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Elon Musk's investor pitch deck: grow Twitter revenue 5x to $26.4B, cut ad revenue reliance to <50% by 2028, grow Twitter Blue's users to 69M by 2025, and more — Here's what Mr. Musk is projecting for Twitter's finances over the next few years, according to a pitch deck he presented to investors.
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Sources: Allen Wu, who was replaced as CEO of Arm China by Liu Renchen, has refused to surrender control amid Shanghai's lockdown, where Arm China's HQ is based — Allen Wu refuses to surrender control in extraordinary corporate battle at UK chip designer — High in a Shenzhen office tower …
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A major Xbox Network outage is preventing some users from launching games and starting Cloud Gaming sessions; issues related to purchases have been resolved — Xbox consoles are temporarily a lot less useful for gaming. — Update, May 7, 2022, at 8:50 a.m. CT: The Xbox Network should be working again …
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Ian Goodfellow, Apple's director of ML, is leaving due to its return to work policy, saying in a note that “more flexibility would have been the best policy” — Ian Goodfellow, Apple's director of machine learning, is leaving the company due to its return to work policy. In a note to staff, he said “I believe strongly that more flexibility would have been the best policy for my team.” He was likely the company's most cited ML expert.
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| Anthony Faiola / Washington Post: |
A look at the rise of VPNs in Russia following its war in Ukraine; Apptopia: daily downloads of the top ten VPNs jumped from 15K before the war to 475K in March — A surge in virtual private network downloads is a challenge to Vladimir Putin and his version of the war
Tweets: @alfonslopeztena, @kenroth, and @kenroth
| Joe Warminsky / The Record: |
The US sanctions cryptocurrency mixing service Blender.io for allegedly laundering $20.5M from the Axie Infinity hack, the first time the US sanctioned a mixer — The U.S. Treasury Department on Friday sanctioned a cryptocurrency mixing service for the first time, citing evidence that it was used …
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| Matt Burgess / Wired: |
How small, commercial drones in Ukraine are letting militias and others conduct cheap airborne surveillance and collect footage for war crimes investigations — From surveillance to search-and-rescue, consumer drones are having an unprecedented impact on Ukraine's defense against Russia.| Dan Mangan / CNBC: |
A California federal judge dismisses Donald Trump's lawsuit seeking to lift his ban from Twitter but may allow an amended complaint to be filed against Twitter — - A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit by former President Donald Trump seeking to lift his ban from Twitter.
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Some ex-TikTok US staff talk of long hours, tight deadlines, lack of work-life boundaries, sleep deprivation, weekend work, and secrecy uncommon in the industry — Former U.S. staffers tell of sleep deprivation, work on weekends and mandatory meetings with colleagues on the other side of the globe| Kanishka Singh / Reuters: |
The SEC says Nvidia will pay $5.5M to settle charges it failed to disclose that cryptomining was a “significant element” of its FY 2018 gaming revenue growth — The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission said Friday it had settled charges against technology company Nvidia Corporation …
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Tweets: @firstadopter, @tomwarren, @stephentotilo, and @smdiehl
| David Pierson / Los Angeles Times: |
In the Philippines, presidential frontrunner Bongbong Marcos is using TikTok and troll farms to rewrite his dictator father's violent past for young Filipinos — The popular video-sharing app, TikTok, could tip the balance in the upcoming Philippine election.| Brenda Goh / Reuters: |
China orders internet services to tighten controls to stop under-18s from tipping live streamers or becoming live streamers themselves without guardian consent — China on Saturday ordered internet platforms to step up governance of how under-18s use their livestreaming services as part …
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