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Sources: at an all-hands, Elon Musk said Twitter is done with layoffs and actively recruiting for roles in engineering and sales; Twitter has 2,700+ employees — After purging nearly two-thirds of Twitter's 7,500-person workforce in three weeks, Elon Musk is hiring again.| Alex Heath / The Verge: |
Elon Musk holds Blue Verified's relaunch until “there is high confidence of stopping impersonations” and floats using different colors for orgs and individuals — Elon Musk told Twitter employees on Monday that the company won't relaunch its paid verification subscription … | Bloomberg: |
Sources: Genesis struggles to raise $1B+ funding for its lending unit and warns potential investors that it may need to file for bankruptcy if its efforts fail — Digital-asset brokerage Genesis is struggling to raise fresh cash for its lending unit, and it's warning potential investors … | Stephanie Murray / The Block: |
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Records: FTX, its executives, and SBF's parents bought 19+ properties in the Bahamas worth ~$121M over the past two years as “residence for key personnel” — Sam Bankman-Fried's FTX, his parents and senior executives of the failed cryptocurrency exchange bought … | Eliza Gkritsi / CoinDesk: |
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Report: Amazon's hardware group is on track to lose $10B in 2022, as many Echo devices are sold at cost and plans to monetize Alexa have failed — Layoffs reportedly hit the Alexa team hard as the company's biggest money loser. — Amazon is going through the biggest layoffs … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Tumblr plans to support ActivityPub, the open and decentralized social networking protocol powering Mastodon, Instagram-like Pixelfed, PeerTube, and others — Tumblr will add support for ActivityPub, the open, decentralized social networking protocol that's today powering social networking software … | Thomas Germain / Gizmodo: |
Researchers: Apple analytics data include a unique ID for a user's iCloud account, despite Apple saying usage data does not include personally identifiable info — Your iPhone's analytics data includes an ID number tied to your name, email, and phone number, say researchers who uncovered other holes in Apple' promises.| Cheyenne Ligon / CoinDesk: |
US DOJ says two Estonians were arrested for a $575M cryptocurrency fraud and money laundering scheme that allegedly defrauded hundreds of thousands of investors — According to the Department of Justice, the two men used shell companies to launder the proceeds of their fraudulent schemes and buy luxury cars and real estate in Estonia.| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Zoom reports Q3 revenue up 5% YoY to $1.1B, Enterprise customers up 14% YoY to ~209.3K, and a FY 2023 revenue guidance below estimates; stock drops 5%+ — - Zoom made a slight downward revision to its revenue guidance, and investors responded by pushing the stock lower.| Tatum Hunter / Washington Post: |
Victims of hacked Facebook accounts say Meta's customer support is largely unhelpful; Meta has no new initiatives for helping people recover their accounts — Victims are losing time, money and peace of mind. Facebook is doing next to nothing. — The first time 100 people tuned … | Pranshu Verma / Washington Post: |
A look at the tech being used at the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, including player-tracking tech for offside decisions and algorithms to forecast crowd patterns — At the 2022 World Cup, everything from stadium temperatures to the soccer balls are run on sensors and algorithms.| Vitalik Buterin's website: |
How centralized crypto exchanges could offer “proof of solvency” while protecting depositors' privacy by using ZK-SNARKs, a type of zero-knowledge proof — Special thanks to Balaji Srinivasan, and Coinbase, Kraken and Binance staff for discussion.| Ryan Lovelace / Washington Times: |
Twitter reinstates the accounts of Ye, Project Veritas, and others, despite Musk's pledge to delay such decisions until forming a content moderation council — Several banned Twitter users are making their return to the social media platform, following new owner Elon Musk clearing a path … | Matt Novak / Gizmodo: |
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