SoftBank sold its entire Nvidia stake, or ~32M shares, in October for $5.8B and part of its T-Mobile stake for $9.2B, boosting Q2 profit to $16.2B, above est.
Net profit doubles to $16bn on gains from OpenAI and PayPay holdings — Masayoshi Son's SoftBank Group has sold its entire stake …
Sources: some internal estimates show 1,200+ full-time Twitter employees resigned on November 17; Twitter previously laid off ~3,700 of 7,500 staff
Mr. Musk sent emails on Friday asking to learn about Twitter's underlying technology as key infrastructure teams have been decimated.
Meta AI and Papers with Code pull Galactica three days after launch, amid criticism the large language model for generating scientific text asserts falsehoods
and its hubris—show once again that Big Tech has a blind spot about the severe limitations of large language models. https://www.technologyreview.com/ ...
Hundreds of Twitter employees post farewell messages and salute emojis in Slack and tweets, announcing their resignations after Elon Musk's “hardcore” ultimatum
Plus: The GOP releases the moral idiocy … Happy Friday. Oliver Darcy / CNN : Inside Twitter as ‘mass exodus’ of staffers throws platform's future into uncertainty Stephen Warwick /...
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.
Fake Twitter accounts of athletes and other celebrities, some now suspended, are spreading fake announcements and chaos as paid Blue checkmarks become available
Taylor Hatmaker / TechCrunch :
Twitter reactivates its gray “Official” badge for select high-profile accounts, after a wave of impersonators bought blue checks
Okay, so Twitter broke its own verification system by making the blue check — previously a signal that the account had provided information …
Source: Twitter could reach a deal with Elon Musk for a takeover at $54.20 per share as soon as today
Twitter is in the final stretch of negotiations about a sale to Elon Musk, a person with knowledge of knowledge of the matter said, Bloomberg News reports.
A US hacker says he built a network of “news” sites and Facebook Groups in 2015 to push bogus stories after a company hired him to “stop Hillary Clinton”
He was hired to build a fake news op but now wants to put things right. — This is the story of the mastermind behind … Tweets: @ax_sharma , @robviglione , @fark , @dangillmor , @...
Apple made an unforced error by trying to tackle CSAM and child safety issues without soliciting expert advice while adhering to its annual iOS release schedule
Hello friends, and welcome back to Week in Review. — Last week, we dove into the truly bizarre machinations of the NFT market.
Apple made an unforced error by trying to tackle CSAM and child safety issues without soliciting expert advice while adhering to its annual iOS release schedule
Hello friends, and welcome back to Week in Review. — Last week, we dove into the truly bizarre machinations of the NFT market.
Disclosures from Tether show it has $30B in commercial paper, a short-dated investment similar to cash, making it one of the largest investors in the US market
Financial Times :
Some attendees of Bitcoin 2021 conference in Miami, which had no mask or proof of vaccine requirements for its 12K guests, say they tested positive for COVID-19
I'm guessing a lot of them were anti-maskers/anti-vaxxers/denialists. https://twitter.com/... Kevin Sekniqi / @kevinsekniqi : The absolute craziest thing I'm finding out is that pe...
Supreme Court rules 6-2 in Google's favor in copyright dispute with Oracle over Java APIs, overturning Oracle's win
- The Supreme Court on Monday sided with Google against Oracle in a long-running copyright dispute over the software used in Android. — The court's decision was 6-2.
UK Supreme Court rules that Uber drivers should be classified as workers, not independent contractors, concluding an almost five-year legal battle
Ramifications of the UK supreme court's landmark ruling could go far beyond Uber Bloomberg : Uber's U.K. Court Loss Spells a Reckoning for Gig Work in Europe Kelvin Chan / Associat...
UK Supreme Court rules that Uber drivers should be classified as workers not independent contractors, concluding an almost five-year legal battle
- The U.K.'s Supreme Court upheld a ruling that Uber's drivers should be classified as workers rather than independent contractors.
A researcher says she archived 99.9% of posts on Parler, many with users' location data, as Apple, Google, and Amazon took the service offline
They're Blaming Amazon Instead Alison Durkee / Forbes : Parler Sues Amazon After Company Forces Social Media Site Offline Bernard Meyer / CyberNews : Data collection cheat sheet: h...
Parler is suing Amazon after its AWS suspension, leveling far-fetched antitrust allegations, including that Amazon hoped to reduce competition for Twitter
Parler has sued Amazon after the beleaguered conservative social media site was expelled from AWS, filing a fanciful complaint alleging …
A researcher says she archived 99.9% of posts on Parler, many with users' location data, as Apple, Google, and Amazon took the service offline
In the wake of the violent insurrection at the U.S. Capitol by scores of President Trump's supporters, a lone researcher began an effort to catalogue …
Parler CEO says the company has been dropped by “every vendor from text message services to email providers to our lawyers”, which could end the business
Parler CEO Mark Matze said today that his company have been dropped by virtually all of their business alliances after Amazon …