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Sources: Elon Musk's deal to buy Twitter is in serious jeopardy as his team concluded that spam account figures aren't verifiable using Twitter's data firehose — Talks with investors have cooled in recent weeks and Musk's camp believes it can't confirm Twitter's claims about spam accounts
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| Salvador Rodriguez / Wall Street Journal: |
Twitter lays off 30% of its talent acquisition team, affecting fewer than 100 people, as it faces increasing business pressures and Musk's potential takeover — Company faces increasing business pressures and potential takeover from Elon Musk — Twitter Inc. TWTR 1.52%▲ … | Reuters: |
Twitter says it removes 1M+ spam accounts each day, reiterating that such accounts are well under 5% of users and a calculation can't be performed externally — Twitter (TWTR.N) removes over 1 million spam accounts each day, executives told reporters in a briefing on Thursday, as it reinforced its efforts to battle automated bots.
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Netflix rolls out spatial audio to all devices and to all subscribers, currently available for season four of Stranger Things, The Witcher, and more — Today, Netflix announced that it is bringing spatial audio to all devices with the aim of enhancing the listening experience throughout its catalog of original titles.
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| Immanual John Milton / Bloomberg: |
Glassnode: bitcoin blockchain activity has dropped 13% from November 2021 to July 2022; balances at exchanges are down 20%+ from a January 20 peak — As the crypto winter deepens, only the staunchest Bitcoin investors are still holding onto their tokens — but not on the exchanges.
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| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Meta plans to stop requiring Facebook IDs to log into Quest devices starting in August 2022 and will roll out “Meta accounts” for new and existing Quest users — They'll require a Meta account instead — Meta is introducing a new account system for its virtual reality headsets …
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| Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: |
The US Treasury Department publishes a framework for international crypto regulation, the first publication to result from Biden's EO on digital assets — The document is the first publication to result from U.S. President Joe Biden's executive order on digital assets.| Jonathan Stempel / Reuters: |
A former investment manager at Celsius Network sues the company, saying it defrauded his company KeyFi into providing services and refusing to pay — A former investment manager at Celsius Network sued the crypto lender on Thursday, saying it used customer deposits to rig the price …
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Twitter starts testing a CoTweets feature that lets two accounts co-author a tweet, with both accounts tagged in a single tweet, an idea it explored in March — Twitter says it's testing CoTweets for a limited time — Twitter has started testing a new CoTweets feature this week with users of the social network.
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GameStop fires CFO Mike Recupero and is laying off staff across departments; a source says chairman Ryan Cohen pushed out Recupero — - GameStop has fired its Chief Financial Officer, Mike Recupero. — It's making staff cuts across departments as part of an effort to turn around the videogame retailer.
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| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Reddit launches an NFT-based avatar marketplace with 90 profile pictures available for purchase at a fixed price, expanding on support for Ethereum-based NFTs — Reddit is launching a new NFT-based avatar marketplace today that allows you to purchase blockchain-based profile pictures for a fixed rate.
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| Reuters: |
EU antitrust regulators are probing the video licensing policy of the AOM, whose members include Google, Amazon, Apple, and Meta, over its AV1 video format — EU antitrust regulators are investigating the video licensing policy of the Alliance for Open Media (AOM), whose members include Alphabet … | Corin Faife / The Verge: |
CertiK: Web3 projects lost $2B+ to hacks and exploits in H1 2022, more than all of 2021 combined; $308M was lost across 27 flash loan attacks in Q2 2022 — A new report from CertiK flags major losses and a growing threat from flash loan attacks — In the first six months of 2022 … | Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
Microsoft says it's rolling back its decision to block VBA macro scripts by default in Excel, PowerPoint, Access, Visio, and Word, based on the “feedback” — While Microsoft announced earlier this year that it would block VBA macros on downloaded documents by default …
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Traba, a jobs board for workers to find shifts at fulfillment centers and event venues, has raised a $20M Series A led by Khosla at a $120M post-money valuation — Traba, a jobs board designed to help entry-level workers find available shifts at fulfillment centers and event venues … | Benjamin Pimentel / Protocol: |
Binance.US names ex-Acorns CFO and COO Jasmine Lee as its CFO, as the company prepares for an IPO in the next two to three years — Binance.US has named a new CFO, sending a strong signal that the crypto company is gearing up to go public. Jasmine Lee, who previously served as CFO …
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