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April 17, 2022, 4:25 AM

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Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
Musk's free speech definition is utter nonsense and his suggestions for Twitter completely ignore decades of content moderation iteration on social platforms  —  from the not-how-any-of-this-works dept  —  Lots of talk yesterday as Elon Musk made a hostile takeover bid for all of Twitter.
Nathan Baschez / Every:
Twitter should not only open source its algorithm but also create a marketplace where anyone can build their own algorithms, and use the ones created by others  —  You don't have to be IN real estate to invest in it.  Fundrise is an easy-to-use platform that lets you build …
Axios:
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.
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.
Mia Sato / The Verge:
Matt Levine / Bloomberg:
Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer:
GitHub says an attacker used stolen OAuth user tokens issued to Heroku and Travis-CI to steal private repository data from dozens of organizations including npm  —  GitHub revealed today that an attacker is using stolen user tokens (issued to Heroku and Travis-CI OAuth) to download data from private repositories.
Tim Higgins / Wall Street Journal:
A look at Apple's yearslong effort to design its own silicon to replace Intel chips in Macs, including an interview with Hardware Technologies SVP Johny Srouji  —  Apple's risky, yearslong effort to design its own silicon paid off when supply-chain disruptions left competitors scrambling
Reed Albergotti / Washington Post:
Workers at Apple's flagship Grand Central Terminal store in Manhattan have begun to formally collect signatures to form a union  —  If successful, the effort would be the first time an Apple retail location has unionized  —  Workers at Apple's flagship Grand Central Terminal retail location …
Bloomberg:
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 …
Amy Feldman / Forbes:
A look at Lumafield, which designs CT scanners for consumer products companies like L'Oreal, OXO, and Trek Bicycle, and has raised $32.5M  —  Lumafield emerges from stealth with $32.5 million in funding and early customers that include L'Oreal, OXO and Trek Bicycle.
Jonathan Haidt / The Atlantic:
Social media platforms have weakened major forces that bind democracies together, especially after 2009 when the virality of social media started to intensify  —  What would it have been like to live in Babel in the days after its destruction?  In the Book of Genesis, we are told …

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