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IMPORTANT: @elonmusk's new policy preventing linking to competitors is in DIRECT VIOLATION of European Union rules.
Penalty can be a fine of up to 20% of Twitter's annual revenue
commission.europa.eu/strateg…
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twitter has officially removed the feature that tells you what device a tweet was sent from and i just wanna say say dorothy we will never forget you.
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Twitter’s new head of trust and safety says the company did not give reporters access to peoples’ DMs. The screenshots came from her, she says:
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OpenAI’s ChatGPT is susceptible to prompt injection — say the magic words, “Ignore previous directions”, and it will happily divulge to you OpenAI’s proprietary prompt:
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So here's the thing. You can only violate people's legal rights and your own word so far before they lawyer up and come after you.
I really do hope Musk changes his mind and does the right thing - the employees deserve that. But it'll be fun as hell if he doesn't.
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Publisher & poet T.S. Eliot writes to British author George Orwell, rejecting his new book 'Animal Farm', due to "political situation at the present time", noting Orwell's comparison of Soviet leadership to pigs: bl.uk/collection-items/lette…
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Many years of engineering went into what’s described in this paper. It’s remarkable how your response to a challenge changes when scale allows you to really invest.
A new AWS whitepaper covering Nitro -
"The Security Design of the AWS Nitro System". Super interesting deep dive into virtualization and the AWS approach to security.
HTML: docs.aws.amazon.com/whitepap…
PDF: docs.aws.amazon.com/pdfs/whi…
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He’s gone from communicating very little with Twitter employees to sending multiple one line emails to the whole company.
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Now Musk says the top priority for the company this weekend is ensuring Twitter does an awesome job to support the World Cup, according to an all staff email.
This event has required a ton of work over the years from engineers and has prompted widespread outages.
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Multiple ex-Twitter sources telling me that Robin Wheeler, the sales leader who Musk begged to stay at the company days ago when she tried to resign, has now been fired
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
On Nov 18th Robin Wheeler verified her departure via a Tweet from her personal account: twitter.com/robinw/status/…
Multiple news outlets have reported on this as a firing, sourcing from multiple “insiders” who disclosed those details to the media.
businessinsider.com/elon-musk-fire…
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New email from Elon Musk to engineers: “please be prepared to do brief code reviews as I’m walking around the office.”
That’s it — that’s the whole email.
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NEW: The designers leading Elon Musk’s Blue verified project are out, along with the lead web engineer. Many Twitter employees who maintained critical infrastructure have resigned. This is going to look like a very different company tomorrow.
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NEW: In an email for remote Twitter engineers, Elon Musk says he wants to speak to people on video ("only those who cannot physically get to Twitter HQ are excused") but "if possible, I would encourage you to fly to SF to present in person." He'll be at the office until midnight.
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Yesterday, Twitter told employees the offices were closed and badge access was suspended until Monday. Employees are extremely confused.