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Elon Musk fired at least two Twitter engineers who publicly criticized him on the social network, in one case announcing the firing in a tweet — Twitter Inc. owner Elon Musk, who has called himself a “free speech absolutist,” has resorted to firing company engineers who publicly criticize him on the social-media service.
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| Casey Newton / Platformer: |
A look at a document from Twitter's trust and safety team on November 1 detailing how the Blue subscription could be abused, largely ignored in a rush to launch — Employees and advertisers keep warning him about the risks of changes he's making to Twitter — but he's not listening
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| Seb Joseph / Digiday: |
Document: GroupM warns clients Twitter is a “high risk” media buy due to senior executive resignations, Blue check abuse, and possible consent decree violations — The public boycott of advertising on Twitter is starting to look a lot like a long goodbye.| Matt Novak / Gizmodo: |
The New York Times' bizarre SBF profile presents the disgraced founder through a gauzy lens, fails to challenge him, and gives him the benefit of the doubt — FTX filed for bankruptcy on Friday, leaving reasonable people to wonder how a cryptocurrency platform founded in 2019 …
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| Matt Levine / Bloomberg: |
An analysis of FTX's nightmare balance sheet and Serum, an FTX-created coin and protocol, marked as the largest “deliverable” asset at ~$5.4B before November 8 — The box — There is so much, but I want to start with Serum. — If a troubled company has a few days …
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| Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: |
| Hartley Charlton / MacRumors: |
Apple plans to expand Emergency SOS via Satellite to France, Germany, Ireland, and the UK in December, after launching the service in the US and Canada — The iPhone 14 lineup's Emergency SOS via satellite and Find My via satellite features will launch in four additional countries next month, Apple today announced.
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| Victoria Song / The Verge: |
Hands-on with Apple's Emergency SOS via Satellite, rolling out now: the feature works well, texting via satellite takes a while, and users should try the demo — You don't have to hold your arm up to get a signal, though there is a lot of turning around and waiting when trying to connect to satellites.
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| Cecilia D'Anastasio / Bloomberg: |
Microsoft publishes its first Xbox transparency report on content moderation, revealing the company took action against 4.3M+ inauthentic accounts in H1 2022 — Microsoft Corp.'s Xbox released its first transparency report on Monday, detailing how the gaming giant moderates its 3 billion global players.
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| Dina Bass / Bloomberg: |
Microsoft launches a preview of Supply Chain Center, a command center to help monitor supply chains with data from Oracle, SAP, and others, and its own tools — Microsoft Corp. unveiled software that will help customers track and coordinate supply-chain systems by combining data …
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| Kim Bhasin / Bloomberg: |
Nike announces virtual sneaker store and trading platform .SWOOSH and plans to launch its first collection in January 2023; registrations open on November 18 — Nike Inc. is opening an online store and trading platform for virtual sneakers as management pumps investment into the metaverse.
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Tweets: @0xpolygon, @roundhill, @edzitron, @carlquintanilla, and @adnys
| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google launches Health Connect in beta on the Play Store with partners including Peloton, Oura, Flo, MyFitnessPal, and Samsung, after months in “early access” — Google announced Health Connect in May at I/O 2022, and recent months have seen more apps support it.
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| Cecilia Kang / New York Times: |
Google agrees to a record $391.5M privacy settlement with 40 state AGs over charges the company misled users into thinking they had disabled location tracking — Under the agreement, which state attorneys general said was the largest U.S. internet privacy settlement, Google must …
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Oregon Department of Justice, The Keyword, Taking Action Items, Android Headlines, CBS News, The Register, Neowin, State of Michigan, Reuters, The Overspill, Digital Trends, The Economic Times, Washington Post, CNN, and Search Engine Journal
Tweets: @rajeev_goi, @senblumenthal, @justinbrookman, @1br0wn, @agellison, and @jason_kint
| Vikas SN / Moneycontrol: |
Meta confirms WhatsApp India head Abhijit Bose and India's public policy head Rajiv Aggarwal have stepped down; sources say the exits are not layoff related — Shivnath Thukral, who is currently serving as the director of public policy at WhatsApp India, has been appointed the director …
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TechCrunch, Reuters, The Economic Times, Livemint, Business Today, and The Indian Express
Tweets: @munsifv, @jason_kint, @munsifv, @chandrarsrikant, @adityarajkaul, @pranavdixit, and @chandrarsrikant
| Ryan Browne / CNBC: |
In a Twitter Space, Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao said the crypto exchange has seen a “slight increase in withdrawals” but otherwise “it's still business as usual” — - Binance has seen a “slight increase in withdrawals,” said CEO Changpeng Zhao Monday …
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Tweets: @binance, @ryan_browne_, @erickschonfeld, and @jordanfried
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