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Sources: on October 28, Twitter engineers were told to print out their last 30 to 60 days of code for Elon Musk to review, and then told to shred the printouts — Twitter has a new CEO. And he'd like to see your code, please — Elon Musk took over Twitter on Thursday like a military general …
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Sources: Elon Musk plans to begin layoffs at Twitter as soon as October 29, before staff are scheduled to receive stock grants on November 1 — The billionaire planned to begin layoffs as soon as Saturday, people with knowledge of the matter said. — SAN FRANCISCO — Elon Musk planned …
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| Martin Peers / The Information: |
Source: Elon Musk fired top Twitter executives, including CEO Parag Agrawal, “for cause”, in an apparent attempt to avoid severance and unvested stock payouts — When Elon Musk terminated four top Twitter executives, including CEO Parag Agrawal and CFO Ned Segal on Thursday …
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| New York Times: |
Sources: at Twitter's HQ, former head of product Kayvon Beykpour, David Sacks, and Elon Musk's personal attorney were spotted on Musk's first full day as owner — The billionaire began as Twitter's new owner by announcing a content moderation council and meeting employees, as some of the social media service's users celebrated.
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| Alex Stamos / @alexstamos: |
[Thread] Elon Musk made himself the global face of content moderation amid growing government pressures even as his Tesla wealth depends on China and others — I think @elonmusk has made a huge mistake, making himself the global face of content moderation at a critical moment of struggle with governments, while maintaining massive personal exposure to challenging countries.
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| David Gilbert / VICE: |
Some users test the limits of Twitter's moderation system following Musk's takeover by using profane slurs, racial epithets, and other forms of hate speech — The very first hours of Musk's stewardship of Twitter have been dominated by users relishing their ability to use profane slurs and racial epithets.
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| John Walker / Kotaku: |
Adobe apps no longer support Pantone-owned colors for free due to a licensing change; the Pantone color libraries now require an Adobe plug-in for $15/month — Due to a change in how Adobe licenses Pantone colors, old PSD files could start being filled in black
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| Yashu Gola / Cointelegraph: |
Dogecoin surged by nearly 75% on October 29 after Elon Musk took control of Twitter, its biggest daily gain since April 2021, and is up 150% since October 25 — DOGE price could drop 60% by the end of this year as it reaches its most overbought level since April 2021. — 5093 Total views
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| Kathryn Walson / PhocusWire: |
Canary Technologies, which offers hotels guest management and other tools, raised a $30M Series B led by Insight Partners, bringing its total funding to $45M — Hospitality tech company Canary Technologies has secured $30 million in Series B funding to expand its team to keep pace with global demand …
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| Jared Council / Forbes: |
New Orleans-based Resilia, which sells software that helps nonprofits manage their operations, raised a $35M Series B, bringing its total funding to nearly $50M — Sevetri Wilson is not your average tech company founder. She's a Black woman, she has no coding experience …
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| Karl Bode / VICE: |
A Reddit user details a decommissioned Netflix cache server with 64GB of memory and 262TB of storage; such servers are often embedded within major ISP networks — A Netflix cache server is getting a second chance at life thanks to Redditors. — KB — A Redditor says they've managed …
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A book excerpt details Netflix's shift from DVDs and tensions with HBO, which took a hard line on streaming rights, leading Netflix to make its own content — Jeffrey Bewkes scanned his mind, searching for the perfect war metaphor. — It was December 2010.
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