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Twitter adopts a “poison pill” to thwart Elon Musk's $43B takeover, giving shareholders time to purchase additional shares at a discount to dilute 15%+ stakes — Twitter's board on Friday enacted a defensive measure meant to deter Elon Musk's $43 billion hostile takeover bid.
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[Thread] Ex-Reddit CEO warns Elon Musk that he doesn't understand current internet culture enough to handle the challenges of large social networks like Twitter — I've now been asked multiple times for my take on Elon's offer for Twitter. So fine, this is what I think about that. I will assume the takeover succeeds, and he takes Twitter private. (I have little knowledge/insight into how actual takeover battles work or play out) (long 🧵)
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| Matt Levine / Bloomberg: |
Elon Musk's hostile offer may not be viable, but it opens Twitter to an acquisition; should Twitter fend off Musk, the company will watch its stock drop — Oh Elon — Well that was weird. On Tuesday I wrote a column saying it was unlikely that Elon Musk will buy Twitter Inc. On Wednesday I left on a family vacation.
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| Josh Kosman / New York Post: |
Sources: Elon Musk is speaking to investors, including Silver Lake, to partner with him on a Twitter bid; a plan with partners could be announced within days — Elon Musk is speaking to investors who could partner with him on a bid for Twitter, sources close to the matter told The Post.
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| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
GitHub says an attacker used stolen OAuth user tokens issued to Heroku and Travis-CI to download data from private repositories belonging to npm and other orgs — GitHub revealed today that an attacker is using stolen user tokens (issued to Heroku and Travis-CI OAuth) to download data from private repositories.
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| Jeff Burt / The Register: |
Google updates Chrome to fix a type confusion vulnerability actively exploited in the wild and another security flaw, the third Chrome emergency patch in 2022 — The latest patch is aimed at a type confusion vulnerability that is actively being exploited — Google is issuing fixes …
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At least seven crypto firms have suspended rupee deposits; CoinGecko: daily trading volumes on Indian crypto exchanges have fallen 88%-96% since peaking in 2021 — When Surojit Chatterjee walked on stage at a Coinbase Global Inc. conference in Bengaluru, India, on April 7 … | Aliya Chaudhry / TechCrunch: |
Opera launches its Crypto Browser for iOS, featuring a built-in crypto wallet supporting Ethereum, Polygon, and Celo, crypto exchange access, dApps, and more — Opera has launched the iOS version of their Crypto Browser, designed for accessing web3, with a non-custodial crypto wallet built-in.
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DuckDuckGo seems to have completely removed the search results for YouTube-dl and many popular pirate sites including The Pirate Bay, 1337x.to, and Fmovies — Privacy-centered search engine DuckDuckGo has completely removed the search results for many popular pirates sites including The Pirate Bay, 1337x, and Fmovies.| Wayne Ma / The Information: |
Sources: Apple doesn't collect much user data from its services and staff can't easily access the data it does collect, making it harder to compete with rivals — Privacy is one of the selling points of Apple products. But for employees who develop these products, it can be a pain.
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| Max A. Cherney / Protocol: |
PitchBook: global AI chip sales grew 60% YoY to $35.9B in 2021; semiconductor startups got $1.8B in VC funding in 2021, up from $1.4B in 2020 and $1.1B in 2019 — The raw computational power necessary to use machine learning has dwarfed everything else we use computer chips to accomplish by an order of magnitude.| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Coda Payments, which offers cross-border payments for games, alternative app stores, and other digital products, raises $690M at a $2.5B valuation — Coda Payments has raised $690 million in funding to enable cross-border payments for games and other digital products, as well as alternative app stores.
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