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Sources: on October 28, Twitter engineers were told to print out their last 30 to 60 days of code for Elon Musk to review, and then told to shred the printouts — Twitter has a new CEO. And he'd like to see your code, please — Elon Musk took over Twitter on Thursday like a military general …
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| New York Times: |
Sources: Elon Musk plans to begin layoffs at Twitter as soon as October 29, before staff are scheduled to receive stock grants on November 1 — The billionaire planned to begin layoffs as soon as Saturday, people with knowledge of the matter said. — SAN FRANCISCO — Elon Musk planned …
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| New York Times: |
Sources: at Twitter's HQ, former head of product Kayvon Beykpour, David Sacks, and Elon Musk's personal attorney were spotted on Musk's first full day as owner — The billionaire began as Twitter's new owner by announcing a content moderation council and meeting employees, as some of the social media service's users celebrated.
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| Martin Peers / The Information: |
Source: Elon Musk fired top Twitter executives, including CEO Parag Agrawal, “for cause”, in an apparent attempt to avoid severance and unvested stock payouts — When Elon Musk terminated four top Twitter executives, including CEO Parag Agrawal and CFO Ned Segal on Thursday …
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| Alex Stamos / @alexstamos: |
[Thread] Elon Musk made himself the global face of content moderation amid growing government pressures even as his Tesla wealth depends on China and others — I think @elonmusk has made a huge mistake, making himself the global face of content moderation at a critical moment of struggle with governments, while maintaining massive personal exposure to challenging countries.
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| David Gilbert / VICE: |
Some users test the limits of Twitter's moderation system following Musk's takeover by using profane slurs, racial epithets, and other forms of hate speech — The very first hours of Musk's stewardship of Twitter have been dominated by users relishing their ability to use profane slurs and racial epithets.
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| ProPublica: |
Analysis reveals how Google's ad business funnels revenue to prolific purveyors of health, election, and climate disinfo in Europe, Latin America, and Africa — Google is funneling revenue to some of the web's most prolific purveyors of false information in Europe, Latin America and Africa, a ProPublica investigation has found.
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| Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal: |
Amid a downturn, tech companies may shift their focus from “gee-whiz” projects, like self-driving cars and metaverses, to truly useful products that make money — History shows that downturns are when the industry shifts focus from flashy novelties to things that are truly useful
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| Jared Council / Forbes: |
New Orleans-based Resilia, which sells software that helps nonprofits manage their operations, raised a $35M Series B, bringing its total funding to nearly $50M — Sevetri Wilson is not your average tech company founder. She's a Black woman, she has no coding experience …
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| Catherine Shu / TechCrunch: |
Chicago-based HealthJoy, which helps employees navigate through health benefits and virtual care, raised a $60M Series D, bringing its total funding to $108M — Healthcare benefits are great, but navigating them often isn't. HealthJoy wants to make the experience more seamless for employees …
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| Kurt Schlosser / GeekWire: |
Report: Amazon laid off ~150 people, or 50% of its workforce, at Amp, an app that lets DJs host live “radio shows”, take calls, and play Amazon Music tracks — In-depth Amazon coverage from the tech giant's hometown, including e-commerce, AWS, Amazon Prime, Alexa, logistics, devices, and more.| Kathryn Walson / PhocusWire: |
Canary Technologies, which offers hotels guest management and other tools, raised a $30M Series B led by Insight Partners, bringing its total funding to $45M — Hospitality tech company Canary Technologies has secured $30 million in Series B funding to expand its team to keep pace with global demand …
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