved version soon” while working to fix its race inaccuracy “issues”
The US SEC approves spot bitcoin ETFs from BlackRock, Grayscale, ARK 21Shares, Bitwise, WisdomTree, Fidelity, VanEck, Invesco, Valkyrie, Hashdex, and Franklin
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has approved 11 spot bitcoin exchange-traded funds, including those of Grayscale …
A developer says Twitter appears to be DDoSing itself via a Twitter web app JavaScript bug, which could be tied to Elon Musk's emergency blocks and rate limits
For anyone keeping track, this isn't even the first time they've completely broken … Nick Heer / Pixel Envy : Tweets Are Now Login-Walled — Like Šime Vidas, I have often linked o...
Elon Musk says Twitter has temporarily limited verified accounts to reading 10K posts/day, unverified 1K, and new unverified 500, due to “extreme” data scraping
Censorship Expert Says Musk ‘Has Stepped on a Rattlesnake’ Jonas Mäki / Gamereactor UK : Twitter stops data collection by adding lots of restrictions Brayden Lindrea / Cointelegrap...
A developer says Twitter appears to be DDoSing itself due to a bug in Twitter's web app, which could be tied to Elon Musk's emergency blocks and rate limits
For the last two days, Elon Musk has claimed that Twitter is under attack from “several hundred organizations” who were conducting …
Elon Musk says verified Twitter accounts are temporarily limited to reading 10K posts/day, unverified 1K, and new unverified 500, due to “extreme” data scraping
Twitter is putting limits to how many tweets its users can read as the Elon Musk-owned service suffers extended outage …
Decentralized social network app Damus debuts on the App Store with E2EE for DMs; Damus uses the Nostr protocol, to which Jack Dorsey donated ~14 BTC in 2022
and what can be heard—#nostr is an open protocol. If a platform is a silo, a protocol is a river: no one owns it, and everyone is free to swim. https://t.co/NOW06ouJIw @onelikeapp ...
Decentralized social network app Damus debuts on the App Store with E2EE for DMs; Damus uses the Nostr protocol, to which Jack Dorsey donated ~14 BTC in 2022
and what can be heard—#nostr is an open protocol. If a platform is a silo, a protocol is a river: no one owns it, and everyone is free to swim. https://t.co/NOW06ouJIw @onelikeapp ...
Decentralized social network app Damus debuts on the App Store with E2EE for DMs; Damus uses the Nostr protocol, to which Jack Dorsey donated ~14 BTC in 2022
and what can be heard—#nostr is an open protocol. If a platform is a silo, a protocol is a river: no one owns it, and everyone is free to swim. https://t.co/NOW06ouJIw @onelikeapp ...
Twitter reinstates some Hindu nationalist accounts popular in India, including some denigrating Muslims, and blocks links to a BBC documentary on Narendra Modi
After an uproar, Twitter suspends US white nationalist Nick Fuentes' verified account, one day after lifting the Holocaust denier's ban that began in July 2021
both of whom were central to the “Stop the Steal” movement that culminated in the January 6th attack on the Capitol—have been suspended again. https://twitter.com/... @bonchieredst...