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Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal says that Elon Musk has decided not to join Twitter's board despite being offered a seat — Elon has decided not to join our board. I sent a brief note to the company, sharing with you all here. https://twitter.com/...
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| Axios: |
Elon Musk tweets that all Twitter Blue subscribers “should get an authentication checkmark” and that the service should be ad-free for a lower ~$2/month price — Elon Musk suggested in a series of tweets Saturday night changes to the premium Twitter Blue service …
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| Charles Capel / Bloomberg: |
Elon Musk asks “is Twitter dying?”, citing a list of the most followed accounts and pointing out that many of them “tweet rarely and post very little content” — Twitter Inc.'s largest shareholder Elon Musk asked his followers if the social network is dying …
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| Taylor Soper / GeekWire: |
After Musk asks if Twitter should convert its San Francisco HQ into a “homeless shelter since no one shows up anyway”, Jeff Bezos notes Amazon's Seattle shelter — Amazon founder Jeff Bezos took some time out of his Sunday afternoon to respond to a tweet from Elon Musk …
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: beta versions of iOS 16, codenamed Sydney, are “chock-full” of references to Apple's mixed-reality headset and its interactions with the iPhone — Apple is set to hold its developers conference virtually for the third year in a row. Expect major iOS and watchOS upgrades, and perhaps some new Macs.
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| The Information: |
Sources: Meta chose a Qualcomm chip for the second version of its Ray-Ban smartglasses, after struggling to develop its own custom chip codenamed Brasilia — In late 2021, a team of Meta Platforms employees building a key chip for the second version of Meta's Ray-Ban smart glasses was notified … | Jackie Snow / Wall Street Journal: |
A look at the regulations cities like New York, Barcelona, Amsterdam, Helsinki, and others are adopting as they increasingly use AI to provide public services — A look at what New York, London, Barcelona and other places are doing to establish regulations that other cities—and countries—may want to copy
Tweets: @guillemrc and @robinhanson
| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Twitter reverts a change that left blank embeds on websites for deleted tweets “after considering the feedback” while the company explores “different options” — Twitter says it's exploring ‘different options’ — Twitter has confirmed it reversed a change that altered …
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| Apoorva Mittal / The Economic Times: |
Coinbase “temporarily” disables the option to buy cryptocurrencies with the Unified Payments Interface in India; source: the issue is crypto is not legal tender — US Co reached out to NPCI following regulator's clarification on no UPI for cryptocurrencies in India …
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| Olivia Poh / Bloomberg: |
GoTo rose as much as 23% on its first day of trading in Indonesia after raising $1.1B in one of 2022's biggest IPOs — GoTo Group, Indonesia's biggest tech company, surged on its first day of trading after raising $1.1 billion in one of the world's largest initial public offerings this year.
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| Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: |
Hacking group NB65 claims it altered Conti's leaked ransomware to attack Russian entities, including space agency Roscosmos and TV and radio broadcaster VGTRK — A hacking group used the Conti's leaked ransomware source code to create their own ransomware to use in cyberattacks against Russian organizations.
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Tweets: @z3r0trust and @xxnb65
| Reuters: |
YouTube blocks Duma TV, which broadcasts from Russia's lower house of parliament; Russian officials warn that the site could face restrictions in response — YouTube has blocked Duma TV which broadcasts from Russia's lower house of parliament, drawing an angry response from officials …
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