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| Alex Heath / The Verge: |
Sources: at an all-hands, Elon Musk said Twitter is done with layoffs and actively recruiting for roles in engineering and sales; Twitter has 2,700+ employees — After purging nearly two-thirds of Twitter's 7,500-person workforce in three weeks, Elon Musk is hiring again.
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| Alex Heath / The Verge: |
Elon Musk holds Blue Verified's relaunch until “there is high confidence of stopping impersonations” and floats using different colors for orgs and individuals — Elon Musk told Twitter employees on Monday that the company won't relaunch its paid verification subscription …
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Genesis struggles to raise $1B+ funding for its lending unit and warns potential investors that it may need to file for bankruptcy if its efforts fail — Digital-asset brokerage Genesis is struggling to raise fresh cash for its lending unit, and it's warning potential investors …
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| Stephanie Murray / The Block: |
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| Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica: |
Report: Amazon's hardware group is on track to lose $10B in 2022, as many Echo devices are sold at cost and plans to monetize Alexa have failed — Layoffs reportedly hit the Alexa team hard as the company's biggest money loser. — Amazon is going through the biggest layoffs …
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| Koh Gui Qing / Reuters: |
Records: FTX, its executives, and SBF's parents bought 19+ properties in the Bahamas worth ~$121M over the past two years as “residence for key personnel” — Sam Bankman-Fried's FTX, his parents and senior executives of the failed cryptocurrency exchange bought … | Eliza Gkritsi / CoinDesk: |
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| Sunil Jagtiani / Bloomberg: |
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| Thomas Germain / Gizmodo: |
Researchers: Apple analytics data include a unique ID for a user's iCloud account, despite Apple saying usage data does not include personally identifiable info — Your iPhone's analytics data includes an ID number tied to your name, email, and phone number, say researchers who uncovered other holes in Apple' promises.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Tumblr plans to support ActivityPub, the open and decentralized social networking protocol powering Mastodon, Instagram-like Pixelfed, PeerTube, and others — Tumblr will add support for ActivityPub, the open, decentralized social networking protocol that's today powering social networking software …
Tweets: @harrymccracken, @stefangreybeard, @elamhut, and @joelghill
| Cheyenne Ligon / CoinDesk: |
US DOJ says two Estonians were arrested for a $575M cryptocurrency fraud and money laundering scheme that allegedly defrauded hundreds of thousands of investors — According to the Department of Justice, the two men used shell companies to launder the proceeds of their fraudulent schemes and buy luxury cars and real estate in Estonia.| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Zoom reports Q3 revenue up 5% YoY to $1.1B, Enterprise customers up 14% YoY to ~209.3K, and a FY 2023 revenue guidance below estimates; stock drops 5%+ — - Zoom made a slight downward revision to its revenue guidance, and investors responded by pushing the stock lower.| Ryan Lovelace / Washington Times: |
Twitter reinstates the accounts of Ye, Project Veritas, and others, despite Musk's pledge to delay such decisions until forming a content moderation council — Several banned Twitter users are making their return to the social media platform, following new owner Elon Musk clearing a path …
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Tech.co, The Hill, Gizmodo, and Observer
Tweets: @kanyewest, @elonmusk, @kanyewest, @elonmusk, @project_veritas, @mollyjongfast, @juddapatow, @mattgertz, and @karaswisher
| Matt Novak / Gizmodo: |
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| Pranshu Verma / Washington Post: |
A look at the tech being used at the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, including player-tracking tech for offside decisions and algorithms to forecast crowd patterns — At the 2022 World Cup, everything from stadium temperatures to the soccer balls are run on sensors and algorithms.
Tweets: @postsports
| Vitalik Buterin's website: |
How centralized crypto exchanges could offer “proof of solvency” while protecting depositors' privacy by using ZK-SNARKs, a type of zero-knowledge proof — Special thanks to Balaji Srinivasan, and Coinbase, Kraken and Binance staff for discussion.
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Tweets: @vitalikbuterin, @cz_binance, @brian_armstrong, @phil_kelly_nyc, @cz_binance, @jerallaire, @balajis, @pankaj, and @nityn
| Zheping Huang / Bloomberg: |
Baidu reports Q3 revenue up 2% YoY to ~$4.6B, beating estimates, and a ~$20.5M net loss due to investments, signaling China's tech sector might be recovering — Baidu Inc. posted a surprise gain in revenue after cost cuts helped prop up the bottom line and online advertising held up better …
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