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| Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg: |
Elon Musk fired at least two Twitter engineers who publicly criticized him on the social network, in one case announcing the firing in a now-deleted tweet — Twitter Inc. owner Elon Musk, who has called himself a “free speech absolutist,” has resorted to firing company engineers who publicly criticize him on the social-media service.
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| Casey Newton / Platformer: |
A look at a document from Twitter's trust and safety team on November 1 detailing how the Blue subscription could be abused, largely ignored in a rush to launch — Employees and advertisers keep warning him about the risks of changes he's making to Twitter — but he's not listening
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| Casey Newton / @caseynewton: |
[Thread] Sources: ~20 Twitter employees who criticized Elon Musk in Twitter's Slack channels were fired overnight via email — NEW: Employees who have criticized Elon Musk in Twitter's Slack channels were fired overnight over email. “We regret to inform you that your employment is terminated immediately,” they're being told over email. “Your recent behavior has violated company policy.”
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| Seb Joseph / Digiday: |
Document: GroupM warns clients Twitter is a “high risk” media buy due to senior executive resignations, Blue check abuse, and possible consent decree violations — The public boycott of advertising on Twitter is starting to look a lot like a long goodbye.| Hartley Charlton / MacRumors: |
Apple plans to expand Emergency SOS via Satellite to France, Germany, Ireland, and the UK in December, after launching the service in the US and Canada — The iPhone 14 lineup's Emergency SOS via satellite and Find My via satellite features will launch in four additional countries next month, Apple today announced.
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| Victoria Song / The Verge: |
Hands-on with Apple's Emergency SOS via Satellite, rolling out now: the feature works well, texting via satellite takes a while, and users should try the demo — You don't have to hold your arm up to get a signal, though there is a lot of turning around and waiting when trying to connect to satellites.
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| Matt Novak / Gizmodo: |
The New York Times' bizarre SBF profile presents the disgraced founder through a gauzy lens, fails to challenge him, and gives him the benefit of the doubt — FTX filed for bankruptcy on Friday, leaving reasonable people to wonder how a cryptocurrency platform founded in 2019 …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Sam Bankman-Fried has unsuccessfully continued to attempt to raise $8B to plug FTX's shortfall, despite filing for bankruptcy and resigning as CEO — Alongside a few remaining employees, Mr. Bankman-Fried spent the weekend calling around in search of new commitments from investors
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| Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: |
Bankruptcy filings: FTX CEO John J. Ray III appoints new directors, discloses conversations with “dozens” of regulators, and estimates creditors at over 1M — FTX filed its first substantive look at the exchange's bankruptcy process days after declaring bank
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Amazon launches Amazon Clinic, a telehealth marketplace for third-party virtual consultants, available in 32 US states, months after shuttering Amazon Care — The ink is not yet dry on Amazon's $4 billion acquisition of OneMedical, but in the meantime, the online services giant is making …
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| Cecilia D'Anastasio / Bloomberg: |
Microsoft publishes its first Xbox transparency report on content moderation, revealing the company took action against 4.3M+ inauthentic accounts in H1 2022 — Microsoft Corp.'s Xbox released its first transparency report on Monday, detailing how the gaming giant moderates its 3 billion global players.
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| Matt Levine / Bloomberg: |
An analysis of FTX's nightmare balance sheet and Serum, an FTX-created coin and protocol, marked as the largest “deliverable” asset at ~$5.4B before November 8 — The box — There is so much, but I want to start with Serum. — If a troubled company has a few days … | Dina Bass / Bloomberg: |
Microsoft launches a preview of Supply Chain Center, a command center to help monitor supply chains with data from Oracle, SAP, and others, and its own tools — Microsoft Corp. unveiled software that will help customers track and coordinate supply-chain systems by combining data …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Nvidia RTX 4080 review: great 4K performance, transformative DLSS 3, and 16GB of VRAM, but huge, expensive, and the dongle adapter is annoying — Nvidia is back with another new 40-series card. The RTX 4080 can deliver impressive 4K gaming compared to the RTX 30-series.
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| Jonathan Stempel / Reuters: |
Filing: Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway acquires ~60.1M of TSMC's American depositary shares, worth $4.1B+, in Q3 2022; TSMC's stock closed up 7.87% — Berkshire Hathaway Inc (BRKa.N) said it bought more than $4.1 billion of stock in Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (2330.TW) …
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| Vikas SN / Moneycontrol: |
Meta confirms WhatsApp India head Abhijit Bose and India's public policy head Rajiv Aggarwal have stepped down; sources say the exits are not layoff related — Shivnath Thukral, who is currently serving as the director of public policy at WhatsApp India, has been appointed the director …
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