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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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Tweets: @forevereversley, @brenonade, @katienotopoulos, @elonmusk, @katienotopoulos, @carnage4life, @lookner, @jason_kint, @jordanuhl, @kattenbarge, @jackposobiec, @marisakabas, @rmayemsinger, @katienotopoulos, @jeretonuniverse, @punished_catbus, @eliothiggins, @koladeszn, @tomgara, @fchollet, @mrandyngo, @tomgara, @jonbradyphoto, @pranavdixit, @bcmerchant, @alexblagg, @mattxiv, @aliceavizandum, @mattsheffield, @clarajeffery, @ericareport, @dfriedman33, @jordanuhl, @crulge, @dellcam, @jbouie, @jtlol, @onesarahjones, @davidlat, @qwrrty, @adribbleofink, @kattenbarge, @cooltimesonline, @kimtodzi, @triketora, @johnpaczkowski, and @iamsophianelson
| NBC News: |
Twitter suspends journalists including the New York Times' Ryan Mac and CNN's Donie O'Sullivan; Elon Musk says the “same doxxing rules apply to ‘journalists’” — Twitter suspended several high-profile journalists Thursday evening who have been covering the company and Elon Musk.
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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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| 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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| Taylor Hatmaker / TechCrunch: |
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Tweets: @vitalikbuterin, @repdonbeyer, @cdixon, @danluu, @oneunderscore__, @b_fung, @jake_k, @repdonbeyer, @kylebrussell, @bendobrown, @mikaelthalen, @asteris, @anonymousnn3, @adambienkov, @mor10, @maxkennerly, @emptywheel, @oneunderscore__, @markos, @ruskin147, @bfriedmandc, @pwnallthethings, @dystopiabreaker, @zoink, @nycsouthpaw, @dougjballoon, @gabrielsnyder, @welshgasdoc, @astroehlein, @crecenteb, @sriramk, and @rstephens
| 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 … | 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.| 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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Tweets: @googlechrome, @mozhacks, @webkit, and @mozhacks
| 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
| Amir Shevat / TechCrunch: |
Former product head of Twitter's developer platform details the plans, like custom timelines, that Twitter abandoned post-acquisition, breaking developer trust — Twitter is where the world shares its opinions and aspirations; it's where brands, celebrities, and politicians interact with people, live and in the open.
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| 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.
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| Josh Eidelson / Bloomberg: |
In a complaint to the US NLRB, the CWA alleges Apple tried to prevent union organizing in Ohio by creating a company-controlled pseudo-union — Apple Inc. tried to prevent union-organizing efforts in Ohio by creating a company-controlled labor group for employees to join instead …
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Tweets: @cwaunion, @apple_union, @code_cwa, @newsynick, @code_cwa, @josheidelson, @josheidelson, and @josheidelson
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