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Sources: Elon Musk plans to cut ~3,700 jobs at Twitter, or half of the company's workforce, starting on November 4, and reverse its work-from-anywhere policy — Elon Musk plans to eliminate about 3,700 jobs at Twitter Inc., or half of the social media company's workforce …
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Sources: Twitter aims to charge for verification as soon as November 7, give current verified users a multi-month grace period, and make the edit button free — Twitter Inc. aims to start selling blue verification badges for user profiles as soon as next week, part of a plan by new owner Elon Musk …
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| Will Oremus / Washington Post: |
Sources: Twitter staff are yet to receive a single official message since Musk took over and are relying on media reports, Musk's tweets, and private chats — Workers follow new boss's tweets and share rumors on anonymous apps amid silence from leadership on firings, staff cuts and product changes.
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| Jennifer Surane / Bloomberg: |
Memo: Stripe plans to lay off 14% of its staff this week, reducing its headcount by 1,000+ to almost 7,000, to trim expenses in preparation for “leaner times” — Stripe Inc., one of the world's most valuable startups, will cut more than 1,000 jobs as it seeks to rein in costs ahead of any economic downturn.
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| Dan Milmo / The Guardian: |
TikTok plans to update its privacy policy on December 2 to confirm that its staff outside of Europe, including in China, can access the data of European users — Privacy policy update confirms data of continent's users available to range of TikTok bases including in Brazil, Israel and US
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
WhatsApp launches Communities, a structured discussion group feature for of up to 1,024 people, in testing since August 2022, worldwide over the next few months — WhatsApp today is officially launching Communities, the new feature offering larger, more structured discussion groups that first entered into testing earlier this year.| Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
Amazon pauses hiring for roles in its corporate workforce, after announcing in October plans to freeze hiring for corporate roles in its retail business — KEY POINTS — Amazon is pausing hiring for roles in its corporate workforce, the company announced in a memo to staff Thursday.| Wall Street Journal: |
Lyft plans to cut 13% of its 5,000+ employees, or nearly 700 jobs, due to “a probable recession”, after laying off 60 people, or under 2% of staff, in July 2022 — Ride-hailing company, which is cutting 13% of staff, maintained its earnings outlook
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Tweets: @modestproposal1, @izakaminska, and @preetika_rana
| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Twitter cancels its Chirp developer conference set for November 16 in San Francisco as the team builds “some things that we're excited to share with you soon” — Twitter is canceling its developer-focused Chirp conference amid management transition, the company said late Thursday.
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SlashGear. Tweets: @twitterdev, @karissabe, @harrymccracken, @carnage4life, @simonw, @twitterdev, @metzinaround, @ashevat, @igorbrigadir, and @i_am_daniele
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Substack announces Chat, an opt-in feature letting writers host discussions with their subscribers, available in the Substack iOS app and coming soon to Android — Another company hoping to capitalize on Twitter's upheaval in the wake of Elon Musk's takeover is the newsletter platform Substack.
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Tweets: @helentobin, @hamishmckenzie, @ericnewcomer, @niubi, @hamishmckenzie, @substackinc, @heidibriones, and @yoda
| Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge: |
Amazon plans to roll out the Matter over Wi-Fi standard to 17 Echo devices in December, starting with Android phones, covering smart plugs, bulbs, and switches — Amazon will start its Matter journey slowly, bringing support for the new smart home standard to 17 Echo devices in December.
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Tweets: @alexadevs, @stshank, @jp2e, @caro_milanesi, and @smartthingsbeat
| James Vincent / The Verge: |
Google details an AI model trained on 400+ languages with the largest “coverage seen in a speech model” and plans to expand to the 1,000 most spoken languages — Google has announced an ambitious new project to develop a single AI language model that supports the world's “1,000 most spoken languages.”
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| Sharon Goldman / VentureBeat: |
OpenAI releases a DALL-E API in public beta, letting developers integrate DALL-E into their apps and products; the API is priced per image output, based on size — Get ready, developers: Today, OpenAI released the hotly anticipated DALL-E API in public beta, which means developers … | TechCrunch: |
Ajit Mohan, the head of Meta India who joined the company in January 2019, has left to become the president of Snap's Asia Pacific business — Ajit Mohan, the head of Meta in India, has left the firm and joined rival Snap, according to sources familiar with the matter.
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Tweets: @madhavchanchani and @chandrarsrikant
| Mia Sato / The Verge: |
Patreon launches its native ad-free video hosting tool out of beta for creators on pro and premium plans, removing the need for third-party embeds and links — The update marks a major shift in how creators on Patreon can share video content with fans. Previously, creators had to upload videos …
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Police and other sources say Block's Cash App has become a primary payment tool for adult and children sex traffickers due to lax monitoring and user ID rules — The Twitter and Block billionaire made Cash App into a $700 million monster. Now police officers, nonprofit critics and current … | Joel Khalili / Wired: |
A look at what Elon Musk might do with Twitter's Bluesky “federated social network”; CEO Jay Graber tweeted on October 27 she is “very glad we're independent” — For years, the platform has funded a project that's meant to create a better, decentralized online experience.| Kate Irwin / Decrypt: |
Meta lets select Instagram creators in the US test a toolkit for minting NFTs and selling them on and off the platform, and says it won't charge fees until 2024 — Instagram will soon have NFT creation and trading tools built in, but in-app purchases will be “subject to applicable app store fees.”
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Tweets: @meta, @solana, @0xpolygon, @sandeepnailwal, @arweaveteam, @metanewsroom, @pbump, @chriscantino, and @bennybitcoins
| Maria Deutscher / SiliconANGLE: |
Google debuts Code as Policies, a tool that uses AI models to generate code for robots to perform a variety of tasks, under an open-source license on GitHub — Google LLC today debuted an internally developed software tool that can reduce the amount of effort involved in training a robot to perform new tasks.
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Tweets: @jackyliang42 and @haydenfield
| Matt Burgess / Wired: |
Egypt is one of the internet's most prominent choke points thanks to 16 subsea cables carrying ~17% of the world's internet traffic touching land in the country — Underwater cables keep the internet online. When they congregate in one place, things get tricky.
Tweets: @aipio and @mattburgess1
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Mastodon says 230,000 people joined its open-source decentralized social network in the past week and the service has hit a record 655,000 active users — Open-source, decentralized social network Mastodon has been benefiting from the chaotic Twitter takeover by Elon Musk.| Chris Stokel-Walker / MIT Technology Review: |
Bot Sentinel: about 877K Twitter accounts were deactivated and 497K were suspended between October 27 and November 1, more than double the usual — Estimates from Bot Sentinel suggest that more than 875,000 users deactivated their accounts between October 27 and November 1, while half a million more were suspended.| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Whenever US politicians talk about changing Section 230 or regulating Big Tech and websites, they are almost always talking about imperiling the First Amendment — The First Amendment is one of America's most distinctive pieces of law. But as the midterm — and, quickly, the presidential …
Tweets: @thedextriarchy and @navinram999
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