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| Mike Masnick / Techdirt: |
Musk's free speech definition is utter nonsense and his suggestions for Twitter completely ignore decades of content moderation iteration on social platforms — from the not-how-any-of-this-works dept — Lots of talk yesterday as Elon Musk made a hostile takeover bid for all of Twitter.
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| Axios: |
Twitter adopts a “poison pill” to thwart Elon Musk's $43B takeover, giving shareholders time to purchase additional shares at a discount to dilute 15%+ stakes — Twitter's board on Friday enacted a defensive measure meant to deter Elon Musk's $43 billion hostile takeover bid.
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| Josh Kosman / New York Post: |
Sources: Elon Musk is speaking to investors, including Silver Lake, to partner with him on a Twitter bid; a plan with partners could be announced within days — Elon Musk is speaking to investors who could partner with him on a bid for Twitter, sources close to the matter told The Post.
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| @yishan: |
[Thread] Ex-Reddit CEO warns Elon Musk that he doesn't understand current internet culture enough to handle the challenges of large social networks like Twitter — I've now been asked multiple times for my take on Elon's offer for Twitter. So fine, this is what I think about that. I will assume the takeover succeeds, and he takes Twitter private. (I have little knowledge/insight into how actual takeover battles work or play out) (long 🧵)
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| Matt Levine / Bloomberg: |
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| Mia Sato / The Verge: |
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| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
GitHub says an attacker used stolen OAuth user tokens issued to Heroku and Travis-CI to steal private repository data from dozens of organizations including npm — GitHub revealed today that an attacker is using stolen user tokens (issued to Heroku and Travis-CI OAuth) to download data from private repositories.
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| Tim Higgins / Wall Street Journal: |
A look at Apple's yearslong effort to design its own silicon to replace Intel chips in Macs, including an interview with Hardware Technologies SVP Johny Srouji — Apple's risky, yearslong effort to design its own silicon paid off when supply-chain disruptions left competitors scrambling
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| Bloomberg: |
At least seven crypto firms have suspended rupee deposits; CoinGecko: daily trading volumes on Indian crypto exchanges have fallen 88%-96% since peaking in 2021 — When Surojit Chatterjee walked on stage at a Coinbase Global Inc. conference in Bengaluru, India, on April 7 … | Jeff Burt / The Register: |
Google updates Chrome to fix a type confusion vulnerability actively exploited in the wild and another security flaw, the third Chrome emergency patch in 2022 — The latest patch is aimed at a type confusion vulnerability that is actively being exploited — Google is issuing fixes … | Rebecca Szkutak / Forbes: |
A profile of Anna Fang, CEO of China-based ZhenFund, who has backed 30+ seed-stage startups that became unicorns and 90+ startups that had a successful exit — When ZhenFund CEO Anna Fang was new to venture investing, her mentor told her that the right entrepreneurs to back are the ones … | Reed Albergotti / Washington Post: |
Workers at Apple's flagship Grand Central Terminal store in Manhattan have begun to formally collect signatures to form a union — If successful, the effort would be the first time an Apple retail location has unionized — Workers at Apple's flagship Grand Central Terminal retail location … | Aliya Chaudhry / TechCrunch: |
Opera launches its Crypto Browser for iOS, featuring a built-in crypto wallet supporting Ethereum, Polygon, and Celo, crypto exchange access, dApps, and more — Opera has launched the iOS version of their Crypto Browser, designed for accessing web3, with a non-custodial crypto wallet built-in.| Ernesto Van der Sar / TorrentFreak: |
DuckDuckGo seems to have completely removed the search results for YouTube-dl and many popular pirate sites including The Pirate Bay, 1337x.to, and Fmovies — Launched in 2008, search engine DuckDuckGo is a go-to service for Internet users who value their privacy.
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