🐦 How Elon Musk Could Actually Kill Twitter

Plus: Amazon quietly gave $400,000 to conservative nonprofit that opposed new antitrust legislation, AI's New Creative Streak Sparks a Silicon Valley Gold Rush, and more…

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How Elon Musk Could Actually Kill Twitter. Journalists have been declaring Twitter dead for nearly a decade. Observers see flagging user numbers or feel an amorphous, grim vibe shift and pounce, often prematurely. But this week, everyone is fretting and monitoring. As of this writing, Elon… (Charlie Warzel / The Atlantic)

Charlie Warzel @cwarzel

Musk owns Twitter now and has immediately fired some top executives, per @washingtonpost and @nytimes. I wrote this afternoon about what happens if he starts cutting from crucial departments theatlantic.com/technology/arc…

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Amazon quietly gave $400,000 to conservative nonprofit that opposed new antitrust legislation. Amazon quietly donated $400,000 to a conservative nonprofit last year as the group pushed back on antitrust bills being considered in Congress. The Independent Women's Forum, a 501(c)(3) organization, received the six figure contribution from the… (Brian Schwartz / CNBC)

Brian Schwartz @schwartzbCNBC

Scoop:@amazon quietly gave $400,000 to a conservative nonprofit (The Independent Women's Forum) last year.The group vehemently opposed new antitrust bills. It's the first time we know how much Amazon has been giving to this organization. w/ @annierpalmer

cnb.cxAmazon quietly gave $400,000 to conservative nonprofit that opposed new antitrust legislationAmazon donated $400,000 to a conservative nonprofit group that’s pushed back on antitrust legislation. It tied for the second-highest listed donor contribution.

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AI's New Creative Streak Sparks a Silicon Valley Gold Rush. Sarah Guo, founder of venture capital firm Conviction, organized a buzzy salon at a posh bar in San Francisco last week that drew an animated crowd of engineers, entrepreneurs, and financiers. The thing on all of their minds: the blossoming… (Will Knight / WIRED)

Will Knight @willknight

My latest piece for @WIRED is about the dizzy excitement around generative AI (algorithms that generate weird and wonderful images, text, code, and more. Many VCs see a fundamentally transformational new tech.

wired.comAI’s New Creative Streak Sparks a Silicon Valley Gold RushInvestors have got the hots for “generative AI” that can make text and images. But so far, the hype runs ahead of the business results.

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Amazon accidentally exposed an internal server packed with Prime Video viewing habits. It feels like every other day another tech startup is caught red-faced spilling reams of data across the internet because of a lapse in security. But even for technology giants like Amazon… (Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch)

Zack Whittaker @zackwhittaker

New: Amazon left an internal database packed with pseudonymized Amazon Prime viewing data exposed to the internet without a password. Amazon pulled the database offline after a security researcher provided details about the exposure.

techcrunch.comAmazon accidentally exposed an internal server packed with Prime Video viewing habitsThe server, which Amazon took offline, was not protected with a password.

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OpenSSL warns of critical security vulnerability with upcoming patch. Everyone depends on OpenSSL. You may not know it, but OpenSSL is what makes it possible to use secure Transport Layer Security (TLS) on Linux, Unix, Windows, and many other operating systems. It's also what is used to lock down pretty much every… (Steven Vaughan-Nichols / ZDNET)

Eva @evacide

While infosec Twitter still exists, I am here to tell you to patch OpenSSL on Tuesday because it's a very big deal.

zdnet.comOpenSSL warns of critical security vulnerability with upcoming patchWe don’t have the details yet, but we can safely say that come Nov. 1, everyone -- and I mean everyone -- will need to patch OpenSSL 3.x.

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