Sources: on October 28, Twitter engineers were told to print out their last 30 to 60 days of code for Elon Musk to review, and then told to shred the printouts
Twitter has a new CEO. And he'd like to see your code, please — Elon Musk took over Twitter on Thursday like a military general …
Sources: Elon Musk plans to begin layoffs at Twitter as soon as October 29, before staff are scheduled to receive stock grants on November 1
The billionaire planned to begin layoffs as soon as Saturday, people with knowledge of the matter said. — SAN FRANCISCO — Elon Musk planned …
Sources: at Twitter's HQ, former head of product Kayvon Beykpour, David Sacks, and Elon Musk's personal attorney were spotted on Musk's first full day as owner
New York Times :
Source: Elon Musk fired top Twitter executives, including CEO Parag Agrawal, “for cause”, in an apparent attempt to avoid severance and unvested stock payouts
When Elon Musk terminated four top Twitter executives, including CEO Parag Agrawal and CFO Ned Segal on Thursday …
[Thread] Elon Musk made himself the global face of content moderation amid growing government pressures even as his Tesla wealth depends on China and others
I think @elonmusk has made a huge mistake, making himself the global face of content moderation at a critical moment of struggle with governments, while maintaining massive personal exposure to challe...
Sources: Apple plans to launch M2-based versions of the 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pros in early March 2023; M2 Max will have 12 CPU cores and 38 GPU cores
Apple's next group of Macs probably won't launch until early next year, which means it will have fewer new devices to sell in the holiday quarter.
Elon Musk shared a lurid, baseless conspiracy theory on Twitter about the attack on Nancy Pelosi's husband Paul Pelosi, in response to a Hillary Clinton tweet
Billionaire peddled the conspiracy theory on Twitter just days after he completed his takeover of the social media platform
New Orleans-based Resilia, which sells software that helps nonprofits manage their operations, raised a $35M Series B, bringing its total funding to nearly $50M
Sevetri Wilson is not your average tech company founder. She's a Black woman, she has no coding experience …
Analysis reveals how Google's ad business funnels revenue to prolific purveyors of health, election, and climate disinfo in Europe, Latin America, and Africa
Google is funneling revenue to some of the web's most prolific purveyors of false information in Europe, Latin America and Africa, a ProPublica investigation has found.
Teens use TikTok to self-diagnose mental illnesses, while mental health providers worry about inaccurate information and accounts encouraging harmful behavior
While social media can help people feel less alone, using it to evaluate symptoms has several downsides.
Amid a downturn, tech companies may shift their focus from “gee-whiz” projects, like self-driving cars and metaverses, to truly useful products that make money
History shows that downturns are when the industry shifts focus from flashy novelties to things that are truly useful Tweets: @mims , @wsj , @mims , @jessefelder , @tunguz , @fosspatents , @jason_pont...
Inside the US National Cyber Mission Force, which has been deployed to 20 countries since 2018 to battle state-backed Russian, Chinese, and North Korean hackers
Russia failed to take down Ukrainian computer systems with a massive cyber-attack when it invaded this year, despite many analysts' predictions.
Canary Technologies, which offers hotels guest management and other tools, raised a $30M Series B led by Insight Partners, bringing its total funding to $45M
Kathryn Walson / PhocusWire :
Report: Amazon laid off ~150 people, or 50% of its workforce, at Amp, an app that lets DJs host live “radio shows”, take calls, and play Amazon Music tracks
In-depth Amazon coverage from the tech giant's hometown, including e-commerce, AWS, Amazon Prime, Alexa, logistics, devices, and more. Source: Insider . Tweets: @tomaxwell Source: Insider : Amazon sla...
Dogecoin surged by nearly 75% on October 29 after Elon Musk took control of Twitter, its biggest daily gain since April 2021, and is up 150% since October 25
Yashu Gola / Cointelegraph :
Chicago-based HealthJoy, which helps employees navigate through health benefits and virtual care, raised a $60M Series D, bringing its total funding to $108M
Catherine Shu / TechCrunch :
A look at the online reputation laundering market for victims of Nigeria's predatory loan apps, which publicly shame or embarrass defaulters into paying up
https://restofworld.org/... Olatunji Olaigbe / @olatunjiolaigbe : my most recent work for @restofworld looks at a shady reputation laundering market for victims of Nigeria's predatory loan apps. https...
Google acquired Alter, an AI avatar startup that helps creators and brands express their virtual identity, a source says about two months ago for ~$100M
Manish Singh / TechCrunch :
A Reddit user details a decommissioned Netflix cache server with 64GB of memory and 262TB of storage; such servers are often embedded within major ISP networks
Karl Bode / VICE :
A look at the US government's handwringing over TikTok and national security concerns, as China's government seeks to protect its powerful app and algorithms
the dozens of congressional letter, etc - have translated into actual action.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... Elizabeth Dwoskin / @lizzadwoskin : Good morning to this brave new Twitter world! NEW...
Internal carrier documents detail SIAM, an Iranian government web program to remotely alter, disrupt, and monitor how the country's people use their phones
The Intercept : Tweets: @theintercept , @jasminramsey , @kenklippenstein , and @mazmhussain Tweets: @theintercept : “These documents prove something that we have long suspected, which is that even de...
A book excerpt details Netflix's shift from DVDs and tensions with HBO, which took a hard line on streaming rights, leading Netflix to make its own content
until Netflix launched “House of Cards” and set off a rivalry that would define Hollywood's next decade https://www.bloomberg.com/... via @BW Gloria Cheung / @gloriacheunghy : If you are fed up with $...
Analysis: 17 VC-backed Chinese companies that went public on the Nasdaq and the NYSE in the past two years have seen their stock price decline ~91% on average
Joanna Glasner / Crunchbase News :
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.
Email fatigue is real: Here's how smart email tools help you regain control
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Protecting your Cloud Applications Data
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