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Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal says 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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| 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 … | Charles Capel / Bloomberg: |
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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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| Reuters: |
Sources and leaked docs: senior EU officials were targeted last year with Israeli spyware, including Belgian statesman Didier Reynders; NSO denies involvement — Senior officials at the European Commission were targeted last year with spy software designed by an Israeli surveillance firm …
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| Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: |
Source: Apple will face an additional EU antitrust charge in the coming weeks, in an investigation into music streaming triggered by a complaint from Spotify — Apple (AAPL.O) faces an additional EU antitrust charge in the coming weeks in an investigation triggered by a complaint from Spotify … | Jackie Snow / Wall Street Journal: |
A look at the regulations that New York, Barcelona, Amsterdam, Helsinki, and other cities 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
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| Bloomberg: |
Despite Amazon spending almost a decade and $2B+ developing drone delivery services, sources say it's still beset by technical challenges, safety concerns, more — Jeff Bezos went on 60 Minutes in 2013 and pledged to fill the skies with a fleet of delivery drones that could zip parcels to customers' homes in 30 minutes.
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| Antoine Gara / Financial Times: |
Sources: Thoma Bravo is buying SailPoint Technologies, which is used by businesses to give employees secure access to remote working tools, for $6.9B — Leveraged buyout market is roaring back to life after a pause amid rising volatility and war in Ukraine| Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal: |
How workplaces are embracing VR to foster socialization, using spatial audio to bring voices closer or farther and casual shared games like virtual mini golf — I don't particularly like virtual reality, and I can't play golf. But I think the intersection of the two points to the future …
Tweets: @jimsrogers, @mighty_coconut, @tunguz, and @neil_chilson
| 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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