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• Elon Musk gives ultimatum to Twitter employees: Do ‘extremely hardcore’ work or get out
• Musk Steps Up Purge of Twitter Engineers Who Criticize Him
• Twitter Closes All Of Its Office Buildings as Employees Resign En Masse
• Musk declines former tech CEO's offer to run Twitter for him
• Elon Musk says he's sleeping at Twitter's HQ 'until the org is fixed'
• Twitter’s SMS Two-Factor Authentication Is Melting Down
• Twitter is bringing back end-to-end encrypted DMs
• New Twitter accounts won’t be able to buy Blue verification for 90 days
• 'FTX Has Been Hacked'

• Meta Employees, Security Guards Fired for Hijacking User Accounts
• Exclusive: Jeff Bezos says he will give most of his money to charity
• Amazon Is Said to Plan to Lay Off Thousands of Employees
• Nike to Open Its Own Virtual Sneaker Store and Trading Platform
• Today @Cruise launched *daytime* driverless rides.
• DuckDuckGo’s App Tracking Protection beta is now available to all Android users
• Bending Spoons acquires Evernote, marking the end of an era

Weird and Wacky: 

• To be built in Saudi Arabia, this $5 billion gigayacht concept is so massive that it can dwarf an oligarch’s superyacht
• ‘A whole new world’: Georgia debuts all-terrain wheelchairs at its state parks

Tech Rec:

• Sanjay - Aspiration Bank
• Adam - iRobot Vacuum (Roomba)

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