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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, Financial Times, afrotech.com, Rest of World, YouTube, The Atlantic, Pixel Envy, Repurposed Drugs, Slate, The Verge, TNW, New York Post, and Bloomberg
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| Nathan Baschez / Every: |
Twitter should not only open source its algorithm but also create a marketplace where anyone can build their own algorithms, and use the ones created by others — You don't have to be IN real estate to invest in it. Fundrise is an easy-to-use platform that lets you build …
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Washington Post, The Verge, and Associated Press
Tweets: @ericnewcomer, @jack, @nbashaw, @ejang, @hkanji, @adhutchinson, and @theaksheffect
| 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.| Mia Sato / The Verge: |
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| Matt Levine / Bloomberg: |
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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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The GitHub Blog and Heroku Status. More:
HackRead, Bob's Newsletter, iTnews, and The Hacker News
Tweets: @malwarejake, @nikcharlebois, @jot, @githubsecurity, @rstephens, @campuscodi, @jacobian, @marypcbuk, and @quinnypig
| 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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AppleInsider, iPhone in Canada Blog, iThinkDifferent, 9to5Mac, and Philip Elmer‑DeWitt
Tweets: @reneritchie, @onelinders, @mattlynley, @fmbutt, @leokelion, @brianmcc, @hkanji, and @pocarles
| 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 …
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Axios, The Verge, Philip Elmer‑DeWitt, and AppleInsider
Tweets: @washingtonpost, @ashleygjovik, @washingtonpost, @rkgwork, and @aaronreynolds
| 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 … | 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 … | Amy Feldman / Forbes: |
A look at Lumafield, which designs CT scanners for consumer products companies like L'Oreal, OXO, and Trek Bicycle, and has raised $32.5M — Lumafield emerges from stealth with $32.5 million in funding and early customers that include L'Oreal, OXO and Trek Bicycle.| Jonathan Haidt / The Atlantic: |
Social media platforms have weakened major forces that bind democracies together, especially after 2009 when the virality of social media started to intensify — What would it have been like to live in Babel in the days after its destruction? In the Book of Genesis, we are told …
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Caratteri di Emilio Dal Bo, My Internet Soapbox, Just FYI, The Starr Report, The Crunchwrap, The Weekly Upside, Digressions and Dysfluencies, Financial Times, GC News, The Weekly Dish, The Bluestocking, and Of American Hybrid War
Tweets: @anneapplebaum, @axelmerk, @nfergus, @ilonakickbusch, @tjl, @mattyglesias, @vermontgmg, @johnbattelle, and @hkanji
| 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.
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Opera Mobile, Cryptopolitan, Cointelegraph, and SlashGear
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