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March 7, 2023, 1:50 AM

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Platformer:
Source: Twitter broke on Monday after the only site reliability engineer assigned to the project for migrating to a paid API made a “bad configuration change”  —  The high cost of cutting expenses  —  Twitter's website is breaking in novel new ways — and while the company managed …
Kris Holt / Engadget:
Some Twitter services such as loading images and TweetDeck were down; clicking a link in a tweet gave the error “your current API plan does not include access”  —  Links and images were completely busted on Twitter for a spell on Monday across the company's website and mobile apps.
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Bloomberg:
Sources: Meta plans to cut thousands of jobs as soon as this week, after it eliminated 13%, or 11,000 jobs in November 2023 in its first major layoff  —  Meta Platforms Inc., the owner of Facebook and Instagram, is planning a fresh round of layoffs and will cut thousands of employees as soon as this week …
Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch:
Autonomous trucking company Embark lays off about 70% of its employees and says remaining staff will focus on winding down day-to-day operations  —  Embark Trucks, the autonomous trucking company that went public in 2021 via a merger with a special purpose acquisition company …
Wired:
An analysis and reconstruction of Rotterdam's Accenture-made welfare fraud algorithm and its training data finds discrimination based on ethnicity and gender  —  Obscure government algorithms are making life-changing decisions about millions of people around the world.
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Microsoft makes Outlook for Mac free to use, no longer requiring an Office license or a Microsoft 365 subscription  —  Microsoft is making Outlook for Mac free to use today. … It's a surprise move that coincides with Microsoft's push to make its Windows desktop Outlook email client more web-powered.
Dina Bass / Bloomberg:
Microsoft rolls out Dynamics 365 Copilot, an AI assistant that uses OpenAI's tech to draft contextual chat and email answers to customers and more, in preview  —  Microsoft Corp., having brought artificial intelligence to its battle with Google over search, is now turning to the latest AI technology …
Andrea Petersen / Wall Street Journal:
WeightWatchers is acquiring Sequence, a digital health company offering $99/month telehealth visits with doctors who can prescribe weight loss drugs, for $106M  —  Weight-management company is buying Sequence, which offers telehealth visits with doctors  —  WW International Inc. …
Bloomberg:
South Korea's trade minister says the US CHIPS Act has many preconditions for companies to receive incentive funds and compliance will take much time and effort  —  The US Chips Act imposes a number of onerous demands and still harbors a great deal of uncertainty for companies hoping to benefit from it …

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