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Hundreds of Twitter employees post farewell messages and salute emojis in Slack and tweets, announcing their resignations after Elon Musk's “hardcore” ultimatum — Musk gave Twitter staff a deadline to say if they are staying for his cultural reset of the company.
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| AJ McDougall / The Daily Beast: |
Sources: Twitter disables badge access and shuts down offices until November 21, reportedly fearing “sabotage”, after a large number of staff chose to resign — The temporary closure of the company's offices comes as the billionaire is reportedly “terrified employees are going to sabotage the company.”
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Elon Musk softens his remote work stance and tries to convince colleagues to stay, as more than anticipated opt to leave following his 5pm ET deadline — Elon Musk gave Twitter Inc. employees an ultimatum to either commit to the company's new “hardcore” work environment or leave.| Bloomberg: |
Sources: the US is seeking info on confidential deals that Elon Musk made with foreign investors over concerns they may be able to access Twitter users' data — Elon Musk's $44 billion takeover of Twitter Inc. is still facing US government scrutiny over national-security concerns …
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The wildest parts of FTX's bankruptcy filing: its token holdings are worth $659K, Alameda loaned SBF $3.3B, SBF auto-deleted messages about decisions, and more — Lawyers for the bankrupt crypto exchange FTX filed today in Delaware, asking a federal judge to transfer a competing bankruptcy case filed …
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| Nansen: |
An in-depth look at FTX and Alameda shows UST's collapse in May increased their reliance on FTT, leading to $4B outflows from Alameda to FTX in June and July — mins — Nansen's research team dives into the collapse of Alameda and FTX using blockchain analytics — Key Takeaways
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| Jack Schickler / CoinDesk: |
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| Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy says the layoffs will continue into 2023, after the company cut roles across its Devices and Books businesses on Wednesday — KEY POINTS — Amazon will continue to lay off employees in the coming year, CEO Andy Jassy wrote in a memo to workers on Thursday.
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| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
The FBI says the Hive ransomware gang has extorted ~$100M from 1,300+ organizations, including government facilities and public health entities, since June 2021 — The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) said today that the notorious Hive ransomware gang has successfully extorted roughly $100 million …
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| Thomas Germain / Gizmodo: |
Facebook plans to remove religious views, political views, addresses, and “Interested in”, which indicates sexual preference, from user profiles on December 1 — The update to the world's biggest social network will prevent you from broadcasting certain details in your bio, a farewell to the early days of social media.
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| Mitchell Clark / The Verge: |
An update to the About Twitter Blue page shows accounts less than 90 days old won't be able to sign up when the service relaunch, presumably on November 29 — Twitter won't let accounts less than 90 days old sign up for its Blue subscription service when it relaunches (presumably on the 29th) …
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| Financial Times: |
Analysis: Masayoshi Son personally owes SoftBank close to $5B due to its growing losses; his stake in the Vision Fund 2 is worthless, down from $2.8B in 2021 — Market crash also wipes out value of Japanese founder's stake in second Vision Fund — Masayoshi Son personally owes SoftBank close …
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| Jared Newman / Fast Company: |
1Password unveils “passkey” support for secure user logins to apps, and says it will work across platforms, including iOS and Android, coming in early 2023 — When Apple and Google announced their passwordless login systems earlier this year, they glossed over one major problem …
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| Jude Webber / Financial Times: |
US tech companies laying off employees serves as a wake-up call for Ireland, a longtime European hub for Big Tech, which has added 24,000 IT jobs since Q1 2021 — Mass sackings are a blow to staff, but come amid rising concerns the country has grown too reliant on the industrySponsor Posts
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