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Sources: Twitter is asking dozens of laid-off staff to return, after realizing some are needed for building prioritized features and some were sacked by mistake — Twitter Inc., after laying off roughly half the company on Friday following Elon Musk's $44 billion acquisition …
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| Ashley Capoot / CNBC: |
Jack Dorsey apologizes for growing Twitter “too quickly” amid mass layoffs; Twitter's headcount jumped from ~2,000 to 7,500+ between June 2013 and December 2021 — - Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey apologized Saturday for growing the company “too quickly,” a day after hundreds …
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| New York Times: |
Internal post and sources: Twitter is delaying rolling out verification checkmarks to Blue subscribers until November 9, the day after the US midterm elections — Users and employees had raised concerns that Elon Musk's plan to give check marks to those who paid a monthly fee could be misused to sow discord.| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Twitter appears to roll out its new Blue subscription, offering a blue checkmark for $8 per month on iOS in the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and the 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 plans to add the ability to attach long-form text to tweets, implement creator monetization for all forms of content, and improve search — Twitter will soon add ability to attach long-form text to tweets, ending absurdity of notepad screenshots
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Meta plans to lay off thousands of employees this week, with an announcement expected as soon as Wednesday, the first broad layoffs in its history — Social-media giant's planned cuts expected to affect many thousands of its workforce, which exceeded 87,000 as of September
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Source: Apple is working on shortening the “Hey Siri” trigger phrase to “Siri” by 2024 and plans to integrate Siri deeper into third-party apps and services — Apple is working on a project to simplify the “Hey Siri” trigger phrase to just “Siri.”
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| Stephen Graves / Decrypt: |
Google says Google Cloud is running a Solana validator, indexing Solana data for BigQuery, plans to support Solana for Blockchain Node Engine in 2023, and more — Solana ( SOL) rose 12% on the news, changing hands at around $36.80 at time of publication.
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Tweets: @googlecloud, @googlecloud, @solana, and @decryptmedia
| Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge: |
Hands-on with Matter devices at a launch event: Matter has a long way to go before delivering on its promise of an interoperable and simple smart home standard — At the official launch event for Matter this week, I saw a lot of exciting things: a Google Nest Hub controlling an Eve Energy smart plug …
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| Katie Deighton / Wall Street Journal: |
Amazon, BurgerFi, Chili's, and other companies end or are rethinking delivery and restaurant robot trials, unable to balance the costs against their usefulness — In retail, fast food and delivery, robots with names like Roxo, Rita and Scout have delivered mixed, sometimes quirky results, at costs some companies find too high.
Tweets: @carnage4life, @bylizyoung, @wsjcmo, @dollydeighton, and @rakeshlobster
| The Bureau of Investigative Journalism: |
An investigation details India's “hack-for-hire” industry that helps global corporate intelligence clients target businesses, journalists, and politicians — In a quiet alcove of the opulent Leela Palace hotel in Delhi, two British corporate investigators were listening intently …
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