🚨 Elon Musk Launches a Hostile Takeover of Twitter

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Elon Musk Launches $43 Billion Hostile Takeover of Twitter. Elon Musk has made a “best and final” offer to buy Twitter Inc., saying the company has extraordinary potential and he will unlock it. The world's richest man will pay $54.20 per share in cash, representing a 54% premium over the Jan… (Maxwell Adler / Bloomberg)

Michael Gartenberg @Gartenberg

Billionaire shows once again everything can be had for a price to be used a toy to play with and then discard.

theverge.comElon Musk offers to buy Twitter in takeover attemptTwitter needs to go private for the changes needed.

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Mark Zuckerberg's augmented reality. Mark Zuckerberg has a grandiose vision for the metaverse, and he hopes that you'll one day see the same thing, too — quite literally, through a pair of augmented reality glasses. Zuckerberg calls AR goggles a “holy grail”… (Alex Heath / The Verge)

Alex Heath @alexeheath

Here are new details on Meta’s plans for AR glasses, starting with two pairs in 2024. Sales expectations are low initially, but the company hopes to be shipping tens of millions of smart glasses towards the end of the decade. Going to be a long road.

theverge.comMark Zuckerberg’s augmented realityWith the company’s first AR glasses coming in 2024, sources say “he wants it to be an iPhone moment.”

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Feds Uncover a 'Swiss Army Knife' for Hacking Industrial Control Systems. Malware designed to target industrial control systems like power grids, factories, water utilities, and oil refineries represents a rare species of digital badness. So when the United States government warns of a piece of code built to target not… (Andy Greenberg / WIRED)

Andy Greenberg @a_greenberg

US gov agencies are warning of a new malware toolkit that can target industrial control systems (ICS) from power grids to oil & gas. Dragos calls it "Pipedream," and @cnoanalysis says it’s "the most expansive ICS attack tool anyone has ever documented."

wired.comFeds Uncover a ‘Swiss Army Knife’ for Hacking Industrial SystemsThe malware toolkit, known as Pipedream, is perhaps the most versatile tool ever made to target critical infrastructure like power grids and oil refineries.

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How Jack Dorsey Quit Twitter to Become Bitcoin's Spiritual Leader. The Twitter founder, Block CEO, and Elon Musk buddy is gazing into the future with laser eyes, and he wants you to follow him. As he walked onstage at the Bitcoin 2021 conference in Miami, Jack Dorsey was still technically the chief executive… (Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg)

Kurt Wagner @KurtWagner8

NEW: I wrote about @jack Dorsey for Businessweek @BW Back when Jack had two jobs, employees would joke that Twitter was his favorite child. Now he has a new favorite: #Bitcoin

bloomberg.comHow Jack Dorsey Quit Twitter to Become Bitcoin’s Spiritual LeaderThe Twitter founder, Block CEO, and Elon Musk buddy is gazing into the future — and he wants you to follow him.

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Amazon slaps U.S. sellers with 5% fuel and inflation surcharge. Amazon said Wednesday it's adding a 5% fuel and inflation surcharge to U.S. sellers who use its fulfillment services. The surcharge is 'subject to change,' according to a notice sent to sellers … (Annie Palmer / CNBC)

Steve Kovach @stevekovach

Inflation hits Amazon sellers: Amazon will charge them an extra 5% on top of the fees they already charge to make up for rising gas prices and overall inflation. Gotta wonder when prices for most items on Amazon go up too.

cnbc.comAmazon slaps U.S. sellers with 5% fuel and inflation surchargeAmazon said Wednesday it’s adding a 5% fuel and inflation surcharge to U.S. sellers who use its fulfillment services.

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