Twitter begins reactivating some journalists' accounts, after 58.7% of participants in Elon Musk's poll voted to lift the suspension “now”, beating “in 7 days”
(The journalists did not reveal his real-time location.) Out of the two poll options, “now” …
Elon Musk briefly joined a Twitter Space hosted by a BuzzFeed News tech reporter discussing the latest bans, but left after journalists asked him questions
just so transparent https://twitter.com/... Tom Gara / @tomgara : Friendship ended with KATIE https://twitter.com/... Marisa Kabas / @marisakabas : audio of elon musk joining @katienotopoulos twitter ...
Meta adviser and ex-Oculus CTO John Carmack leaves the company after more than eight years, saying Meta is operating at “half the effectiveness”
John Carmack, who was chief technology officer of Oculus, which Meta bought, is departing the company.
On December 16, Twitter reinstated at least 12 far-right accounts including election misinformation celeb Mike Lindell and popular QAnon fans like Patrick Byrne
Among the reinstated accounts are far-right media and other figures, election and vaccine misinformers, and a white nationalist
Mazars, the auditor that worked on proof-of-reserves reports for Binance, Crypto.com, and others, pauses work with crypto clients and deletes Binance's report
Remember when Binance released proof of reserves to calm the market? Elena R / Coinpedia Fintech News : Michael Burry Reacts on Binance Audits - Here's What He Has to say Jana Serfontein / Crypto Dail...
Some legal experts say Twitter could face regulatory scrutiny for blocking links to Mastodon
how the company shut down links to Vine. But the judge threw out that part of the complaint (now on appeal in the state's case) https://twitter.com/... Rand Fishkin / @randfish : If it wasn't a solid ...
By using flimsy, absurd excuses for banning journalists' Twitter accounts, Elon Musk and his buddies show themselves to be hypocrites with no principles
Look, I fucking warned Elon that this is exactly how it would go. It's how it always goes. — Remember Parler?
Representatives from the UK, Germany, the European Commission, and the United Nations raise concerns over Twitter's suspension of US journalists
Pressure grows on Elon Musk as EU says social media platform could face sanctions over suspensions — The United Nations is “very disturbed” …
Sources: the MD of Elon Musk's family office is seeking new equity investors for Twitter, offering shares of Twitter at $54.20, the same price that Musk paid
The managing director of Elon Musk's family office is seeking new equity investors for Twitter as users revolt, advertisers flee …
Report: Apple has backed out of the negotiations for the rights to NFL Sunday Ticket, leaving Amazon and Google as the frontrunners
The company once regarded as the frontrunner for NFL Sunday Ticket has opted to take a Sunday drive, instead. — Buried in an item on Puck.news from Dylan Byer … Source: Puck .
Binance says it was hit by roughly $6B in net withdrawals between December 12 and December 14, which it was able to fulfill “without breaking stride”
Accounting firm was hired by Binance and other crypto exchanges to conduct key reports — Outflows from Binance accelerated …
Dutch crypto exchange Bitvavo, which uses DCG for its staking service, says it can't access ~$297M held at DCG and that DCG is “experiencing liquidity problems”
Dutch cryptocurrency exchange Bitvavo said it can't access 280 million euros ($297 million) on Digital Currency Group …
Apple, Google, and Mozilla are collaborating on the development of Speedometer 3, a browser benchmark that measures responsiveness
Google starts testing client-side encryption for Gmail with some Workspace users, and plans to add it to its Android and iOS apps
Google has launched a beta of its client-side encryption for Gmail, letting businesses apply to test out the feature meant to make “sensitive data” and attachments unreadable even to Google.
Accounting firm BDO, whose Italian member BDO Italia recently signed off on reserves reports for Tether, says it is reconsidering its work for crypto companies
Accounting firm BDO, which recently signed off on reserves reports for Tether, on Friday said it is reconsidering its work for crypto companies.
A worker who served as a fallback for a real estate AI chatbot for $25/hour details the experience of pretending to be a bot as part of a sixty-strong team
a human pretending to be a robot pretending to be a human! https://www.nplusonemag.com/ ... @frankpasquale : “I wasn't really training Brenda to think like a human. Brenda was training me to think lik...
Analysis: multiple major Russian cities appear to have faced widespread GPS disruption during the past week, as part of efforts to evade Ukraine's drone attacks
Navigation system monitors have seen a recent uptick in interruptions since Ukraine began launching long-range drone attacks. Tweets: @warinthefuture , @capoglou , and @martinsfp Tweets: @warinthefutu...
In a complaint to the US NLRB, the CWA alleges Apple tried to prevent union organizing in Ohio by creating a company-controlled pseudo-union
Josh Eidelson / Bloomberg :
The NHTSA launches a probe into GM's Cruise, citing incidents in which its autonomous vehicles blocked the road or caused collisions by braking suddenly
Dropbox acquires FormSwift, a cloud-based service for creating, editing, and saving business and legal documents, for $95M in cash
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch :
Marc Benioff told staff in a Slack message that Salesforce's new hires weren't productive enough, asking whether it was “a reflection of our office policy?”
Jordan Novet / CNBC :
Foxconn's Xingwei agrees to sell its entire stake in embattled Chinese chip conglomerate Tsinghua Unigroup for ~$771.79M
Sources: TuSimple plans to cut at least half its workforce, or ~700 employees, next week, as it scales back on building and testing self-driving truck systems
Heather Somerville / Wall Street Journal :
Q&A with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman on why DALL-E 2 made such an impact, the lessons from its success about AI's next decade, what DALL-E means for society, and more
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TikTok is helping a new class of music business executives break through and circumvent the notoriously exclusive path that the industry usually requires
Kristin Robinson / Billboard :
New York-based Howl, which runs a marketplace facilitating cooperation between creators and retailers, raised a $27M Series A led by Highland Capital Partners
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