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Musk says the blue checkmark system is “bullshit” and Twitter Blue will cost $8/month with half the ads, priority in replies, mentions, and search, and more — Twitter's current lords & peasants system for who has or doesn't have a blue checkmark is bullshit. Power to the people! Blue for $8/month.
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| New York Times: |
Twitter Chief Customer Officer Sarah Personette resigns; sources: top ad company IPG recommended that clients pause spending on Twitter over moderation concerns — At least three Twitter executives have left in recent days, as one of the world's largest ad companies said clients should pause spending on the social media platform.| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Twitter is planning to end letting Twitter Blue subscribers access ad-free articles from hundreds of publishers — Move comes as company's new owner, Elon Musk, continues to make changes to social-media platform — Twitter Inc. is ending the ability of subscribers …
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| David Pierce / The Verge: |
YouTube rolls out Primetime Channels in the US, offering shows and movies from 35 partners, including Paramount+ and Epix, and plans to add NBA League Pass soon — Streaming services are coming to YouTube. The company is rolling out a new feature called Primetime Channels that will bring shows …
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| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Q&A with Amazon Music VP Steve Boom on offering Prime users the company's ~100M song catalog without ads, running the unit, the music industry, labels, and more — Apple Music raised its rates. Will Amazon Music follow suit? … Steve Boom is the VP of Amazon Music, and he has a great name for the music business.
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| Ewen Callaway / Nature: |
Meta researchers create ESMFold, an LLM to predict the structures of 617M+ metagenomic proteins that is less accurate than DeepMind's AlphaFold but ~60x faster — When London-based Deep Mind unveiled predicted structures for some 220 million proteins this year, it covered nearly every protein from known organisms in DNA databases.
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| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
Dropbox says hackers stole code and some API keys from 130 GitHub repositories via a phishing campaign, but its core apps and infrastructure were unaffected — Dropbox disclosed a security breach after threat actors stole 130 code repositories after gaining access to one of its GitHub … | Natasha Mascarenhas / TechCrunch: |
Rewind, whose Mac app creates a searchable recording to help users find what they've seen, said, or heard, raised a $10M seed led by a16z at a $75M valuation — Apple's M1 and M2 chips give Optimizely co-founder a key in — While there have been quite a few attempts to disrupt search engines …
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| Dylan Martin / The Register: |
Intel says its next-gen Sapphire Rapids Xeon chips are slated for January 2023, after a spate of delays dating back to 2021, another boon for AMD's server chips — x86 giant offers January launch, AMD eating its chips — Intel said its next-generation Xeon Scalable CPUs will launch … | Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Tumblr updates its community guidelines to allow nudity, mature subject matter, and sexual themes, but says sexually explicit acts “remain off-limits” — Tumblr has made an update it hinted at in September, changing its rules to allow nudity — but not sexually explicit images — on the platform.| Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch: |
Uber tests showing ads for other companies in push notifications for its iOS app; Uber says users can “manage their mobile notification settings” in the app — Uber recently launched its new advertising division and in-app ads. Apparently, those ads aren't staying within the app.| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
AMD reports Q3 revenue up 29% YoY to $5.57B, vs. $5.62B est., net income down 93% YoY to $66M, and Client unit revenue down nearly 40% YoY due to weak PC sales — - Advanced Micro Devices issued fiscal third-quarter results that missed expectations. — The chipmaker warned …
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| Andy Robinson / Video Games Chronicle: |
Sony reports PlayStation Plus subscribers fell from 47.3M in Q1 to 45.4M in Q2 despite its revamp as PlayStation Network MAUs fell from 103M in Q1 to 102M in Q2 — PlayStation Plus subscribers have dropped by nearly 2 million users since the revamped service launched in June.
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| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Google starts rolling out Search shopping features for finding deals, including copyable coupon codes directly in results and side-by-side comparisons on mobile — Google's rolling out a handful of new shopping features that should make it easier to find good deals directly from search.
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| Financial Times: |
Sources: Morgan Stanley and six other banks plan to hold the $12.7B in debt from Elon Musk's Twitter buyout until early 2023, pending a clearer business plan — Lenders concede they will struggle to drum up demand until Elon Musk unveils detailed strategy — Banks that lent $12.7bn …
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| Taylor Soper / GeekWire: |
Twilio plans to sunset Zipwhip's business texting service on December 1, 2023, after acquiring the Seattle-based startup in May 2021 for $850M in cash and stock — Twilio will sunset Zipwhip's software after acquiring the Seattle startup for $850 million last year.| Danny Hakim / New York Times: |
Russia's RT, banned by major platforms in March 2022, has found an audience on Thiel-backed Rumble, often pushing Russian propaganda about the Ukraine invasion — An interview of captive Americans done “under duress” appears on a web platform backed by J.D. Vance and Peter Thiel.| David Cohen / Adweek: |
Meta receives Media Rating Council accreditation for content-level context and brand safety guidelines on Facebook, after committing to an MRC audit in 2020 — It covers content monetization and partner monetization policies on Instant Articles, in-stream videoSponsor Posts
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