Elon Musk reportedly wants to lay off 75% of Twitter’s staff
Musk has previously gestured at plans for layoffs if he were to buy Twitter, but those cuts could go even deeper than previously imagined. According to a new report from the Washington Post, Musk plans to purge 75% of Twitter’s workforce, or around 5,600 employees. If Musk’s vision for a much leaner platform comes to … Read more
Elon Musk reportedly wants to fire most of Twitter’s employees
YIKES About 7,500 people currently work at Twitter — and 75 percent of them can expect to be shown the door, The Washington Post reports. Elon Musk, who is acquiring the company, has been telling prospective investors that he plans drastic firings to bring down costs. Musk has a deadline to close the purchase of … Read more
Tesla is now taking votes for its next Supercharger locations
Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge The next Supercharger station location is up to Tesla owners. The all-electric automaker put out the invitation to vote on new locations via its Tesla Charging Twitter account but had originally announced its intention to democratize Supercharger station expansion last month. Tesla owners can log in to … Read more
Government crackdowns are coming unless crypto starts self-policing
From privacy standards to consumer protection, the cryptocurrency industry needs to better regulate itself before governments crack down.
Stop Scanning Me
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SHA-3 Buffer Overflow
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A number that can’t be calculated
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Jack Dorsey-Backed Decentralized Social Network Bluesky Gets 30,000 Signups in 48 Hours
The Web3 social media protocol aims to solve the issues associated with data silos that exist across today’s applications.
Snap stock down 25% as the social network struggles
Snap reported its third quarter earnings Thursday, the first social media company to offer a financial update amidst ongoing economic tumult this quarter. The company, which has seen its stock price plunge to a fraction of what it was worth during 2021’s highs, missed analyst expectations on revenue, bringing in $1.13 billion compared to the … Read more
Don’t overreact to weak signals
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Market Wrap: Bitcoin Dull as Drama (Not the Kind You Want) Comes to Axie
Bitcoin trades flat around $19K (with the lowest volatility in two years), while Axie tumbles amid news of token unlocking. PLUS: Analyst Glenn Williams Jr. urges caution when interpreting bitcoin’s MVRV Z-score. Market Wrap is CoinDesk’s daily newsletter diving into what happened in today’s crypto markets.
YouTube Premium’s family plan just got more expensive
The plan now costs $22.99 per month. | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge A YouTube Premium family plan now costs $22.99 per month following a price hike, as reported by 9to5Google. The family tier offers benefits like ad-free viewing and background playback for you and up to five other people, and it now … Read more
NEC’s Tetris Processor
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Acting US FDIC head cautiously optimistic about permissioned stablecoins for payments
Acting Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation chairman Martin Gruenberg said the agency needs more information about crypto, and the crypto industry needs to understand the FDIC better.
Over a Fifth of Cases in CFTC’s 2022 Crackdown Were Crypto-Related
The federal regulator’s annual enforcement results revealed that over 20% of the CFTC’s enforcement actions in 2022 involved crypto.
GMC Sierra EV Denali revealed: plug-in-powered pickup goes premium
Egads! Another jumbo-size electric truck from GM! The oversize electric truck will get an estimated 400 miles of range and can power a whole house for up to 21 days. Is it just me, or is the electric truck category getting crowded? Continue reading…
Watch Draymond Green discuss investing, media and mental health
The final day of Disrupt kicked off in style with a conversation featuring four-time NBA All Star, Draymond Green. It was a spirited chat, covering the power forward’s push into media, including his podcast, The Draymond Green Show and deals with channels like TNT. Green also spoke at length about investing, managing mental health as … Read more
Create synthetic data for computer vision pipelines on AWS
Collecting and annotating image data is one of the most resource-intensive tasks on any computer vision project. It can take months at a time to fully collect, analyze, and experiment with image streams at the level you need in order to compete in the current marketplace. Even after you’ve successfully collected data, you still have … Read more
As healthcare goes remote, Equipt Health brings medical hardware to the home
It’s no secret the pandemic has pushed healthcare to become virtual, in theory making it easier for patients to attend appointments and access the care they need. But Rebecca Weisinger, CEO and co-founder of Equipt Health, has seen plenty of patients falter in the long process of qualifying for devices they need. Equipt is a … Read more
Enable CI/CD of multi-Region Amazon SageMaker endpoints
Amazon SageMaker and SageMaker inference endpoints provide a capability of training and deploying your AI and machine learning (ML) workloads. With inference endpoints, you can deploy your models for real-time or batch inference. The endpoints support various types of ML models hosted using AWS Deep Learning Containers or your own containers with custom AI/ML algorithms. … Read more
Handoff is creating a more equitable workforce through job sharing
Storyblocks is Handoff’s first pilot partner. (Left to right) job-share partner Jodie Reyes, Handoff founder LaToria Pierce, Storyblocks CEO TJ Leonard and job-share partner Redeit Admassie. Image Credits: Handoff Many qualified workers are failed by the current model of work in the United States, where jobs are either part time or full time. Working 40 … Read more
Snap Earning Results Q3 2022 [pdf]
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Forget flat — small cuts are the new up
When venture markets flip from greed to fear, there’s a meme that goes around in startup circles that flat is the new up. It’s shorthand for the idea that in more difficult market conditions, a startup defending its prior valuation in a proximate venture round is as good as raising new capital at a higher … Read more
Black Adam is Warner Bros.’ most brutal superhero letdown yet
Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson as Black Adam. | Image: Warner Bros. Pictures Black Adam, Warner Bros.’ latest superhero movie based on DC’s comic books, has been in the works ever since the studio first came around on the genuinely inspired idea of casting Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson as a terrifying Superman analogue best known for … Read more
Crypto Custodian Prime Trust Agrees to Return $17M in Tokens to Bankrupt Lender Celsius
The assets will be sent to a designated Celsius wallet, and will await court orders about how they should be distributed.