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Apple's stock closes up 7.56%, its best day since April 2020, making it the day's second-best performing stock in the Dow Jones Industrial Average, behind Intel (Kif Leswing/CNBC)

Apple's stock closes up 7.56%, its best day since April...

Kif Leswing / CNBC:Apple's stock closes up 7.56%, its best day since April 2020,...

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Elon Musk firing Vijaya Gadde is a loss for free speech as she was the most responsible for Twitter's unmatched record defending "actual" free speech globally (Mike Masnick/Techdirt)

Elon Musk firing Vijaya Gadde is a loss for free speech...

Mike Masnick / Techdirt:Elon Musk firing Vijaya Gadde is a loss for free speech...

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General Motors suspends its paid advertising on Twitter as the car company evaluates the "direction of the platform under their new ownership" (CNBC)

General Motors suspends its paid advertising on Twitter...

CNBC:General Motors suspends its paid advertising on Twitter as the car company...

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eMarketer: US advertisers are on track to spend $65.3B on Facebook, Twitter, and other social networks in 2022, up 3.6% YoY, which is ~10x slower than in 2021 (Financial Times)

eMarketer: US advertisers are on track to spend $65.3B...

Financial Times:eMarketer: US advertisers are on track to spend $65.3B on Facebook,...

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Adobe apps will no longer support Pantone-owned colors for free due to a licensing change; users would need an Adobe plug-in costing $15/month to access colors (John Walker/Kotaku)

Adobe apps will no longer support Pantone-owned colors...

John Walker / Kotaku:Adobe apps will no longer support Pantone-owned colors for...

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Court filing: Mark Zuckerberg, Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth, Within CEO Chris Milk, and others to testify in the FTC case against Meta's acquisition of Within (Ismail Shakil/Reuters)

Court filing: Mark Zuckerberg, Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth,...

Ismail Shakil / Reuters:Court filing: Mark Zuckerberg, Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth,...

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Do Kwon faces a suit, filed on September 23, in Singapore from 350 investors who lost ~$57M, alleging "fraudulent misrepresentations" about TerraUSD's stability (Wall Street Journal)

Do Kwon faces a suit, filed on September 23, in Singapore...

Wall Street Journal:Do Kwon faces a suit, filed on September 23, in Singapore from...

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Sources: Byju's plans to layoff about 12,000 people, or nearly 25% of its workforce, over the next year; Byju's denies the number of job cuts is more than 2,500 (Pradip K. Saha/The Morning Context)

Sources: Byju's plans to layoff about 12,000 people, or...

Pradip K. Saha / The Morning Context:Sources: Byju's plans to layoff about 12,000...

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Sources: spotted at Twitter's HQ today on Musk's first full day as owner were former head of product Kayvon Beykpour, David Sacks, and Musk's personal attorney (New York Times)

Sources: spotted at Twitter's HQ today on Musk's first...

New York Times:Sources: spotted at Twitter's HQ today on Musk's first full day as...

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Tel Aviv-based Valence Security, which helps secure SaaS supply chains, raised a $25M Series A led by Microsoft's M12, with Akamai and others participating (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

Tel Aviv-based Valence Security, which helps secure SaaS...

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:Tel Aviv-based Valence Security, which helps secure SaaS...

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Analysis: 17 VC-backed Chinese companies that went public on Nasdaq and NYSE in the past 2 years have seen a ~91% average decline in their post-IPO stock price (Joanna Glasner/Crunchbase News)

Analysis: 17 VC-backed Chinese companies that went public...

Joanna Glasner / Crunchbase News:Analysis: 17 VC-backed Chinese companies that went...

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Google acquired Alter, an AI avatar startup that helps creators and brands express their virtual identity; source: the deal closed two months ago for ~$100M (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)

Google acquired Alter, an AI avatar startup that helps...

Manish Singh / TechCrunch:Google acquired Alter, an AI avatar startup that helps...

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A look at the US government's handwringing over TikTok and national security concerns, as China's government seeks to protect its powerful app and algorithms (Washington Post)

A look at the US government's handwringing over TikTok...

Washington Post:A look at the US government's handwringing over TikTok and national...

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Time to accept North Korea has the bomb?

Time to accept North Korea has the bomb?

As a statement of intent, it was about as blunt as they get.

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Ukrainians are dreading the 'darkest winter' as Russia takes aim at the power grid

Ukrainians are dreading the 'darkest winter' as Russia...

As winter edges ever closer in Ukraine, Alla Melnychuk and her neighbors are racing...

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Alleged Paul Pelosi attacker posted multiple conspiracy theories

Alleged Paul Pelosi attacker posted multiple conspiracy...

The man who allegedly attacked House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's husband early Friday...