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How Elon Musk's Twitter moderation cuts boosted hate speech outside the US and Canada, where 75%+ of the service's 280M DAUs live, including in Japan and India — With 75 percent of its audience outside the U.S. and Canada, the impact of Elon Musk's moderation cuts has been great elsewhere
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| Derek B. Johnson / SC Media: |
CI/CD service CircleCI says hackers infected an employee's laptop and stole 2FA-backed credentials to breach the company's systems and data in December 2022 — CircleCI's chief technology officer said malicious hackers infected one of their engineer's laptops and stole elevated account privileges …
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| Paul Roberts / The Seattle Times: |
Meta is vacating a Seattle office and a Bellevue office, and Microsoft doesn't plan to renew a Seattle office lease, amid job cuts and remote work's popularity — In the latest sign of change in the tech sector — and softness in the office market here — Facebook parent Meta and Microsoft …
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| Bloomberg: |
Customs data shows China's chip imports fell 15% to 538.4B units in 2022, the first annual drop since at least 2004, after growing 17% in 2021 and 22% in 2020 — China's imports of integrated circuits declined in 2022 for the first time in almost two decades.
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Emails: Twitter is offering free ad space by matching ad spending up to $250K, if the $500K of ads are run by February 28, a period that includes the Super Bowl — Tech company to match advertisers' ad spending up to $250,000 — Twitter Inc. is offering advertisers a new incentive …
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| Pete Syme / Insider: |
An FTX lawyer told Delaware's bankruptcy court that SBF ordered FTX co-founder Gary Wang to open a secret backdoor to let Alameda borrow $65B of clients' money — - Bankruptcy lawyers said Sam Bankman-Fried's Alameda had access to a $65 billion credit line from FTX.
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| Nitish Pahwa / Slate: |
How popular tech podcast All-In, with hosts Jason Calacanis, David Sacks, Chamath Palihapitiya, and David Friedberg, gives some insight into Elon Musk's Twitter — On Nov. 7, about a week after Elon Musk took over Twitter and laid off half the staff, a company vice president offered a group … | Mack DeGeurin / Gizmodo: |
Three ex-employees say SoundHound laid off ~200 people, or nearly 50% of its staff, offering two weeks of severance, paid only if the company raises more money — The massive restructuring comes just one year after the company went public via SPAC and two months after a separate layoff that cut 10% of staff.| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Hackers have begun exploiting a critical remote code execution vulnerability in unpatched versions of the Control Web Panel, a widely used web hosting interface — A patch was released in October, but not all servers have installed it. — Malicious hackers have begun exploiting …
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| Adam Popescu / MIT Technology Review: |
A look at Congo's Virunga National Park, which is running a Bitcoin mine that uses power from a hydro plant to pay park salaries and for infrastructure projects — In an attempt to protect its forests and famous wildlife, Virunga has become the first national park to run a Bitcoin mine.
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| Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: |
Amazon is testing a ~$12/year Prime Lite in India with free two-day delivery and ad-supported Prime Video in SD; Prime costs ~$18/year or ~$2.20/month in India — Amazon is quietly piloting a new tier for its Prime membership in India, providing customers with access to popular benefits … | Peter Blumberg / Bloomberg: |
A San Francisco federal judge rules that five laid-off Twitter workers must pursue severance claims in individual arbitration rather than a class-action lawsuit — Twitter Inc. won a ruling forcing a group of laid-off workers fighting the company over their severance packages to pursue … Sponsor Posts
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