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Sources describe Twitter after mass layoffs: key teams gutted, severance packages account for WARN Act, ad hoc directories of remaining workers in Google Docs — 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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Current and former Twitter staffers shed light on Musk's “War Room”, which includes Jason Calacanis and David Sacks, tasked with transforming Twitter's business — In his first week as owner, billionaire axed management, began mass job cuts and launched new products| The Verge: |
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Elon Musk's focus on Twitter Blue is part of a trend in which consumer tech platforms pivot from advertising in favor of 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 …
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A Birdwatch note adding context to Elon Musk's tweet about Twitter's revenue drop is gone; Musk called the community notes feature “awesome” earlier this week — Sign up for Semafor Tech, led by Reed Albergotti, to get our scoops and coverage of the industry's biggest stories in your inbox twice a week.
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| CNN: |
Sources: 1,300 Starlink units in Ukraine went offline over funding issues, as SpaceX negotiates with US DoD despite Musk's claims to keep funding the units — Ukraine's fears that its troops may lose access to Elon Musk's crucial Starlink internet service deepened in the past week …
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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.
Tweets: @karlbode, @starfire2258, @reckless, @handnf, @commoncause, and @charlesarthur
| Lily Hay Newman / Wired: |
A look at the Rust programming language after 12 years, evolving from side project to 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.
Tweets: @nathanielmott
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Sources: Apple is building a live TV ad network and talking to ad partners as part of its deal to stream Major League Soccer games starting in February 2023 — Apple Inc. is building an advertising network for live television as part of its deal to stream Major League Soccer games next year …
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| Paul Kiernan / Wall Street Journal: |
OpenSecrets: crypto industry donated $73M in the 2022 elections, 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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| Zeke Faux / Bloomberg: |
El Salvador's Bitcoin “revolution” is failing miserably and behind the debacle are crypto evangelists from wealthier countries who cheered on President Bukele — On an estuary along the coast of El Salvador, a few miles west of the Conchagua volcano, about 70 families live in a settlement called Flor de Mangle.
Tweets: @leomschwartz, @realmaxkeiser, @tgarcianyc, @bw, @skinosian, and @mdudas
| Jordan Pearson / VICE: |
As chess explodes on Twitch, a look at Chess.com's Global Championship, its first in-person event since 2018, and “fair play” measures amid a cheating scandal — Cheating allegations have changed how chess is played, just as the game is shifting into looking a lot more like esports.| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Filing: Apple settles lawsuit against an ex-employee accused of stealing trade secrets and sharing them with the media; he will pay an undisclosed sum to Apple — Apple has settled its lawsuit against Simon Lancaster, a former design architect, who the company accused of stealing trade secrets and sharing them with a journalist.Sponsor Posts
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