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Filing: Elon Musk's lawyers say Twitter is unfairly pushing for a “warp speed” four-day trial in September and ask for a court date in February 2023 or later — Elon Musk's lawyers say Twitter Inc. officials are unfairly pushing for a “warp speed” trial over claims …
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| Jonathan Vanian / CNBC: |
SEC filing: Twitter's board invites shareholders to a special meeting to vote on Elon Musk's acquisition and unanimously recommends they approve the deal — - In an SEC filing on Friday, Twitter told investors that approving the company's sale to Elon Musk is the only remaining step in satisfying the merger agreement.
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| Zac Bowden / Windows Central: |
Sources: Microsoft moves to a three-year release cycle for major versions of Windows, with new features to the current version shipping up to four times a year — The new Windows roadmap. — Microsoft is shifting to a new engineering schedule for Windows which will see the company return …
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| Ryan Tracy / Wall Street Journal: |
TikTok says its global CSO Roland Cloutier will step down in September to take an advisory role, and that the move is not related to security concerns in the US — Roland Cloutier to take advisory role; Kim Albarella, head of security risk, tapped as interim CSO
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| Madhumita Murgia / Financial Times: |
Experts say archiving content from TikTok is challenging and urge the platform to preserve and provide access to content for war crime investigations in Ukraine — The Chinese-owned video app is a trove of digital intelligence that lawyers are attempting to mine and archive| Will Oremus / Washington Post: |
Study: as the war persists, Meta has responded fairly effectively to Russian propaganda flagged by Ukrainian officials, while YouTube, Twitter, and LinkedIn lag — As the war rages on, a new report finds that YouTube and Twitter are ignoring requests to take down hate and disinformation targeting Ukrainians
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Russian President Vladimir Putin signed into law a national ban on using digital assets for payments, but allows investing in digital assets like bitcoin — The drastic move comes after mixed signals from Russia's leaders and regulators. — Russian President Vladimir Putin today signed … | Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
FCC Chair Jessica Rosenworcel proposes a US broadband standard of 100Mbps down and 20Mbps up; the proposal requires a vote in the currently deadlocked FCC — Pai FCC said 25Mbps down and 3Mbps up was enough—Rosenworcel proposes 100/20Mbps. — Federal Communications Commission Chairwoman …
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As China builds up its vast surveillance and security apparatus, it is running up against growing public unease about data security and privacy in the country — Beijing's swift move to censor news about one of the largest known data breaches shows keen awareness of how major security lapses can harm its credibility.
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Boston-based Robin, which makes office reservation software, has raised a $30M Series C led by Tola Capital, bringing its total funding to more than $59M — Thanks to the pandemic, teams are more distributed than ever. For some companies, that's led to a disconnect between lower-level employees …
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A look at DARPA's SocialCyber, a project that combines sociology with AI to protect open-source communities and the code they create from malicious campaigns — Open-source code runs on every computer on the planet—and keeps America's critical infrastructure going. DARPA is worried about how well it can be trusted| Chris Metinko / Crunchbase News: |
Investment in VC-backed crypto companies fell from a record $12.5B in H1 2021 to about $9.3B in H1 2022, while the number of deals increased from 456 to 534 — The crypto winter is not descending upon just holders of digital currency—but also those startups looking for funding.
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