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| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
Elon Musk thinks the “Twitter Files” show that Twitter staff nefariously helped Joe Biden, but all they show is a team debating a difficult moderation decision — Free-speech crusader Elon Musk isn't happy with Twitter's years-old decision to suppress a news story …
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| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Matt Taibbi posts internal Twitter documents showing the company's 2020 debate over the handling of content related to NY Post's Hunter Biden laptop story — The new disclosures, touted as “The Twitter Files,” were posted in a lengthy Twitter thread by investigative reporter and author Matt Taibbi (and retweeted by Musk).
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| Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg: |
Elon Musk says Apple has “fully resumed” advertising on Twitter, after claiming on November 28 that Apple had “mostly stopped” Twitter ads — Elon Musk said Apple Inc. has “fully resumed” advertising on Twitter Inc., further de-escalating a brewing war between two of the world's most influential tech companies.| New York Times: |
Sources: Twitter's US ad revenue was 80% below internal expectations for the week of the World Cup's Nov. 20 start, as Twitter keeps missing weekly ad targets — Under Elon Musk, the company has cut its financial expectations as some advertisers request discounts and are offered incentives.
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| Lydia O'Connor / HuffPost: |
Twitter reinstated the account of Andrew Anglin, the neo-Nazi who founded the white supremacist website The Daily Stormer, after originally banning him in 2013 — Andrew Anglin spent his first day back on Twitter defending Ye's antisemitic rants. — Andrew Anglin ― …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
A look at Apple's efforts to reduce dependence on Foxconn; sources: Apple wants other suppliers in China, Vietnam, and India to actively plan product assembly — Burned by Covid lockdowns and worker protests at Foxconn plants, the iPhone maker is looking to diversify the supply chain that has powered its growth| Joanna Glasner / Crunchbase News: |
Autonomous trucking software company Embark lost ~98% of its market value, or ~$5B, since going public a year ago via a SPAC merger, amid a sector-wide downturn — Out of all the beaten-down public companies in the autonomous driving space, Embark Technology stands out as a conspicuously terrible stock market performer.| Patrick McGee / Financial Times: |
Tim Cook was able to placate Elon Musk within two days, but the chaos at Foxconn's “iPhone City” may become the greatest test of Cook's diplomatic skills yet — Apple chief placates Elon Musk but faces bigger questions over iPhone supply chain — Tim Cook was already battling … | Financial Times: |
Sources: Winklevoss twins' Gemini crypto exchange is trying to recover $900M owed to it by Genesis Global and Genesis' parent company Digital Currency Group — New York-based Gemini is trying to recover funds after FTX failure plunged market into turmoil — Digital asset trading group Genesis …
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| Matt Von Hippel / Quanta Magazine: |
A look at FORM, a 1980s software used for the hardest particle physics problems, as it risks obsolescence while being maintained almost entirely by a retiree — Maintenance of the software that's used for the hardest physics calculations rests almost entirely with a retiree.
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Slashdot. Tweets: @quantamagazine, @7homaslin, @quantamagazine, @boredgenius, and @quantamagazine
| Shaji Mathew / Bloomberg: |
Saudi Arabian food delivery service Jahez agrees to acquire local rival The Chefz for ~$173M in a cash and stock deal — Saudi food delivery firm Jahez agreed to acquire The Chefz in a cash and stock deal, almost a year after Delivery Hero SE's attempt to buy the firm was thwarted by the local competition watchdog.| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Boston- and London-based Zoe, a nutrition and health tracking app, raised £25M led by Accomplice at a £209M valuation, after closing a £48M Series B in May 2021 — Zoe, a startup founded by doctors and researchers out of London and Boston, made its name during the pandemic …
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