Tech News Weekly 211

• Benjamin Pimentel from Protocol discusses Jack Dorsey's sudden departure from Twitter, Square's rebranding to Block, and how it all goes back to crypto.
• A former developer for Ubiquiti has been charged in trying to extort Bitcoin from the company in an elaborate scheme that failed because of a VPN glitch.
• Roger Cheng from CNET walks through his list of some of the biggest tech fails from the year and this time, it's not fun and games like it usually is.
• Researchers have miniaturized camera technology to the size of a single fleck of salt and the quality of the images rivals cameras 500,000 times larger in volume.

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Links

• Don’t Think of It as Leaving Twitter. Jack Dorsey’s Going All in on Crypto
• Protocol Source Code: Why Jack Left
• Protocol Fintech: Square Now Has a Full-Time CEO. What Does That Mean for Its Crypto Strategy?
• Former Ubiquiti Dev Charged for Trying to Extort His Employer
• The Biggest Tech Fails of 2021, From Facebook to Activision
• Researchers Shrink Camera to the Size of a Salt Grain