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Elon Musk fired at least two Twitter engineers who publicly criticized him on the social network, in one case announcing the firing in a 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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| 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.| 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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| 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 …
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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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| Nic Carter / CoinDesk: |
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| 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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| 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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| Kim Bhasin / Bloomberg: |
Nike announces virtual sneaker store and trading platform .SWOOSH and plans to launch its first collection in January 2023; registrations open on November 18 — Nike Inc. is opening an online store and trading platform for virtual sneakers as management pumps investment into the metaverse.
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Tweets: @0xpolygon, @roundhill, @edzitron, @carlquintanilla, and @adnys
| Karen Weise / New York Times: |
Sources: Amazon plans to cut ~10,000 corporate and tech jobs, or ~3% of its corporate staff and the largest cuts in its history, starting as soon as this week — The job cuts of approximately 10,000, which would start as soon as this week, would focus on the company's devices organization, retail division and human resources.
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| Cecilia Kang / New York Times: |
Google agrees to a record $391.5M privacy settlement with 40 state AGs over charges the company misled users into thinking they had disabled location tracking — Under the agreement, which state attorneys general said was the largest U.S. internet privacy settlement, Google must …
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| Ryan Browne / CNBC: |
In a Twitter Space, Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao said the crypto exchange has seen a “slight increase in withdrawals” but otherwise “it's still business as usual” — - Binance has seen a “slight increase in withdrawals,” said CEO Changpeng Zhao Monday …
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Tweets: @binance, @ryan_browne_, @jordanfried, and @erickschonfeld
| Paul Alcorn / Tom's Hardware: |
Cerebras announces its Andromeda supercomputer, combining 16 wafer-sized WSE-2 chips to create 13.5M AI-optimized cores, available to customers and researchers — The world's largest chip scales to new heights. — Image 1 of 2 — Cerebras, the company that builds the world's largest chip …
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