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| Pranav Dixit / BuzzFeed News: |
Elon Musk briefly joined a Twitter Space hosted by a BuzzFeed News tech reporter discussing the latest bans, but left after journalists asked him questions — The embattled Twitter CEO briefly appeared in the Twitter Space hosted by BuzzFeed News tech reporter Katie Notopoulos.
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| Mike Masnick / Techdirt: |
By using flimsy, absurd excuses for banning journalists' Twitter accounts, Elon Musk and his buddies show themselves to be hypocrites with no principles — Look, I fucking warned Elon that this is exactly how it would go. It's how it always goes. — Remember Parler?
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| The Guardian: |
Representatives from the UK, Germany, the European Commission, and the United Nations raise concerns over Twitter's suspension of US journalists — Pressure grows on Elon Musk as EU says social media platform could face sanctions over suspensions — The United Nations is “very disturbed” …
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| Semafor: |
Sources: the MD of Elon Musk's family office is seeking new equity investors for Twitter, offering shares of Twitter at $54.20, the same price that Musk paid — The managing director of Elon Musk's family office is seeking new equity investors for Twitter as users revolt, advertisers flee …
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| Jamie Crawley / CoinDesk: |
Mazars, the auditor that worked on proof-of-reserves reports for Binance, Crypto.com, and others, pauses work with crypto clients and deletes Binance's report — Mazars has deleted Binance's proof-of-reserves assessment, which found its bitcoin reserves were overcollateralized.
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| New York Times: |
Meta adviser and ex-Oculus CTO John Carmack leaves the company after more than eight years, saying Meta is operating at “half the effectiveness” — John Carmack, who was chief technology officer of Oculus, which Meta bought, is departing the company.
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| 9to5Mac: |
Apple, Google, and Mozilla are collaborating on the development of Speedometer 3, a browser benchmark that measures responsiveness — Speedometer is a browser benchmark that measures responsiveness by simulating user interactions on demo web applications. Introduced by Apple's WebKit team …
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| RT Watson / The Block: |
Dutch crypto exchange Bitvavo, which uses DCG for its staking service, says it can't access ~$297M held at DCG and that DCG is “experiencing liquidity problems” — - Bitvavo said it can't access 280 million euros ($297 million) held at DCG. — DCG controls troubled crypto lender Genesis Global Capital.| Brian Fung / CNN: |
Some legal experts say Twitter could face regulatory scrutiny for blocking links to Mastodon — Elon Musk's Twitter sparked an international outcry on Thursday by suspending a number of journalists at major news organizations who cover him. — But a different and possibly related move …
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Tweets: @carnage4life, @maxkennerly, @randfish, @jason_kint, and @b_fung
| Will Douglas Heaven / MIT Technology Review: |
Q&A with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman on why DALL-E 2 made such an impact, the lessons from its success about AI's next decade, what DALL-E means for society, and more — Three things the groundbreaking generative model taught OpenAI's CEO. — Sam Altman, OpenAI's CEO …
Tweets: @antonioregalado
| Meg Shen / Reuters: |
Foxconn's Xingwei agrees to sell its entire stake in embattled Chinese chip conglomerate Tsinghua Unigroup for ~$771.79M — Taiwan's Foxconn (2317.TW), the world's largest contract electronics maker, said on Friday its subsidiary in China has agreed to sell entire equity stake in embattled Chinese chip conglomerate Tsinghua Unigroup.| Kristin Robinson / Billboard: |
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