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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 … | 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 … | Dave Karpf / The Future, Now and Then: |
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Elon Musk tweets that “any Twitter handles engaging in impersonation without clearly specifying ‘parody’ will be permanently suspended” without warning — Elon Musk's Twitter has a new rule for everyone with an account on Twitter to follow, as he announced from his own account … | 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| Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
Apple says it expects iPhone 14 Pro and 14 Pro Max shipments to be lower than anticipated due to COVID-19 restrictions at a Foxconn factory in Zhengzhou, China — Apple today said it expects iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max shipments to be lower than the company previously anticipated due … | 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.| Elon Musk / @elonmusk: |
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Q&A with Mastodon's German-born founder and lead dev Eugen Rochko, on how a federated approach to social media mitigates hateful speech, why he built it, more — (To receive weekly emails of conversations with the world's top CEOs and business decisionmakers, click here.)| 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.”| 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.| 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 … | Emily Birnbaum / Bloomberg: |
White House plans to push for antitrust legislation during the post-midterms lame duck session, perhaps the last chance for AICOA, Open App Markets Act, others — The White House is planning a post-midterms push for antitrust legislation that would rein in the power of the world's largest tech companies … | Morgan Sung / NBC News: |
Some creators are urging parents not to post videos of their children on social media, arguing that kids can't consent and removing all the content is hard — Children “don't know about the internet,” said one creator. “They don't know that their images are going to live on forever.”
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