🚒 Instagram outage tells millions their accounts are suspended

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Instagram outage tells millions their accounts are suspended. An Instagram outage that started Monday morning is locking users out and telling many of them that “we suspended your account on October 21, 2022.” The platform confirmed the issue on Twitter… (Emma Roth / The Verge)

The Verge @verge

Instagram outage tells millions their accounts are suspended theverge.com/2022/10/31/234…

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Elon Musk Is Busy With Twitter. I don't know if you noticed, but I have spent much of the last six months writing about how Elon Musk, the world's richest person, doesn't really care about his contractual obligations. Musk signed a binding merger agreement to buy Twitter Inc. for… (Matt Levine / Bloomberg)

Matt Levine @matt_levine

Internally, when I complain about this newsletter, corporate guys are quick to tell me to stop whining.

bloomberg.comBloomberg - Are you a robot?

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'Planet Killer' Asteroid Spotted That Poses Distant Risk to Earth. Astronomers on the hunt for modestly sized asteroids that could vaporize a city or bulkier beasts that could sterilize Earth's surface have spotted a new potential threat. But there's no immediate need to worry — it'll be many generations… (Robin George Andrews via The New York Times)

The New York Times @nytimes

Astronomers have spotted a “planet killer” asteroid. But there’s no immediate need to worry — it’ll be many generations until it may pose a threat to Earth.

nyti.ms‘Planet Killer’ Asteroid Spotted That Poses Distant Risk to EarthThe space rock had been hidden by the glare of the sun, suggesting that more large asteroids are in a solar system region difficult to study from Earth.

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How will we remember the age of cheap money?. The end of low interest rates is stripping off a veneer of affluence Receive free UK interest rates updates We'll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest UK interest rates news every morning. After the end of every era, a handful… (Sarah O'Connor via Financial Times)

Sarah O'Connor @sarahoconnor_

As the era of cheap money comes to an end, you can now pay for a Deliveroo takeaway in instalments through Klarna. It’s hard to escape the impression of two drunks propping each other up at the end of a long party.

ft.comSubscribe to read | Financial TimesNews, analysis and comment from the Financial Times, the worldʼs leading global business publication

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Women in venture capital are writing the rules of maternity leave and bending the male-dominated culture to their will. Sitting in her Bay Area home office, Anarghya Vardhana, a venture capitalist, cradled her one-week-old baby at her breast and logged on to a Zoom video call. In the days since she had given birth, the founder of a cash-strapped portfolio company… (Melia Russell / Business Insider)

Madeline Renbarger @maddierenbarger

New from me and @meliarobin: we spoke with over a dozen mothers in venture capital about the realities of taking maternity leave as a VC and the difficulties of trying to unplug: businessinsider.com/women-venture-… read more in @BusinessInsider

businessinsider.comWomen in venture capital are writing the rules of maternity leave and bending the male-dominated culture to their willFor many new moms in VC, they stay plugged in during maternity leave out of fear that they might miss out on a deal or leave a founder in a lurch.

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