🛫 Musk Plans plans to cut half of Twitter Jobs

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Musk Plans to Eliminate Half of Twitter Jobs in Cost-Cut Drive. Elon Musk plans to eliminate about 3,700 jobs at Twitter Inc., or half of the social media company's workforce, in a bid to drive down costs following his $44 billion acquisition, according to people with knowledge of the matter. Twitter's new… (Edward Ludlow & Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg)

Kurt Wagner @KurtWagner8

NEW: Elon Musk plans to eliminate ~3,700 jobs at Twitter on Friday. About half the staff. He also plans to end the “work from anywhere” policy… story w/ @EdLudlow

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OpenAI will give roughly 10 AI startups $1M each and early access to its systems. OpenAI, the San Francisco-based lab behind AI systems like GPT-3 and DALL-E 2, today launched a new program to provide early-stage AI startups with capital and access to OpenAI tech and resources. Called Converge, the cohort will be financed by the… (Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch)

Lenny Bogdonoff @rememberlenny

OpenAI launches their first accelerator. $1M to 10 companies + early access to models.

techcrunch.comOpenAI will give roughly 10 AI startups $1M each and early access to its systemsOpenAI’s new Converge program will grant roughly ten AI startups $1 million in funding and access to Open AI resources, including AI systems.

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The 'Viral' Secure Programming Language That's Taking Over Tech. Whether you run IT for a massive organization or simply own a smartphone, you're intimately familiar with the unending stream of software updates that constantly need to be installed because of bugs and security vulnerabilities. People make… (Lily Hay Newman / WIRED)

Lily Hay Newman @lilyhnewman

🔥 "Do we understand the threat well enough, and do we have the will” @0xjosh on the urgency of Rust proliferation wired.com/story/rust-sec…

wired.comThe ‘Viral’ Secure Programming Language That’s Taking Over TechRust makes it impossible to introduce some of the most common security vulnerabilities. And its adoption can’t come soon enough.

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Jony Ive on Life After Apple. I can always write an awful lot that I can't draw,” Jony Ive, the mastermind behind Apple's most revolutionary products, says as he holds up a Space Age–style coffee cup. “If I draw this, it only captures certain… (Elisa Lipsky-Karasz / Wall Street Journal)

The Wall Street Journal @WSJ

Jony Ive, the self-described obsessive who oversaw the look and feel of Apple’s groundbreaking products, is tackling new problems at his own firm, LoveFrom

on.wsj.comJony Ive on Life After AppleThe mastermind behind Apple’s most iconic products reveals how his design philosophy guides collaborations at his creative collective, LoveFrom.

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TikTok tells European users its staff in China get access to their data. TikTok is telling its European users of the platform that their data can be accessed by employees outside the continent, including in China, amid political and regulatory concerns about Chinese access to user information on the site. The… (Dan Milmo / The Guardian)

Isaac Stone Fish @isaacstonefish

TikTok just acknowledged to European users that it can share their data with the Chinese government. This is a massive admission, and a key to a puzzle. To understand why, it's important to understand CCP influence in Chinese companies (thread).

theguardian.comTikTok tells European users its staff in China get access to their dataPrivacy policy update confirms data of continent’s users available to range of TikTok bases including in Brazil, Israel and US

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