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| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Twitter appears to roll out its new Blue subscription, offering a blue checkmark for $8/month, on iOS in the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and UK — Twitter is officially rolling out its new Twitter Blue subscription service, which offers “blue check” verification to everyone for $8/month.
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
A Twitter product lead says the new Blue subscription isn't live yet, but some users may see updates “because we are testing and pushing changes in real-time” — Just days after newly minted Twitter CEO Elon Musk floated changes to Twitter's system for verifying user accounts …
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| Elon Musk / @elonmusk: |
Elon Musk says Twitter will offer the ability to attach long-form text to tweets, creator monetization for all forms of content, and better search — Twitter will soon add ability to attach long-form text to tweets, ending absurdity of notepad screenshots
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| Brian Morrissey / The Rebooting: |
Elon Musk's focus on Twitter Blue is part of a trend in which consumer tech platforms pivot away from advertising to recurring revenue through subscriptions — Tech's marriage of convenience to the ad industry hits the rocks — Request: Please fill out this survey as I think through what a Rebooting membership plan would look like.
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| Platformer: |
Sources detail Twitter after mass layoffs: key teams gutted, severance packages account for the WARN Act, and an ad hoc Google Docs directory of remaining staff — I. The Snap — The email went out at 5:21 PT PT on Thursday. — For a full week, Twitter employees had waited in hopes …
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| Financial Times: |
Current and former Twitter staff shed light on Elon Musk's “War Room”, which includes Jason Calacanis and David Sacks, tasked with fixing the stagnant business — In his first week as owner, billionaire axed management, began mass job cuts and launched new products
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| CNN: |
Sources: 1,300 Starlink units in Ukraine went offline as SpaceX and the US DoD negotiate funding despite Elon Musk claiming the company will continue “for free” — Ukraine's fears that its troops may lose access to Elon Musk's crucial Starlink internet service deepened …
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| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Q&A with telecom reporter Karl Bode about Gigi Sohn's nomination to the FCC as Comcast and Fox Corp. team up to lobby swing votes in the Senate against her — How often do the parent companies of Fox News and MSNBC team up? … Today, we're just talking about a problem.
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| Paul Kiernan / Wall Street Journal: |
OpenSecrets: the crypto industry gave $73M in the 2022 US midterms, up from $13M in 2020; FTX has become the third-largest source of 2022 campaign contributions — Industry seeks to gain influence in Washington as regulators increase scrutiny of digital assets
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| Lily Hay Newman / Wired: |
A look at 12 years of Rust, a side project programming language that matured into a robust ecosystem, as developers praise its security, ease, and performance — Rust makes it impossible to introduce some of the most common security vulnerabilities. And its adoption can't come soon enough.| Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: |
The US DOJ seizes internet domains for Z-Library, a repository that went viral on TikTok for offering 11M+ books, including pirated textbooks, and 84M articles — Internet domains for the popular Z-Library online eBook repository were seized early this morning by the U.S. Department of Justice, preventing easy access to the service.| Bloomberg: |
Source: NSO Group, which has ~$400M in debt, cut 15% of its workforce and raised prices by ~20% after a potential sale to defense contractor L3Harris collapsed — Embattled spyware maker NSO Group is taking drastic steps to pacify creditors holding around $400 million in debt as it waits …
Tweets: @jeffstone500
| Wall Street Journal: |
Elon Musk says Twitter suffered “a massive drop in revenue” due to activist groups pressuring advertisers, despite doing “everything” to “appease the activists” — Chief of social-media company cites activist groups pressuring advertisers, as many staffers brace to lose jobs
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