SEC filing: Elon Musk notified Twitter he wants to terminate the merger agreement, claiming that Twitter didn't provide the relevant business info he requested
Billionaire Elon Musk wants to end his deal to buy Twitter, according to a letter sent by a lawyer on his behalf to the company's chief legal officer Friday.
Elon Musk's offer to buy Twitter likely was a joke, since he previously pretended he would take Tesla private, but he may not be able to get out of the deal
Programming note: Ugh, here we are again, huh? — Oh Elon — I think it is helpful to start with the big picture.
Twitter board chair Bret Taylor says the company plans to pursue legal action to enforce the deal and is committed to closing on the agreed upon price and terms
Elon Musk is bailing on his $44 billion agreement to buy Twitter, claiming that the social media company hasn't met its contractual obligations …
Rogers experienced an 18+ hour outage on Friday, affecting internet and phone services, including 911 calls, in parts of Canada
Home internet and wireless connections are coming back, but 18 hours later, there's still no ETA for full restoration. — Canadian telecom Rogers is suffering …
A look at the quirky geography game GeoGuessr, in which the world's best players can pinpoint in seconds where a Google Street View image has been taken
In a game called GeoGuessr, competitors try to pinpoint where in the world a Google Street View image has been taken. Some can do it in seconds.
In an internal memo, Twitter's general counsel says employees should “refrain from tweeting, Slacking, or sharing any commentary about the merger agreement”
The company says it's suing Musk for trying to back out — Following Elon Musk's notice to Twitter that he wants …
An interview with NIST mathematician Dustin Moody on the agency's recently selected “quantum-resistant” encryption algorithms
I got this question from a friend this week: Jenna Inouye / eSecurityPlanet : New Quantum-safe Cryptography Standards Arrive None Too Soon Tweets: Will Cathcart / @wcathcart : Great work to ready cryp...
Sources: Google has proposed splitting parts of its ad-tech business into a separate entity under Alphabet, to head off a possible US antitrust lawsuit
Tech giant's offers stop short of the asset sales preferred by Justice Department antitrust enforcers
Africa-based Chinese influencers who post racist videos about Africans on apps like Douyin and Kuaishou made fortunes from China's livestream shopping industry
“Chinese people love watching how other places are not as good as China.” — On the afternoon of May 24, a beauty pageant took place at an apartment in Kitwe, Zambia. Tweets: @feministajones , @ianbe...
Despite many of CJEU's rulings saying mass surveillance is banned in the EU, member states have been exploiting loopholes in them to collect and keep the data
Jack Murphy* was suspicious. His ex-girlfriend, Eve Doherty, seemed to know a lot about who he was calling. — His suspicions were merited.
As mobile ad targeting becomes less effective, the “super app” idea could become more appealing in the West with companies scrambling to keep people inside apps
Super apps, immensely popular in Asia but not in the U.S., are the new hot thing for companies scrambling to capture ever more of our time, attention and money Tweets: @glenngabe , @dherman76 , @glenn...
Joe Biden issues an EO asking the FTC and other agencies to examine and reinforce protections for reproductive health and other sensitive health-related data
An executive order signed by President Biden places the White House's weight firmly behind states where access to abortion is guaranteed …
The US DOJ indicts a Florida man for allegedly importing $1B worth of counterfeit Cisco equipment from China and Hong Kong, and selling it on Amazon and eBay
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The war in Ukraine has prompted militaries to invest more money into AI; NATO has announced a ~$1B fund to invest in startups developing “priority” tech like AI
The invasion of Ukraine has prompted militaries to update their arsenals—and Silicon Valley stands to capitalize. Tweets: @iethics , @techreview , @eileenguo , @iethics , @amynordrum , @warinthefuture...
How the Conti ransomware group, whose attacks crippled Costa Rica's digital infrastructure for months, fell apart after it was betrayed by one of its insiders
Jorge Mora, Costa Rica's digital governance chief, received a message in April from one of his officials: “We couldn't contain it and they've encrypted the servers. Tweets: @obsoletedogma , @peterwhit...
Tether says it had liquidated a loan to Celsius without incurring any losses and that the bitcoin-denominated loan was overcollateralized by about 130%
‘Position Has Been Liquidated With No Losses’ to the Company Anthonia Isichei / CryptoPotato : Tether Liquidated an Overcollateralized Bitcoin Loan From Celsius Without Risk Liam ‘Akiba’ Wright / Cryp...
Congress demands info from period tracking apps and data brokers, including policies on geofencing, as part of an investigation into reproductive health data
Sources: the US called on Japan to urge the country's cryptocurrency miners in Siberia and licensed crypto exchanges still in Russia to sever ties with Russia
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CIRP: the number of US Amazon Prime members remained at ~172M as of June 30, the same as six months earlier, after Amazon raised prices in February 2022
Spencer Soper / Bloomberg : Tweets: @spencersoper Tweets: @spencersoper : Looks like $139 a year for Amazon Prime is a bit much for some folks. Growth stagnated in the US so far this year. They had t...
Source: Oracle considered cost reductions of up to $1B that could result in thousands of layoffs as soon as August 2022, mostly impacting US and European staff
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A New York state law passed last week will require concealed carry gun permit applicants to submit a list of social media accounts from the previous three years
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As tech stocks fall, Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia, GGV, and other VC firms are buying publicly traded stocks of companies whose prospects they deem to be strong
Plunging shares of tech stocks have prompted venture capital firms to take an unusual step: buying publicly traded stocks. Tweets: @eghosao and @amir Tweets: Eghosa Omoigui / @eghosao : Some of us hav...
In a shareholder letter, CEO Peter Smith says Blockchain.com could lose ~$270M in loans to Three Arrows Capital, but that the exchange “remains liquid, solvent”
Ian Allison / CoinDesk :
São Paulo-based Creditas, which operates an online consumer loans service, announces plans to raise $200M and buys a Brazilian banking license
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Shopify's new AI commerce stack
Their VP of Product digs into just-launched products to help entrepreneurs and developers build with the latest AI.
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Protecting your Cloud Applications Data
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