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SEC filing: Elon Musk notified Twitter he wants to terminate the merger agreement, claiming that Twitter didn't provide the relevant business info he requested — Billionaire Elon Musk wants to end his deal to buy Twitter, according to a letter sent by a lawyer on his behalf to the company's chief legal officer Friday.
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| Matt Levine / Bloomberg: |
Elon Musk's offer to buy Twitter likely was a joke, since he previously pretended he would take Tesla private, but he may not be able to get out of the deal — Programming note: Ugh, here we are again, huh? — Oh Elon — I think it is helpful to start with the big picture.
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| Axios: |
Twitter board chair Bret Taylor says the company plans to pursue legal action to enforce the deal and is committed to closing on the agreed upon price and terms — Elon Musk is bailing on his $44 billion agreement to buy Twitter, claiming that the social media company hasn't met its contractual obligations …
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| The Verge: |
In an internal memo, Twitter's general counsel says employees should “refrain from tweeting, Slacking, or sharing any commentary about the merger agreement” — The company says it's suing Musk for trying to back out — Following Elon Musk's notice to Twitter that he wants … | Kellen Browning / New York Times: |
A look at the quirky geography game GeoGuessr, in which the world's best players can pinpoint in seconds where a Google Street View image has been taken — In a game called GeoGuessr, competitors try to pinpoint where in the world a Google Street View image has been taken. Some can do it in seconds.
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| Vincent Manancourt / Politico: |
Despite many of CJEU's rulings saying mass surveillance is banned in the EU, member states have been exploiting loopholes in them to collect and keep the data — Jack Murphy* was suspicious. His ex-girlfriend, Eve Doherty, seemed to know a lot about who he was calling. — His suspicions were merited.| Michael Kan / PCMag: |
The US DOJ indicts a Florida man for allegedly importing $1B worth of counterfeit Cisco equipment from China and Hong Kong, and selling it on Amazon and eBay — Onur Aksoy allegedly imported thousands of fake Cisco networking devices from China. … A Miami-based CEO has been arrested …
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| Financial Times: |
How the Conti ransomware group, whose attacks crippled Costa Rica's digital infrastructure for months, fell apart after it was betrayed by one of its insiders — Jorge Mora, Costa Rica's digital governance chief, received a message in April from one of his officials: “We couldn't contain it and they've encrypted the servers.
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| Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal: |
As mobile ad targeting becomes less effective, the “super app” idea could become more appealing in the West with companies scrambling to keep people inside apps — Super apps, immensely popular in Asia but not in the U.S., are the new hot thing for companies scrambling to capture ever more of our time, attention and money
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| Viola Zhou / Rest of World: |
Africa-based Chinese influencers who post racist videos about Africans on apps like Douyin and Kuaishou made fortunes from China's livestream shopping industry — “Chinese people love watching how other places are not as good as China.” — On the afternoon of May 24, a beauty pageant took place at an apartment in Kitwe, Zambia.| Melissa Heikkilä / MIT Technology Review: |
The war in Ukraine has prompted militaries to invest more money into AI; NATO has announced a ~$1B fund to invest in startups developing “priority” tech like AI — The invasion of Ukraine has prompted militaries to update their arsenals—and Silicon Valley stands to capitalize.
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| Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch: |
Joe Biden issues an EO asking the FTC and other agencies to examine and reinforce protections for reproductive health and other sensitive health-related data — An executive order signed by President Biden places the White House's weight firmly behind states where access to abortion is guaranteed …
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| Kate Clark / The Information: |
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