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| Elon Musk / @elonmusk: |
Twitter's CEO: current blue checkmarks are “bullshit” and Twitter Blue will cost $8/month with half the ads, priority in replies, mentions, and search, and more — Twitter's current lords & peasants system for who has or doesn't have a blue checkmark is bullshit. Power to the people! Blue for $8/month.
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| New York Times: |
Twitter Chief Customer Officer Sarah Personette resigns; sources: top ad company IPG recommended that clients pause spending on Twitter over moderation concerns — At least three Twitter executives have left in recent days, as one of the world's largest ad companies said clients should pause spending on the social media platform.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Twitter is planning to end letting Twitter Blue subscribers access ad-free articles from hundreds of publishers while raising the price to $20/month — Move comes as company's new owner, Elon Musk, continues to make changes to social-media platform
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Twitter froze some staff access to content moderation and policy enforcement tools, raising worries about a misinformation spike before the US midterms — Twitter Inc., the social network being overhauled by new owner Elon Musk, has frozen some employee access to internal tools used …
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| James Ball / New Statesman: |
Elon Musk's plan to monetize Twitter verification would generate little revenue and create a myriad of issues, including becoming a hacker and spammer paradise — Elon Musk's latest brainwave risks alienating the users Twitter depends on and would expose it to lawsuits.
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| Matt Levine / Bloomberg: |
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| David Pierce / The Verge: |
YouTube rolls out Primetime Channels in the US, offering shows and movies from 35 partners, including Paramount+ and Epix, and plans to add NBA League Pass soon — Streaming services are coming to YouTube. The company is rolling out a new feature called Primetime Channels that will bring shows …
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| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Q&A with Amazon Music VP Steve Boom on offering Prime users the company's ~100M song catalog without ads, running the unit, the music industry, labels, and more — Apple Music raised its rates. Will Amazon Music follow suit? … Steve Boom is the VP of Amazon Music, and he has a great name for the music business.
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| Ewen Callaway / Nature: |
Meta researchers develop a LLM to predict the structures of 617M+ metagenomic proteins; the model is less accurate than DeepMind's AlphaFold, but ~60x faster — You can also search for this author in — PubMed Google Scholar — When London-based Deep Mind unveiled predicted structures …
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| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Tumblr updates its community guidelines to allow nudity, mature subject matter, and sexual themes, but retains its limits for sexually explicit acts — Tumblr has made an update it hinted at in September, changing its rules to allow nudity — but not sexually explicit images — on the platform.| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
Dropbox says hackers stole code and some API keys from 130 GitHub repositories via a phishing campaign, but its core apps and infrastructure were unaffected — Dropbox disclosed a security breach after threat actors stole 130 code repositories after gaining access to one of its GitHub …
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| Dylan Martin / The Register: |
Intel now says next-gen Sapphire Rapids Xeon chips are slated for January 2023, after a spate of delays dating back to 2021, another boon for AMD's server chips — x86 giant offers January launch, AMD eating its chips — Intel said its next-generation Xeon Scalable CPUs will launch … | Andy Robinson / Video Games Chronicle: |
Sony reports PlayStation Plus subscribers fell from 47.3M in Q1 to 45.4M in Q2 despite its revamp as PlayStation Network MAUs fell from 103M in Q1 to 102M in Q2 — PlayStation Plus subscribers have dropped by nearly 2 million users since the revamped service launched in June.
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| Steve Dent / Engadget: |
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| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Google starts rolling out Search shopping features for finding deals, including copyable coupon codes directly in results and side-by-side comparisons on mobile — Google's rolling out a handful of new shopping features that should make it easier to find good deals directly from search.
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| Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch: |
Uber tests showing ads for other companies in push notifications for its iOS app; Uber says users can “manage their mobile notification settings” in the app — Uber recently launched its new advertising division and in-app ads. Apparently, those ads aren't staying within the app.| Financial Times: |
Sources: Morgan Stanley and six other banks plan to hold the $12.7B in debt from Elon Musk's Twitter buyout until early 2023, pending a clearer business plan — Lenders concede they will struggle to drum up demand until Elon Musk unveils detailed strategy — Banks that lent $12.7bn …
Tweets: @henryfarrell, @maxrothbarth, @samthielman, and @schwarz
| Taylor Soper / GeekWire: |
Twilio will sunset Zipwhip's business texting service on December 1, 2023, after acquiring the Seattle startup last year for $850M in cash and stock — Twilio will sunset Zipwhip's software after acquiring the Seattle startup for $850 million last year. — According to the latest update …
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| Brendan Sinclair / GamesIndustry.biz: |
EA reports Q2 revenue up 4% YoY to $1.9B, vs. $1.94B est., net income up 2% YoY to $299M, and net bookings down 5% YoY to $1.75B — The “most successful launch” in series history helps publisher finish Q2 with revenues up 4% but bookings slide 5% — Electronic Arts reported its earnings … | Denny Jacob / Wall Street Journal: |
Airbnb Q3: record net income of $1.2B, up 46% YoY, record revenue of $2.9B, up 29% YoY, vs. $2.85 est., and ~100M Nights and Experiences Booked, up 25% YoY — Home-sharing company logs longer stays despite inflation challenges — Airbnb Inc. ABNB 2.00%increase; green up pointing triangle posted …
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| New York Times: |
Similar Web: Donald Trump's Truth Social has passed Gab, Parler, Gettr, and other right-wing social networks in unique visitors, largely thanks to Trump posting — The right-wing social network faces two federal investigations and an uncertain financial future. But it has still managed to outpace its rivals.
Tweets: @mattgoldstein26, @risj_oxford, and @fmanjoo
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