- IMF calls for more crypto regulation in Africa, says 25% of countries in sub-Saharan Africa have regulated crypto and two-thirds have imposed some restrictions (Ana Paula Pereira/Cointelegraph)
- Germany-based Temedica, which offers a health data insight service to pharma companies, raised a €25M Series B extension, bringing its total Series B to €42M (Dan Taylor/Tech.eu)
- Twitter plans to restore next week suspended accounts that haven't "broken the law or engaged in egregious spam", after 72.4% of 3M+ voted yes in Musk's poll (Taylor Lorenz/Washington Post)
- Google's Project Zero reported five security flaws in devices with Mali GPUs in the summer, but Samsung, Xiaomi, Google, and others are yet to release patches (Kris Holt/Engadget)
- Mercedes plans to charge $1,200 per year for "Acceleration Increase" in its EVs; Volkswagen, Toyota, and GM have all trialed similar subscription-based features (Luke Plunkett/Kotaku)
- Stable Diffusion 2.0 makes it harder to mimic some artists' styles or generate NSFW output; Stability AI says NSFW images were removed from its training data (James Vincent/The Verge)
- Source: Twitter abruptly fired around 50 engineers and warned dozens more on the evening before Thanksgiving; some were told their "code is not satisfactory" (Zoë Schiffer/@zoeschiffer)
- UK police, Europol, Dutch police, and others dismantle online phone number spoofing service iSpoof and arrest 146 people, including the suspected mastermind (Bill Toulas/BleepingComputer)
- Sources detail Netflix's internal debate over embracing theatrical releases for big-budget movies, something Ted Sarandos and Reed Hastings call a distraction (Nicole Sperling/New York Times)
- Jumia undergoes major restructuring after ousting its co-CEOs, including closing its Prime subscription program and its Logistics service in seven countries (Aanu Adeoye/Financial Times)
- European Parliament declares Russia a terrorism sponsor, then its site goes down
- Apple iPhone factory workers clash with police in China
- Meta researchers create AI that masters Diplomacy, tricking human players
- Thinking about taking your computer to the repair shop? Be very afraid
- 3D for everyone? Nvidia’s Magic3D can generate 3D models from text
- New Meta AI demo writes racist and inaccurate scientific literature, gets pulled
- Nvidia and Microsoft team up to build massive AI cloud computer
- Amazon begins layoffs of up to 10,000 jobs, blames “uncertain” economy
- ISP deploys fiber service with a wrinkle—the users themselves own each network
- State-sponsored hackers in China compromise certificate authority