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Sources: Elon Musk plans to cut ~3,700 jobs at Twitter, or half of the company's workforce, starting on November 4, and reverse its work-from-anywhere policy — Elon Musk plans to eliminate about 3,700 jobs at Twitter Inc., or half of the social media company's workforce …
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Twitter aims to charge for verification as soon as November 7, give current verified users a multi-month grace period, and make the edit button free — Twitter Inc. aims to start selling blue verification badges for user profiles as soon as next week, part of a plan by new owner Elon Musk …
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| Will Oremus / Washington Post: |
Sources: Twitter staff are yet to receive a single official message since Musk took over and are relying on media reports, Musk's tweets, and private chats — Rumors swirl on anonymous apps amid silence from Elon Musk's leadership team as layoffs loom — With rumors of impending layoffs …
| Jennifer Surane / Bloomberg: |
Memo: Stripe plans to lay off 14% of its staff, reducing its headcount by 1,000 to almost 7,000, to prepare for “leaner times” — Stripe Inc., one of the world's most valuable startups, will cut more than 1,000 jobs as it seeks to rein in costs ahead of any economic downturn.
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Stripe, CNBC, TechCrunch, Microsoft Tech Community, EA, The Information, RTÉ, Silicon Republic, Protocol, CoinDesk, The Block, and Reuters
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
WhatsApp announces Communities, a group messaging feature for larger, more structured groups of up to 1,024 people, rolling out worldwide in the coming months — WhatsApp today is officially launching Communities, the new feature offering larger, more structured discussion groups that first entered into testing earlier this year.
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| Dan Milmo / The Guardian: |
TikTok plans to update its privacy policy on December 2 to confirm that its staff outside of Europe, including in China, can access the data of European users — Privacy policy update confirms data of continent's users available to range of TikTok bases including in Brazil, Israel and US
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Metacurity, Quartz, Silicon Republic, BBC, Fortune, Neowin, Light Reading, TikTok, CNN, Security Affairs, and The Hacker News
Tweets: @isaacstonefish, @vtchakarova, @mrbcyber, @williamyang120, @brianhonan, and @alexhern
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
In the coming weeks, Google will update Gmail to show live package tracking for order confirmation emails under the sender's name in the inbox — Google announced today a small but useful update to Gmail that will allow users to soon be able to track their upcoming package deliveries directly from their inbox.
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The Keyword, ZDNet, MacRumors, Livemint, 9to5Mac, Redmond Pie, KnowTechie, Mashable, Tom's Guide, CNBC, Android Central, and SamMobile
Tweets: @quinnypig and @artemr
| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Twitter cancels its Chirp developer conference, set for November 16, and says it is building “some things that we're excited to share with you soon” — Twitter is canceling its developer-focused Chirp conference amid management transition, the company said late Thursday.
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The Economic Times. Tweets: @twitterdev, @karissabe, @harrymccracken, @carnage4life, @simonw, @twitterdev, @metzinaround, @ashevat, @igorbrigadir, @i_am_daniele, @karissabe, and @igb
| Kate Irwin / Decrypt: |
Meta lets select Instagram creators in the US test a toolkit for minting NFTs and selling them on and off the platform, and says it won't charge fees until 2024 — Instagram will soon have NFT creation and trading tools built in, but in-app purchases will be “subject to applicable app store fees.”
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Qualcomm expects to provide modem chips for the “vast majority” of iPhones in 2023, retaining its current foothold after previously planning to supply ~20% — Qualcomm Inc. will continue to provide the modem chips for the “vast majority” of iPhones in 2023 …
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PCMag, Reuters, Qualcomm Investor Relations, Wall Street Journal, FOSS Patents, BGR, iThinkDifferent, iPhone Hacks, and Appuals.com
Tweets: @markgurman, @corbindavenport, @rogerentner, @patrickmoorhead, @benbajarin, @mytechmusings, @tapbot_paul, and @inafried
| Matt Burgess / Wired: |
Egypt is one of the internet's most prominent choke points thanks to 16 subsea cables carrying ~17% of the world's internet traffic touching land in the country — Underwater cables keep the internet online. When they congregate in one place, things get tricky.
Tweets: @aipio and @mattburgess1
| TechCrunch: |
Sources: Ajit Mohan, the head of Meta in India who joined the company in 2019, has left to become the president of Snap's APAC business — Ajit Mohan, the head of Meta in India, has left the firm and joined rival Snap, according to sources familiar with the matter.
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Moneycontrol, Reuters, The Economic Times, Reuters, NDTV, Inc42 Media, and Firstpost Tech
| Mia Sato / The Verge: |
Patreon launches a native ad-free video hosting tool for creators, expanding on support for third-party players, available to a select group in beta — The update marks a major shift in how creators on Patreon can share video content with fans. Previously, creators had to upload videos … | Maria Deutscher / SiliconANGLE: |
Google debuts Code as Policies, a tool that uses AI models to generate code for robots to perform a variety of tasks, under an open-source license on GitHub — Google LLC today debuted an internally developed software tool that can reduce the amount of effort involved in training a robot to perform new tasks.
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ZDNet, Google AI Blog, TechCrunch, and Silicon Republic
Tweets: @jackyliang42 and @haydenfield
| Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge: |
Amazon will roll out Matter over WiFi smart home standard to 17 Echo devices in December, initially for Android, supporting smart plugs, bulbs, and switches — Amazon will start its Matter journey slowly, bringing support for the new smart home standard to 17 Echo devices in December.
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MacRumors, AppleInsider, MacRumors, Android Police, ZDNet, Engadget, 9to5Mac, TechCrunch, Business Wire, and iMore
| Chloe Chaplain / The i Paper: |
Source: the UK plans to remove the Online Safety Bill's controversial “legal but harmful” content rules, leaving them only for material targeted at children — EXCLUSIVEThe Bill is due to be brought back to Parliament later this month after it was delayed over the summer
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| Joel Khalili / Wired: |
A look at Twitter's Bluesky “federated social network” project under Elon Musk; CEO Jay Graber recently tweeted that she is “very glad we're independent” — For years, the platform has funded a project that's meant to create a better, decentralized online experience.| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
Apiiro, which lets developers and application security engineers proactively fix problems, raised a $100M Series B, bringing its total funding to $135M — At a time when large rounds are a thing of the past, especially in the early stages, Apiiro, an applications security startup …
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| Meagan Simpson / BetaKit: |
Vancouver-based Dapper Labs, the NFT startup behind CryptoKitties and NBA Top Shot, lays off ~134 staff, or ~22% of its workforce; Dapper Labs has raised $600M+ — Dapper Labs has laid off around 22 percent of its staff, BetaKit has learned. — The company confirmed the layoffs to BetaKit … | Fiona Alston / Tech.eu: |
Barcelona-based Lodgify, which offers SaaS tools for managing rental properties on Airbnb and other platforms, raised a $30M Series B led by Octopus Ventures — The Spanish firm's one stop digital shop for hosts and property managers hopes to capture 80% of the short-term rental market by concentrating on SMEs
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Preqin: Chinese VC deals fell 44% YoY in October to $62.1B, of which $7.9B went to semiconductor companies, up from $6.3B in 2021 — Venture capital investments in China are falling sharply this year, making it one of the worst-performing countries globally after the Communist Party's crackdown …
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| Josh Sisco / Politico: |
Sources: the US DOJ is preparing to open an in-depth probe into Adobe's $20B acquisition of Figma and has been contacting customers, competitors, and investors — The Justice Department is preparing to open an in-depth investigation of Adobe's $20 billion takeover of design collaboration company Figma …
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San Francisco Business Journal and Bloomberg
Tweets: @joshua_sisco, @lizthewhizard, @seldo, and @matthewstoller
| Benj Edwards / Ars Technica: |
Meta AI researchers unveil Encodec, a neural network trained to compress audio at a ~10x rate compared with the MP3 format at 64Kbps, without a loss in quality — Technique could allow high-quality calls and music on low-quality connections. — Last week, Meta announced …
Tweets: @suhail
| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Whenever US politicians talk about changing Section 230 or regulating Big Tech and websites, they are almost always talking about imperiling the First Amendment — The First Amendment is one of America's most distinctive pieces of law. But as the midterm — and, quickly, the presidential …
Tweets: @evan_greer, @thedextriarchy, @navinram999, @reckless, @senatorshoshana, and @senatorshoshana
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