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| Rachel Sharp / The Independent: |
In a now-deleted tweet, Elon Musk shared a lurid, baseless conspiracy theory about the attack on Nancy Pelosi's husband Paul Pelosi — Billionaire peddled the conspiracy theory on Twitter just days after he completed his takeover of the social media platform
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| Dan Milmo / The Guardian: |
Twitter's head of safety and integrity says it has not changed content policies but had been subject to “an organized effort to make people think we have” — Platform says 300 accounts carried out 50,000-plus tweets in ‘organised effort to make users think firm has changed content policy’
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| Alex Stamos / @alexstamos: |
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| Casey Newton / Platformer: |
Sources: Twitter is strongly considering making verified users subscribe to Twitter Blue at $4.99 a month or lose their badges — Under pressure to generate revenue quickly, Twitter's new CEO considers ending free verification — Twitter is strongly considering making its users pay …
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| Alex Heath / The Verge: |
Sources: Musk ordered Twitter homepage to be changed to show the Explore page to logged out users, not a sign-up form, which was quietly implemented on Friday — On his first day, Twitter's new ‘Chief Twit’ quietly changed the homepage to send a message.
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Axios. Tweets: @mikeisaac, @sriramk, @alexeheath, @noahpinion, @tomwarren, @broderick, @faizsays, @alexeheath, @joshelman, @nycsouthpaw, @can, @sarafischer, @goldman, and @sharonodea
| 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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| New York Times: |
Sources: Elon Musk planned 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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Tweets: @elonmusk, @nickrw, @gartmartin9, @mmasnick, @nickstatt, @scottadamssays, @lemieuxlgm, @jhweissmann, @jesseltaylor, @mims, @opendna, @avindman, @aricohn, @gergelyorosz, @moorehn, @jamesrbuk, @hayskali, @meslackman, @espiers, @pkafka, @specialsitsnews, @goldietaylor, @ivortossell, @rbreich, @mmasnick, @tomaxwell, @sdkstl, and @rmac18
| Casey Newton / Platformer: |
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Tweets: @caseynewton, @leahculver, @elonmusk, @donie, @randileeharper, @silvermanjacob, @dangainor, @mikeelgan, @iboudreau, @ericajoy, @broderick, @soonergrunt, @artificialnix, @sarahjeong, @kazweida, @thepacketrat, @s3rioussam, @moochava, @mmasnick, @espiers, @random_walker, @djbigdaddy, @maxberger, @scottnover, @studmacha, @parismarx, @drandrewthaler, @rmfifthcircuit, @laseletzky, @alexhern, @helenkennedy, @nealerichmond, @dmarti, @koush, and @tomcoates
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple plans to launch M2-based versions of the 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pros in early March 2023; M2 Max will have 12 CPU cores and 38 GPU cores — Apple's next group of Macs probably won't launch until early next year, which means it will have fewer new devices to sell in the holiday quarter.
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MacRumors, Forbes, MacRumors, Philip Elmer‑DeWitt, XDA Developers, iThinkDifferent, 9to5Mac, iMore, Engadget, Press Start, MacRumors, Wccftech, 9to5Mac, Wccftech, The Verge, AppleInsider, SlashGear, iPhone in Canada Blog, iPhone Hacks, Appuals.com, iClarified, Mashable, and Cult of Mac
Tweets: @vadimyuryev, @markgurman, and @samifathi_
| Khari Johnson / Wired: |
Interview with Gerard de Graaf, director of a new EU office in San Francisco, on the DMA taking force on November 1 and its likely impact on tech companies — The Digital Markets Act will force big tech platforms to break open their walled gardens in 2023, says the EU's new ambassador to Silicon Valley.
Tweets: @bottythierry, @ieet, @joonaslinkola, @cramforce, and @tweetsbyasd
| 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
Tweets: @the_transit_guy, @tszzl, @mims, @wsj, @tunguz, @fosspatents, @jessefelder, @mims, @jason_pontin, @mims, and @mims
| Wall Street Journal: |
How the detention of Huawei's then CFO Meng Wanzhou to stand trial in the US provoked a standoff between global powers and splintered US-China relations — Detention of a Chinese executive to stand trial in the U.S. provoked a standoff between global rivals and opened an acrimonious new era
Tweets: @joewsj
| 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.| Gordon Corera / BBC: |
Inside the US National Cyber Mission Force, which has been deployed to 20 countries since 2018 to battle state-backed Russian, Chinese, and North Korean hackers — Russia failed to take down Ukrainian computer systems with a massive cyber-attack when it invaded this year, despite many analysts' predictions.Sponsor Posts
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