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October 30, 2022, 12:50 AM

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Casey Newton / Platformer:
Sources: on October 28, Twitter engineers were told to print out their last 30 to 60 days of code for Elon Musk to review, and then told to shred the printouts  —  Twitter has a new CEO.  And he'd like to see your code, please  —  Elon Musk took over Twitter on Thursday like a military general …
New York Times:
Sources: Elon Musk plans to begin layoffs at Twitter as soon as October 29, before staff are scheduled to receive stock grants on November 1  —  The billionaire planned to begin layoffs as soon as Saturday, people with knowledge of the matter said.  —  SAN FRANCISCO — Elon Musk planned …
Martin Peers / The Information:
Source: Elon Musk fired top Twitter executives, including CEO Parag Agrawal, “for cause”, in an apparent attempt to avoid severance and unvested stock payouts  —  When Elon Musk terminated four top Twitter executives, including CEO Parag Agrawal and CFO Ned Segal on Thursday …
New York Times:
Sources: at Twitter's HQ, former head of product Kayvon Beykpour, David Sacks, and Elon Musk's personal attorney were spotted on Musk's first full day as owner  —  The billionaire began as Twitter's new owner by announcing a content moderation council and meeting employees, as some of the social media service's users celebrated.
Bloomberg:
Kate Conger / New York Times:
Alex Stamos / @alexstamos:
[Thread] Elon Musk made himself the global face of content moderation amid growing government pressures even as his Tesla wealth depends on China and others  —  I think @elonmusk has made a huge mistake, making himself the global face of content moderation at a critical moment of struggle with governments, while maintaining massive personal exposure to challenging countries.
David Gilbert / VICE:
Some users test the limits of Twitter's moderation system following Musk's takeover by using profane slurs, racial epithets, and other forms of hate speech  —  The very first hours of Musk's stewardship of Twitter have been dominated by users relishing their ability to use profane slurs and racial epithets.
John Walker / Kotaku:
Adobe apps no longer support Pantone-owned colors for free due to a licensing change; the Pantone color libraries now require an Adobe plug-in for $15/month  —  Due to a change in how Adobe licenses Pantone colors, old PSD files could start being filled in black
Jared Council / Forbes:
New Orleans-based Resilia, which sells software that helps nonprofits manage their operations, raised a $35M Series B, bringing its total funding to nearly $50M  —  Sevetri Wilson is not your average tech company founder.  She's a Black woman, she has no coding experience …
Karl Bode / VICE:
A Reddit user details a decommissioned Netflix cache server with 64GB of memory and 262TB of storage; such servers are often embedded within major ISP networks  —  A Netflix cache server is getting a second chance at life thanks to Redditors.  —  KB  —  A Redditor says they've managed …
Bloomberg:
A book excerpt details Netflix's shift from DVDs and tensions with HBO, which took a hard line on streaming rights, leading Netflix to make its own content  —  Jeffrey Bewkes scanned his mind, searching for the perfect war metaphor.  —  It was December 2010.

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