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| Elon Musk / @elonmusk: |
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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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Sony plans to launch the PlayStation VR2 on February 22 for $550, £530, or €600; preorders open November 15 — Sony will launch its PS VR2 headset on February 22nd priced at $549.99. The PS VR2 will be priced at $549.99 in the US, €599.99 across Europe, £529.99, and ¥74,980 in Japan.
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Tweets: @playstation, @acai28, @alexhern, @nezzko, @ballmatthew, @stevesaylor, @tomwarren, @jetscott, @chitogaminyt, @ianhigton, @playstation, and @wario64
| Naomi Nix / Washington Post: |
Elon Musk says Twitter will not reinstate banned accounts “until we have a clear process for doing so, which will take at least a few more weeks” — The pledge means that accounts including former president Donald Trump won't be allowed back online before the midterms
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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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| 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. The team working on it flagged big potential pitfalls.
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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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Tweets: @johnnysaks130, @johnnysaks130, @ericgeller, @swagitda_, @johnnysaks130, and @serghei
| Elisa Lipsky-Karasz / Wall Street Journal: |
A profile of, and interview with, Jony Ive, covering life before and after Apple, his artistic process, LoveFrom, the importance of words, and more — can always write an awful lot that I can't draw,“ Jony Ive, the mastermind behind Apple's most revolutionary products, says as he holds up a Space Age-style coffee cup. ”
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9to5Mac, MacRumors, AppleInsider, and MacDailyNews
Tweets: @parkerortolani, @chriswelch, @brianroemmele, and @wsjmag
| Karen Hao / Wall Street Journal: |
China's Zhengzhou industrial park, where Foxconn makes iPhones, begins a weeklong lockdown to counteract the “severe and complicated” spread of COVID-19 — HONG KONG—The industrial park where Foxconn Technology Group's iPhone assembly plant is struggling to maintain production amid …
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Tweets: @pelstrom, @jenniferzeng97, @vsoien, @lindadalew, @lisaabramowicz1, @pelstrom, @pelstrom, and @pelstrom
| 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 …
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Dropbox Tech Blog, Forbes, BetaNews, Silicon Republic, TechRadar, The Register, SecurityWeek, Neowin, Security Affairs, and The Hacker News
Tweets: @seanwrightsec, @0xtim, @arekfurt, @campuscodi, and @lukolejnik
| Wall Street Journal: |
Netflix begins rolling out its Basic with Ads tier; sources say licensing negotiations with Disney, Comcast, Sony, Warner Bros., and Lions Gate are ongoing — Disney, NBCU and Sony are among the companies still negotiating licensing with the streaming service| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Apple TV 4K (2022) review: affordable, snappy performance, and USB-C remote, but no AirTag-like remote tracking, lackluster live TV, and somewhat stale design — Packing more speed than ever (and now HDR10 Plus) at a cheaper price, the Apple TV 4K is the best overall streamer on the market — even if tvOS is falling behind in places
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TechCrunch, 9to5Mac, MacRumors, ZDNet, TheStreet, 9to5Toys, MobileSyrup, and Press Start
Tweets: @parkerortolani, @supersaf, and @chriswelch
| Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
Google plans to roll out parental controls for Assistant, including disabling features, restricting services, and setting downtimes hours, in the “coming weeks” — Kids love to use smart speakers, but it's all too easy for things to go horribly wrong — including content that's decidedly not family-friendly.
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9to5Google, Android Police, TechCrunch, The Keyword, XDA Developers, Android Headlines, Wired, and Mashable
| Yoolim Lee / Bloomberg: |
Sydney-based Blackbird raised an AU$1B+ fund, the largest Australian VC fund yet, including AU$284M for early-stage in Australia and AU$668M for follow-on bets — Blackbird Ventures has raised the largest Australian venture capital fund yet, securing more than A$1 billion ($640 million) …
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Blackbird, TechCrunch, DealStreetAsia, Tech in Asia, and amp.brisbanetimes.com.au
Tweets: @blackbirdvc and @holasammy
| 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.| 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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Coinpedia Fintech News and CoinGape
Tweets: @faizsays, @jeffjarvis, @faizsays, @gerritd, @jstein_wapo, @faizsays, @jfortin670, @mydemocracy, and @jedicounselor
| 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.
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Engadget, Tumblr Staff, Tumblr, The Shortcut, and Mashable
Tweets: @dylan_macri, @mistresssnowphd, @thedextriarchy, @photomatt, and @thedextriarchy
| 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 …
Tweets: @thegarrett
| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google adds Lens to the google.com homepage, letting users search by image, after rolling out the feature to the desktop in 2021 — Google Lens will only become more important going forward, and one sign of that is its addition to the google.com homepage today.
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TechCrunch, The Verge, Android Headlines, Search Engine Roundtable, and BGR India. Tweets: @mattnavarra
| Raksha Kumar / Rest of World: |
A look at the everyday sexism faced by Indian women working in tech; around 36% of India's 5M tech workers are women, of which 7% hold executive-level positions — Tech helped more Indian women join the workforce, but they're still fighting to be treated equally.
Tweets: @itikaspunit, @anupkaphle, @vickiturk, @rctatman, @itikaspunit, and @restofworld
| 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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Meta AI, Silicon Republic, GitHub, and The Register
Tweets: @ferruz_noelia, @metaai, and @laurie_garrett
| Kate Kaye / Protocol: |
Microsoft helped build a robust AI ecosystem in China but the company could be forced to reexamine its relationship with the country under tighter US rules — Through decades of support, Microsoft was an instrumental force helping China become the AI powerhouse it is today.
Tweets: @katekayereports
| William Turvill / Press Gazette: |
Source: Meta plans to end human curation of its UK Facebook News tab, contracted to a team of ~15 journalists at Upday, and switch to an AI system in early 2023 — Meta plans to end human curation of the UK Facebook News tab, turning it into a fully automated product, Press Gazette has learned.
Tweets: @pressgazette, @journalism, @glenngabe, @wturvill, @wturvill, @johnycassidy, and @pedrodias
| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Arta Finance, which is building a “digital family office for the world”, raised a $90M seed and Series A from Sequoia, Eric Schmidt, and others — Caesar Sengupta has worked on, and overseen, several category-defining projects in the past decade and a half.
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VentureBeat, DealStreetAsia, Arta Finance, Reuters, The Indian Express, and Tech in Asia
| Justine Calma / The Verge: |
Google expands its flood forecasting and wildfire tracking services, adding a Flood Hub globally and improved wildfire tracking in more countries — Google announced a big expansion of its flood forecasting and wildfire tracking services today. It launched a tool called Flood Hub globally …
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TechCrunch, Pocketnow, and The Keyword
| James Vincent / The Verge: |
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