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Elon Musk says the blue checkmark system is “bullshit” and Twitter Blue will be $8/month with half the ads, priority in replies, mentions, and search, and more — Twitter's current lords & peasants system for who has or doesn't have a blue checkmark is bullshit. Power to the people! Blue for $8/month.
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| New York Times: |
Twitter's Chief Customer Officer Sarah Personette “resigns”; sources say ad company IPG recommended that clients pause Twitter spending over moderation concerns — At least three Twitter executives have left in recent days, as one of the world's largest ad companies said clients …
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| Kali Hays / Insider: |
Comedian and verified Twitter user Tim Heidecker puts the site's moderation practices to the test by starting #TrumpIsDead, which began trending on November 1 — - A comedian intentionally started the claim, in what could be a test for Elon Musk. — The claim was trending on Twitter.| Washington Post: |
Internal email: Twitter appears to be rushing out a “high”-risk “Paywalled Video” feature, letting users charge to view their videos, with Twitter taking a cut — The tool would let video creators charge users for access. The team working on it flagged big potential pitfalls.
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The Verge, Insider, Gizmodo, and CNBC
| Naomi Nix / Washington Post: |
Elon Musk says Twitter will not reinstate banned accounts “until we have a clear process for doing so, which will take at least a few more weeks” — The pledge means that accounts including former president Donald Trump won't be allowed back online before the midterms
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| Chelsey Cox / CNBC: |
FinCEN: US financial firms processed ~$1.2B in likely ransomware payments in 2021, up almost 3x YoY; ~75% of H2 2021 ransomware incidents were linked to Russia — - U.S. banks and financial institutions processed more than $1 billion in potential ransomware-related payments in 2021.
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FinCEN.gov, FinCEN.gov, CNN, and HealthcareInfoSecurity.com
Tweets: @johnnysaks130, @ericgeller, @johnnysaks130, @swagitda_, @johnnysaks130, and @serghei
| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
Dropbox says hackers stole code and some API keys from 130 GitHub repositories via a phishing campaign, but its core apps and infrastructure were unaffected — Dropbox disclosed a security breach after threat actors stole 130 code repositories after gaining access to one of its GitHub …
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Dropbox Tech Blog, Forbes, BetaNews, Silicon Republic, The Register, SecurityWeek, Neowin, Security Affairs, and The Hacker News
Tweets: @seanwrightsec, @0xtim, @arekfurt, @campuscodi, @lukolejnik, and @campuscodi
| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Apple TV 4K (2022) review: affordable, snappy performance, and USB-C remote, but no AirTag-like remote tracking, lackluster live TV, and somewhat stale design — Packing more speed than ever (and now HDR10 Plus) at a cheaper price, the Apple TV 4K is the best overall streamer on the market — even if tvOS is falling behind in places
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TechCrunch, 9to5Mac, MacRumors, ZDNet, TheStreet, MobileSyrup, and Press Start
Tweets: @parkerortolani, @supersaf, and @chriswelch
| Karen Hao / Wall Street Journal: |
China's Zhengzhou industrial park, where Foxconn makes iPhones, begins a weeklong lockdown to counteract the “severe and complicated” spread of COVID-19 — HONG KONG—The industrial park where Foxconn Technology Group's iPhone assembly plant is struggling to maintain production amid …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Sony plans to launch the PlayStation VR2 on February 22 for $550, £530, or €600; preorders open November 15 — Sony will launch its PS VR2 headset on February 22nd priced at $549.99. The PS VR2 will be priced at $549.99 in the US, €599.99 across Europe, £529.99, and ¥74,980 in Japan.
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PlayStation.Blog, PlayStation.Blog, and The Shortcut
Tweets: @jetscott, @chitogaminyt, @ianhigton, and @playstation
| Financial Times: |
The UK's Ofcom begins scrapping legislation compelling BT and KCOM to provide affordable, dedicated landlines, sounding the death knell for the fax machine — Requirement that BT provides dedicated landlines for the devices at affordable prices is to be scrapped| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Tumblr updates its community guidelines to allow nudity, mature subject matter, and sexual themes, but says sexually explicit acts “remain off-limits” — Tumblr has made an update it hinted at in September, changing its rules to allow nudity — but not sexually explicit images — on the platform.
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Engadget, Tumblr Staff, Tumblr, The Shortcut, and Mashable
Tweets: @mistresssnowphd, @photomatt, @thedextriarchy, and @thedextriarchy
| Wall Street Journal: |
Netflix begins rolling out its Basic with Ads tier; sources say licensing negotiations with Disney, Comcast, Sony, Warner Bros., and Lions Gate are ongoing — Disney, NBCU and Sony are among the companies still negotiating licensing with the streaming service| Lora Kolodny / CNBC: |
Sources: Twitter managers told employees they would be paid for their newly vested shares in the first half of November 2022, starting as early as November 4 — - Since Elon Musk closed his purchase of Twitter on Oct. 28, employees worried they would be fired or laid off before their stock options vested in early November.| Taylor Hatmaker / TechCrunch: |
Twitch launches Guest Star, which lets streamers pull other creators and fans into their streams for a talk show-like experience, out of beta for all users — With its biggest product launch in years, Twitch is betting on a near-future of the platform that features more dynamic conversations … | Ewen Callaway / Nature: |
Meta researchers create ESMFold, an LLM to predict the structures of 617M+ metagenomic proteins that is less accurate than DeepMind's AlphaFold but ~60x faster — When London-based Deep Mind unveiled predicted structures for some 220 million proteins this year, it covered nearly every protein from known organisms in DNA databases.
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Meta AI, Silicon Republic, GitHub, and The Register
Tweets: @metaai, @ferruz_noelia, @laurie_garrett, @ylecun, and @schrep
| Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
Google plans to roll out parental controls for Assistant, including disabling features, restricting services, and setting downtimes hours, in the “coming weeks” — Kids love to use smart speakers, but it's all too easy for things to go horribly wrong — including content that's decidedly not family-friendly.
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| Dylan Martin / The Register: |
Intel says its next-gen Sapphire Rapids Xeon chips are slated for January 2023, after a spate of delays dating back to 2021, another boon for AMD's server chips — x86 giant offers January launch, AMD eating its chips — Intel said its next-generation Xeon Scalable CPUs will launch … | Raksha Kumar / Rest of World: |
A look at the everyday sexism faced by Indian women working in tech; around 36% of India's 5M tech workers are women, of which 7% hold executive-level positions — Tech helped more Indian women join the workforce, but they're still fighting to be treated equally.
Tweets: @anupkaphle, @vickiturk, @rctatman, @restofworld, @itikaspunit, and @itikaspunit
| Washington Post: |
Sources: the US is exploring whether it has legal authority to review Elon Musk's Twitter deal, which gives large foreign investors access to confidential data — Terms of the deal give large foreign investors access to confidential information about the social media platform
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CoinGape. Tweets: @faizsays, @jeffjarvis, @faizsays, @gerritd, @jstein_wapo, @faizsays, @jfortin670, @mydemocracy, and @jedicounselor
| William Turvill / Press Gazette: |
Source: Meta plans to end human curation of its UK Facebook News tab, contracted to a team of ~15 journalists at Upday, and switch to an AI system in early 2023 — Meta plans to end human curation of the UK Facebook News tab, turning it into a fully automated product, Press Gazette has learned.
Tweets: @pressgazette, @journalism, @wturvill, @wturvill, @johnycassidy, and @pedrodias
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Redwood City-based Alation, which helps crawl and search enterprise databases, raised a $123M Series E at a $1.7B valuation, bringing its total funding to $340M — There's been an explosion of enterprise data in recent years, accelerated by pandemic-spurred digital transformations.| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google adds Lens to the google.com homepage, letting users search by image, after rolling out the feature to the desktop in 2021 — Google Lens will only become more important going forward, and one sign of that is its addition to the google.com homepage today.Sponsor Posts
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UiPath:
UiPath Unveils 10 Innovations that Will Shape the Agentic Future — Orchestration engine, API workflows and agentic testing among key features of new UiPath Platform™ for agentic automation, launched at UiPath DevCon 2025
UiPath Unveils 10 Innovations that Will Shape the Agentic Future — Orchestration engine, API workflows and agentic testing among key features of new UiPath Platform™ for agentic automation, launched at UiPath DevCon 2025
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AI meeting assistants: A game-changer in communication — We've come a long way from live video call demonstrations at world's fairs. What was once considered a futuristic idea is now a vital part of how we collaborate …
AI meeting assistants: A game-changer in communication — We've come a long way from live video call demonstrations at world's fairs. What was once considered a futuristic idea is now a vital part of how we collaborate …
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