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Elon Musk's investor pitch deck: grow Twitter revenue 5x to $26.4B, cut ad revenue reliance to <50% by 2028, grow Twitter Blue's users to 69M by 2025, and more — Here's what Mr. Musk is projecting for Twitter's finances over the next few years, according to a pitch deck he presented to investors.
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Sources: Allen Wu, who was replaced as CEO of Arm China by Liu Renchen, has refused to surrender control amid Shanghai's lockdown, where Arm China's HQ is based — Allen Wu refuses to surrender control in extraordinary corporate battle at UK chip designer — High in a Shenzhen office tower …
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| Zachary Boddy / Windows Central: |
A major Xbox Network outage is preventing some users from launching games and starting Cloud Gaming sessions; issues related to purchases have been resolved — Xbox consoles are temporarily a lot less useful for gaming. — Update, May 7, 2022, at 8:50 a.m. CT: The Xbox Network should be working again …
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Tweets: @xboxsupport, @xbox, @xboxsupport, @xboxsupport, and @tracker_td
| Zoë Schiffer / @zoeschiffer: |
Ian Goodfellow, Apple's director of ML, is leaving due to its return to work policy, saying in a note that “more flexibility would have been the best policy” — Ian Goodfellow, Apple's director of machine learning, is leaving the company due to its return to work policy. In a note to staff, he said “I believe strongly that more flexibility would have been the best policy for my team.” He was likely the company's most cited ML expert.
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| Anthony Faiola / Washington Post: |
A look at the rise of VPNs in Russia following its war in Ukraine; Apptopia: daily downloads of the top ten VPNs jumped from 15K before the war to 475K in March — A surge in virtual private network downloads is a challenge to Vladimir Putin and his version of the war
Tweets: @alfonslopeztena, @kenroth, and @kenroth
| Joe Warminsky / The Record: |
The US sanctions cryptocurrency mixing service Blender.io for allegedly laundering $20.5M from the Axie Infinity hack, the first time the US sanctioned a mixer — The U.S. Treasury Department on Friday sanctioned a cryptocurrency mixing service for the first time, citing evidence that it was used …
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Tweets: @ustreasury, @crabbylions, @jwarminsky, @josephfcox, @ncweaver, @ericgeller, @gregotto, @w7voa, and @campuscodi
| Matt Burgess / Wired: |
How small, commercial drones in Ukraine are letting militias and others conduct cheap airborne surveillance and collect footage for war crimes investigations — From surveillance to search-and-rescue, consumer drones are having an unprecedented impact on Ukraine's defense against Russia.| Dan Mangan / CNBC: |
A California federal judge dismisses Donald Trump's lawsuit seeking to lift his ban from Twitter but may allow an amended complaint to be filed against Twitter — - A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit by former President Donald Trump seeking to lift his ban from Twitter.
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CourtListener, The Verge, The Block, Engadget, TechCrunch, TheStreet, Washington Post, Politico, Slashdot, CNN, Variety, and Tech Policy Press. Tweets: @bradheath
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Some ex-TikTok US staff talk of long hours, tight deadlines, lack of work-life boundaries, sleep deprivation, weekend work, and secrecy uncommon in the industry — Former U.S. staffers tell of sleep deprivation, work on weekends and mandatory meetings with colleagues on the other side of the globe| Kanishka Singh / Reuters: |
The SEC says Nvidia will pay $5.5M to settle charges it failed to disclose that cryptomining was a “significant element” of its FY 2018 gaming revenue growth — The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission said Friday it had settled charges against technology company Nvidia Corporation …
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U.S. Securities …, The Verge, XDA Developers, BleepingComputer, Cryptopolitan, TechSpot, Ars Technica, CNN, Kotaku, TheGamer, CNBC, PYMNTS.com, VICE, IGN, PCWorld, GameSpot, The Register, Tom's Hardware, Crowdfund Insider, Neowin, Decrypt, TheStreet, and Trustnodes
Tweets: @firstadopter, @tomwarren, @stephentotilo, and @smdiehl
| David Pierson / Los Angeles Times: |
In the Philippines, presidential frontrunner Bongbong Marcos is using TikTok and troll farms to rewrite his dictator father's violent past for young Filipinos — The popular video-sharing app, TikTok, could tip the balance in the upcoming Philippine election.| Brenda Goh / Reuters: |
China orders internet services to tighten controls to stop under-18s from tipping live streamers or becoming live streamers themselves without guardian consent — China on Saturday ordered internet platforms to step up governance of how under-18s use their livestreaming services as part …
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