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Dell plans to eliminate ~6,650 jobs, or ~5% of its workforce, taking its headcount to ~126K, down by ~39K since January 2020, as the pandemic-era PC boom fades — Dell Technologies Inc., facing plummeting demand for personal computers, will eliminate about 6,650 jobs, becoming …
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Analysis: despite Elon Musk's pledge in late November, CSAM still spreads on Twitter, sometimes recommended by its algorithm; one video drew over 120,000 views — Child sexual abuse imagery spreads on Twitter even after the company is notified: One video drew 120,000 views.
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| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
A look at the Four Horsemen of the Tech Recession: a hangover from pandemic-era growth, hardware lifecycles, the end of zero interest rates, and Apple's ATT — It really was jarring to see those employment figures the same week that tech company after tech company reported mostly disappointing earnings …
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| Helene Braun / CoinDesk: |
Binance is “temporarily suspending US dollar bank transfers” on February 8 and says 0.01% of its monthly active users use USD bank transfers — USD bank transfers comprise only a tiny bit of monthly active users, the exchange said. — Join the most important conversation …
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| Tim Higgins / Wall Street Journal: |
Since buying Twitter, Elon Musk says his workload has reached 120+ hours per week, leading to little sleep and “severe back pain”, as he runs multiple companies — At Tesla trial and in tweets, executive gives a glimpse into personal challenges — Elon Musk's Tesla Tweets Trial: What to Know
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| Adam Morgan McCarthy / The Block: |
a16z used all its 15M UNI tokens to vote against a proposal to deploy Uniswap V3 on the BNB Chain using the Wormhole bridge; voting is set to end on February 10 — - A16z used all 15 million of their UNI to vote against the proposal. The proposal would use the Wormhole bridge for the Uniswap V3 deployment.
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| James Vincent / The Verge: |
Getty Images sues Stability AI in the US for allegedly copying 12M+ images without permission or compensation for training data used to create Stable Diffusion — Getty Images has filed a lawsuit in the US against Stability AI, creators of open-source AI art generator Stable Diffusion, escalating its legal battle against the firm.| Jamie Crawley / CoinDesk: |
Binance launches a free tool to help users calculate their tax obligations, supporting up to 100K crypto transactions, available initially in Canada and France — The tool, initially available to users in Canada and France, supports reporting of up to 100,000 transactions.| Rana Foroohar / Financial Times: |
The US DOJ seeking a jury trial over breaking up Google's ad business is risky in antitrust but a smart way to avoid a judge likely to align with a corporation — The US Department of Justice is insisting that its new Google suit be tried by a jury — Complexity is often used to obfuscate.| Chan Ho-him / Financial Times: |
Disney removes an October 2022 episode of The Simpsons that referred to “forced labor camps” in China from Disney+ in Hong Kong, after a similar removal in 2021 — Missing programme on streaming platform mentions ‘camps where children make smartphones’
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| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
After Twitter said free API access would end on February 9, Elon Musk promises “a light, write-only API for bots providing good content that is free” — Last week, Twitter said it is shutting down free access to its APIs starting February 9. Now, days before the deadline …
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Tweets: @elonmusk, @elonmusk, @ethanz, @pepitothecat, @dfreelon, @davewiner, @hourlyhomura, @hourlyakechi, @kassandraseven, @hourlyyeen, @kingofaerghus, @berdlybot, @scalzi, @glitchtvbot, @inlined, @splatoon3ink, @taizou_hori, @sbmoviebot, @mjg59, @dfreelon, @schmutzie, @jamescridland, @nealschaffer, @stardoopy, and @rarohde
| Bloomberg: |
JD.com, China Mobile, and other Chinese retailers are discounting iPhone 14 Pro models by ~$118, an unusually steep price cut that suggests dwindling demand — Apple Inc.'s latest iPhones are selling at discounts of more than $100 in China, an unusually steep price cut just months after launch …
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