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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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| 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 — What began as the firing of two longtime Twitter Inc. engineers after they criticized their new boss has turned into a purge …
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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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| Oliver Darcy / CNN: |
Sources: Protocol, a tech news-focused website that launched in early 2020, will shutter later this week and lay off its entire staff of ~60 — New York CNN Business — Protocol, the upstart technology news website launched by former Politico owner and publisher Robert Allbritton in early 2020 … | 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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| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Q&A with Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer on running the division, how decisions are made, delaying big games, Xbox, Keystone, exclusives, rivals, and more — The CEO of Microsoft Gaming thinks King is the crown jewel of the Activision empire. … Phil Spencer, CEO of Microsoft Gaming …
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| Steven Church / Bloomberg: |
Voyager Digital's bankruptcy lawyer says the crypto lender is no longer selling itself to bankrupt crypto exchange FTX; FTX agrees Voyager can pursue other bids — Bankrupt crypto lender Voyager Digital Ltd. doesn't plan to sell itself to FTX after the crypto exchange itself was forced … | Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Descript, the AI-powered media editing app founded by Andrew Mason, raised a $50M Series C led by the OpenAI Startup Fund, bringing its total funding to $100M — Descript, the audio and video editing platform founded in 2017 by former Groupon CEO Andrew Mason, has raised $50 million … | Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Nvidia RTX 4080 review: great 4K performance, DLSS 3 is genuinely transformative, and 16GB of VRAM, but it's 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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| 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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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Seattle-based MotherDuck, which plans to commercialize its database DuckDB, raised $47.5M across a seed and Series A led by Redpoint and a16z, respectively — Jordan Tigani — a founding engineer at Google BigQuery, Google's fully managed data analysis platform — was working …
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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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| Kari McMahon / The Block: |
A profile of FTX co-founder and CTO Gary Wang, who sources say doesn't talk much, is hard to contact, and was one of the few with “root access” to the code base — - FTX's billionaire co-founder Gary Wang has a limited online presence and has stayed out of the spotlight throughout the crypto exchange's three-year history.| 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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