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November 18, 2022, 7:00 PM
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| Elon Musk / @elonmusk: |
[Thread] Elon Musk says a “new Twitter policy” will deboost and demonetize “negative/hate tweets” and reinstates Kathy Griffin, Jordan Peterson, and Babylon Bee — New Twitter policy is freedom of speech, but not freedom of reach. Negative/hate tweets will be max deboosted & demonetized, so no ads or other revenue to Twitter. You won't find the tweet unless you specifically seek it out, which is no different from rest of Internet.
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| Yoel Roth / New York Times: |
Twitter's ex-head of Trust & Safety on why he resigned: a Twitter whose policies are defined by unilateral edict has little need for a trust and safety function — Earlier this month, I chose to leave my position leading trust and safety at Elon Musk's Twitter.
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| New York Times: |
Sources: some internal estimates show 1,200+ full-time Twitter employees resigned on November 17; Twitter previously laid off ~3,700 of 7,500 staff — Mr. Musk sent emails on Friday asking to learn about Twitter's underlying technology as key infrastructure teams have been decimated.
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Tweets: @nytimes, @rmac18, @justinbaragona, @cliffordlevy, @goofrider, @rmac18, @mikeisaac, and @oliverdarcy
| AJ McDougall / The Daily Beast: |
Sources: Twitter disables badge access and shuts down offices until at least November 21; a report points to fears of “sabotage” after numerous resignations — The temporary closure of the company's offices comes as the billionaire is reportedly “terrified employees are going to sabotage the company.”
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: ~$300M of $420M from an FTX raise in October 2021 went to SBF in a share sale that he said was partial reimbursement for buying out Binance's stake — Cryptocurrency-exchange founder told investors last year that the share sale was partial reimbursement of money he'd spent to buy out rival Binance's stake
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| Will Douglas Heaven / MIT Technology Review: |
Meta AI and Papers with Code pull Galactica three days after launch, amid criticism the large language model for generating scientific text asserts falsehoods — Galactica was supposed to help scientists. Instead, it mindlessly spat out biased and incorrect nonsense.
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| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
The FBI says the Hive ransomware gang has extorted ~$100M from 1,300+ organizations, including government facilities and public health entities, since June 2021 — The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) said today that the notorious Hive ransomware gang has successfully extorted roughly $100 million …
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CISA, HotHardware, Security Affairs, The Register, TechRadar, SecurityWeek, SiliconANGLE, PaymentSecurity.io, The Record, Tech Monitor, and TechCrunch. Tweets: @adam_k_levin
| Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch: |
Internal email: autonomous vehicle delivery startup Nuro is laying off ~300 people, or 20% of its staff, to preserve cash, and claims $1B on its balance sheet — Nuro, the autonomous vehicle delivery startup backed by Softbank, Google and Tiger Global Management, is laying off about 300 people … | Bloomberg: |
Sources: the US continues to seek info on confidential deals Elon Musk made with foreign investors over concerns they may be able to access Twitter users' data — Elon Musk's $44 billion takeover of Twitter Inc. is still facing US government scrutiny over national-security concerns …
Tweets: @bongripcapital
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| Tim Culpan / Bloomberg: |
Apple's plan to use TSMC plants in the US and possibly Europe, a PR victory, buries the truth: capacity will be tiny and the chips will use an older 5nm process — You can just picture it now. It's 2025 and Apple Inc. Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook has just taken the stage to announce the company's latest gadget.| Alex Harring / CNBC: |
LGBTQ dating app Grindr closed up 213.84% at $36.50 per share in its NYSE debut under the new ticker GRND following its SPAC merger — - Grindr surged in trading Friday in its first day under a new ticker following its merger with blank-check company Tiga.
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Tweets: @nyse, @caseynewton, @nyse, and @caseynewton
| Nansen: |
UST's May 2022 collapse caused a liquidity crunch that FTX and Alameda tried to counter with FTT, leading to $4B outflows from Alameda to FTX in June and July — mins — Nansen's research team dives into the collapse of Alameda and FTX using blockchain analytics — Key Takeaways
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Tweets: @nansen_ai, @nansen_intern, @nansen_intern, @nansen_ai, @nansen_ai, @nansen_ai, @nansen_ai, @nansen_ai, and @themlpx
| Kathryn Hardison / Wall Street Journal: |
Carvana says it will lay off about 1,500 people, or ~8% of its workforce, adding to the ~2,500 workers it laid off in May 2022 — Planned workforce reductions come as demand from consumers remains under pressure — How Carvana's Stock Crashed: What Went Wrong — Created with sketchtool.
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