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Elon Musk says the blue checkmark system is “bullshit” and Twitter Blue will be $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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Tweets: @amazon, @lizkmiller, @johnmcquaid, @alexbruell, @llsethj, @carnage4life, @morqon, @hankgreen, @claire_goforth, and @martinsfp
| New York Times: |
Twitter's Chief Customer Officer Sarah Personette “resigns”; sources say ad company IPG recommended that clients pause Twitter spending over moderation concerns — At least three Twitter executives have left in recent days, as one of the world's largest ad companies said clients …
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Adweek, Insider, Bloomberg, Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, Politico, International Business Times, World Federation …, The Information, and TechCrunch
| Kali Hays / Insider: |
Comedian and verified Twitter user Tim Heidecker puts the site's moderation practices to the test by starting #TrumpIsDead, which began trending on November 1 — - A comedian intentionally started the claim, in what could be a test for Elon Musk. — The claim was trending on Twitter.| Washington Post: |
Internal email: Twitter appears to be rushing out a “high”-risk “Paywalled Video” feature, letting users charge to view their videos, with Twitter taking a cut — The tool would let video creators charge users for access. The team working on it flagged big potential pitfalls.
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The Verge and Gizmodo
| Chelsey Cox / CNBC: |
FinCEN: US financial firms processed ~$1.2B in likely ransomware payments in 2021, up almost 3x YoY; ~75% of H2 2021 ransomware incidents were linked to Russia — - U.S. banks and financial institutions processed more than $1 billion in potential ransomware-related payments in 2021.
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FinCEN.gov, FinCEN.gov, CNN, HealthcareInfoSecurity.com, CyberScoop, The Record, and CoinDesk
Tweets: @johnnysaks130, @ericgeller, @johnnysaks130, @swagitda_, @johnnysaks130, and @serghei
| 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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Dropbox Tech Blog, Forbes, BetaNews, Silicon Republic, The Register, Neowin, Security Affairs, The Hacker News, and DataBreaches.net
Tweets: @0xtim, @campuscodi, @seanwrightsec, @arekfurt, @campuscodi, and @lukolejnik
| Naomi Nix / Washington Post: |
Elon Musk says Twitter will not reinstate banned accounts “until we have a clear process for doing so, which will take at least a few more weeks” — The pledge means that accounts including former president Donald Trump won't be allowed back online before the midterms
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The Guardian, Wall Street Journal, NBC News, and The Shortcut
Tweets: @elonmusk, @kimcrayton1, @elonmusk, @elonmusk, @kofiemeritus, @echo_chamberz, @jennaellisesq, @lizzadwoskin, and @gheshes
| Wall Street Journal: |
Netflix begins rolling out its Basic with Ads tier; sources say licensing negotiations with Disney, Comcast, Sony, Warner Bros., and Lions Gate are ongoing — Disney, NBCU and Sony are among the companies still negotiating licensing with the streaming service| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Tumblr updates its community guidelines to allow nudity, mature subject matter, and sexual themes, but says sexually explicit acts “remain off-limits” — Tumblr has made an update it hinted at in September, changing its rules to allow nudity — but not sexually explicit images — on the platform.
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Tumblr Staff, Tumblr, The Shortcut, and Mashable
Tweets: @photomatt, @thedextriarchy, and @thedextriarchy
| Ewen Callaway / Nature: |
Meta researchers create ESMFold, an LLM to predict the structures of 617M+ metagenomic proteins that is less accurate than DeepMind's AlphaFold but ~60x faster — When London-based Deep Mind unveiled predicted structures for some 220 million proteins this year, it covered nearly every protein from known organisms in DNA databases.
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Silicon Republic, Meta AI, GitHub, and The Register
Tweets: @metaai, @ferruz_noelia, @laurie_garrett, @ylecun, @schrep, @boztank, @singareddynm, and @charlieharris01
| Lora Kolodny / CNBC: |
Sources: Twitter managers told employees they would be paid for their newly vested shares in the first half of November 2022, starting as early as November 4 — - Since Elon Musk closed his purchase of Twitter on Oct. 28, employees worried they would be fired or laid off before their stock options vested in early November.
Tweets: @mgsiegler
| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
AMD reports Q3 revenue up 29% YoY to $5.57B, vs. $5.62B est., net income down 93% YoY to $66M, and Client unit revenue down nearly 40% YoY due to weak PC sales — - Advanced Micro Devices issued fiscal third-quarter results that missed expectations. — The chipmaker warned …
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Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., VentureBeat, iTnews, CRN, DigiTimes, Appuals.com, The Register, Tom's Hardware, Wccftech, The Information, and Reuters. Tweets: @iancutress
| William Turvill / Press Gazette: |
Source: Meta plans to end human curation of its UK Facebook News tab, contracted to a team of ~15 journalists at Upday, and switch to an AI system in early 2023 — Meta plans to end human curation of the UK Facebook News tab, turning it into a fully automated product, Press Gazette has learned.
Tweets: @journalism, @pressgazette, @pedrodias, @johnycassidy, @wturvill, and @wturvill
| Washington Post: |
Sources: the US is exploring whether it has legal authority to review Elon Musk's Twitter deal, which gives large foreign investors access to confidential data — Terms of the deal give large foreign investors access to confidential information about the social media platform
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CoinGape. Tweets: @faizsays, @jeffjarvis, @faizsays, @gerritd, @jstein_wapo, @faizsays, @jfortin670, @mydemocracy, and @jedicounselor
| Financial Times: |
The UK's Ofcom begins scrapping legislation compelling BT and KCOM to provide affordable, dedicated landlines, sounding the death knell for the fax machine — Requirement that BT provides dedicated landlines for the devices at affordable prices is to be scrapped| Raksha Kumar / Rest of World: |
A look at the everyday sexism faced by Indian women working in tech; around 36% of India's 5M tech workers are women, of which 7% hold executive-level positions — Tech helped more Indian women join the workforce, but they're still fighting to be treated equally.
Tweets: @anupkaphle, @vickiturk, @rctatman, @restofworld, @itikaspunit, and @itikaspunit
| Taylor Hatmaker / TechCrunch: |
Twitch launches Guest Star, which lets streamers pull other creators and fans into their streams for a talk show-like experience, out of beta for all users — With its biggest product launch in years, Twitch is betting on a near-future of the platform that features more dynamic conversations … | Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google adds Lens to the google.com homepage, letting users search by image, after rolling out the feature to the desktop in 2021 — Google Lens will only become more important going forward, and one sign of that is its addition to the google.com homepage today.| Natasha Mascarenhas / TechCrunch: |
Rewind, whose Mac app creates a searchable recording to help users find what they've seen, said, or heard, raised a $10M seed led by a16z at a $75M valuation — Apple's M1 and M2 chips give Optimizely co-founder a key in — While there have been quite a few attempts to disrupt search engines …
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Andreessen Horowitz and Rewind
Tweets: @dsiroker, @dsiroker, @dsiroker, @quinnypig, @pomeranian99, @laughing_mantis, @chrisoffner3d, @nmasc_, and @nmasc_
| Yoolim Lee / Bloomberg: |
Sydney-based Blackbird raised an AU$1B+ fund, the largest Australian VC fund yet, including AU$284M for early-stage in Australia and AU$668M for follow-on bets — Blackbird Ventures has raised the largest Australian venture capital fund yet, securing more than A$1 billion ($640 million) … | Keerthi Vedantam / Crunchbase News: |
Toronto-based TouchBistro, which offers payments tools for restaurants globally, raised CA$150M led by Francisco Partners, bringing its funding to ~CA$433M — TouchBistro, a restaurant point-of-sale system, announced on Tuesday it nabbed $110 million (CAD $150 million) …
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Business Wire
| Dylan Martin / The Register: |
Intel says its 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 … | Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
Google plans to roll out parental controls for Assistant, including disabling features, restricting services, and setting downtimes hours, in the “coming weeks” — Kids love to use smart speakers, but it's all too easy for things to go horribly wrong — including content that's decidedly not family-friendly.
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The Keyword, 9to5Google, Wired, and Mashable
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