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Elon Musk says the blue checkmark system is “bullshit” and Twitter Blue will be $8/month with half the ads, priority in replies, mentions, and search, and more — Twitter's current lords & peasants system for who has or doesn't have a blue checkmark is bullshit. Power to the people! Blue for $8/month.
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| New York Times: |
Twitter's Chief Customer Officer Sarah Personette “resigns”; sources say ad company IPG recommended that clients pause Twitter spending over moderation concerns — At least three Twitter executives have left in recent days, as one of the world's largest ad companies said clients …
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| Kali Hays / Insider: |
Comedian and verified Twitter user Tim Heidecker puts the site's moderation practices to the test by starting #TrumpIsDead, which began trending on November 1 — - A comedian intentionally started the claim, in what could be a test for Elon Musk. — The claim was trending on Twitter.
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| Chelsey Cox / CNBC: |
FinCEN: US financial firms processed ~$1.2B in likely ransomware payments in 2021, up almost 3x YoY; ~75% of H2 2021 ransomware incidents were linked to Russia — - U.S. banks and financial institutions processed more than $1 billion in potential ransomware-related payments in 2021.
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| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
Dropbox says hackers stole code and some API keys from 130 GitHub repositories via a phishing campaign, but its core apps and infrastructure were unaffected — Dropbox disclosed a security breach after threat actors stole 130 code repositories after gaining access to one of its GitHub … | Dylan Martin / The Register: |
Intel says its next-gen Sapphire Rapids Xeon chips are slated for January 2023, after a spate of delays dating back to 2021, another boon for AMD's server chips — x86 giant offers January launch, AMD eating its chips — Intel said its next-generation Xeon Scalable CPUs will launch … | Ewen Callaway / Nature: |
Meta researchers create ESMFold, an LLM to predict the structures of 617M+ metagenomic proteins that is less accurate than DeepMind's AlphaFold but ~60x faster — When London-based Deep Mind unveiled predicted structures for some 220 million proteins this year, it covered nearly every protein from known organisms in DNA databases.
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| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
AMD reports Q3 revenue up 29% YoY to $5.57B, vs. $5.62B est., net income down 93% YoY to $66M, and Client unit revenue down nearly 40% YoY due to weak PC sales — - Advanced Micro Devices issued fiscal third-quarter results that missed expectations. — The chipmaker warned …
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| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Tumblr updates its community guidelines to allow nudity, mature subject matter, and sexual themes, but says sexually explicit acts “remain off-limits” — Tumblr has made an update it hinted at in September, changing its rules to allow nudity — but not sexually explicit images — on the platform.| Taylor Hatmaker / TechCrunch: |
Twitch launches Guest Star, which lets streamers pull other creators and fans into their streams for a talk show-like experience, out of beta for all users — With its biggest product launch in years, Twitch is betting on a near-future of the platform that features more dynamic conversations … | Natasha Mascarenhas / TechCrunch: |
Rewind, whose Mac app creates a searchable recording to help users find what they've seen, said, or heard, raised a $10M seed led by a16z at a $75M valuation — Apple's M1 and M2 chips give Optimizely co-founder a key in — While there have been quite a few attempts to disrupt search engines …
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| Washington Post: |
Internal email: Twitter appears to be rushing out a “high”-risk “Paywalled Video” feature, letting users charge to view their videos, with Twitter taking a cut — The tool would let video creators charge users for access. It could come with some big pitfalls.| Danny Hakim / New York Times: |
Russia's RT, banned by major platforms in March 2022, has found an audience on Thiel-backed Rumble, often pushing Russian propaganda about the Ukraine invasion — An interview of captive Americans done “under duress” appears on a web platform backed by J.D. Vance and Peter Thiel.| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Arizona-based Qwick, an on-demand staffing service that matches gig workers with hospitality jobs, raised a $40M Series B, bringing its total funding to $69.1M — Leisure and hospitality workers are quitting at the highest rates of any industry. About 1 million left the workforce in November 2021 alone … | Lora Kolodny / CNBC: |
Sources: Twitter managers told employees they would be paid for their newly vested shares in the first half of November 2022, starting as early as November 4 — - Since Elon Musk closed his purchase of Twitter on Oct. 28, employees worried they would be fired or laid off before their stock options vested in early November.
Tweets: @mgsiegler
| Martha Muir / Financial Times: |
A look at life for ether miners after the Merge, including repurposing obsolete equipment to mine other cryptocurrencies, host cloud services, and heat homes — Ether crypto miners are looking to repurpose technology made obsolete by last month's “Merge” for other energy-intensive activity … | Washington Post: |
Sources: the US is exploring whether it has legal authority to review Elon Musk's Twitter deal, which gives large foreign investors access to confidential data — Terms of the deal give large foreign investors access to confidential information about the social media platform
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| Daniel Levi / Tech Startups: |
Colorado-based ColdQuanta, which uses cold atom tech to build and integrate quantum computers, sensors, clocks, receivers, and networks, raised a $110M Series B — The internet has changed over the years. But the groundwork for today's internet was laid in 1973 by the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).
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| Financial Times: |
The UK's Ofcom begins scrapping legislation compelling BT and KCOM to provide affordable, dedicated landlines, sounding the death knell for the fax machine — Requirement that BT provides dedicated landlines for the devices at affordable prices is to be scrapped| Andy Baio / Waxy.org: |
An engineer reimplemented Google AI's text-to-image diffusion model DreamBooth for Stable Diffusion, letting anyone cheaply and easily recreate artists' styles — Last weekend, Hollie Mengert woke up to an email pointing her to a Reddit thread, the first of several messages from friends and fans …
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