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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
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: the White House is weighing national security reviews for some Elon Musk ventures, including the Twitter deal and Starlink; Twitter's stock is down 4%+ — Biden administration officials are discussing whether the US should subject some of Elon Musk's ventures to national security reviews …
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Sources: Twitter and Elon Musk are preparing to complete his $44B buyout by the October 28 court-issued deadline, as talks between the two have turned cordial — Advisers to Twitter Inc. and Elon Musk are hard at work trying to get the $44 billion deal closed by the end of the month, according to people familiar with the matter.
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| Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg: |
Memo: Twitter told staff there haven't been plans for companywide layoffs since signing the deal with Elon Musk, and that the company can't confirm Musk's plans — Twitter Inc., confronting reports that Elon Musk aims to gut its workforce as part of his takeover, told staff that there haven't been plans … | Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Apple VP of Industrial Design Evans Hankey is leaving, after replacing Jony Ive in 2019; sources say Airbnb VP of Design Gary Butcher is returning to Apple — Apple Inc.'s head of hardware design, Evans Hankey, is leaving the iPhone maker three years after taking the role …
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| Blake Brittain / Reuters: |
Apple sues Masimo, saying the medical tech company “carefully studied Apple's IP” during its patent-infringement lawsuit against Apple to make its W1 watches — Apple Inc sued medical technology company Masimo Corp in Delaware federal court on Thursday, accusing its new W1 line …
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When researchers submitted 20 ads with “blatant” voting misinformation, TikTok approved 90%, Facebook approved a “significant number”, and YouTube approved zero — New York CNN Business — Facebook and TikTok failed to block advertisements with “blatant” …
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| 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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| Callan Quinn / The Block: |
Telegram plans to launch an auction for its usernames via the TON blockchain, following a TON auction for wallet usernames, some of which sold for $200K+ — - The Telegram messaging app is soon to launch a username auction platform. — Other elements of the Telegram ecosystem …
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AdGuard: the YuZu browser appears to be overloading EasyList, a community-run filter list used by popular ad blockers, many of which cannot download updates — Access to popular filter list is being throttled — Audio player loading... EasyList has been hit with a burst of highly unusual traffic … | Thomas Seal / Bloomberg: |
UK's Ofcom proposes changes to net neutrality rules carried over from the EU to give ISPs more flexibility, like offering deals on latency and other parameters — UK regulator Ofcom proposed changes to net neutrality rules carried over from the European Union to give telecommunications and internet providers more flexibility.| Mia Sato / The Verge: |
Amazon quietly shuts down Fabric.com, an online retailer of fabrics, trims, notions, and other supplies since 1999; Amazon acquired the company in 2008 — Crafters, home sewists, and small businesses will soon lose a major online fabric source. … Since launching in the late '90s …
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