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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.
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Axios, Danielle Newnham, The Guardian, YouTube, Financial Times, Pixel Envy, Rest of World, Slate, Bloomberg, New York Post, New York Times, and Associated Press
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| 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.
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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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| Mia Sato / The Verge: |
Musk says he may not “actually be able to” buy Twitter, he is motivated by its public interest value, it should open source its algorithm, and he has a Plan B — The billionaire made his first public comments about his Twitter takeover efforts at the TED 2022 conference
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| @rabble: |
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| Matt Levine / Bloomberg: |
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| 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.
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The GitHub Blog and Heroku Status. More:
HackRead, iTnews, Bob's Newsletter, and The Hacker News
Tweets: @malwarejake, @nikcharlebois, @githubsecurity, @campuscodi, @jacobian, @rstephens, @marypcbuk, @jot, and @quinnypig
| 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
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iThinkDifferent, iPhone in Canada Blog, AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, and Philip Elmer‑DeWitt
Tweets: @mattlynley, @onelinders, @reneritchie, @fmbutt, @brianmcc, @hkanji, and @pocarles
| 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 … | Rebecca Szkutak / Forbes: |
A profile of Anna Fang, CEO of China-based ZhenFund, who has backed 30+ seed-stage startups that became unicorns and 90+ startups that had a successful exit — When ZhenFund CEO Anna Fang was new to venture investing, her mentor told her that the right entrepreneurs to back are the ones … Thanks:@alexrkonrad
| 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.| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
An interview with a former Xinjiang prisoner, who details how China extensively uses tech like Hikvision surveillance cameras to facilitate human rights abuses — The rare firsthand account will help investigate human rights abuses — For 10 months in 2018, Ovalbek Turdakun was a prisoner …
Tweets: @martijn_grooten, @kennwhite, @zackwhittaker, and @zackwhittaker
| Ernesto Van der Sar / TorrentFreak: |
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 — Launched in 2008, search engine DuckDuckGo is a go-to service for Internet users who value their privacy.| 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.Sponsor Posts
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