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Docs: if Elon Musk buys Twitter, he plans to cut nearly 75% of staff; otherwise, Twitter aims to cut payroll by ~$800M by the end of 2023, ousting ~25% of staff — Previously unreported details shed new light on Twitter's motivations for selling the company — and Elon Musk's plans to transform it| Emily Baker-White / Forbes: |
Documents: a China-based ByteDance audit and risk control team planned to collect TikTok location data of specific US citizens never employed by the company — The project, assigned to a Beijing-led team, would have involved accessing location data from some U.S. users' devices without their knowledge or consent.
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DeFi proponents criticize Sam Bankman-Fried for a regulatory proposal suggesting websites facilitating trading on decentralized exchanges should be regulated — - Various individuals in the blockchain and cryptocurrency industry are lambasting Sam Bankman-Fried after the FTX CEO shared …
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Mailchimp CEO Ben Chestnut stepped down in August 2022 after sending an email saying that staff announcing their pronouns in meetings “does more harm than good” — Ben Chestnut stepped down in August after arguing that asking for pronouns at the start of meetings “does more harm than good”
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| Miles Kruppa / Wall Street Journal: |
Texas' AG sues Google for allegedly using Photos, Assistant, and Nest features to collect facial- and voice-recognition data without seeking users' full consent — State alleges tech giant didn't obtain user consent for biometric-data use — The Texas attorney general sued Alphabet Inc …
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| Kyle Alspach / Protocol: |
Microsoft confirms some customer data was exposed due to a server configuration error but says SOCRadar exaggerated by claiming 65K+ companies were affected — Microsoft said Wednesday that an unspecified amount of customer data, including contact info and email content …
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| Thomas Germain / Gizmodo: |
Google now lets users disable targeted ads without breaking useful features by having to turn off settings like Web & App Activity and YouTube History — In a major fix, Google's own privacy settings will no longer disable crucial features of its apps. — Alerts
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| Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
YouTube announces YouTube Premium's first major price hike, increasing the family plan from $17.99/month to $22.99/month, or $29.99/month in the App Store — YouTube Premium is getting its first major price hike as the service will now charge $22.99 per month for its family plan.
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| Tim Hakki / Decrypt: |
CoinGecko: the Aptos token fell 40.5% on its first day of trading; Aptos' Layer 1 blockchain was panned for opaque tokenomics and a low transaction throughput — The price of Aptos has crashed more than 40% a day after launch as investors remain wary of the network's widely-panned mainnet rollout.
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Sources: senior Stripe executives asked managers to restart giving lower ratings on performance reviews to 10% to 15% of staff, to prune the company's workforce — As the economy slows, more tech companies have been showing employees the door. Now some senior leaders at Silicon Valley fintech giant Stripe …
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Meta adds Reels to Facebook Groups, and says that most Facebook users are members of at least 15 active groups and there are 100M+ “group joins” every day — Takeaways — We're adding more options for people to connect over shared interests, including Reels in Facebook Groups and updates to your Group profile.| Jonathan Vanian / CNBC: |
Snap reports Q3 revenue up 6% YoY to $1.13B, vs. $ 1.14B est., DAUs up 19% YoY to 363M, vs. 358.2M est., a $360M net loss, up from $72M YoY; stock is down 20%+ — - Snap beat analysts' expectations on earnings per share but missed on revenue. — The company's board authorized a stock repurchase program of up to $500 million.
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| Mayank Parmar / Windows Latest: |
Microsoft publishes a Windows Subsystem for Android roadmap including Android 13, file transfer support, picture-in-picture, and local network access — Microsoft has been rolling out several updates for the Windows Subsystem for Android on Windows 11. The WSA is now significantly faster … | The Information: |
Sources: OpenAI is in advanced talks to raise more funding from Microsoft, after a 2021 raise at an implied ~$20B valuation from Sequoia, Tiger, a16z, others — OpenAI, whose text- and image-generating artificial intelligence has become a mainstream hit, is in advanced talks to raise …
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Intel Raptor Lake Core i9-13900K and i5-13600K review: improved voltage frequency curve, more efficiency cores than Alder Lake, and competitive with AMD's Zen 4 — Today marks the release of Intel's 13th generation Core processor series, codenamed Raptor Lake.
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Tweets: @computerbase, @anandtech, @daniel_rubino, @aschilling, @aschilling, @nash076, @witeken, @ryansmithat, and @igorwallossek. Thanks:@gavbon86
| Mitchell Clark / The Verge: |
Google says that over 250M monthly active devices now run Android Go edition, which is designed for phones with limited storage and memory — Google has announced that over a quarter of a billion devices that people use each month are running Android Go edition, which is designed for phones with limited storage and memory.
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